Will man-eating creature movies ever go out of style? In an effort to cross Jaws with Pirranha, we get the cleverly titled Shark Night (in 3d of course) that instead of terrorizing a beach with a giant shark, we face hundreds of smaller sharks in a saltwater lake.
A sexy summer weekend turns into a blood-soaked nightmare for a group of college students trapped on an island surrounded by voracious underwater predators in Shark Night 3D, a terrifying thrill ride from director David Ellis, featuring a red-hot young cast including Sara Paxton, Dustin Milligan, Chris Carmack, Joel David Moore, Chris Zylka and Katharine McPhee. Arriving by boat at her family’s Louisiana lake island cabin, Sara (Sara Paxton) and her friends quickly strip down to their swimsuits for a weekend of fun in the sun. But when star football player Malik (Sinqua Walls) stumbles from the salt-water lake with his arm torn off, the party mood quickly evaporates. Assuming the injury was caused by a freak wake-boarding accident, the group realizes they have to get Malik to a hospital on the other side of the lake, and fast. But as they set out in a tiny speedboat, the college friends discover the lake has been stocked with hundreds of massive, flesh-eating sharks! As they face one grisly death after another, Sara and the others struggle desperately to fend off the sharks, get help and stay alive long enough to reach the safety of dry land.
What puzzles me is how they manage to get TO the island and have a fair amount of water fun before discovering this island is held prisoner by hundreds of rabid sharks?
Maybe there is more to this, but so far all I see is a danceable soundtrack and a lot of boobs and buffs eyecandy. And sharks.
“What puzzles me is how they manage to get TO the island and have a fair amount of water fun before discovering this island is held prisoner by hundreds of rabid sharks?”
1:25 looks like someone is letting the sharks loose…
1:39 looks like that possible same someone is lowering a fresh body in to the water for the kill with the dialogue “what is this some kind of sick game” being spoken in the background…
1:45 a little hottie is lowered in to the water in a shark cage…
1:51 a little hottie is being tossed in a net cage of some sort…
Watch the trailer again… It looks like someone is being naughty and letting all those mean fishies loose on the young’ns from what I can tell. Looks like popcorn fun to me and something I wouldn’t take seriously and just go to watch to have a good time while checking my brain at the door. This could be a slasher movie with the killers tools of choice being sharks.
I’ll probably see this, but I’m not particularly waiting with rapt attention. This trailer just shows off a neat soundtrack, but looks like its confused about whether it’s a slasher or an animal-attack sort of film.
Love the poster though – that’s really the best part, in my opinion.
This was the same film that David Ellis had trouble naming, so he called it Shark Night 3D, even though he supposedly hates the title.
As for the trailer itself, it looks…okay. But I have a BIGGER question. I could have sworn I saw a heliocopter in the trailer. Now, maybe I’m a bit nitpicky here…but there’s a house on an island. After one shark attack, we’ll say, someone can call for help. Helio arrives and picks up victim and/or survivors *on dry land where sharks cannot go*
Hmmm…right. That requires too much thought.