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Something in the Water (2024)

Something in the Water (2024)

After surviving a violent attack, a young woman recovers and decides to attend the destination wedding of a close friend on a Caribbean island. A pre-wedding girls' day out turns into a fight for survival when a shark attack strands them miles from shore and with no means to call for help. Something in the Water is a 2024 British survival thriller directed by Hayley Easton Street and starring Hiftu Quasem, Natalie Mitson, and Nicole Rietsu Setsuko. With a primarily female cast, Something in the Water begins as a festive girl movie and then evolves into a cautionary tale about a fight for survival. Unlike most other shark movies, Something in the Water focuses more on the women's struggle to stay together and seek help, with the threat of the shark being one of many other challenges. Unlike many other shark survival movies, Something in the Water isn't as bloody as you would expect and focuses more on the threat of isolation and the will to survive. A much better movie than the other shark movies on my watch list, Something in the Water is a slow-burn survival movie that may not appeal to some, but makes for a great thriller.  

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Great White Waters

Great White Waters

A businessman who is running drugs through his legitimate company hires a team of mercenaries to recover some lost packages, but the team finds their package in shark-infested waters. Great White Waters is a 2025 action movie produced by The Asylum and directed by  Anthony C Ferrante. Great White Waters is better made than most Asylum films and features a solid plot involving the retrieval of sunken drugs. However, the movie falls apart when the shark attacks turn into the absurd, and you end up with some low-key Sharknado-style silliness. The director Ferrante helmed the first Sharknado movie for The Asylum, so it's no wonder this thriller sinks into the abyss of absurdity when it could have easily been a decent thriller. Angela Cole and Ashton Leigh have great roles, but the goofy ending wastes their efforts.   

Mountain Shark (2024)

 

Mountain Shark (2024)

A security team is dispatched to a remote mountain location to neutralize a threat that turns out to be an escaped specimen created by a top-secret laboratory near the mountain. Mountain Shark is a 2024 movie directed by Greg AK  and starring Julia Quayle, Angela Wilding, and Stephen Staley. Mountain Shark is one of many CGI-driven monster movies available to stream on platforms like Tubi and Plex. While the action in the movie does not take place near water, the sheer absurdity of a land shark is what drives this movie, with some of the worst CGI effects contrasting with the fantastic landscape and mountain scenery. While the film features the usual mad scientist and armed security team seen in action sci-fi movies, it has a strong female cast that seems underutilized in this silly movie. With so many crazy shark-out-of-water films being made by studios such as The Asylum, Mountain Shark is pretty late to the game and fresh out of chum.  

Tsunami Sharks (2024)

Tsunami Sharks (2024)

A seemingly normal evening turns into a disaster after a freak tsunami floods London and traps many people in their homes while sharks swim in to feast on the victims. Tsunami Sharks is a 2024 disaster movie directed by Ben J Williams and Tyler James. While the plot borrows heavily from the Australian thriller Bait, Tsunami Shark does it on the cheap by using CGI instead of actual water to simulate the flood. The result is laughably bad scenes of people running from surging water despite no debris or wrecked buildings, and sharks that are either too big or too small. Tsunami Sharks has to be one of the most absurd disaster movies in recent years. In contrast, absurd shark movies have become popular with the success of Sharknado; those movies at least make an effort to be entertaining. Tsunami Sharks features poorly done CGI and unengaging actors that you won't care about.  

Below (2023)

Below (2023)

A small group of teens looking to enjoy an afternoon swimming at a local reservoir find themselves trapped on a barge as a hungry bull shark stalks them one at a time. Below is a 2023 shark movie directed by Robin Christian and starring Logan Borsari, Audra Schildhouse, and Garrett Forster. Below is a low-budget shark movie featuring a young cast with a simple but effective premise that borrows much of its plot from Jaws 2. The isolated setting, along with the young cast, does make for a decent thriller, but the laughably bad shark prop does distract from what could have been a better movie. Compared to other low-budget shark movies, Below does merit some respect for the cast and crew, who, at last, put some effort into this amateur film.  

Bull Shark 3 (2024)

Bull Shark 3

Former Game Warden Timms is yet again called out to search for any rogue Bull Sharks after a teenage couple disappears despite assurances by local authorities that the shark had been killed off. This time, he has the support of the Mayor, the county sheriff, and the local coroner. As with the previous movies, Mr Timms is also dealing with family issues and his sobriety. Bull Shark 3 was filmed alongside Bull Shark 2 and was released in 2024. As with the previous movies, there are numerous scenes set around Lake Ray Hubbard in North Texas, excessive dialogue, and hilariously awful shark props. The shark's CGI is laughingly bad and once again confuses Great White with Bull Sharks. The last two movies could be swapped with one another, and you may never know the difference, as both movies mimic every scene, with just a few characters swapped out. As for the future of this franchise, the viewer gets a hint of a possible follow-up movie that may be released next year.  

Shark Evil (2023)

 Shark Evil (2023)

A fishing vessel poaching sharks is attacked by a Great White shark that has long vexed the ship's captain and kills everyone onboard. Soon after, a yacht cruises nearby with five friends celebrating, only to find their party ruined when they are attacked by the massive and hungry shark looking for people to eat. Shark Evil is a 2023 Chinese thriller directed by Huanxiang Chen and starring Xin Zer Tan, Fan Dong, and Xiaoxuan Wei. While the film follows a plot similar to most shark movies, the CGI is better than that of most Asian films, and the entirely Chinese cast does an adequate job of portraying victims stranded in the ocean. As with many foreign releases, Shark Evil can be found titled Man-Eating Shark on some streaming platforms, but it is the same movie with a different poster.    

Snow Monster vs Ice Shark (2019)

Snow Monster vs Ice Shark (2019)

A team of scientists in the Arctic discovers a lost world inhabited by giant creatures and a long-forgotten civilization. They are soon cut off from contact with their company and attacked by ancient flying creatures and a deadly ice shark. The survivors find a way to safety as they learn of new threats and the ulterior motives of their benefactors. Snow Monster vs Ice Shark is a 2019 monster movie directed by Huang He, starring Jiantong Zhang, Wenlong Zhao, and Norman Chui. Shark Monster is part of a recent surge of shark movies emerging from China. Most of these movies appear to be competently produced, but they suffer from poor CGI and derivative plots, many of which are based on Jaws and Deep Blue Sea. Strangely, this movie borrows more from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, focusing more on the giant yeti monster. While the film does feature the tagline' Ice Sharks,' they are secondary to the big ape creature and serve more as a side threat.