BASTARD PUPS OF JAWS: Deep Blue Sea (1999)
A lot of people talk down on Renny Harlin. But with his films — Prison, A Nightmare on Elm Street part 4: The Dream Master, Die Hard 2 and more — you know exactly what you’re getting. A popcorn movie with no brain ready to entertain you until you can’t take it any more. Witness his take on […]
BASTARD PUPS OF JAWS: Tintorera…Tiger Shark (1977)
When I was a kid in the 1970’s, I was sitting in a B. Dalton’s reading — parents routinely dropped kids off places to read without any fear of kidnapping back then — and discovered a copy of Alex Comfort’s The Joy of Sex on a shelf. I had no idea what it was at the […]
BASTARD PUPS OF JAWS: Bermuda: Cave of the Sharks (1978)
I watched this movie at 6 AM on a Saturday night/Sunday morning with my ears buzzing from a Sleep concert, cotton-mouthed from being at said Sleep concert and eating cereal half awake with I watched it in Spanish with no subtitles. I think that may be the best way to experience any movie. Director Tonino Ricci must […]
BASTARD PUPS OF JAWS: Devilfish (1984)
Call it Monster Shark. Call it Monster from the Red Ocean. Or Devouring Waves. Even Shark: Red in the Ocean. By whatever name you call Lamberto Bava’s (credited as John Old Jr.) undersea monster film, it’s still pretty ridiculous. But then again, you’re not coming to an Italian shark movie to get high art. Based on a story by Luigi Cozzi […]
Ten Jaws Ripoffs
If we’ve learned anything over this last BASTARD PUPS OF JAWS week, it’s that there are plenty of other fish (and bears and alligators and devilfish and piranha and barracuda) in the sea. These are the ten best ones that we’ve found and as you’ve read above, a movie doesn’t have to have a shark […]
BASTARD PUPS OF JAWS: Avalanche Sharks (2015)
I’ve been in shark crazed waters for awhile, so sometimes it’s good when someone offers you a life preserver. Paul Andolina also likes these movies and even though I can’t usually deal with today’s overly silly shark films, he still finds the good in them. I’m so glad here’s here to tell you all about […]
BASTARD PUPS OF JAWS: Orca (1977)
If you read comic books in the summer of 1977, there’s no way you didn’t know about Orca. Despite everything that nature — and SeaWorld — could teach us, it was time to meet a predator even more deadly to man than the great white shark. To quote Neko Case: “You know they call them killer […]
BASTARD PUPS OF JAWS: Deep Blood (1989)
If you thought Joe D’Amato didn’t have a Jaws ripoff in him, then you don’t know Joe D’Amato. Or Federiko Slonisko. Or Michael Wotruba. Or David Hills. Or Kevin Mancuso. Or Joan Russell. Or Raf Donato, the name he used when he directed this. Joe D’Amato had just as many names as he made movies. Born Aristide Massaccesi, he […]
BASTARD SONS OF JAWS: Snake Outta Compton (2018)
Paul Andolina from Wrestling with Film asked me if he could review this for BASTARD PUPS OF JAWS week. I figured, sure, Anacadona is basically Jaws in the jungle with J. Lo looking good in safari clothes. Why not? I thought that Snake Outta Compton would be appropriate for Bastard Pups of Jaws week. Boy, […]
BASTARD PUPS OF JAWS: Tentacles (1977)
Somehow, Ovidio Assonitis (Beyond the Door, Madhouse, The Visitor) must have had pictures of people in Hollywood in very compromising positions. How else could he have gotten Hollywood royalty like Henry Fonda, Shelley Winters and John Huston to appear in a movie about a giant killer octopus? Want to know how far Assonitis went to rip off Jaws? The […]
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