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Recently people have disappeared at sea or turned
up dead with arms or legs missing. The police are
almost certain that a giant shark is behind all this
but the only flaw in that idea is that there's no
shark of that size so they seek help from some
fish researchers and scientists. They soon learn
that the fish that they're dealing with is actually
a pre-historic shark with tentacles. This makes it
all much more difficult. Should they try to capture
the shark for science or should it be killed? Well,
what they should think about is CAN it be killed?
This is supposed to be really awful but I actually
found myself liking this movie. At first I thought
that it was just another Jaws rip-off, but it's
not at all. The only thing that the two films have
in common is that they're both about a killer
creature in the ocean. This monster shark looks,
well, fake, but as I would put it, totally awesome.
Believe me, you've never seen anything like this.
It has huge teeth, and I mean HUGE, it's round and
it looks like an octopus, but it's a shark! How
cool isn't that.
Many people complain about the dubbing in this movie,
I don't see why. I knew that the movie was originally
shot in Italian so I really looked at peoples
mouths when they said something to see how good
the dubbing was, since you could hear that it was
dubbed but after a while I was almost convinced
that it was just a bad recording and that the movie
was shot in English. I stand corrected, apparently
it was shot in Italian, I just couldn't tell, and
I'm used to watching dubbed movies.
Now to the bad stuff. The acting is far from perfect
and it's much too easy to mix the characters
together, at least it was for me. I thought a guy
named Bob was the key person in the entire movie
but apparently I was wrong, turns out that he had
a very small part in the movie. Anyway, the
directing is surprisingly bad. I mean, Lamberto
Bava is a famous Italian director, I would have
expected more from him than this. Perhaps it was
just the extremely bad editing that I reacted to
though. I mean, the scenes just cuts to the next
scene in a very choppy way. If you've seen it
I'm pretty sure that you know exactly what I mean.
Monster Shark is extremely underrated though in
my opinion. It wasn't a great movie but it wasn't
a terrible one either. But I think that the main
reason to why I liked it was because of the
extremely cool-looking shark. Anyway, say what
you want about this flick, but I at least thought
that it was average.
We mainly get to see people with arms or legs
bit off, we don't get to see the action when it
happens though. A bit disappointing. There's
one really cheesy scene towards the ending
though where the "shark" bites a guys head off.
Here's where you can really tell that this is
an Italian horror film from the 80's. It's just
filled with synthesizer music which just ruins
the atmosphere completely. We don't need to
hear happy synth music in a knife-fighting scene.
Doesn't work at all.
Much too underrated horrormovie which isn't
really a Jaws rip-off at all. If you don't
like the concept or if you think it sounds
pathetic, you still need to watch it for
the extremely cool looking shark. That's
something I will never forget.
Review By: AnthroFred
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