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It’s the only apex predator we humans have cleared time from our busy schedule to pay humble tribute to (we’ve certainly never heard of Sperm Whale Week), Rotten Tomatoes likewise took the time to...
- Shark Night
- Jaws 2
- Deep Blue Sea 3
- The Meg
- Open Water
- Bait
- 47 Meters Down
- Deep Blue Sea
- The Shallows
- Jaws
The ratio of "alpha" to "minnow" when it comes to shark movies is lopsided towards the negative, which means movies like Shark Nightsqueak onto the list for general competency. Vacationers in the Louisiana gulf are attacked by backwoods maniacs who take their Shark Week obsession to the max by attaching cameras to ferocious sharks. It's ridiculous ...
Jaws 2does not earn the distinction of being a sequel that’s better than the original, but competition is thin around these parts. Roy Scheider is back, protecting Amity Island from another Great White shark that starts devouring water skiers and beachgoers. It’s a bit more action-heavy — which cost original director John D. Hancock his position be...
Yes, there are two Deep Blue Sea sequels. Deep Blue Sea 3significantly rebounds after the franchise blemish that is Deep Blue Sea 2, returning to the original’s sharky goodness. Scientists trying to protect Great White sharks on the artificial island of Little Happy encounter mercenaries and bull sharks who threaten their safety — yeah, it’s a full...
Jason Statham versus a 75-foot-long shark from the Mariana Trench? I wish The Megwasn’t dulled to PG-13 and shed some storytelling fat, but as a blockbuster aquatic horror spectacle, The Meg delivers on its 23 million-year-old premise. There’s danger afloat as massive Megalodon chompers attempt to shatter enforced dive cages or underwater research ...
Where Jaws used a mechanical shark and countless other films opted for computer-generated beasts, Open Waterstrives for authenticity by going with real sharks. Filmmaker Chris Kentis and wife slash producer Laura Lau are avid scuba divers and wanted to generate as much natural behavior in the film as possible. That means they also serve as cinemato...
Before Crawl trapped family members in a flooded crawl space with alligators during a category 5 hurricane, Baittrapped patrons and workers inside a supermarket with agitated Great White sharks during a freak tsunami. Credit Australia with one of the better recent fin flicks, as survivors rig diving gear from shopping carts and parking lots with pe...
The ticking clock element of 47 Meters Downadds panic to an already frantic underwater escape scene. Mandy Moore and Claire Holt play sisters trapped on the ocean’s floor after a disastrous shark diving expedition, unable to maneuver without attracting finned attention. There’s so much accomplished by using a landscape of aquatic nothingness as two...
You know your movie is good when there’s an LL Cool J song about it. “Deepest, bluest, my hat is like a shark’s fin” encapsulates the 90s outrageousness of Deep Blue Sea, a movie about genetically enhanced Mako sharks and greedy pharmaceutical failures. A loaded cast fights to escape what their characters created, but not even Samuel L. Jackson can...
Blake Lively goes toe to toe with an imposing finned foe in The Shallows. Jaume Collet-Serra proves he’s one of the most mindful blockbuster filmmakers in the contemporary game, taking only a few locations (rock formation, water, buoy) and elevating the heck out of tension. Factor in Lively’s tremendous work against a CG shark that still looks damn...
Steven Spielberg forever changed the summer blockbuster landscape with the still reigning champ of sharky cinema. Whatever struggles Spielberg faced using his animatronic Great White that didn’t always want to cooperate were well worth the outcome, some $476.5 million later in box office returns. Jaws is a lesson in holding your cards until the per...
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1. Shark Night. 2011 1h 30m PG-13. 4.1 (27K) Rate. 22 Metascore. A weekend at a lake house in the Louisiana Gulf turns into a nightmare for seven vacationers as they are subjected to shark attacks. Director David R. Ellis Stars Sara Paxton Dustin Milligan Chris Carmack. The best shark movie I have seen. 2. Jaws. 1975 2h 4m PG. 8.1 (672K) Rate.
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Aug 4, 2023 · ‘Jaws’ is still the king of all shark movies, but the subgenre hasn’t lost its capacity to surprise. Here are the best shark movies since Jaws, ranked.
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- Jaws (1975) Steven Spielberg's granddaddy of all great white movies isn't just great for a shark movie, it's a great movie period. A masterpiece, in fact.
- Deep Blue Sea (1999) This time the sharks aren't just deadly, they're smart. Genetically enhanced with intelligence—a hubristic experiment that anyone could easily predict would end in a chum-strewn comeuppance, Renny Harlin's giddy fright flick gets high marks for one gotcha scene in particular.
- Blue Water, White Death (1971) Peter Gimbel and James Lipscomb's deep-sea documentary about nature's perfect killing machine predates Jaws by four years, but it packs a similarly uneasy white-knuckle punch.
- Open Water (2003) A couple (Daniel Travis and Blanchard Ryan) goes out on a group scuba-diving trip only to be left behind at the end of the day. Treading water in the middle of the ocean as day turns into night, alone with no one coming back for them, they have to fight the terrors they can't see below.
Aug 1, 2023 · To help answer this question, we've scoured Rotten Tomatoes to come up with a comprehensive list of the top shark movies of all time according to the Tomatometer. We’ll look at well-known classics like Jaws, cult favorites such as Sharknado and a sampling of engrossing documentaries.
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Aug 14, 2024 · This crowdranked list of the top shark movies features the scariest, most thrilling, and fun aquatic adventures ever made. Thousands of fans have cast their votes, ensuring that each movie on this list deserves a spot for being totally fin-tastic.
