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Soul Surfer (film)
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Soul Surfer
A young girl holds a surfboard at the beach. A section of her board is missing as if been bitten by a shark.
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Sean McNamara
Produced by
David Zelon
Douglas Schwartz
 Dutch Hofstetter
David Brookwell
 Sean McNamara
Screenplay by
Sean McNamara
 Deborah Schwartz
 Douglas Schwartz
Michael Berk
Story by
Sean McNamara
 Deborah Schwartz
 Douglas Schwartz
 Michael Berk
Matt Allen
 Caleb Wilson
 Brad Gann
Based on
Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board
 by Bethany Hamilton
 Sheryl Berk
 Rick Bundschuh
Starring
AnnaSophia Robb
Helen Hunt
Lorraine Nicholson
Carrie Underwood
Dennis Quaid
Music by
Marco Beltrami
Cinematography
John R. Leonetti
Edited by
Jeff Canavan
Production
   company
Mandalay Vision
Brookwell McNamara Entertainment
 Island Film Group
 Enticing Entertainment
Affirm Films
 Life's a Beach Entertainment
Distributed by
TriStar Pictures
FilmDistrict
Release date(s)
April 8, 2011

Running time
106 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$18 million
Box office
$47,088,990[1]
Soul Surfer is a 2011 American biopic drama film directed by Sean McNamara. It is a film adaptation of the 2004 autobiography Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board by Bethany Hamilton about her life as a surfer after a horrific shark attack and her recovery. The film stars AnnaSophia Robb, Helen Hunt, Dennis Quaid, and Lorraine Nicholson with Carrie Underwood, Kevin Sorbo, Sonya Balmores, Branscombe Richmond, and Craig T. Nelson.
Filming took place in Hawaii in early 2010 with Robb wearing a green sleeve on her arm so visual effects could be added in post-production to create the appearance of a stump. Additional filming took place in Tahiti in August 2010. Soul Surfer was released in theaters on April 8, 2011 in the United States and Canada by FilmDistrict.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Theatrical release
5 Critical reception
6 Home Media Release
7 Awards and nominations
8 Further reading
9 References
10 External links

Plot[edit]
In 2003, teenager Bethany Hamilton lives in Kauai, Hawaii with her parents Tom and Cheri, and two brothers, Noah and Timmy. All are surfers, but she and her best friend Alana Blanchard have grown up with a passion for the sport and enter a competition. Her church youth ministry leader, Sarah Hill, is disappointed when she has to withdraw from a planned mission trip to Mexico because of the contest.
Bethany and Alana place first and third, respectively, while the second place winner, Malina Birch, proves to be resentful. Bethany invites both girls up on the winner's box with her, but Malina ungraciously refuses. The Rip Curl surfwear company offers to sponsor her and Alana in competition.
On Halloween, Alana and Bethany sneak off with some friends to go night surfing. Later while Tom goes to the hospital for knee surgery, both girls go surfing with Alana's father Holt and brother Byron. As Bethany dangles her left arm in the water, a tiger shark is swimming just under her surfboard and notices her arm floating in the water. It attacks, ripping off her arm. Holt gets her out of the water with the help of Alana and Byron and makes a tourniquet out of his swimshirt to put on her while Byron calls 911 as Cheri is also informed. An ambulance meets them on the way to the hospital. Just before starting Tom's knee surgery, Dr. David Rovinsky is called to the emergency room to treat Bethany. Besides losing her left arm, she also lost 60% of her blood and Dr. Rovinsky calls her survival a miracle.
The onslaught of paparazzi also proves to be a great strain on her family and their privacy. The Hamiltons are grateful to Holt for his quick and active thinking and decisive action that saved her life. Her injury prevents her participating in the Rip Curl photo shoots, but she wishes Alana well.
Bethany perseveres and after a recuperation period, gets back in the water, and learns to surf with one arm. Inside Edition offers to provide a prosthetic one that is cosmetically perfect and has bendable joints, in exchange for an interview. She angrily rejects it when she learns it will not help her surf as it is not weight bearing, as a result of the size of her arm stump.
Bethany eventually re-enters the competition, telling rival Malina not to go easy on her, and rejects a five-minute head start offered by the judges. She does not perform well because she cannot stay on the board long enough to go out and catch a competitive wave and Malina wins. Disappointed, she decides to give up competitive surfing.
Bethany decides to surprise Sarah by joining the youth group on another mission trip to help the people of Phuket, Thailand who were devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Despite her recent tragedy, she joins her youth group to help the Thai children get over their fear of the ocean. They are understandably afraid of the water, including a little boy. She decides to go into it with a surfboard, hoping this will coax him into it. It works, and the realization that she can use her gift to inspire people motivates her to take up surfing again.
Tom, who believes that Bethany possesses a great surfer's instinct for sensing when the best waves will form, rigs a handle on her surfboard which she can use to prevent falling off while paddling out to the waves, which is not prohibited by the competition's rules. She enters the national championship. During the competition, she performs respectably, though she is still chasing third place. Suddenly, with only minutes left on the clock, the waves die down and all the surfers can only loiter, waiting for the waves to start back up. Tom's belief in his daughter's instinct is proven when she is the only one to sense a big wave forming, and she alone paddles out. When it forms, the others cannot get out in time and she catches it just as the horn sounds. If it is in time, she will win, but the judges rule that the time has expired. Malina is the winner, but she has finally gotten over her differences with Bethany, inviting her up on the platform to share first place.
Subsequently, Bethany lets the reporters interview her. One asks her what she would do if given the chance to undo the loss of her arm. She says that she would still lose it because she can embrace more people now than she ever could with both.
Cast[edit]
AnnaSophia Robb as Bethany Hamilton
Helen Hunt as Cheri Hamilton
Dennis Quaid as Tom Hamilton
Carrie Underwood as Sarah Hill
Kevin Sorbo as Holt Blanchard
Ross Thomas as Noah Hamilton
Chris Brochu as Timmy Hamilton
Lorraine Nicholson as Alana Blanchard
Jeremy Sumpter as Byron Blanchard
Sonia Balmores Chung as Malina Birch
Craig T. Nelson as Dr. David Rovinsky
Cody Gomes as Keoki
Branscombe Richmond as Ben
Bethany Hamilton as Herself (archive footage)
Alana Blanchard as Herself (archive footage)
Sean McNamara cameos as a Rip Curl executive.
Production[edit]
Plans for a biopic film about Hamilton have existed since months after her shark attack and her subsequent recovery in 2004. During Hamilton's media attention, the father of Bethany's friends Chantilly and Tiffany, Roy "Dutch" Hofstetter, became the Hamilton family's media manager. Hofstetter, in February 2004, envisioned a film based on Bethany's experience, provisionally titled The Bethany Hamilton Story.[2] Bethany published her biographical book Soul Surfer in 2004,[3] and BBC reported that a film about her life was scheduled to begin filming in January 2005.[4] Production did not begin as anticipated, and Time reported in July 2006 that production was scheduled for later in the year.[5] Variety reported that the project at one point had an investment of $7.5 million and the backing of Peter Schlessel, a Sony Pictures executive.[6]
Though production had not begun by the end of 2006, in January 2007 Sean McNamara was announced to be directing the biographical film.[7] While Hamilton had a series of surfing successes, turning pro in 2007, McNamara and producer David Brookwell with her manager Roy "Dutch" Hofstetter sought more material for the film. The book was considered "a straightforward account" that was targeted to Christian readers, so the filmmakers met with the Hamilton family to determine if there were any unpublished conflicts that could be highlighted in the film. They discovered that the incident had strained the family, that family members questioned their Christian faith, and that Bethany Hamilton struggled with her physical appearance and how boys would perceive her. The media attention on the family was described by Brookwell as "a second shark attack" that had made their lives uncomfortably public.[6]



