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, […]
DAY 22. MURKIN: Something underwater or ocean related. It sure is dark down there, what was that? If you are a regular visitor to our site, you may realize that we love shark movies. We have a whole Letterboxd list devoted to them. While Sam’s taste may veer toward the ripoff side of the Jaws equation, […]
Jaws is so often referred to as the exact moment that the New Hollywood went from artists to moneymakers. It did more than that; it decreased the number of people that visited beaches in the year after its wake and conservation groups often name the movie as one of the main reasons why sharks are […]
“Hey, I can’t stop you from watching shark movies any more than I can stop myself.”— Sam Panico, in his review Great White (2021), the latest in a long line of “shark” movies. Yes. The rumors are true: B&S About Movies will watch any streaming offering with a shark in it, as it is our […]
Editor’s Note: We jammed on this sharkster back in 2018 for our “Bastard Pups of Jaws” week. Well, when Mill Creek boxes ’em up, you watch it again, for another take. Hey, Treat Williams stars and makes everything watchable, twice. How is it that Mill Creek hasn’t done an all-shark disc set of every Jaws […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This originally ran as part of our Bastard Sons of Jaws week on December 22, 2018. Seeing as how it is a Mexican shark film, how could we not bring it back for leftovers? When I was a kid in the 1970’s, I was sitting in a B. Dalton’s reading — parents routinely […]
This debut entry in the Jaws rip-off sweepstakes was directed by Hungarian-born bad-ass Cornel Wilde, the star of one of my all-time favorite TV (horror) movies: 1972’s Gargoyles, a movie that scared the stuffing out me in the day—so please take that into consideration as I come to hail Cornel Wilde, not tear him down. […]
What if we took zombies, Michael Jai White, Halo suits, greenscreen, Starship Troopers, Resident Evil, more zombies, a title that’s been used before, Iron Man visor graphics and Jeff Fahey and threw them all into a blender? Well, it would taste pretty good, to be honest. I loved Dead Zone because it’s the exact kind of movie I’d have […]
While he was making Piranha II: The Spawning, James Cameron was sick and had one of those weird dreams — this one was about a metal torso holding knives dragging itself from an explosion — and was inspired to make a horror movie. His agent didn’t like that genre. Cameron fired that agent. Gale Anne Hurd, […]
There was a time, however briefly, when blockbusters were made by the same directors of the New Hollywood and weren’t just product placement intended to get toys into Target for a 6 week cycle, but actual movies that stirred up emotions and made us look into the unknown with wonder or terror. With just three […]
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