SharkWeek
Under Paris (2024) NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Sous la Seine
director: Xavier Gens actor: Bérénice Bejo / Nassim Lyes
other title: Hajer i Paris / Sob as Águas do Sena
In order to save Paris from an international bloodbath, a grieving scientist is forced to face her tragic past when a giant shark appears in the Seine.
July 28, 2025 watched
A little bit of silliness, a little bit of Jaws rehashed. Good action above and below ground, through the spooky catacombs under Paris (hey, that's the title!) The CGI sharks are more convincing than in the other movies.

I even thought the film might make it all the way without a shark doing a Free Willy-style leap through the air, but I guess no shark movie director can resist the idea of airborne shark.

Watched for #SharkWeek 2025 in BMovieBonanza https://piefed.social/post/1081894
2020s BMovieBonanza BereniceBejo Shark SharkMovie
Santa Jaws (2018) NeoDB IMDb TMDB
Santa Jaws
director: Misty Talley actor: Reid Miller / Courtney Lauren Cummings
Trying to survive the family Christmas, Cody makes a wish to be alone, which ends up backfiring when a shark manifests and kills his entire family.
July 27, 2025 watched
Just like a Hallmark movie, it's competent without being especially entertaining.

Watched for #SharkWeek 2025 in BMovieBonanza piefed.social/post/1078781
2010s BMovieBonanza Christmas SharkWeek USA
Narco Shark (2024) IMDb
Narco Shark
director: Gerardo Preciado actor: Ricky Valente / Tico Suave
In 1989, mexican direct to video superstar Ricky Valente was in line to write and direct NARCO SHARK, a wild and ambitious film about a Detective/Saxophonist who battles the Mexican Yakuza and a cocaine fueled Killer Shark while trying to save his marriage from falling apart and helping his awkwardly shy but sexually depraved brother in law learn some breakdancing moves. Sadly, the film was never made… until now.
July 21, 2025 stopped watching I love the posters for Narco Shark and sequel Narco Sharks and it sounds good on paper. But I hate the actual film. It's like an experimental student film. A bad, dull one. With almost zero shark or narco action! (I'm sure there's some ironic justification for that.) I fell asleep in the middle, and restarted it the next day but just couldn't be arsed to finish it.

My rating for this is 0 stars. Zilch, nothing, nada. Not sure if NeoDB understands that, or just thinks I forgot to rate it.

Watched for #SharkWeek in BMovieBonanza https://piefed.social/post/1059464
2020s BMovieBonanza Mexico SharkWeek monster
Cocaine Shark (2023) TMDB IMDb
Cocaine Shark
director: Mark Polonia actor: Titus Himmelberger / Ken Van Sant
A mafia drug lord has unleashed a new, highly addictive stimulant on the streets called HT25, derived from sharks held captive in a secret lab, and which causes monstrous side effects. After an explosion and leak at the lab, an army of mutated, bloodthirsty sharks and other creatures are set loose on the world.
July 22, 2025 watched
A bunch of friends and family decide "Hey, we can make our own shark movie!" using their lakehouse and motorboat.

But instead of terrible CGI sharks, we get terrible rubber & papier mâché sharks. Sweet!

Unfortunately we get too much of the non-existent acting and not enough of the laughably bad effects. And it's nothing like the poster, of course.

Watched for #SharkWeek 2025 in BMovieBonanza https://piefed.social/post/1062495
2020s BMovieBonanza Shark SharkWeek USA
Shark (1969) IMDb WikiData
Shark
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Burt Reynolds / Barry Sullivan
other title: 4 bastardi per un posto all'inferno / Outsider
A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.
July 23, 2025 watched
Burt Reynolds is his usual charming self, perhaps a little more abrasive than in most films, and convincing as a dirtbag with a vestigial conscience.

With a slow pace and very little shark action, this is more of a noir thriller. And even as a noir thriller, it ain't great. Who knows if it would have been any better in Fuller's (apparently lost) edit?

Watched for #SharkWeek in BMovieBonanza https://piefed.social/post/1065374
1960s BMovieBonanza BurtReynolds Mexico SharkWeek
Meg 2: The Trench (2023) WikiData NeoDB KevGa-NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban
Meg 2: The Trench
director: Ben Wheatley actor: Jason Statham / Wu Jing
other title: Shark 2 - L'abisso / Meg 2: Dødens dyb
An exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean of a daring research team spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival.
July 24, 2025 watched
Is it a serious oeuvre of the seventh art that conveys a deeper message? Is it fuck! Is it braindead schlock that delivers what I needed: thrills, spills and kills? Fuck yeah!

Watched for #SharkWeek in BMovieBonanza https://piefed.social/post/1068347
2020s Action BMovieBonanza CliffCurtis JasonStatham
Shark Night 3D (2011) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Shark Night 3D
director: David R. Ellis actor: Sara Paxton / Dustin Milligan
other title: Shark Night - Il lago del terrore / Terror na Água 3D
A weekend at a lake house in the Louisiana Gulf turns into a nightmare for seven vacationers as they are subjected to fresh-water shark attacks.
July 25, 2025 watched
Like 'Jaws', tends to wisely keep the sharks out of sight much of the time, with brief moments of silly shark action that seem more explainable now that I know it was originally a 3D movie (flashbacks to the gimmicky shots I saw in 'Jaws 3D' in the cinema).

Watched for #SharkWeek 2025 for BMovieBonanza https://piefed.social/post/1072153
2010s SharkWeek USA horror shark