Synopsis:
A demonic nun summons Satan to a small fishing village, where he takes over the bodies of a great white shark and a young woman. A chain reaction of evil grips the tiny community as shredded bodies wash ashore. A Catholic priest arrives, and he must fight both teeth and temptation on land and sea in order to send these man-killers back to Hell before the tide comes in for good!
What We Thought:
Shark Exorcist didn’t make a lick of sense to me. Most of it didn’t seem to connect or was even necessary yet I still have to recommend it to shark fans!
I get the gist of it. A demonic nun gets Satan into a shark and the shark bites a girl and she becomes possessed and bites people as well. But why all the side stories?
Why were there sorority girls at one point? I understand wanting attractive ladies in the film and it does have plenty of them, but that scene felt so unnecessary. Same for the carnival scene. Other than someone getting bitten, what was the point? And what was the point of the ghost hunter type rivals? Other than having two more hotties on screen, how did that push the story along? The priest and original girls should have been the focus.
But then again I’m probably putting way too much thought into a low budget movie with a CGI shark. Yeah the shark is completely CGI and the best part is, there’s no perspective to it whatsoever. It’s pretty funny actually. I laughed every time it appeared. You’ll see someone or a couple of people in water (it appears to be a lake and sharks shouldn’t be there, but we’ll let that slide). These people are waist or chest high. Then it cuts to the CGI shark in what appears to be a thousand foot body of water. Cut back to people in the lake, cut back to the shark in depths that the lake couldn’t possibly have. Then cut to people forcing themselves under water “acting” like they got bitten or taken down by the shark. Oh yeah, the shark had glowing eyes cause you know, Satan. You’re probably thinking it sounds stupid, but that’s what makes me laugh and enjoy it.
The film is preposterous and cheesy, but that’s why I like this stuff. It makes me laugh. No one in the film should be allowed to act ever again and even with all the hot ladies, there’s no nudity. You didn’t spend too much money on special effects, you could have gotten one woman topless! There’s always nudity in these types of films.
There’s a scene in Shark Exorcist that made me stop watching, rewind it, watch it again and then a third time. The priest and a woman are seeing the glowing eyed shark going through space or a wormhole or something. It’s absurd, but I like that. I watch all kinds of oddball shark movies and if you watch them too, add this to the list. It’s not very everyone, but for those of us that like low budget, lower than B-movie shark CGI-fests, then this is…
OVERALL RECOMMENDED!
Cast & Crew:
- Angela Kerecz
- Bobby Kerecz
- Alaine Huntington
- Roni Jonah
- Christy Moritz
Recommended If You Like:
- Raiders of the Lost Shark
- Shark Lake
- Shark Movies!
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