"She was actually my suggestion. I'd seen her in several films like Bridge to Terabithia and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and thought she could play me really well. She visited me in Hawaii and my surf coach and I taught her how to surf, so she at least looked like she knew what she was doing!"
— Bethany Hamilton on suggesting AnnaSophia Robb to portray her[8]
McNamara, Brookwell, Hofstetter and Douglas Schwartz spent several years raising money for production.[6] The director wrote an adapted screenplay with Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz and Deborah Schwartz. Additional uncredited writing was performed by Ron Bass, Jen Smolka and Kara Holden. Before the film entered production, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions acquired distribution rights for North America and most other territories. The production companies Mandalay Vision, Brookwell McNamara Entertainment and Life's a Beach Entertainment collaborated for the production, with Enticing Entertainment and Island Film Group providing financing.[9] Bethany Hamilton chose with her mother AnnaSophia Robb to portray her, as well as Sonia Balmores Chung and Jeremy Sumpter to play Malina and Alana's brother, Byron.[10] In February 2010, Robb was announced to be part of the film as Bethany Hamilton, along with Dennis Quaid and Helen Hunt who were cast as Bethany's parents.[11] Singer Carrie Underwood, in her feature film debut, was cast as a church youth leader.[11] All the surfing scenes after the shark attack were done by Hamilton herself.[8] Filming began the same month in Hawaii.[11] Principal photography and second-unit aerial work took place for 40 days; cinematographer John R. Leonetti shot on 35mm film. During filming, Robb wore a green sleeve on her arm so visual effects could be included later.[6] Though McNamara was editing the film by May 2010,[12] additional filming took place in August 2010 in Tahiti. During post-production, the VFX company Engine Room worked on 450 arm-removal shots, digitally inserting the upper arm residuum in place of Robb's green sleeve.[6] The Hamilton family was involved in the choice of music.[10] Ultimately, the film's production budget was $18 million.[13]
Theatrical release[edit]
In July 2010, USA Today reported Soul Surfer as one of several faith-based films similar to The Blind Side, Get Low, Like Dandelion Dust, and Jumping the Broom.[14] In September 2010, independent studio FilmDistrict was launched, and the company formed a partnership with TriStar Pictures to release Soul Surfer.[9] FilmDistrict originally committed to release the film at 300 theaters, but when executives saw the final product, they invested $26 million in a print and advertising commitment with the goal of releasing Soul Surfer in 2,000 theaters.[6]
Prior to the film's commercial release, it was screened for religious leaders. A scene in which Dennis Quaid's character reads the Bible in the hospital at his daughter's bedside had the words "Holy Bible" digitally removed from the cover. Bethany Hamilton's father said that David Zelon, an executive at Mandalay Pictures, lobbied to reduce the Soul Surfer's Christian elements so the film could appeal more to non-Christian audiences. The Hamilton family objected, and the words "Holy Bible" were restored in the scene in a follow-up screening. Another debated scene was one in which Carrie Underwood's character, a church youth leader, quotes biblical scripture (Jeremiah 29:11[15]). While those involved with the film were fine with the verse, they did not want the scene to explicitly indicate that its origin was the Bible. Their stance was challenged, and the scene indicates the verse being from the Bible. The Hollywood Reporter cited the dust-up as an example of Hollywood learning to appeal to the faith-based community while still attracting secular audiences. The Blind Side, which accomplished both, had grossed $256 million in the United States and Canada.[16]
The film was released in 2,214 theaters in the United States and Canada on April 8, 2011. It grossed $10.6 million over its opening weekend, ranking fourth at the box office.[1] Sony Pictures reported that 80% of the audience was female and that 56% were under 25 years old.
Critical reception[edit]
Soul Surfer has received mixed reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives a score of 46% based on reviews from 101 critics, with an average rating of 5.3/10. The site's consensus is: "There's an amazing true story at the heart of Soul Surfer -- and unfortunately, it's drowned by waves of Hollywood cheese."[17]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times was mildly positive in his review, giving the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and writing "Soul Surfer is a wholesome movie, intended as inspirational. Whether it will cheer viewers who are not as capable as Bethany is an excellent question. AnnaSophia Robb is a convincing, cheerful heroine. Dennis Quaid and Helen Hunt, as Bethany's parents, are stalwart and supportive, although the script indeed leaves them with no other choice."[18] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B grade, writing "[t]he more cynical viewers out there may say, 'Not for me.' But Soul Surfer, while formulaic in design, is an authentic and heartfelt movie."[19] S. Jhoanna Robledo of Common Sense Media gave the film three stars out of five, writing "Yes, it's a message movie, but the message burrows deep enough under your skin to make the movie, given its utter conventionality, unexpectedly stirring."[20]
Despite mixed critical reception, it was a hit among audiences; CinemaScore polls reports that the average grade moviegoers gave it was a rare A+.[21]
Home Media Release[edit]
Soul Surfer was released on DVD and Blu-Ray on August 2, 2011 by TriStar Pictures and FilmDistrict.
Awards and nominations[edit]
Wins
Soul Surfer won the "Best Film for Family Audiences" at the Movie Guide Awards, beating out such films as Hugo, The Adventures of Tintin, The Muppets and Puss in Boots. Dennis Quaid, AnnaSophia Robb, and Kevin Sorbo each received a nomination for "Most Inspiring Performance in Movies in 2011", but they lost to Alex Kendrick of Courageous.[22] The film won the Crystal Dove Seal Award for Best Drama.[23] Composer Marco Beltrami won the Satellite Award for Best Original Score.[24]
Nominations
Casting Society of America
Artios Award for Outstanding Achievement in Casting: Feature – Studio or Independent Comedy, Joey Paul Jensen[25]
ESPY Awards
Best Sports Movie[26]
People's Choice Awards
Favorite Book Adaptation
Teen Choice Awards
Choice Movie Drama
Choice Movie Drama Actress – AnnaSophia Robb
Women Film Critics Circle
Best Female Images in a Movie[27]
Further reading[edit]
Hamilton, Bethany; Berk, Sheryl; Bundschuh, Rick (2006). Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board. MTV. ISBN 978-1-4165-0346-0.
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b "Soul Surfer (2011)". Box Office Mojo. IMDB. Retrieved August 17, 2011.
2.Jump up ^ Campbell, Duncan (February 8, 2004). "To the power of one". The Observer (London).
3.Jump up ^ "Surfer Girl Makes Comeback After Shark Attack". cbs News. April 7, 2005.
4.Jump up ^ "Shark girl surfer hits the waves". BBC. April 6, 2005.
5.Jump up ^ Stinchfield, Kate (July 30, 2006). "Milestones: Bethany Hamilton". Time.
6.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Caranicas, Peter (February 1, 2011). "Splashy finish for 'SoulSurfer'". Variety.
7.Jump up ^ Stewart, Ryan (January 27, 2007). "Soul Surfer Gets a Director, Now Needs a Star". Moviefone.
8.^ Jump up to: a b Pilkington, Maria (September 27, 2011). "Bethany Hamilton (Soul Surfer) Interview". The 405. Retrieved December 15, 2012.
9.^ Jump up to: a b McClintock, Pamela (November 1, 2010). "'Soul Surfer' is first FilmDistrict pickup". Variety.
10.^ Jump up to: a b Clark, Mark (September 24, 2011). "SOUL SURFER Interview With Bethany Hamilton!". WhatCulture!. Retrieved December 15, 2012.
11.^ Jump up to: a b c Siegel, Tatiana (February 3, 2010). "Carrie Underwood to star in 'Surfer' film". Variety.
12.Jump up ^ Agence France-Presse (May 18, 2010). "Shark bite surf princess still making waves". Bangkok Post.
13.Jump up ^ Kaufman, Amy (April 7, 2011). "Movie Projector: With 'Hop' and 'Arthur,' Russell Brand should top box office". Los Angeles Times.
14.Jump up ^ "More faith-based films along lines of 'Blind Side'". USA Today. July 18, 2010.
15.Jump up ^ Soul Surfer DVD, scene 3. The Underwood character states chapter and verse.
16.Jump up ^ Bond, Paul (February 16, 2011). "Producer Tried to Edit Bible Out of Sony’s 'Soul Surfer'". The Hollywood Reporter.
17.Jump up ^ "Soul Surfer". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixter. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
18.Jump up ^ "Soul Surfer Movie Review & Film Summary (2011)". Chicago Sun-Times. April 6, 2011.
19.Jump up ^ "Movie Review: Soul Surfer". Entertainment Weekly. April 7, 2011.
20.Jump up ^ http://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/soul-surfer
21.Jump up ^ McClintock, Pamela (August 12, 2011). "15 Movies That Made The Grade: A+ CinemaScore Posse". The Hollywood Reporter.
22.Jump up ^ "20th Annual MOVIEGUIDE® Faith & Values Awards Gala and Report to the Entertainment Industry Winners List". Movieguide.org. February 11, 2012. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
23.Jump up ^ "2011 Crystal Dove Seal Award Winners". Dove.org. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
24.Jump up ^ "Satellite Awards - Soul Surfer". International Press Academy. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
25.Jump up ^ "2011 Artios Award Nominations for Outstanding Achievement in Casting". Casting Society of America. 2011. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
26.Jump up ^ "ESPY Awards 2011". International Business Times. July 14, 2011. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
27.Jump up ^ "'Iron Lady' and 'Kevin' Top Women Film Critics' Awards". indieWire. December 19, 2011. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
External links[edit]
Official website
Soul Surfer at the Internet Movie Database
Soul Surfer at the TCM Movie Database
Soul Surfer at AllMovie
Soul Surfer at Rotten Tomatoes
Soul Surfer at Box Office Mojo


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Kon-Tiki (2012 film)
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Kon-Tiki
Kon-tiki 2012 Poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster[1]

Directed by
Joachim Rønning
Espen Sandberg
Produced by
Jeremy Thomas
 Aage Aaberge
Screenplay by
Petter Skavlan, Allan Scott (consultant)
Starring
Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen
Anders Baasmo Christiansen
Odd-Magnus Williamson
Agnes Kittelsen
Gustaf Skarsgård
Jakob Oftebro
Tobias Santelmann
Music by
Johan Söderqvist
Edited by
Geir Hartly Andreassen
Production
   company
Nordisk Film
Distributed by
The Weinstein Company
Release date(s)
24 August 2012

Running time
118 minutes
Country
Norway
Language
English
 Norwegian
Budget
93 Millon NOK (~US$15.5 million)[2]
Box office
$22,842,887[3]
Kon-Tiki is a 2012 Norwegian historical drama film directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg about the 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition. The film was mainly shot on the island of Malta. The role of Thor Heyerdahl is played by Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen. It was the highest-grossing film of 2012 in Norway and the country's most expensive production to date.[4]
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards.[5] It is Norway's fifth Academy Award nomination.[6] The film was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Golden Globe Awards.[7] It is the first time a Norwegian film has been nominated for both an Oscar and a Golden Globe.[8]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Filming
3.2 Language
4 Historical accuracy
5 Release 5.1 Box office
5.2 Critical response
6 Accolades
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

Plot[edit]
The film is the dramatised story of Thor Heyerdahl and his Kon-Tiki expedition of 1947.
While the prevailing theories of the time held that Polynesia had been settled by peoples migrating from the west, Heyerdahl, an experimental ethnographer and adventurer, sets out to prove his theory that people from South America settled the islands in pre-Columbian times.
Noting similarities between statues found in South America and the Polynesian Moai, Heyerdahl's theory about the origin of the Polynesian people is bolstered by Polynesian folklore that tells of an ancient tribe called the Hanau epe that are said to have once inhabited Easter Island. While most experts hold that such a voyage across the vast ocean is unlikely to have ever been successful, in order to illustrate that there were no technological limitations that would have inhibited the ancient peoples from making the journey, Heyerdahl puts his theory to the test and builds a balsawood raft using the same techniques that would have been utilized 1500 years ago by the indigenous peoples of the region. Though he himself cannot swim or sail, he sets out on the treacherous 4,300 nautical mile-journey across the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia aboard the small raft, along with his crew of five men (and a macaw named Lorita).
During the three months aboard the primitive vessel named after Inca god of Sun and storm, Kon-Tiki, the crew's scientific reenactment of the legendary voyage from the coast of Peru to the Polynesian islands is met with setbacks in the form of storms, sharks, and other perils of the open sea.
Cast[edit]
Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen as Thor Heyerdahl
Anders Baasmo Christiansen as Herman Watzinger
Gustaf Skarsgård as Bengt Danielsson
Odd-Magnus Williamson as Erik Hesselberg
Tobias Santelmann as Knut Haugland
Jakob Oftebro as Torstein Raaby
Agnes Kittelsen as Liv Heyerdahl
Manuel Cauchi as Jose Bustamente
Richard Trinder as Løytnant Lewis
Katinka Egres as beautiful señorita
Stefan Cronwall as Svensk eventyrer
Eleanor Burke as Travel Agent
Production[edit]
Filming[edit]
Shooting for Kon-Tiki took place in Norway, Malta, Bulgaria, Thailand, Sweden, and the Maldives[9][10] over a period of three and a half months.[11] Against the advice of many, the filmmakers decided to shoot the ocean scenes on the open ocean rather than on a set, insisting that the "unique challenges" they faced from shooting on the ocean actually strengthen the film.[12]
Language[edit]
In an unusual technique, the film was shot simultaneously in both Norwegian and English, with each scene being filmed twice, first in Norwegian and then in English. This resulted in two versions of the film to be released, one primarily for the Norwegian domestic market, the other for an international audience. In a few cases, such as action scenes and computer-generated sequences, they used the same shot, later adding English with dubbing.[13]
Historical accuracy[edit]
While much of the story is historically accurate, screenwriter Petter Skavlan and director Joachim Rønning both felt the need to make the story more exciting for their two-hour feature film. [14][15]
Some of the alterations from Heyerdahl's book are minor: the ship's parrot is eaten by a shark in the film; its real-life counterpart was simply washed overboard by a large wave.[16] The film shows the crew only getting access to valuable US military equipment once they have arrived in Peru and are building the raft; whereas Heyerdahl arranged for the equipment at a visit to the Pentagon before traveling to Peru.[17]
The film has the crew worrying about getting sucked into "the Galapagos maelstrom," with a book shown that purportedly illustrates the maelstrom. The illustration is actually artist Harry Clarke's 1919 illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "A Descent Into the Maelström," a fictional account of a whirlpool in Norwegian waters. The description of its roar, which can be heard from nine miles away, is taken directly from Poe's story. Although Heyerdahl did refer to "treacherous eddies" near the Galapagos, his chief worry there was that "strong ocean currents" could sweep the raft back towards Central America.[18]
Most controversial has been the portrait of the raft's second-in-command, Herman Watzinger.[19] Colleagues and relatives say Watzinger in the film is unlike the real-life Watzinger, physically or in his actions. Baasmo Christiansen, the pudgy actor who portrayed Watzinger, acknowledged the physical differences with a smile. "Watzinger was tall, dark, and Norwegian Youth Champion in the 100 meter. He was everything I'm not."[15]
In the film, Watzinger disobeys Heyerdahl's direct order and throws a harpoon at a whale shark under the boat. It was actually Erik Hesselberg who harpooned the whale shark, with the crew cheering him on.[20] The film's Watzinger, worried about the hemp ropes' ability to hold the balsa logs together for the entire voyage, tearfully begs Heyerdahl at sea to add steel cables Watzinger smuggled aboard. Heyerdahl's book contains no such scene. When the scene was described to Watzinger's daughter, she said it never happened. "My father was a stout and confident man, and he never thought that way about the balsa logs and the ropes."[15] Thor Heyerdahl, Jr., who worked with Watzinger, concurred in the criticism of the film's portrayal of Watzinger.[15]
Film critic Andrew Barker commented, "It’s frustratingly ironic that Kon-Tiki’s most outrageously fantastical sequences are completely verifiable, and its most predictable, workaday conflicts are completely made up."[21]
The movie focuses on Heyerdahl's theory that Polynesia was first populated with humans from Peru, but it ignores the Norwegian's more ethnocentric speculations that the original Kon-Tiki voyage was undertaken by a race of tall white people with red hair and bearded men. Heyerdahl conjectured that Amer-Indian civilizations like the Aztecs and the Incas only arose with the help of advanced technical knowledge brought by early European voyagers, and that these white people were eventually driven out of Peru and fled westward on rafts.[22]
Release[edit]
The film premiered on 18 August 2012 at the 40th Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund.[23] A North American screening took place at the Toronto International Film Festival.[24]
The Weinstein Company acquired the distribution rights for North America and Italy in November 2012.[25]
Box office[edit]
Kon-Tiki opened in Norway on 24 August 2012, setting a weekend national box office record.[26] It became the highest-grossing of 2012 in Norway, earning $14,111,514, and overtaking the film Max Manus: Man of War, also by directors Rønning and Sandberg.[27]
Critical response[edit]
Kon-Tiki opened in the US on April 26, 2013, in a limited release, and was screened in 3 cinemas. On May 3, 2013, Kon-Tiki expanded to screen in 50 more cinemas. Kon-Tiki was a major box office success in its home country, Norway, and has since been gathering critical acclaim internationally.[24]
The Hollywood Reporter's Sheri Linden says of Kon-Tiki: "This retelling of a bare-bones enterprise by six men took a crew of hundreds, and the results are nothing if not polished, with handsome period detail and visual effects that are convincing, if sometimes ostentatious. The widescreen lensing (the film was shot mainly in and around Malta) doesn’t overdo the sense of wonder and, with a strong assist from the sound design, conveys the men's vulnerability to the elements."[28]
Andrew Barker of Variety notes that some may take issue with the artistic license the filmmakers took in dramatizing some of the characters and events of the voyage, but describes the film overall as "a visually impeccable, professionally crafted modern vessel that lacks any of the patched-together soul of its subject."[29]
While Michael Nordine of LA Weekly laments that Kon-Tiki "could have used a bit more [shark-attracting] blood in the water", he concedes that the "crystal-clear waves are a sight to behold nevertheless."[30]
Rotten Tomatoes reported that 83% of the critics on that site gave Kon-Tiki a positive review. The site's consensus is: "A well-crafted retelling of an epic true story, Kon Tiki is a throwback to old-school adventure filmmaking that's exciting and entertaining in spite of its by-the-book plotting."
Accolades[edit]



