About sharks: a list of films, genres, reviews and reviews

Sharks are inseparably linked with the history and culture of mankind as one of the most frightening creatures on the planet. Any opus of fiction with their participation is immediately attributed to the horror-genre, each film dedicated to them, a priori has the highest rating among the horrors.

Sharks swim in the cinema

Nevertheless, filmmakers of all formations continue to make films about sharks. The list of films is updated every year with new works. Famous critics do not tire of criticizing modern directors for excessive craving for cruelty and blood abundance, secretly revising the "Jaws." It so happened that sharks, being practically the highest link in the food chain, are higher than humans. This explains their image in art cinema - a predator that causes horror, panic, tears and hatred. Cash registers about sharks (the list of films is presented below) are most often represented in the horror genre, although if you look at the fact of predator attack purely from the point of view of natural biological processes, then this is a real action movie. Predator (shark) - hunting, victim (man) - trying to escape at any cost.

Motion pictures with a significant budget

Revising films about sharks, the list of the best is easy to determine, it is enough to pay attention to the budget and the rating of the picture. The significant budget of the tape promises to viewers the maximum realism of events occurring on the screen, including rapid chases, chic underwater shooting and stunning special effects. At the moment, the best grossing films are three films about sharks. The list of films opens with the project of joint production of Singapore and Australia "Tsunami 3D" (budget $ 30 million). Directed by Kimble Randall, he managed to film a project that has superiority over other 3D films, which have recently smothered a movie screen. At the viewer's view are episodes with an atypical attack of sharks, with the participation of familiar stage masters. According to the plot, a group of people because of the disaster was cut off from the outside world in a virtually flooded and dilapidated supermarket. The captive elements were portrayed on the screen by Julian McMahon ("Body Parts", "Charmed"), Sharney Vinson ("Step Up 3D"), Zavier Samuel and Phoebe Tonkin (The Secret Circle).

Slightly cheaper, but not worse

If you try to list expensive new movies about sharks, the list will be replenished with two more projects: "Shark Enchanter" and "Jaws 3D". The budget of these paintings is the same - $ 25 000 000. The first film, directed by John Stockwell, differs in that sharks are represented by quite adequate underwater inhabitants, they are not pumped up with all kinds of drugs and do not mutate after experiments. What does not turn the "Exorcist" into a crazy trash, on the contrary, the film with Halle Berry - soon a drama with elements of a thriller. The name of the second film makes the viewer feel nostalgic about the wonderful horror in the genre. On this similarity to the 1979 movie ends, director David R. Ellis, a dog who has eaten on narrow-minded horror movies, and this time demonstrated his style: the plot is trivial, the illogical actions of the characters are amazing, the production itself is disgusting. The only advantage of the movie "Jaws 3D" can be considered the species diversity of predators presented and their habitat - salt lake.

Other Shark Films

The list of the best paintings about underwater predators will be continued with the films "The Deep Blue Sea" (1999), "The Open Sea: New Victims" (2010), "Red Water" (2003), "The Open Sea" (2003).

The plot of the film "Deep blue sea" from the director Rennie Harlin occurs mostly under water, in the special laboratory "Aquatic". Scientists are experimenting on the brain of mako - a subspecies of large sharks. Experimental specimens become not only more intelligent, but also aggressive, manage to break free and dream of leaving the station. The idea behind the script is exploited by many films about sharks (horrors). Their list is endless.

The director and co-author of the script Andrew Trauki did not become trashy in the project "The Open Sea: New Victims." According to the narrative, the main characters - traditionally a group of young people - are chosen to relax, admire the sea, the island and the seascape landscapes. Romance ends at the moment when the yacht turns over and begins a terrible bloody massacre. Despite the platitude of the plot, the picture has a high rating and is included in the TOP list of films about sharks-killers.

Not children's cinema

It's no wonder that all the scary movies about sharks have the MPAA rating. Their list would be flawed without pictures: "A flock of sharks (2008)," Sharks "(1999)," Hunter of the Sharks "(2001). A curious project in this category is South Africa's 12 Days of Fear (2005), directed by Jack Scholder, based on real events. For the whole history of observation of sharks, cases were recorded where, for unknown reasons, crowds of predators headed straight for the beach and tried to eat rest. Of the famous film actors in the project, only John Ris-Davies ("Indiana Jones", "The Lord of the Rings") was lighted.

Classics of the genre

In the history of the film industry, an endless number of pictures about sharks were filmed. The list of films that tell about the tricks of these underwater creatures is worthy to lead the "Jaws" project of 1975. Producers David Brown and Richard D. Zanuck decided to trust the still young but already famous director Stephen Spielberg with an impressive budget for that time of $ 7,000,000 and did not fail. The success of the cinema has surpassed even the boldest forecasts. Spielberg succeeded from an average reading of Peter Benchley created the most intense and frightening film about sharks. A breathtaking atmosphere of narration, seasoned with unprecedented entertainment and unique special effects, has borne fruit. Spielberg inventively instigated a sense of alarm and horror, using all sorts of techniques and means: from shock and shock (an unexpected impact on the psyche of the beholder) to the challenge of the nervous environment of perception. This was facilitated by the musical accompaniment of John Williams, and purely author's director's findings, which increased the oppressive impression, and professional verified installation of Verna Fields. Then in 1978, 1983 and 1987 there were three more series about the terrible shark-lyudode: "Jaws 2, 3, 4", but they could not get close to the level of the original film, which gave rise to an animal, archetypal, mythological fear.

Low rated movies

Among the variety of paintings about sharks are frankly second-rate films, instead of colossal profits brought huge losses or with a crash failed at the box office, crushed by caustic remarks of critics. Among not very successful paintings: "Super Shark" (2011), "Akulozavr" (2010), "Jurassic Shark" (2003), "Sharks Malibu" (2009), "Shark in Venice" (2008). Sometimes the reason for the failure is the irrepressible fantasy of the creators, which engenders absolutely mythical creatures, as in the tape "Attack of a two-headed shark" (2012). There are pictures in which the authors are plotting two predators (sometimes mythical ones), for example, "Mega Shark versus a giant octopus" (2009). There are films about sharks and crocodiles. A list of such fantastic movie inquiries is headed by Mega-Shark vs. Crocusaur (2010).

The crisis of the genre

Recently, a depressing trend is gathering momentum-films about sharks are no longer being filmed. The reason for this are the inflexible verdicts of environmentalists who accuse filmmakers of creating a bloodthirsty image of a shark hostile to humanity. Maniacal fear of these inhabitants of the depths caused a wave of murders of these creatures around the world. Films that tell of the difficult fate of sharks have become more popular and call for an end to the bloody slaughter. Now it's fashionable to protect sharks. And cinema art continues to develop, leaving a significant mark not only in the culture of mankind, but also in the perception of these predators, previously slandered by man. For the inhabitants of the Earth, a new milestone comes - the era of overcoming fear and exploitation of sharks.