Monster Shark (1984)

Monster Shark (1984) aka Devil Fish

After a series of savage attacks, the sheriff of a coastal town turns to a marine biologist for answers. After recruiting a dolphin trainer and a scientist, the team discovers multiple threats, including a hybrid sea predator and dark-money groups looking to profit from this creature. Like so many Italian films, this movie was released under several titles, including the original title Shark - Rosso nell'oceano. Directed by Lamberto Bava, Monster Shark has the look and feel of a low-budget Giallo with most of the budget spent on the location. The cast includes a few very attractive women who were staples of 70s and 80s Italian cinema, including Valentina Monnier, Iris Peynado, Cinzia de Ponti, and Dagmar Lassander. The creature effects are weird and fake-looking, but thankfully, you only get to see them fully in the end scenes. Monster Shark does feature a few shark scenes, but the truth is, the hybrid monster is more octopus than shark, and more Dunkleosteus than octopus.    

 

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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.