Award
Category
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Result
85th Academy Awards[31] Best Foreign Language Film Kon-Tiki Nominated
70th Golden Globe Awards Best Foreign Language Film Kon-Tiki Nominated
40th Norwegian International Film Festival[32] Publikumsprisen (Audience Award) Kon-Tiki Won
17th Satellite Awards[33] Best Foreign Language Film Kon-Tiki Nominated
Best Sound Baard H. Ingebretsen, Tormod Ringes Nominated
See also[edit]


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References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Watch trailer
2.Jump up ^ "KON-TIKI – Norges neste Oscarkandidat?". Inmagasinet.no/. 2012. Retrieved 2012-08-22.
3.Jump up ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=kontiki.htm
4.Jump up ^ Roxborough, Scott (14 September 2012). "Norway Names 'Kon-Tiki' Oscar Entry". Retrieved 13 January 2013.
5.Jump up ^ "Oscars: Hollywood announces 85th Academy Award nominations". BBC News. Retrieved 2013-01-10.
6.Jump up ^ ABC. "Foreign Language Film - KON-TIKI". Retrieved 13 January 2013.
7.Jump up ^ http://www.deadline.com/2012/12/golden-globe-awards-nominations-2013/
8.Jump up ^ Ryland, Julie (11 January 2013). "Norwegian film "Kon Tiki" nominated for Oscar". The Norway Post. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
9.Jump up ^ "Ovations greet new ‘Kon-Tiki’ film". Views and News from Norway. 19 August 2012. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
10.Jump up ^ "IMDB Filming Locations".
11.Jump up ^ Cooper, Sarah. "It will be the world premiere of the Norwegian film about the real life Pacific expedition of 1947, directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg.". Retrieved 13 January 2013.
12.Jump up ^ "Trailer & Klipp - Blog 2". Nordisk Film. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
13.Jump up ^ "Can You Say ‘Do It Again’ in Norwegian?". 14 April 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
14.Jump up ^ "Filmen er en krenkelse av enkeltpersoner". VG. August 21, 2012. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
15.^ Jump up to: a b c d Furuly, Jan Gunnar (August 19, 2012). "Kon-Tiki gir et grovt uriktig bilde av min far". Aftenposten. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
16.Jump up ^ Heyerdahl, Thor (1950). Kon-Tiki (in English, translated from Norwegian by F.H. Lyon). Chicago: Rand McNally. p. 133.
17.Jump up ^ Heyerdahl, Thor (1950). Kon-Tiki (in English, translated from Norwegian by F.H. Lyon). Chicago: Rand McNally. pp. 27–30.
18.Jump up ^ Heyerdahl, Thor (1950). Kon-Tiki (in English, translated from Norwegian by F.H. Lyon). Chicago: Rand McNally. p. 73.
19.Jump up ^ Oftestad, Eldrid (August 20, 2012). "Filmeksperter: Fritt frem for å ta seg friheter". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Retrieved 19 June 2013.
20.Jump up ^ Heyerdahl, Thor (1950). Kon-Tiki. Chicagp: Rand McNally. p. 82.
21.Jump up ^ Barker, Andrew (September 8, 2012). "Review: "Kon-Tiki"". Variety. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
22.Jump up ^ Heyerdahl, Thor (1950). Kon-Tiki. Chicago: Rand McNally. pp. 120–127.
23.Jump up ^ "Magnificent festival opening with Kon-Tiki". Retrieved 13 January 2013.
24.^ Jump up to: a b Enk, Bryan. "Golden Globes: ‘Kon-Tiki’ emerges as this year’s unknown nominee … and dark horse contender". Yahoo! Movies. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
25.Jump up ^ "Weinstein Company Acquires Rights To ‘Kon-Tiki’". Deadline.com. 7 November 2012. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
26.Jump up ^ "Kon-Tiki breaks Norway box office record". The Local. 27 August 2012. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
27.Jump up ^ "Norway Yearly Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
28.Jump up ^ Linden, Sheri. "Kon-Tiki: Toronto Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
29.Jump up ^ Barker, Andrew. "Kon-Tiki (Norway)". Toronto Film Fest Reviews. Variety. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
30.Jump up ^ Nordine, Michael. "Why You Should Check Out Kon-Tiki, Norway's Most Expensive Film Ever". Film. LA Weekly. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
31.Jump up ^ "The Nominees". Retrieved 13 January 2013.
32.Jump up ^ "News". The Norwegian International Film Festival. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
33.Jump up ^ International Press Academy. "2012 Winners". Retrieved 13 January 2013.
External links[edit]
Official Twitter: @KonTikiFilm
Official website (Norwegian)
Kon-Tiki at the Internet Movie Database
Kon-Tiki at Rotten Tomatoes


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Shores of Silence
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Mike Pandey
Produced by
Mike Pandey
Production
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Riverbanks Studios
Country
India
Shores of Silence: Whale Sharks in India is a landmark film by Mike Pandey that brought about major legislative changes to protect whale sharks worldwide. This documentary depicts the needless killing and harvesting of whale sharks by poor Indian communities. In response to the film, the Indian government introduced legislature to ban fishing of whale sharks, declaring them endangered species and protecting them under the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972.[1] This gives whale sharks equal status to other endangered species such as tigers and rhinoceroses. Internationally, the film helped to bring the whale shark global protection under CITES.[2] The film won 11 international awards including The Wildscreen Panda, also known as the Green Oscar.[3] Recently, the film received four stars from the Hindustan Times.[citation needed]
See also[edit]
Mike Pandey
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Wielding the camera to speak out for a cause". The Hindu. September 4, 2006.
2.Jump up ^ http://www.cites.org/eng/cop/12/prop/E12-P35.pdf
3.Jump up ^ Kaushik, Himanshu (January 2, 2010). "Lifting the whale". The Times of India.
External links[edit]
Official site for Mike Pandey
Riverbanks Studios
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Sharkwater
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Sharkwater
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Directed by
Rob Stewart
Produced by
Rob Stewart
Narrated by
Rob Stewart
Paul Watson
Music by
Moby
Nina Simone
Ali Farka Toure
 The Riderless
 Geoffrey Oryema
Aphex Twin
Portishead
Distributed by
Freestyle Releasing
Release date(s)
September 11, 2006 (Toronto International Film Festival)
March 23, 2007 (Canada)

Running time
89 minutes
Country
Canada
Language
English
Sharkwater is a 2006 Canadian documentary film written and directed by Rob Stewart, who also narrates it. In the film, Stewart seeks to deflate current attitudes about sharks, and exposes how the voracious shark-hunting industry is driving them to extinction. His next film, Revolution, builds on Sharkwater.
Filmed in high definition video, Sharkwater explores the densest shark populations in the world, exposing the exploitation and corruption of the shark-hunting industry in the marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
Stewart travels with Paul Watson and his Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship as they confront shark poachers in Guatemala and Costa Rica. Among the group's experiences are boat chases with poachers and police, boat ramming, hidden camera footage of massive shark finning facilities, corrupt court systems and eventually attempted murder charges which force Stewart and Watson to flee from the police. Stewart explores how the increasing demand for shark-fin soup in Asia is fueling an illegal trade in sharks. His expedition is cut short, however, when he is diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis (from which he recovers).
Stewart discovers that sharks have gone from predator to prey, and how despite surviving the Earth's history of mass extinctions, as well as being a predator that prevents the overconsumption of plankton by other fish, moderating global warming, they could easily be wiped out within a few years.
The film has won eight major awards and been nominated an additional three times.[1]
Awards[edit]
Sharkwater has received 33 international awards.
Canada's Top Ten : Toronto International Film Festival
People's Choice : Atlantic International Film Festival
People's Choice : Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival
Best Documentary : Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival
Spirit of Independents Award : Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival
Special Jury Award : Hawaii International Film Festival
Best Musical Composition : France World Festival of Underwater Pictures
Prix Planete Thalassa : France World Festival of Underwater Pictures
Best of the Festival Palm Springs : International Film Festival
Best International Doc  : Beverly Hills Hi-Def Festival
Best HD Feature : AFI Dallas International Film Festival
Audience Choice Award for Best Feature : Gen Art Film Festival
Grand Jury Award for Best Feature : Gen Art Film Festival
Peter Benchley Shark Conservation Award : Shark Research Institute
Special Jury Award : 15 Short Film Festival – Charlotte, NC
Must-See Award (Category: Wake-Up Films) : Telluride Mountain Film Festival
Hero of Conservation – Water Category : Conservation for the Oceans Foundation
Top Ten Films : Cambridge Film Festival
Jameson Audience Award : for Best International Documentary Encounters South African Int’l Doc. Festival
Best Documentary : Film - Nominee Critics Choice Awards
Animal Action Award : International Fund for Animal Welfare
Best Documentary : Directors Guild of Canada
Best Of The Festival : Santa Barbara Ocean Film Festival
Best Sound : Nominee Golden Reel Awards
Best Documentary : Nominee Genie Awards
Best Environmental : Film of 2008 National Ocean Film Festival Alliance
Best Feature Documentary : Genesis Awards
Audience Award : Durban Int'l Film Festival, S.A.
Activism through Adventure : Adventure Film Festival 2008 Boulder, CO
Theatrical Award - Nominated Wildscreen 2008 : Panda Award
Youth Documentary Award : Bergen International Film Festival
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Sharkwater at the Internet Movie Database
External links[edit]
Official website
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Deep Blood
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Deep Blood
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Directed by
Raffaele Donato
Joe D'Amato (uncredited)
Produced by
Joe D'Amato
Written by
George Nelson Ott
Starring
Frank Baroni
 Allen Cort
 Keith Kelsch
 James Camp
Cinematography
Joe D'Amato
Distributed by
Filmirage
Release date(s)
1989
Running time
90 min.
Country
Italy
Language
English
Deep Blood (also known as Squali and Sangue negli abissi/ Blood in the Abyss) is a 1989 Italian shark attack film directed by Raffaele Donato and Joe D'Amato and written by George Nelson Ott. It was edited by Kathleen Stratton, and contained original music by Carlo Maria Cordio. The film was made in Italy by Filmirage S.r.l. and Variety Film Production.[1]


