A seaside town faces an enormous shark while local authorities struggle with a familiar urge to keep the tourist season open. The imitation is brazen, but the wildly unconvincing mechanical and miniature attacks turn a borrowed emergency into unusually generous bad-movie entertainment.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
Acting
7/10
Plot
8/10
Effects
8/10
Dialogue
7/10
Rewatchability
8/10
“The tourist board has declined to acknowledge the model shark.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 76
Synopsis and movie facts
When a 35-foot great white shark begins to wreak havoc on a seaside town, the mayor, not wanting to endanger his gubernatorial campaign, declines to act, so a local shark hunter and horror author band together to stop the beast.