Blood Surf
USA
2000. Director: James D.R. Hickox
Cast: Taryn Reif, Dax Miller, Katie Fischer
Aka: Krocodylus
Babes, surfing, sharks. All that's needed.
Obviously it's Jaws remake #121. A filmteam arrives to a little
island outside Australia in order to shoot a couple of hunks surfing
in shark territory, the "blood surfing" of the title. It all
goes smoothly until a bigger monster arrives and decides to kill every
man in sight. The filmteam are stuck on the island.
We have seen it before, of course. Sharks, crocodiles, octamen, whatever. But I suppose the main target for this movie is the kind of younger audience who perhaps doesn't have any close relation to the old classics of the genre, at least not in the same way as yours truly, so there's little idea in complaining. Although, honestly, it's not that bad. It is at first, I admit, but then the film almost reaches some kind of junk-level-fun towards the last half-hour. It scores hight points on the boob-o-meter and the director has managed to pull off a few smart camera tricks and unexpected turns in the plot, so it's rarely boring. And there's at least one or two good scares to be found for the squeamish.
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