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Synopsis[edit]
Several men try to stop an ancient Native American evil in the form of a killer shark that is attacking a beach community.
Cast[edit]
##Frank Baroni
##Allen Cort
##Keith Kelsch
##James Camp
##Tody Bernard
##John K. Brune
##Margareth Hanks
##Van Jensens
##Don Perrin
##Claude File
##Charlie Brill
##Mitzi McCall
Release[edit]
As of 2011, the film has still not been officially released in the United States in any home video format. It was released on DVD in the Czech Republic in 2009.[2]
See also[edit]
##List of killer shark films
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Company Credits for Deep Blood". imdb.com. Retrieved 2011-04-02.
2.Jump up ^ dvdsleuth - Joe D'Amato's Deep Blood on DVD in Czech
External links[edit]
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Monster Shark
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Monster Shark
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Directed by
Lamberto Bava (credited as John Old Jr.)
Bruno Mattei (2nd unit director) (credited as Gilbert Roussel)
Produced by
Mino Loy
Written by
Gianfranco Clerici (screenplay)
Lamberto Bava (additional material)
Starring
Michael Sopkiw
Gianni Garko
William Berger
Music by
Guido De Angelis
Maurizio De Angelis (credited as Antony Barrymore)
Cinematography
Giancarlo Ferrando (credited as John McFerrand)
Edited by
Roberto Sterbini (credited as Bob Wheeler)
Release date(s)
September 7, 1984 (Italy)
 January 23, 1985 (France)
 November 14, 1986 (USA)
Running time
90 minutes (USA)
 94 minutes (Germany)
Country
Italy, France
Language
English
Monster Shark (French: Le Monstre de l'océan rouge, Italian: Shark: Rosso nell'oceano; also known as Shark: Red on the Ocean, Devouring Waves and Devil Fish)[1] is a 1984 Italian-French natural horror film, and one of several environmental disaster films to emerge following the success of the 1975 film Jaws, including films such as: Great White, Orca, Piranha, Killer Fish and Tintorera.


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3 Reception
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Plot[edit]
The film takes place along a stretch of coastline somewhere in Florida in the United States, where a local tourist spot has become plagued by a mysterious marine creature. Little do they know, the monster is the product of a secret military experiment — a genetic hybrid mutated from a common octopus and the prehistoric super-predator Dunkleosteus. Unfortunately, the creature has broken loose, and is now feeding on swimmers and tourists swimming or sailing along the coast. Also, the monster is only an infant, and will continue to grow if it is left to hunt much longer.
A team of scientists led by a scientist named Peter and his colleague, Dr. Stella Dickens, are trying to find the creature and stop it, but a group of military scientists are trying to stop them, as the experiment was classified and is military business. Both groups are slowly picked off by the creature while they try to track it down. They eventually find that it is hiding in the Everglades and manage to corner it in shallow waters and kill it with repeated blasts from flamethrowers. At the end, Peter tells Stella that he has finally decided to take a vacation. When she asks where they are going, he tells her "the mountains". The ending is a freeze-frame shot.
Full cast[edit]
Michael Sopkiw – Peter
Valentine Monnier – Dr. Stella Dickens
Gianni Garko – Sheriff Gordon
William Berger – Professor Donald West
Iris Peynado – Sandra Hayes
Lawrence Morgant – Dr. Bob Hogan
Cinzia de Ponti – Florinda
Paul Branco – Dr. Davis Barker
Dagmar Lassander – Sonja West
Reception[edit]
Monster Shark received generally negative reviews from critics. As of January 2013, the IMDB rated the film in 61st place on their Bottom 100 list,[2] but later it came out of the rankings. Popcorn Pictures only gave the film marks for its artwork stating that "it could be a cure for insomnia".[3] The Bava's direction, hovewer, was praised.
Mystery Science Theater 3000[edit]
On August 15, 1998, Monster Shark, under its alternative title of Devil Fish, was featured on an episode of the movie-mocking television series Mystery Science Theater 3000, on which it was spoofed for its poor acting and erratic editing.[4]
See also[edit]
Sharktopus
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Devil Fish (1984)". Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Retrieved 2013-01-08.
2.Jump up ^ "IMDb Charts: IMDb Bottom 100". Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Retrieved 2013-01-08.
3.Jump up ^ "Monster Shark (1984)". Popcorn Pictures. Retrieved 2013-01-08.
4.Jump up ^ "Sampo" (April 1, 2010). "Episode guide: 911 – Devil Fish". Satellite News. Retrieved 2013-01-08.
External links[edit]
Monster Shark at the Internet Movie Database
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Review of Monster Shark at Popcorn Pictures


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Killer Fish
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Killer Fish
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Directed by
Antonio Margheriti
Produced by
Alex Ponti
Written by
Michael Rogers
Starring
Lee Majors
Karen Black
Margaux Hemingway
Marisa Berenson
James Franciscus
Music by
Guido De Angelis
Maurizio De Angelis
Cinematography
Alberto Spagnoli
Edited by
Cesare D'Amico
Production
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Fawcett-Majors Productions
 Victoria Productions
 Filmar do Brasil
Distributed by
Paris Filmes
Release date(s)
1978
Running time
101 minutes
Country
Italy
 France
 Brazil
Language
English
Killer Fish is a 1978 Italian-French-Brazilian horror movie directed by Antonio Margheriti.[1][2] The film, along with many monster movies of the 1970s and 1980s, is very similar to Jaws (1975).


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2 Cast
3 Filmings
4 Reception
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Plot[edit]
The mastermind behind a precision theft of priceless emeralds decides to hide the jewels at the bottom of a reservoir he's secretly stocked with savage deadly piranha. Retrieving the gems turns to be a caper in itself since the group is now torn by suspicion and jealousy. Several gang members try to recover the loot on their own, only to become screaming victims of the insatiable horde of killer fish. The treasure is down there just waiting to be brought up. To get them, everyone must face the inescapable terror of thousands of man-eating creatures.
Cast[edit]
Lee Majors as Robert Lasky
Karen Black as Kate Neville
Margaux Hemingway as Gabrielle
Marisa Berenson as Ann
James Franciscus as Paul Diller
Roy Brocksmith as Ollie
Dan Pastorini as Hans
Frank Pesce as Warren
Charles Guardino as Lloyd
Anthony Steffen as Max
Fábio Sabag as Quintin
Gary Collins as Tom
Filmings[edit]
The film was made on location in the city of Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[2]
Reception[edit]
Despite the low budget, Killer Fish has received generally positive reviews by critics, and currently has an 60% positive score at Rotten Tomatoes from the general audience.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Lancia, Enrico; Melelli, Fabio (2006). Attori stranieri del nostro cinema. Gremese Editore. p. 279. ISBN 9788884404251.
2.^ Jump up to: a b "O Peixe Assasino" (in Portuguese). Cinemateca Brasileira. Retrieved May 17, 2014.
External links[edit]
Killer Fish at the Internet Movie Database
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Great White (film)
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Great White
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US poster

Directed by
Enzo G. Castellari
Produced by
Edward L. Montoro
Ugo Tucci
Written by
Marc Princi
Starring
James Franciscus
Vic Morrow
Micaela Pignatelli
Joshua Sinclair
Giancarlo Prete
Stefania Girolami Goodwin
Music by
Morton Stevens (USA)
Distributed by
Film Ventures International (USA)
Running time
88 min.
Country
Italy
Language
English/Italian
Box office
$18,000,000 (USA)
Great White (a.k.a. The Last Shark; Italian: L'ultimo squalo) is a 1981 Italian horror film directed by Enzo G. Castellari and starring James Franciscus and Vic Morrow. The film is extremely similar to Steven Spielberg's Jaws.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Box office
4 Lawsuit
5 Release
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

