Shark Night

PG-13

Released Sep 2, 2011

1 hr. 31 min.

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

List

19%

75 Reviews

Tomatometer

22%

25,000+ Ratings

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Newly arrived at her family's lake-island cabin, college student Sara (Sara Paxton) and her friends prepare for a weekend of fun in the sun. But soon after they dive into the lake, football player Malik (Sinqua Walls) stumbles out of the water with a grievous wound. Thinking Malik is the victim of a freak accident, the friends pile into a tiny speedboat and head for the hospital. To their horror, they discover that they are surrounded by hundreds of massive, hungry sharks.

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Critics Consensus

A joyless excursion into the water that doesn't even produce good gore or nudity thanks to the neutered PG-13 rating.

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Courtney K

i accidentally watched this twice & both times i can safely say i wasn't impressed.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/03/24

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Giselle B

Just a good, fun, super campy shark movie. If you don't take it too seriously it's a fun watch.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/31/23

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kevin c

Like most shark movies a group of beautiful friends heads to a lake house for a fun water sports filled weekend not suspecting that a man eating shark is looking to take a bite out of their fun. Typical shark flick although they added in some human predators in a secondary storyline. The cast makes this better than it should be. The CGI shark isn't very convincing. Sara Paxton and Katherine McPhee make this an enjoyable viewing.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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shelley s

If you're a fan of shark horror, this is worth watching at least once because of all the detail put into the sharks to make them appear realistic. Their unlikely eagerness to attack hapless college students is never explained (were the sharks drugged with something?) but they used a mix of CGI and practical effects to create beautiful replicas of various species which is what makes this worth viewing. On contrast, I found most of the acting sy- Fi b movie sharknado quality at best which may be the fault of the writer as the characters are unsympathetic and not really likable, nor really annoying enough to be dis likable so you can really enjoy or mourn them getting eaten. You're literally just watching to see how creative the sharks can be with when and how they strike. Also, I have never figured out the back story with Sara and her ex boyfriend, whether he actually attempted to drown her or whether she was a hysterical teenager that flipped out, jumped to conclusions, ran over and nearly killed her lover with a boat and then dumped him at a hospital without so much as a goodbye. Shouldn't there have been a police investigation into all this? And also, she wears a bikini through the entire film despite it being here house and having access to her own clothing. I mean, after my first friend got his arm bitten off, I'd sort of feel inappropriate running around in a two piece and a thin robe. If you're going to take someone to a hospital, you usually want to be wearing some pants and sweater because you're gonna be sitting in a waiting room for a few hours at least and you don't want a bunch of people staring at you while you wait for hours to find out if someone will live or not I'd imagine.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

Wow... what a piece of dung. There's very little too redeem this. It's got a decent cast, I guess, but it doesn't help that they're a bunch of cartoon characters. We don't even get some nice, bloody shark kills, thanks to the pg rating. Just a bunch of cheesy ludicrous moments.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/25/21

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Audience Member

It's super fun, simple solid plot, good effects, fine tension for a movie of this sort and a totally enjoyable watch.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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David R. Ellis

Director

Sara Paxton

Sara

Dustin Milligan

Nick

Chris Carmack

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Joel David Moore

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Katharine McPhee

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Rated: 2/5

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Kimberley Jones

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Not content to restrict itself to an exercise in "When Nature Attacks," the filmmakers take a hard, ugly turn into torture-porn territory.

Rated: 0.5/5

Sep 9, 2011

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Nick Pinkerton

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Shark Night, handled with impersonality by Snakes on a Plane pilot David R. Ellis, aspires to nothing more or less than carrying along an audience through a string of unremarkable kills, often involving high-jumping fish.

Sep 7, 2011

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Synopsis

Newly arrived at her family's lake-island cabin, college student Sara (Sara Paxton) and her friends prepare for a weekend of fun in the sun. But soon after they dive into the lake, football player Malik (Sinqua Walls) stumbles out of the water with a grievous wound. Thinking Malik is the victim of a freak accident, the friends pile into a tiny speedboat and head for the hospital. To their horror, they discover that they are surrounded by hundreds of massive, hungry sharks.

Director: David R. Ellis
Executive Producer: Ryan Kavanaugh, Tucker Tooley, Douglas Curtis, Nick Meyer, Marc Schaberg, Matthew Rowland, Clint Kisker
Screenwriter: Will Hayes, Jesse Studenberg
Distributor: Relativity Media
Production Co: Silverwood Films, Incentive Filmed Entertainment, Sierra / Affinity, Next Films
Rating: PG-13 (Language|Disturbing Images|Violence and Terror|Partial Nudity|Sexual References|Thematic Material)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 2, 2011, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 2, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $18.9M

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