Land Shark-1080P

Land Shark-1080P

I didn't realise it was possible to make a movie this bad. Seriously. If I have a couple of school kids a video camera and a $10 budget, I expect more. Forget the 10 star reviews which were left with people trying to be witty, this is the pits. Pretty sure no actors were involved in it, just family and friends and passers by. It's not even so bad it's good, it's just so bad that it's bad. I couldn't find one redeeming feature in the whole film. How did anyone offer to distribute this shark turd. At least it was cheap to make and probably only took two or three hours to shoot. As for shooting, pass my gun, I want to track down everyone involved in this and terminate their film careers with prejudice.

A group of sharks take to the land and kill people gorily. They are pursued by two scientists. One scientist turns into a shark-man. I quite liked the rubbery sharks with their roguish smiles, but apart from that pleasure this is a lacklustre movie. The main leads are wooden and the script is predictable. Also there is an annoying beep from one of the scientist's tracking devices that goes on and on... and on. No wonder the sharks were upset. If you are looking for a film for a bad movie night this one fits the bill ideally.

Land Shark borders on "so bad it's funny", but sadly takes itself just a fraction too seriously to get there. The story is absurd, the writing preposterous, the acting could be beaten out by a decent number of high school productions, and the special effects ... aren't. The film's highlight is the singular shot of the land shark moving up/across the one bit of beach they got a permit to shoot on, and the lowlight the infuriating beep of the tracker that runs in the foreground sound channel for a good 30% of the film, or more. The land shark's collection of semi-feline growls & roars are just mystifying. Don't hold your breath to see the full shark model - it doesn't show up until around 46 minutes in; and when it does, leaves more questions than it resolves. You'll understand more if you can make it to that point of the film. The only - and I'm pretty sure about this - saving grace of the film is that the lead - Sarah French - acts rings around the rest of the cast. She's the only person on screen who doesn't sound like her lines were being delivered by a bicycle courier with a flat tyre & sore legs. Although, the derro - who I'm reasonably suspicious was meant to be a running gag - comes in a strong second, on the strength of his death scene. It's a train wreck of a film, but get yourself as sauced up as the eyewitness interviewed just before the two fishermen, and you might make it through. I give it 2/10 because it's following the same story at the end as it did at the start (and maybe that's part of the problem), but it doesn't pretend to be anything it's not - a fabulously bad film about sharks on land.

After only 15 minutes I could bare anymore. Terrible graphic and don't even get me started on the acting skills.... its not often I ever switch off a film but this was awful. I'd hoped it would be similar to the 2 part film ' creature ' which is a hybrid shark that can walk on land and has both lungs and gills - a really enjoyed that and went out and tracked down the dvd I loved it so much, but this.... christ almighty no idea if it gets better but I'm not wasting my time finding out.

Barely watchable. As far as B- disaster movies go, this one is a minor disaster. Like all the rest, the acting is straight horrible. The story is ridiculous, and the effects are barely passable. Other than that it's OK. ------SPOILER------- How is it that a "helicopter ride just south of town" (when they're in Alaska) is going to save their life, but at the end their flying over the Golden Gate Bridge in S.F. and it's frozen solid?

Funniest film. Graphics are trash. Acting is trash. Story line is trash. But the Land Shark is the funniest thing I've seen. It growls at random intervals and the acting is very sarcastic. My partner and I are quite desensitised to horror and started laughing after we were jump scared from one specific scene toward the end of the film. If you're bored and looking to laugh at the aesthetics of a film, Land Shark is a must see. When the girl hit the Shark, it sounded like smacking plastic. When the shark tore into a person and blood went everywhere, it looked like watery liquid ketchup being squirted about.

As a lover of terrible films, especially terrible shark films, this film was absolutely glorious! I'm sure the primary school children who made the sharks had a blast too. Go in with low expectations, and you'll be entertained. It's a great terrible shark film to watch with friends, you'll laugh, you'll wonder what the hell you have just seen. Good times! Especially when you have scenes like a homeless guy peeing on the shark, to only get his * eaten. Then the rest of his lower half devoured. The effects are terrible, honestly the worst, but you are here for it. This film also had the worst actor I have ever seen. There's a boss who contacts the main characters over video calls. Her voice acting has the stiffness of a robot, whist her face is the most over dramatic acting you have ever seen. At the same time. If terrible shark films are for you, enjoy.

Working on a top-secret research project, a scientist discovers the original purpose of the experiment was outfighting sharks with the ability to live on land for a military operation, but once the shark escapes she's forced to team up with a fellow doctor to stop it before it gets loose. Overall, this is a pretty solid and enjoyable cheesy shark film. That this one manages to highlight this feat from the opening attack is quite impressive as there's no doubt the campy nature of this one is obvious from the start. The use of the practical shark puppet, the constant changing into the distorted fish-eye lens to showcase the creatures' point-of-view stalking his victims and the indie-style blood spurting all over the place become obvious early on here with the type of attacks present throughout here. That includes the various attacks here of the ambush on the fishermen out on their boat, the janitor of the facility or the photoshoot getting interrupted out in the desert which are all quite silly and cheesy. With a finale featuring a battle at the desert tunnel that's over-the-top and inherently goofy, the film's got plenty of silly shark fun to enjoy. As well, this sense of goofiness and cheese extends to the ludicrous storyline here that manages to set up these wild attack scenes. Focusing on the somewhat cliched notion of the scientists working on top-secret formulas for classified research on sharks and the outcome of which turns them into ravenous killers capable of living on land and hunting people, there's a fine familiarity that develops here through this process enabling the outlandish idea of a shark living out of the water to seem somewhat believable. Going above and beyond the traditional research into military-grade weapons research to adapting them to live on land and forcing the issue with capturing the escaped sharks on their own, this comes off incredibly well with the cheesy action making it come off rather enjoyable and giving this a lot to like. There aren't a whole lot of issues to be had with this one. Most of the film's problematic areas are centered around the low-budget padding that comes about with numerous scenes added here simply to pad out the running time. The numerous conference calls over video-chat to the supervisor or their debates about the ethics and morality of the experiments are just part of the overlong padding here, much like the constant switching to shark-vision for the stalking scenes or showing them wandering through areas with monitors trying to track the creature. Much like the practical puppet, it's all quite obvious about the low-budget on display which can be somewhat of a detrimental to some. Aside from this, the film's cheesiness and inherent goofiness come into play as those might not be appealing for viewers, making up this one's few issues. Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.