Plot[edit]
While wind surfing near the seaside community of Port Harbor, a young man is killed by a giant Great White Shark. Author Peter Benton and professional shark hunter Ron Hammer realize the truth, but ambitious governor William Wells refuses to accept that a shark threatens their community. Fearing that a canceled wind-surfing regatta would derail his gubernatorial campaign, Wells has shark nets installed. But the sounds of teenagers splashing in the surf leads the shark to rip through the nets. The next day, the shark plows through the wind surfers, knocking them off their boards. But rather than eat the scattered teenagers, the shark targets the governor's aide and eats him.
The governor can no longer hide the truth. Benton and Hammer head out on the sea, planning to feed the shark dynamite and cause it to explode. But the shark traps them in a cave, and the men have to use their dynamite just to escape. Meanwhile, Benton's daughter Jenny and some of her friends head out on a yacht, armed with some steak and a shotgun, intending to shoot the shark. Instead, its powerful bites on the bait knocks Jenny into the water. Her friends pull her aboard, but not until the shark bites off one of her legs. Governor Wells's son was one of the friends she went out with, and Benton blames him for her injury. Determined to do something right, Wells sets out in a helicopter armed with a steak, apparently intending to hoist the shark into the air and suffocate it. But the shark is too powerful; when it bites into the steak dangling from a winch, it shakes the copter and knocks Wells into the sea. The shark then bites him in half then lunges into the helicopter, dragging it into the sea.
Benton and Hammer go back out to blow up the shark. After an argument, Benton agrees to allow Hammer to be the one to go down with the dynamite strapped into a belt around his waist. Thinking the shark might be hiding in the downed helicopter, Hammer investigates it. But the shark sneaks up on him and attacks. Benton dives in to save him, but Hammer becomes wrapped up in a line and is towed to his death by the shark.
Meanwhile, a man chains some spare ribs to the side of a dock. The man, a TV cameraman and some spectators go stand on the dock. The shark takes the spare ribs, towing the dock out into the ocean. Suddenly, the shark begins to attacking the dock, knocking the spectators into the water. It eats the man and TV Cameraman, but the others clamber back onto the dock. Benton arrives and rescues the others but gets trapped on the dock when the shark arrives to drag it further out to sea. Hammer's corpse floats by, Benton feeds it to the shark. Benton realizes he has the detonator in his hand. Leaping into the ocean, he flips the switch, detonating the dynamite and blowing the shark's head off.
Back on shore, Benton punches the TV reporter, then gets in a car and drives away.
Cast[edit]
James Franciscus as Peter Benton
Vic Morrow as Ron Hamer
Micaela Pignatelli as Gloria Benton
Joshua Sinclair as Governor William Wells
Giancarlo Prete as Bob Martin
Stefania Girolami Goodwin as Jenny Benton
Box office[edit]
Great White was very successful, and during the first month of its release in the United States it grossed $18 million. The film also enjoyed a good response in Italy, where it became the 72nd highest-grossing film of the season 1980–1981.[2]
Lawsuit[edit]
Universal Pictures, sued to have the release of this movie in North America blocked, accusing the makers of Great White of plagiarism of Jaws.[3] The studio won the case, and the movie was pulled from North American theaters shortly after its release. It has never been legally released on video in North America, nor shown on North American television, though bootlegs are regularly available on the internet.
The lawsuit from Universal has been considered as one of the reasons for the demise of Film Ventures International.
Release[edit]
The film was briefly released theatrically in the United States by Film Ventures International in March 1982.[4]
The film has a cult following in the United States because of its brief 1982 theatrical release and a proliferation of publicity materials, especially stills showing the titular shark's enormous prop, many times larger than any actual known species, on the internet.
The film was released on DVD in its native Italy in 2007[5] and on May 21, 2008 it was released on DVD in Sweden. It wasn't available on any format in the USA until 2011 when Amazon released a video download and a twenty-dollar, burn on demand copy of the film on their site. The disc is burned from a blank one upon ordering, but still, can't be bought in stores unless bootlegged.
On March 5, 2013, RetroVision Entertainment released the first official DVD release of the film in the United States since the film's banning. The film comes with restored colors, along with special features, including the short documentary Great White: The Legacy – 30 Years Later and rare theatrical trailers. The DVD is limited edition Region 0, and only 500 copies were manufactured. It is only able to be purchased online. [6]
See also[edit]
List of killer shark films
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Dossier Nocturno n.66. Il punto G. Guida al cinema di Enzo G. Castellari, Milano, Nocturno, 2008.
2.Jump up ^ Dossier Nocturno n.66. Il punto G. Guida al cinema di Enzo G. Castellari, Milano, Nocturno, 2008.
3.Jump up ^ "Why Is Universal Still Blocking The Distribution...". aintitcool.com. Retrieved 2011-04-02.
4.Jump up ^ "Company Credits for Great White". imdb.com. Retrieved 2011-04-02.
5.Jump up ^ "Italian DVD of the film available for sale". Amazon Italia. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
6.Jump up ^ "The Last Shark DVD". retrovisionfilms.com. Retrieved 2013-04-25.
External links[edit]
Great White at the Internet Movie Database
Great White at AllMovie
The Last Shark, review by Barry Meyer


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Eaten Alive
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This article is about the Tobe Hooper film. For the Diana Ross album, see Eaten Alive (album). For the title track from the album, see Eaten Alive (song). For the Barry Gibb album containing the demos made by him to the Ross' album, see The Eaten Alive Demos. For the film by Umberto Lenzi, see Eaten Alive!.


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Eaten Alive
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Directed by
Tobe Hooper
Produced by
Alvin L. Fast
 Larry Huly
 Robert Kantor
Mardi Rustam
 Mohammed Rustam
 Samir Rustam
Written by
Kim Henkel
 Alvin L. Fast
Mardi Rustam
Starring
Neville Brand
Mel Ferrer
Carolyn Jones
Marilyn Burns
Music by
Wayne Bell
 Tobe Hooper
Cinematography
Robert Caramico
Edited by
Michael Brown
Production
   company
Mars Productions Corporation
Release date(s)
May 1977 (USA)
Running time
91 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Eaten Alive (known under various alternate titles, including Death Trap and Starlight Slaughter) is an American horror film, directed by Tobe Hooper and released in May 1977. It was written by Kim Henkel, Alvin L. Fast and Mardi Rustam and produced by Fast, Larry Huly, Robert Kantor and Mardi, Mohammed and Samir Rustam. The film stars Neville Brand, Roberta Collins, Robert Englund, William Finley, Marilyn Burns, Janus Blythe and Kyle Richards.


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1 Synopsis
2 Cast
3 Release 3.1 Video nasty
3.2 Critical reception
4 References
5 External links

Synopsis[edit]
After refusing a request from frisky customer Buck (Robert Englund), prostitute Clara Wood (Roberta Collins) is evicted from the town brothel by the madam, Miss Hattie (Carolyn Jones). Clara makes her way to a decrepit hotel where she encounters the mentally disturbed proprietor Judd (Neville Brand) and his pet Nile crocodile in the swamp beside the porch. Upon realizing Clara was a prostitute, Judd attacks her while ranting and raving. Judd stabs her with a garden rake and feeds her to the crocodile.
Soon afterwards a fractious couple, Faye (Marilyn Burns) and the disturbed Roy (William Finley), arrive at the hotel, along with their young daughter Angie (Kyle Richards). They soon experience the trauma of Angie's dog being eaten by the crocodile. Faye and Roy take their daughter to their room to try to calm her down. Meanwhile, Harvey Wood (Mel Ferrer) and his daughter Libby (Crystin Sinclaire) arrive seeking information on Clara, Harvey's daughter, however soon leave to try to locate her at the brothel. Roy decides to shoot the crocodile for eating their dog, and while in the process is stabbed by Judd with a scythe before being attacked and devoured by the crocodile. After getting Angie to sleep, Faye goes into the bathroom for a bath, however is interrupted by Judd who begins to beat her. Angie wakes up and flees the hotel, however is trapped underneath the hotel by Judd, who proceeds to tie up Faye in a bedroom.
Accompanied by Sheriff Martin (Stuart Whitman), Harvey and Libby question Miss Hattie, who denies ever seeing Clara. Harvey returns to the hotel while Libby stays in town to eat. He hears Angie's crying, and while investigating is attacked by Judd who stabs him in the neck with his scythe before being dragged into the swamp by the crocodile. While Sheriff Martin and Libby are at the bar, Martin kicks out Buck and his girlfriend Lynette (Janus Blythe) after a fight nearly breaks out. The pair venture to the hotel, much to the annoyance of Judd who had already warned Buck away from his land. While in their room, they hear Angie's cries for help. Buck goes to investigate and is pushed into the swamp by Judd, where he is quickly eaten. Lynette hears the commotion, and goes outside only to be chased by Judd and his scythe. She manages to flag down a passing car and get away.
Libby arrives back at the hotel and goes up to her room. Judd arrives back also, and opens up the gate for the crocodile to get in under the house so it can eat Angie. Meanwhile, Libby discovers Faye tied up in the bedroom. After untying her, the women attempt to leave, however Judd chases them back upstairs where he wounds Faye with the scythe. Libby escapes and begins to help Angie out of the swamp she has manages to get into. Judd throws Faye off a balcony, before he attempts to push Angie back into the swamp, but Faye arrives and pushes Judd into the swamp, where he is devoured by his pet crocodile.
Cast[edit]
Neville Brand as Judd
Mel Ferrer as Harvey Wood
Carolyn Jones as Miss Hattie
Marilyn Burns as Faye
William Finley as Roy
Stuart Whitman as Sheriff Martin
Roberta Collins as Clara
Kyle Richards as Angie
Robert Englund as Buck
Release[edit]
Video nasty[edit]
This movie was one of the so-called "video nasties" in the UK during the height of the issue during 1983 and 1984. Mary Whitehouse took a personal objection to this movie.[citation needed]
Critical reception[edit]
Eaten Alive has received a negative response from critics, and currently holds a 18% approval rating on movie review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on ten reviews.[1] An African hand-made poster for the movie is included in the book Extreme Canvas: Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana by Ernie Wolfe.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Eaten Alive - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
External links[edit]
Eaten Alive at the Internet Movie Database


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Tintorera
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For the Portuguese wine grape, see Tintorera (grape).

Tintorera
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Directed by
René Cardona Jr
Produced by
Gerald Green
Written by
René Cardona Jr
Starring
Susan George
Hugo Stiglitz
Andrés García
Fiona Lewis
Music by
Basil Poledouris
Cinematography
Ramón Bravo
Distributed by
United Film Distribution Company
Release date(s)
1977
Running time
85 minutes
 Uncut version: 126 minutes
Country
Mexico and UK
Language
English and Spanish
Tintorera is a 1977 Mexican-British horror film directed by René Cardona Jr and starring Susan George, Hugo Stiglitz, Fiona Lewis and Andrés García. It is based on the novel of the same name by oceanographer Ramón Bravo that studied the species of shark known as "tintorera" (a 19 ft shark) and discovered the sleeping sharks of Isla Mujeres. The film, along with many monster movies of the 1970s and 1980s is very similar to Jaws. It is also known by the alternative title Tintorera: Killer Shark.


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2 Production
3 See also
4 External links

Plot[edit]
Steven (Hugo Stiglitz), a US-born Mexican businessman, arrives in a Mexican fishing/resort village for a vacation on a yacht anchored off shore. One of the local fishermen, Colorado (Roberto Guzmán), takes Steven with him when he goes to haul in the sharks he has caught. Colorado is annoyed to learn that another shark has taken a huge bite out of one of his captured sharks. Steven says he feels bad for the sharks, then shrugs, "that's life." He then decides to scope to local beaches for sexy women. He sets his sights on Patricia (Fiona Lewis), an Englishwoman on vacation. They have a whirlwind romance but break up when Steven can't decide if he is in love with her. Steven is extremely jealous, however, when she begins a relationship with Miguel (Andrés García) a womanizing swimming instructor at the nearby resort hotel. While Steven stews on the yacht, Patricia and Miguel have sex. Then she goes skinny dipping in the ocean for a morning swim and is eaten by a large, apparently emphysemic, 19-foot-long (5.8 m) tiger shark.
The next day, Steven confronts Miguel in the hotel bar. Miguel tells Steven that Patricia was in love with Steven but she must have returned to England. Neither Steve or Miguel ever learn about her true fate. Miguel introduces Steven to two sisters, Kelly and Cynthia Madison (Jennifer Ashley and Laura Lyons) who are American college students who have arrived on the island resort for some fun. They have a double date and, on the sisters' suggestions, jump off the yacht for some skinny- dipping. The shark's heavy, labored breathing can clearly be heard but they make it to the boat safely. Kelly and Cynthia hop back and forth between Miguel's and Steven's beds. They all swim back to shore the next morning and the submerged tiger shark again chooses not to bother them.
Miguel encourages Steven to live a carefree, womanizing life like he does. Steven agrees. They even start a shark hunting business, swimming out to sea and shooting whatever swims past them, from local blue sharks to lemon sharks. Miguel tells Steven that if a tiger shark ever appears, they must immediately get out of the water because tiger sharks or tintoreras are too dangerous to even attempt to hunt.
One night, Miguel and Steven meet Gabriella (Susan George) another young English tourist at the hotel bar. The three of them decide to have a triad: Gabriella will be sexually involved with both of them but they won't fall in love with her, or she with them. They tour the local Mayan archaeological sites together, then retire back to the yacht for sex. Miguel and Steven take Gabriella shark hunting with them. She is appalled by what they do, but admits her feelings for them have become powerful and as such apparently forgets her distaste. The next time the three go shark hunting, the large tiger shark appears and rips Miguel in half. Steven is bummed out, but Gabriella is so upset that she decides to leave Can-Cun and return to England.
Steven vows revenge on the shark. He enlists the local coast guard and fishermen in a campaign to kill the tiger shark and seemingly every other shark in the sea. Colorado is disturbed that Steven viciously beats the sharks that he has caught with a club. "I hate the bastards," Steven tells him. Colorado assures him that so many sharks have been killed, the tiger shark must have been one of them. Meanwhile, unbeknown to Steven or Colorado, the tiger shark attacks another small fishing boat and eats two fishermen.
Steven goes to a nighttime beach party with Kelly, Cynthia and two other American women he met in a bar (Priscilla Barnes and Pamela Garner). After the party ends, Kelly and Cynthia suggest everyone skinny dip again. This time, however, the tiger shark attacks, ripping Cynthia from Steven's arms as he tries to make out with her in the water as well as injuring the other two women, both of whom safely make it ashore. Steven contacts Mr. Madison (Carlos East) who comes to the village to collect Kelly. Steven vows to kill the shark himself. That evening, Steven lures the shark with a devilfish he has speared for the occasion, and when he hears the shark's rasping approach shoots it with a speargun which has an explosive capsule on the tip. The shark rips off Steven's arm but is finally destroyed by the explosive, which detonates it in a large underwater blast of blood and guts.
Steven awakens in a hospital room, sans his right arm, thinking happy thoughts about his triad with Gabriella and Miguel.
Production[edit]
Priscilla Barnes, unknown at the time, appeared towards the end of the film as a party girl who is in a group that encounters the shark during night swimming.
The shark in the film was a Tiger Shark; although Tintorera is a common name in Spanish for Tiger Shark, in some countries (Spain) it is a common name for Blue Shark.
Locations were filmed at Isla Mujeres a resort island near Cancún. The now well known Cancun did not exist at that time (1977), at least not in the way as today. All the underwater scenes were filmed with live sharks using the submarine expertise of Ramón Bravo.
As a curiosity due to the censure imposed by the Mexican government at those time, there were edited two versions of the film; the one the so-called uncut version plenty of explicit nudity of the starring actors and actresses mainly for the foreign market, the other version a cut one with a lot of censored scenes because of the nudity was for domestic (Mexican) exhibition; nowadays it is possible to find both versions on DVD.
See also[edit]
List of killer shark films
External links[edit]
Tintorera at the Internet Movie Database
 


