In MAKO: JAWS OF DEATH the always reliable Richard Jaeckel has a magic medallion that allows him to communicate with sharks. Basically, it’s STANLEY with sharks but still a pretty cool, low budget regional drive in picture from the seventies. Grefe always struck me as a man’s man director who did the best with what [...]
SHARK WEEK-DEEP BLOOD
Wow, it took me a while to track down a copy of this odd Joe D’Amato shark movie but I finally got one made from yet another Japanese laser disc. It’s a fairly goofy effort, not nearly as lively as GREAT WHITE but it did end up as part of CRUEL JAWS as well. The [...]
SHARK WEEK-HAMMERHEAD: SHARK FRENZY
Here’s one that had a lot going for it: Jeffrey Combs, William Forsythe, an assload of Russians, cool sets and a nice retro-shark man design and yet it didn’t come together. I gotta blame the script. There’s so many missed opportunities and it’s a shame. It really could’ve been a great nostalgic drive in movie [...]
SHARK WEEK- HAI ALARM AUF MALLORCA
Holy Shit, I don’t know how I missed this one. A megalodon movie made by Germans, how the hell did that happen? I was expecting something along the lines of SHARK ATTACK 3, SPRING BREAK SHARK ATTACK or WESTWEGO SHARK FRENZY but was surprised by how much I liked this goofy Kraut picture. It stars [...]
SHARK WEEK-CRUEL JAWS
The overwhelming positive response(actually one comment not really even about Shark Week but a high for this blog) to SHARK WEEK means that it will continue! That’s right friends, more Shark Cinema. So let’s get back in the water with the Bruno Mattei collage of a film CRUEL JAWS. Mattei is such a [...]
SHARK WEEK- CYCLONE a.k.a. TERROR STORM
That’s right friends, the devastatingly unpopular SHARK WEEK continues. How unpopular? Michael Vick, Cheney, Obama’s Health Care, that Jon 8 babies guy, Rhianna’s pimp ( although I’m not really sure who she is)… well you get the idea. To make it worse, it’s another Rene Cardona Jr. excursion, the non-epic CYCLONE. CYCLONE So the version [...]
SHARK WEEK-FUNNY DEATH MACHINES
If you need to make a cartoon based on a man eating fish and to capitalize on the success of a blockbuster movie where a giant shark eats a little boy (R.I.P. Alex Kintner) then what you do is make the shark sound like Curly.
SHARK WEEK-GREAT WHITE
A lot has been written about GREAT WHITE but I was also gonna take a look at CRUEL JAWS so a glance at GREAT WHITE seemed appropriate. I saw it in the week it was released and then again on vhs in the early nineties. About five or six years back I finally got a [...]
SHARK WEEK-TINTORERA
Consider this a cautionary tale about a regular Joe who just wanted to see a sharksploitation movie but instead was subjected to a Mexican remake of JULES AND JIM mixed with a long Cancun lensed Speedo commercial. I know what you’re thinking, “but Bwana isn’t it based on the bestseller by Ramon Bravo?” Sure,it [...]
