Sara Paxton who plays the protagonist girl you might recognise from the Last House on the Left remake, though so few people saw that it’s unlikely.
Night of the sharks 3d tv#
Clichéd much? All the cast are young athletic and I didn’t know any of them, with the exception of Joel David Moore, who you might remember from Avatar, though he had a much bigger part in Dodgeball (also a better film), although they’ve all been in young hot TV shows playing young rich kids. The next few scenes serve to introduce our main characters basically we’re on a collage campus and a ‘jock’ is pleased with his results and congratulates his ‘nerd’ for helping him pass and invites him and his roommate to join him, his girlfriend and the campus hottie for a trip on the lake in an isolated holiday house somewhere in ‘hicksville’. And the worst thing is that this opening scene is the best thing about the whole film. I’m guessing they hoped to avoid the second point. The scene shows you two things: 1) the makers draw the parallels to Jaws straight away with their own homage (rip off) to let you know, they know and 2) this film is going to be unremittingly awful because the makers don’t have an ounce of originality in them. A misdirection involving her boyfriend lifting her out of the water notwithstanding, once the attack occurs from an unseen underwater menace, she is thrown about the water is startling similarity to poor Chrissie Watkins. This opening shot is strikingly similar to Jaws, the déjà vu is overwhelming, except that, because we’ve seen it all before the tension evaporates as you simply know what is coming. Underwater shots of her bare legs show how venerable she is in this vast expanse the camera circles and the music ebbs and flows like the water building the tension – we’ve seen it all before, of course, so our minds need little introduction death by shark.
The film opens on a non-descript blonde girl swimming in a lake, it is daylight and the framing is such that you can see that she is totally alone. I should note that in discussing this nonsense I give away a few points that could be considered spoilers – those sensitive to such things might want to avoid the main body, however, in doing so I am hoping to save you the trauma of sitting through this film yourselves you have been warned. So let’s ‘dive in’ and see if Shark Night 3D has any ‘bite’.
However, all subsequent films that rely on the shark as the ‘bad guy’ will inevitably invite comparison to the original and the best of them all even if there are never meant to be any links, and tonight’s feature suffers terribly in this regard these are not just ‘homage’ shots they are near copy and paste, but when Jaws was such a masterpiece it’s inescapable. It was 1975 and a young and hungry director named Stephen Spielberg crafted a horror/thriller about a ‘rogue’ Great White shark that terrorised a resort island it was so effective that the tag line “You'll never go in the water again!” became synonymous with everyone that was at the beach and was comedically cited when anyone had a bath! The reason was simple, Spielberg used his camera to create astonishing tension under the water that combined with Williams’ incredibly evocative score meant that so effective was the result that sharks instantly became the ‘terror’ of the waters – the fact that so few people are killed by sharks, and that you are more likely to get killed by a falling coconut meant nothing – sharks were seen by the masses as nothing but efficient killing machines (which they evolutionarily are) and that some (very few in fact) attack humans it's created a prejudice against this magnificent creature, a near phobia and, as such, you put a shark in the water and you create instant fear – a trick that film makers have been exploiting ever since. Having been around for some 400 million years it took one film to make them the most feared predator, not only in the water, but on the entire planet.
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