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Day of the Animals
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Day Of The Animals

Directed by
Wiliam Girdler
Produced by
Edward L. Montoro
Written by
Edward L. Montoro
 Eleanor E. Norton
Starring
Leslie Nielsen
Christopher George
Lynda Day George
Music by
Lalo Schifrin
Distributed by
Multicom Entertainment Group Inc. , Film Ventures International
Release date(s)
13 May 1977
Running time
97 minutes
Country
United States
Box office
$2.8 million[1]
Day of the Animals is a 1977 American horror film thriller directed by William Girdler and based on a story written by Edward L. Montoro. Premiering on May 13, 1977, the movie reunited stars Christopher George and Richard Jaeckel, director Girdler and producer Montoro from the previous year's hit film Grizzly.
In 1978, Film Ventures International re-released the film under the title "Something Is Out There"


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2 Cast
3 References
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Plot[edit]
A battle for survival begins as a group of mountain hikers in Northern California encounter a chemically imbalanced forest. The recent depletion of the Earth's ozone layer causes the sun to shine powerful ultraviolet light carrying some kind of solar radiation that somehow causes all animals above the altitude of 5,000 feet to run amok and kill, which is very unfortunate for a group of hikers (including Christopher George, Lynda Day George, and Leslie Neilsen) who get dropped off up there by helicopter just before a quarantine is announced for all the surrounding towns. This has a dramatic effect on the rest of the nation, turning common household pets and pests into vicious attackers.
Over the course of the movie, multiple wild and dangerous animals stalk and attack the hikers, and eventually start picking them off. These include a mountain lion, a grizzly bear, a pack of wolves and several birds of prey (hawks, falcons, eagles and owls).
One of the hikers, Paul Jenson (Leslie Nielsen) goes mad as he is one of the very few humans to be exposed to the solar radiation making all the animals mad, and he eventually attacks the group, killing one of them. He finally takes on a grizzly bear and is killed by a bite to the neck.
The others manage to get below the 5,000 foot "radiation zone" area until they are trapped by several German shepherds in an isolated cabin. Two of the hikers are killed by the vicious canines and the last three of the group members escape on a raft in a nearby river. They are rescued the next day as they float down river to a Park Rangers station.
The next day, groups of U.S. Army troops, wearing radiation suits and armed with flame-throwers and various automatic weapons, arrive to secure the areas. By then almost all the animals that went mad are killed by the same solar radiation that drove them mad in the first place. This implies that life for humans will return to normal fairly soon and the carnage will finally be over. At the end of the movie, a surviving hawk lunges at the screen just before the credits roll.
Cast[edit]
Christopher George ... Steve Buckner: the main protagonist.
Leslie Nielsen ... Paul Jenson: The main human antagonist.
Lynda Day George ... Terry Marsh: Buckner's love interest.
Richard Jaeckel ... Prof. Taylor MacGregor: Research scientist.
Michael Ansara ... Daniel Santee
Ruth Roman ... Mrs. Shirley Goodwyn
Jon Cedar ... Frank Young
Paul Mantee ... Roy Moore
Walter Barnes ... Ranger Tucker
Andrew Stevens ... Bob Denning
Susan Backlinie ... Mandy Young
The grizzly bear is portrayed by the mother of Bart the Bear.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Richard Nowell, Blood Money: A History of the First Teen Slasher Film Cycle Continuum, 2011 p 257
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Alligator (film)
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Alligator
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Directed by
Lewis Teague
Produced by
Brandon Chase
Written by
John Sayles
 Frank Ray Perilli
Starring
Robert Forster
Robin Riker
Michael Gazzo
Dean Jagger
Sydney Lassick
Music by
Craig Hundley
Cinematography
Joseph Mangine
Edited by
Larry Brock
 Ron Medico
Distributed by
BLC Services Inc
Release date(s)
July 2, 1980

Running time
90 mins
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$1,750,000 (estimated)
Box office
$6,459,000
Alligator is a 1980 American monster movie, directed by Lewis Teague with a screenplay by John Sayles. It stars Robert Forster, Robin Riker, and Michael V. Gazzo. It follows the attempts of a police officer named David Madison and a reptile expert named Marisa Kendall to stop a deadly giant alligator that is killing humans in the sewers of Chicago.
The film received praise from critics for its intentional satirizing and, in 1991, an apparent sequel was released, titled Alligator II: The Mutation. Despite the title, this film shared no characters or actors with the original, and the plot was essentially a retread of the first film.[1] A board game based on the movie was distributed by the Ideal Toy Company in 1980.[2] [3]


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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Location
4 Reception
5 Sequel
6 Video releases
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

Plot[edit]
A teenage girl purchases a baby American alligator while on vacation with her family at a tourist trap in Florida. After the family returns home to Chicago, the alligator, named Ramón by the girl, is promptly flushed down the family's toilet by her surly, animal-phobic father and ends up in the city's sewers.
Twelve years go by, during which the alligator survives by feeding on covertly discarded pet carcasses. These animals had been used as test subjects for an experimental growth formula intended to increase agricultural livestock meat production. However the project was abandoned due to the formula's side effect of massively increasing the animal's metabolism, which caused it to have an insatiable appetite. This meant too much money had to be spent feeding an animal treated with this formula, making it economically unviable. For 12 years, the baby alligator accumulated concentrated amounts of this formula from feeding on these carcasses. This caused it to mutate, growing far larger than even the largest saltwater crocodile: a 36-foot (11 m) behemoth, with the same insatiable appetite of the animal test subjects, as well as an almost impenetrable hide.
The alligator begins ambushing and devouring sewer workers it encounters in the sewer, and the resulting flow of body parts draws in world-weary police officer David Madison (Robert Forster) who, after a horribly botched case in St. Louis, has gained a reputation for being lethally unlucky for his assigned partners. As David works on this new case, his boss Chief Clark (Michael Gazzo) brings him into contact with reptile expert Marisa Kendall (Robin Riker), the girl who bought the alligator years earlier. The two of them edge into a prickly romantic relationship, and during a visit to Marisa's house, David bonds with her motormouthed mother.
David's reputation as a partner-killer is "confirmed" when the gator snags a young cop Kelly (Perry Lang) who accompanies David into the sewer searching for clues. No one believes David's story, partly due to a lack of a body, and partly because of Slade (Dean Jagger), the influential local tycoon who sponsored the illegal growth experiments and therefore does not want the truth to come out. This changes when obnoxious tabloid reporter Thomas Kemp (Bart Braverman) (ironically, one of the banes of David's existence) goes snooping in the sewers and supplies graphic and indisputable photographic evidence of the beast at the cost of his own life. The story quickly garners public attention, and a city-wide hunt for the monster is called for. An attempt by the police to flush out Ramón comes up empty and David is put on suspension, but then the gator literally smashes his own way out of the sewers and comes to the surface, first killing another police officer, then a young boy who gets tossed into a swimming pool during a party.
The ensuing hunt turns into a media circus, including the hiring of pompous big-game hunter Colonel Brock (Henry Silva) to track the animal. Once again, the effort fails: Brock is killed, the police trip over each other in confusion and Ramón goes on a rampage through a high-society wedding party; among his victims are Slade and the mayor. With only Marisa to help him, David finally lures the alligator into a trap back in the sewers and destroys the beast with a massive charge of explosives, barely escaping with his own life. As the film ends with David and Marisa walking away after the explosion, a drain in the sewer spits out another baby alligator, carrying the promise that the cycle will be repeated all over again...
Cast[edit]
Robert Forster as David Madison
Robin Riker as Marisa Kendall
Michael V. Gazzo as Chief Clark
Dean Jagger as Slade
Sydney Lassick as Luke Gutchel
Jack Carter as Mayor
Perry Lang as Officer Jim Kelly
Henry Silva as Col. Brock
Bart Braverman as Thomas Kemp
John Lisbon Wood as Mad Bomber
James Ingersoll as Arthur Helms
Robert Doyle as Bill Kendall
Patti Jerome as Mrs. Madeline Kendall
Angel Tompkins as Newswoman
Sue Lyon as NBC Newswoman
Mike Mazurki as Gatekeeper (as Michael Mazurki)
Robert Hammond as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Location[edit]
Filming took place in and around Los Angeles. Although commentary on the Lions Gate Entertainment DVD gives the location as Chicago, the police vehicles in the film appear to have Missouri license plates. When the young Marisa returns home with her family from their vacation in Florida, they pass a sign that reads "Welcome to Missouri." Later, the voice of a newscaster identifies Marisa as "a native of our city," implying the location is a city in Missouri other than St. Louis. [4]
Reception[edit]
Vincent Canby of the New York Times praised the film, saying, "The film's suspense is frequently as genuine as its wit and its fond awareness of the clichés it's using."[5]
Film critic Roger Ebert was not a fan of the movie, suggesting that it would be best to "flush this movie down the toilet to see if it also grows into something big and fearsome."[6]
The film is rated M in New Zealand and it contains violence and offensive language.
Sequel[edit]
Main article: Alligator II: The Mutation
A sequel to Alligator was released in 1991, titled Alligator II: The Mutation. The film was heavily panned by critics due to its less impressive special effects as well as its plot being essentially a retread of the original first film. Unlike the original film that was rated R, the sequel was rated PG-13.
Video releases[edit]
On September 18, 2007, Lions Gate Entertainment released the film on DVD for the first time in the USA. The disc features a new 16x9 anamorphic widescreen transfer in the original 1.78:1 ratio and a new Dolby Digital 5.1-channel sound mix in addition to the original mono mix. The included extras are a commentary track with director Lewis Teague and star Robert Forster, a featurette titled Alligator Author in which screenwriter John Sayles discusses the differences between his original story and the final screenplay, and the original theatrical trailer. The film had previously been available on DVD in other territories, including a version released in the UK in February 2003 by Anchor Bay Entertainment (now Starz). This release features an optional DTS sound mix, includes the 1991 sequel Alligator II: The Mutation on a second disc, and includes the same Teague-Forster commentary found on the recent Lions Gate US release.
See also[edit]
List of killer crocodile films
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Wingrove, David (1985). Science Fiction Film Source Book. Harlow: Longman. ISBN 0-582-89310-0.
2.Jump up ^ http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/29509/alligator-game
3.Jump up ^ http://blog.mondotees.com/2009/11/14/alligator-1980-game-found-ebay-purchase-of-the-year/
4.Jump up ^ "Alligator Film Review". A Life at the Movies. April 23, 2010.
5.Jump up ^ Vincent Canby review at [1]
6.Jump up ^ Ebert, Roger (1980-11-26). "Alligator". rogerebert.suntimes.com. Retrieved 2011-04-07.
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Alligator II: The Mutation
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Alligator II: The Mutation
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Directed by
Jon Hess
Produced by
Brandon Chase
 Cary Glieberman
Written by
Curt Allen
Starring
Joseph Bologna
Woody Brown
 Harlan Arnold
Nicolas Cowan
Brock Peters
Music by
Jack K. Tillar
Cinematography
Joseph Mangine
Edited by
Christopher Ellis
 Marshall Harvey
Release date(s)
December 18, 1991
Running time
92 mins
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$3,000,000 (estimated)
Alligator II: The Mutation is a 1991 American direct-to-video sequel of Alligator (1980).


