Stargate Theatre

Sand Sharks

On this episode of Stargate Theatre I am taking a look at the 2012 Corin Nemec starring movie “Sand Sharks”. Corin plays Jimmy a slick piece of work who returns to his home town with the intent to organise a spring break music festival. While the Sheriff isn’t happy to see Jimmy back the Mayor (Jimmy’s Dad) is delighted with the plan which would bring in lots of revenue to a depressed economy. Naturally the first few deaths are not attributed to a shark let along a sand shark but it soon becomes apparent after the arrival of Doctor Powers the evidence of a predator and an unusual one at that is too strong to ignore. Jimmy of course looks to get the beaches back open and fakes a shark capture, that is derailed once again by Doctor Powers ( Sandy played by Brooke Hogan ). However as luck would have it as the power cabling to the island is being worked on the sand shark attacks and is partially vaporised by the electrical current, happiness abounds and the beaches are back open and the festival gets underway.

Jimmy is delighted but if you’ve seen a shark movie then you know it’s not all over and yes the shark that was killed was just one of many and a feeding frenzy gets underway thanks to the abundance of partiers on the beaches. A hail mary idea is dreamt up and the sharks are drawn into a trap, will it work and if it does will any of our heroes survive?

Sand Sharks is a well produced “B” movie with an appropriate budget which has been well spent on one or two good performers and plenty of good location shooting. That said the CGI is a let down although there isn’t that much of it and do we really want realistic CGI sharks in this sort of movie? The biggest upside is Corin who chews up all he scenery and the biggest downside is the very limited role Gina Holden undertakes. At the end of the day this is an entertaining shark movie.

As always I would love to hear from you, feel free to get in touch via social media etc and if you want to come on the podcast and talk Stargate or pick a movie for this Theatre feature I would love to hear from you. Up next is… you’ll have to wait and find out but it is a favourite of mine and part of a long running franchise.

IMDB WIKI