A young woman and her friends enjoying a boat trip off Hawaii are attacked by a vicious Great White, that seems to be hunting for fun rather than to survive. Shark movies are like buses. You wait ages, consoling yourself with giant crocodiles, reconstituted dinosaurs and blue hedgehogs, and then three come along in succession:… Maneater Read More
The Reef: Stalked 3 stars
Four women are hunted by a shark while on a seagoing kayaking adventure. Received wisdom is that sharks got a raw deal from Peter Benchley’s novel and Spielberg’s classic movie. Though they’ve now been so thoroughly rehabilitated — personally I trace it back to Viz magazine’s self-explanatory cartoon strip The Pathetic Sharks — it’s hard… The Reef: Stalked Read More
Maneater trailer is all the tropes
I was singing the Hall and Oates hit of the same name all through this, which rather clashes with the loud, threatening trailer music. That music is as doomy as can be, as is the whole trailer. I can’t work out whether Maneater is going to be absolutely awful or a genius over-the-top mash up… Maneater trailer is all the tropes Read More
Jaws 5 stars
“They caught A shark not THE shark” says Matt Hooper, the wealthy, hippyish oceanographer who along with their new Chief of Police Martin Brody is acting as the conscience many of the residents of holiday destination Amity Island just don’t want. Killing the wrong shark is a cliche now, along with underwater shots of legs kicking, a… Jaws Read More