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3 Reception
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Plot[edit]
Deep in the sewers beneath the city of Regent Park, another baby alligator feeds on the experimental animals discarded by future Chemicals Corporation. Nourished by toxic growth hormones and other mutating chemicals, the gator grows immense in size and develops voracious appetite and goes out on a killing spree. Nobody believes the sightings until a large number of people are killed, and the police eventually embark on a search-and-destroy mission to stop the alligator's murderous rampage. They track it down to a lake and a police helicopter attempts to blow the alligator up, but to no avail. Afterwards, two officers enter a marsh area where the alligator had escaped to. One of the officers uses a rocket launcher and ends the alligator's life.
Cast[edit]
Joseph Bologna as David Hodges
Dee Wallace as Christine Hodges
Richard Lynch as Hawk Hawkins
Woody Brown as Rich Harmon
Holly Gagnier as Sheri Anderson
Bill Daily as Mayor Anderson
Steve Railsback as Vincent 'Vinnie' Brown
Brock Peters as Chief Speed
Trevor Eyster (credit as Tim Eyster) as J.J. Hodges
Voyo Goric as Carmen
Reception[edit]
Upon its release on video, it met negative reception with critics comparing it to the first/original. The film currently holds a rating of 12% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.[1] It has a rating of 3.2/10 on IMDb.
See also[edit]
Alligator (film)
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/alligator_2_the_mutation/
External links[edit]
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Barracuda (1978 film)
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Barracuda is a 1978 American film about a small Florida coastal town that is menaced by chemically-induced and highly aggressive barracuda fish. The film was shot on location in Pompano Beach, Florida and Fort Lauderdale.[1][2]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://100favoritehorrorfilms.blogspot.com/2013/09/film-review-barracuda-1978.html
2.Jump up ^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/barracuda/
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Mako: The Jaws of Death
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Mako: The Jaws of Death
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Directed by
William Grefe
Produced by
Bob Bagley
 William Grefé
 Doro V. Hreljanovic
 Paul A. Joseph
 Robert Plumb
Screenplay by
Robert W. Morgan
Story by
William Grefe
Starring
Richard Jaeckel, Jennifer Bishop and Buffy Dee
Cinematography
Julio C. Chavez
Edited by
Julio C. Chavez
 Ronald Sinclair
Production
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Mako Associates
 Universal Majestic Inc.
Distributed by
Cannon Films
Release date(s)
July 1976

Running time
91 min
Country
United States
Language
English
Mako: The Jaws of Death is a 1976 thriller film directed by William Grefe. The film is about a brooding loner who accidentally learns that he has a telepathic and emotional connection with sharks. He eventually rebukes society and sets out to protect sharks from people. The film was set and shot on location in Key West, Florida. This film is one of the first in the wave of films that sought to capitalize on the popularity of the 1975 feature film, Jaws. "Mako: The Jaws of Death", with its sympathetic portrayal of sharks as the real "victims" of human exploitation, is notable in the maritime horror genre for having depicted the sharks as the heroes and man as the villain.
Plot[edit]
Sonny Stein, who is played by Richard Jaeckel, learns while working as a marine salvager in the Philippine Islands, that he has a connection with Mako sharks, and is given a medallion by a Filipino shaman. Becoming alienated from society, Stein lives alone in a small stilt house offshore of Key West, Florida. He develops an ability to telepathically communicate with sharks. He then sets out to destroy anybody who harms sharks. People enter into his strange world to exploit his abilities and his shark "friends," including an unethical shark research scientist and a morbidly obese strip club owner (Buffy Dee) who wants to use a shark in his dancers' acts. Stein then uses these sharks to get revenge on anybody he considers a threat.[1]
References[edit]
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Grizzly (1976 film)
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Grizzly
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Directed by
William Girdler,
 David Sheldon
Produced by
Lloyd N. Adams (executive producer)
Edward L. Montoro,
 Harvey Flaxman,
 David Sheldon
Written by
Harvey Flaxman,
 David Sheldon
Starring
Christopher George
Andrew Prine
Richard Jaeckel
Music by
Robert O. Ragland
Cinematography
William L. Asman
Edited by
Bub Asman,
Christopher Ness
Distributed by
Columbia Pictures
Film Ventures International (USA, theatrical), Multicom Entertainment Group Inc. ,
Liberty Home Entertainment (DVD)
Release date(s)
May 16, 1976
Running time
89 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Box office
$39,000,000
Grizzly (also known as Killer Grizzly) is a 1976 horror film directed by William Girdler, about an 18-foot man-eating Grizzly bear that terrorizes a National Forest. It stars Christopher George, Andrew Prine and Richard Jaeckel. Widely considered a Jaws rip-off, Grizzly used many of the same plot devices as its shark predecessor, a huge box office success during the previous year 1975.
In 1983, a sequel Grizzly II: The Predator was shot, but never released. The abortive project provided early roles for both Charlie Sheen and George Clooney. The giant grizzly bear in the film was portrayed by the mother of Bart the Bear.


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2 Cast
3 Production
4 Jaws comparisons
5 Sequel 5.1 Synopsis
6 Home media
7 References
8 External links

