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Shark Night

Play trailer Poster for Shark Night PG-13 Released Sep 2, 2011 1h 31m Horror Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
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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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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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A.A. Dowd Time Out Rated: 2/5 Dec 22, 2011 Full Review Kimberley Jones Austin Chronicle 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 Full Review Nick Pinkerton Village Voice 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 Full Review Grant Watson Fiction Machine This is the sort of lazy commercial filmmaking that should not be rewarded. Rated: 2/10 Feb 28, 2024 Full Review Patrick Cavanaugh The Wolfman Cometh Even with a slightly different plot from its peers, it's still a completely dull and uninspired experience. Rated: 1/5 Sep 24, 2023 Full Review Iván Kazi EscribiendoCine A movie that lacks rhythm and balance. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 4/10 Sep 20, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Audience Member "Shark Night" plays like a cross between "Sharknado" and "Deliverance", but it somehow isn't much fun to watch. There's too little exciting action, even of the goofy overblown-CGI kind, which is the least that may be expected from this movie. The actual shark scenes are almost always one-sided and dependent on banal contrivances so that people are eaten but there is neither suspense nor actual palpable conflict between man and man-eating fish. Much of the movie centers way too much four rednecks who capture the protagonists, then torment and feed them to the sharks. It's not fun to watch the characters being terrorized. It's not fun watching them being helplessly dropped into the water as shark bait. It isn't fun when one of the rednecks makes a female protagonist strip then drop herself into the water as bait. And it is not fun in the meantime to watch the romantic dilemma between Sara and Nick, who are obligatory, standard, and do nothing out of the ordinary. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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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
Producer
Mike Fleiss, Lynette Howell Taylor, Chris Briggs
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
Runtime
1h 31m
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