Plot[edit]
The film opens with a military veteran helicopter pilot and guide Don Stober (Andrew Prine) flying individuals above the trees of a vast National Park. He states that the woods are untouched and remain much as they did during the time when the Native Americans lived there.
Two female hikers are breaking camp when one of them is attacked and killed by a bear. The second girl finds apparent safety within a nearby cabin until the bear tears down a wall to reach her. The National Park's Chief Ranger Michael Kelly (Christopher George) and photographer Allison Corwin (Joan McCall), daughter of the park's restaurant owner, decide to follow a Ranger to the primitive campsite to find the two female hikers. They discover the girl's mangled body inside the destroyed cabin. Allison stumbles across the remains of the first girl while photographing the search.
At the hospital, a doctor tells Kelly that the girls were killed by a bear. The Park Supervisor Charley Kittridge (Joe Dorsey) blames Kelly, saying the bears were supposed to have been moved from the park by him and Naturalist Arthur Scott (Richard Jaeckel) before the tourist season began. Kelly and Kittridge argue over closing the park, and decide to move all hikers off the park's mountain while allowing campers to remain in the lowlands. Kelly calls Scott, who says all bears are accounted for and this specific bear must be unknown to the forest.
Stopping for a break near a waterfall while searching the mountain, a female Ranger complains to her male partner that her feet are sore and she is going to go soak them in the stream. Her male partner goes on to search R4 while she approaches the waterfall to soak. She does not see the bear waiting for her under the falls and she is attacked and killed. Kelly recruits the helicopter pilot Stober to assist in the search. Flying above the forest, they see what they believe to be an animal, only to discover the Naturalist Scott adorned in an animal skin while tracking the bear. He informs them the animal they are looking for is a prehistoric grizzly bear (a fictional pleistocene Arctodus ursos horribilis) standing at least 15 feet tall. Kelly and Stober scoff at the notion.
At the busy lowland campground, the grizzly tears down a tent and kills a woman. Kelly once again insists on closing the park, but Kittridge refuses. The attacks are becoming a national news story and to counteract this, Kittridge allows amateur hunters into the forest. Kelly, Stober and Scott, now a team, are disgusted by this development. Later, a lone hunter is chased by the bear but he evades the animal on foot, falling into a river and floating to safety. Later that night three hunters find a bear cub, that they believe is the cub of the killer grizzly, so they use it as bait for the mother. But the grizzly finds and eats the cub without the hunters noticing. Scott concludes that the bear must be a male. A Ranger at a fire lookout tower on the mountain is attacked by the grizzly, the animal tearing down the structure and killing the Ranger.
Kelly and Kittridge continue to argue over closing the park. Frustrated by the politics of the situation, Scott sneaks away to track the grizzly on his own. On the outskirts of the National Park, a mother and child living in a cabin are attacked by the grizzly. The mother is killed and the child survives, but is severely mutilated. Stunned by this development, Kittridge finally allows Kelly to close the park and ban all hunters.
Stober and Kelly now go after the elusive grizzly alone, setting up a trap by hanging a deer carcass from a tree. The grizzly goes for the bait and the men chase the animal through the woods. When they return, they discover the grizzly has tricked them and taken the deer carcass. Tracking on horseback, Scott finds the remains of the carcass and calls Stober and Kelly on the radio. He is going to drag the deer behind his horse and create a trap by leading the grizzly towards them. The grizzly surprises Scott, killing his horse and knocking him unconscious. Scott awakens to find himself alive, but half-buried in the ground. The grizzly immediately returns and kills him.
Kelly and Stober discover Scott's body and in despair, decide to return to the helicopter to find the grizzly from the air. They immediately spot the bear in a clearing and quickly land. The grizzly attacks the helicopter, swiping the craft causing Stober to be thrown clear. The grizzly kills Stober and then turns on Kelly, who frantically pulls a bazooka from the helicopter. Before the bear can reach him, Kelly fires the bazooka at the grizzly, killing the animal instantly. For several seconds, Kelly sadly stares at the burning remains of the grizzly and then walks towards Stober's body.
Cast[edit]
Christopher George as Michael Kelly
Andrew Prine as Don Stober
Richard Jaeckel as Scott
Joan McCall as Allison
Joe Dorsey as Kittridge
Charles Kissinger as Dr. Hallitt
Mike Clifford as Pat
Bart the Bear's mother as the Grizzly
Production[edit]
The idea for Grizzly began when the film's producer and writer Harvey Flaxman encountered a bear during a family camping trip. Co-producer and co-writer David Sheldon thought the idea would make a good film following the success of Jaws. William Girdler discovered the script on Sheldon's desk and offered to find financing as long as he could direct the film. Within a week, Girdler was able to obtain $750,000 in financing from Edward L. Montoro's Film Ventures International movie distribution company.[1]
Grizzly was filmed on-location in Clayton, Georgia, with many local residents cast in supporting roles.[2] Catherine Rickman, who played one of the first victims, was actually the daughter of Clayton's mountain man, Frank Rickman.[3] Though unintentional, the casting of Christopher George, Andrew Prine and Richard Jaeckel marked the second time this trio of actors starred together in the same film. They had previously played supporting roles in the 1970 western Chisum starring John Wayne. A Kodiak bear nicknamed "Teddy" performed as the killer grizzly. "Teddy" was 11 feet tall and was the largest bear in captivity at that time. The bear was rented from the Olympic Game Ranch in Sequim, Washington where he was kept behind an electric fence. The crew was protected from the bear by a piece of green string running through the shooting locations, and a ticking kitchen timer. This resembled (to the bear) an electric fence. Actors and crew members were instructed to always stay on the camera side of the string. The bear did not actually roar, so it was tricked into making the motions of roaring by throwing several marshmallows into its mouth and then holding a final marshmallow in front of its face but not throwing it. The bear would stretch for it. The sound was artificially produced. The original artwork for the Grizzly movie poster was created by the popular comic book artist Neal Adams.[4] A novelization by Will Collins was published as well.
Jaws comparisons[edit]
Released in May 1976, less than one year after Jaws, Grizzly was criticized as being a thinly veiled rip-off of the now-classic shark thriller.[5][6][7] Like Jaws, Grizzly has an unusually large animal preying upon unsuspecting tourists.
Christopher George plays Chief Ranger Michael Kelly, skilled at his job but lacking experience when dealing with the dangers of bears, a role similar to Roy Scheider's Police Chief Martin Brody in Jaws. Kelly must rely on the expertise of naturalist Arthur Scott (Richard Jaeckel), just as Brody recruits marine scientist Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss).
Kelly is thwarted by Supervisor Charley Kittridge (Joe Dorsey), who refuses to close the National Park for political reasons. In Jaws, Brody is refused permission to close the summer beaches by Mayor Larry Vaughn (Murray Hamilton).
A bounty is put on the grizzly bear, just as an award is offered for the shark in Jaws. The bounty leads to chaos, as hundreds of hunters fill the woods in Grizzly, while huge numbers of boats filled with hunters leave the harbor in Jaws.
During the final hunt for the grizzly bear, Kelly is led by helicopter pilot, Vietnam War veteran and forest guide Don Stober (Andrew Prine), just as Brody's shark expedition is led by boat captain, World War II veteran and sea guide Quint (Robert Shaw).
The bear in Grizzly is killed in similar fashion to the shark in Jaws in that both creatures' destruction is dramatized by a large explosion.
Sequel[edit]
The so-called sequel Grizzly II: The Predator was a nickname for an original film entitled "Predator: The Concert" filmed in 1985 in Hungary but never released to theaters. David Sheldon, the co-producer and writer of Grizzly wrote the screenplay with his screenwriter wife Joan McCall, also reprising her role from the original film. The cast included Charlie Sheen, George Clooney and Laura Dern, who were discovered by them and were unknown at the time, despite all being from families of popular stars. The main scenes for Grizzly II: The Predator were completed, but before the special effects with a huge electronic-mechanical bear could be used, the executive producer Joseph Proctor disappeared with the funds. The filmed footage of the live bear, however, attacking a live rock concert was also shot in Hungary. There have been attempts to re-cut and film more scenes, but to date, the film has never been released.
Synopsis[edit]
The film centers on Park Ranger Hollister (Steve Inwood), who is at odds with Park Supervisor (Louise Fletcher) over a large rock concert that is going to be held in the area. Hollister fears that the local grizzly bear population might be a danger to the attendees. When a grizzly kills a local poacher and three teens, Hollister begins to track the bear with the help of a bear activist (Deborah Raffin) and a local bear hunter named Bouchard (John Rhys-Davies). In addition, four poachers set out together to try to trap the bear, hoping to gain $100,000 reward money. The suggested 18 ft (5.5 m) grizzly finds its way to the rock concert, making the climatic showdown all the more personal for Hollister as his daughter (Deborah Foreman) is working there backstage.
Home media[edit]
Grizzly was released on VHS by Anchor Bay Entertainment. It was released in the LaserDisc format in 1984 by RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, but only in Japan.[8] The DVD version of Grizzly was first released on December 2, 1998, and was re-released on DVD by Kino Lorber on August 5, 2014.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "William Girdler, Hollywood Films". williamgirdler.com. Retrieved 2007-05-23.
2.Jump up ^ "Internet Movie Database, Filming locations for Grizzly". imdb.com. Retrieved 2007-05-23.
3.Jump up ^ "Internet Movie Database, Biography of Catherine Rickman". imdb.com. Retrieved 2007-05-23.[dead link]
4.Jump up ^ "Internet Movie Database, Trivia for Grizzly". imdb.com. Retrieved 2007-05-23.
5.Jump up ^ "Internet Movie Database, Release Dates for Grizzly". imdb.com. May 12, 1976. Retrieved 2007-05-21.
6.Jump up ^ Dargis, Manohla (May 13, 1976). "Vincent Canby, Film Review for Grizzly". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2007-05-21.
7.Jump up ^ "J.C., Film Review for Grizzly". time.com. June 7, 1976. Retrieved 2007-05-24.
8.Jump up ^ "LaserDisc Database - Grizzly (1976)". LaserDisc Database. 25 November 2006. Retrieved 11 July 2014.
External links[edit]
Grizzly at the Internet Movie Database
Grizzly at AllMovie
 


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Orca (film)
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Orca
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Directed by
Michael Anderson
Produced by
Dino De Laurentiis
Luciano Vincenzoni
Written by
Luciano Vincenzoni
Sergio Donati
Uncredited:
Robert Towne
Starring
Richard Harris
Charlotte Rampling
Will Sampson
Bo Derek
Keenan Wynn
Robert Carradine
Music by
Ennio Morricone
Cinematography
J. Barry Herron
Ted Moore
Edited by
John Bloom
 Marion Rothman
Ralph E. Winters
Distributed by
Paramount Pictures
 Dino De Laurentiis Company
Release date(s)
22 July 1977
Running time
92 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$6 million[1]
Box office
$14,717,854
Orca (also called Orca: The Killer Whale) is a 1977 horror film directed by Michael Anderson and produced by Dino De Laurentiis, starring Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, and Will Sampson. It is based on Arthur Herzog's novel of the same name. The film was poorly received by critics and audiences alike due in part to its similarities to the film Jaws released two years prior. Upon release the film received only minor theatrical success, but in recent years the film has achieved a cult following among fans of the natural horror sub genre.[2] Richard Harris enjoyed his experiences during filming, and took offence at any comparison between Orca and Jaws.[1]


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2 Cast
3 Production
4 Reception
5 References
6 External links

Plot[edit]
The movie revolves around the exploits of Captain Nolan (Harris), an Irish Canadian who catches marine animals to pay off the mortgage of his boat, and return to Ireland. Nolan's crew is looking for a great white shark for a local aquarium, but a scientist named Ken (Carradine) is being targeted by the shark. An orca comes and kills the shark, subsequently saving Ken. This switches Nolan's target to the orca. While Nolan is on the journey with his crew, he tries to capture what he believes to be a bull orca, but mistakenly harpoons a pregnant female. Nolan and his crew get the orca on board, where she subsequently miscarries. The crew hoses the dead fetus overboard as the male looks on screaming.
Seeking release of his near-dead mate, the male orca tries to sink the ship. One of Nolan's crew members, Novak (Wynn), cuts the female off the ship, but the male leaps and drags him into the sea. The following day, the orca pushes his now dead mate onto shore. Alan Swain (Scott Walker) berates Nolan on his actions after finding the dead whale. Nolan denies responsibility, but Swain and the villagers eventually find out his involvement. The villagers insist that he kill the orca, as its presence is causing the fish vital to the village's economy to migrate. The orca then terrorises the village by sinking fishing boats in broad daylight and then breaking fuel lines, thus destroying the village's fuel reserves.
Dr. Rachel Bedford (Rampling), colleague of Ken and whale expert, shows him how similar whales are to humans and tells Nolan that, "If he [the orca] is like a human, what he wants isn't necessarily what he should have." Nolan confesses to Rachel that he empathises with the whale, as his own wife and unborn child had previously been killed in a car crash caused by a drunk driver. Nolan promises Rachel not to fight the whale, but the orca attacks his sea-front house, containing an injured crew member of Nolan's, Annie (Derek) within it. The house starts slipping into the sea and the whale bites Annie's leg off. Nolan decides to fight the orca, although with Novak dead and Annie maimed for life, Nolan and Paul (Peter Hooten) are now the only crew members left. Dr. Bedford and Ken join the pursuit, along with a native American man, Jacob Umilak (Sampson), enlisted for his orca knowledge.
The crew begins to chase the whale after it signals Nolan to follow him. Ken is leaning over the side when the whale surfaces and grabs him, killing him in the process. They follow the whale until they reach the Strait of Belle Isle, though when Paul starts to get into a lifeboat, the maddened orca knocks Paul out of the boat and drowns him. The next day, the whale shoves an iceberg into the boat and starts to sink it. Nolan manages to harpoon the whale just before he and Dr. Bedford escape from the boat, while Umilak is crushed beneath an avalanche of ice just after sending out an SOS.
Nolan and Dr. Bedford hide in an iceberg, although Nolan slips onto another. The orca separates the icebergs, trapping Nolan. The whale jumps onto the ice, causing it to tilt and send Nolan into the water. The whale lifts Nolan up with his tail and throws him onto another iceberg, killing him. Dr. Bedford looks on as Nolan slips into the water in a cross shape. With his revenge complete, the whale swims southward under the ice, while a helicopter is seen to rescue Dr. Bedford. During the credits, the camera follows the orca, which appears to be having trouble surfacing for air as it is unable to break the solid sheet of surface ice. It is thus suggested that the orca dies as well.
Cast[edit]
Richard Harris as Captain Nolan
Charlotte Rampling as Rachel Bedford
Will Sampson as Umilak
Bo Derek as Annie
Keenan Wynn as Novak
Peter Hooten as Paul
Robert Carradine as Ken
Yaka and Nepo as Orca
Production[edit]
Producer Luciano Vincenzoni was first assigned to give the film a head start after being called by Dino de Laurentiis in the middle of the night in 1975. Upon admitting that he had watched Jaws, Vincenzoni was instructed by de Laurentiis to "find a fish tougher and more terrible than the great white". Having had little interest in sea life beforehand, Vincenzoni was directed to killer whales by his brother Adriano, who had a personal interest in zoology. Filming took place largely in Newfoundland during the fishing season. Most filming took place in the town of Petty Harbour, about 15 kilometres south of the capital city, St. John's.
The main orcas used for filming were trained animals from Marineland of the Pacific and Marine World Africa (Six Flags Discovery Kingdom), though artificial whales of rubber were used also. These models were so lifelike that several animal rights activists such as PETA, blocked the trucks transporting them, confusing them for real orcas. The shark used early in the film was captured by noted shark hunter Ron Taylor. The scenery meant to represent a remote polar region of Labrador was fabricated in Malta by designer Mario Garbuglia.[3] Richard Harris insisted on performing his own stunts in the polar sequences, and nearly died several times.[1]
Reception[edit]
Today, Orca holds mostly middle-of-the-road reviews. Many love the haunting, beautiful soundtrack composed by renowned composer Ennio Morricone, while others dismiss it as a Jaws ripoff. A jab is taken at this film in Jaws 2, when an Orca corpse is discovered on a small sandbar island off the coast of Amity. A marine biologist investigating the corpse remarks to Chief Brody that there are far greater predators in the deep, which is of course a reference to the shark.
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c Callan, Michael Feeney Richard Harris: Sex, Death & the Movies, Robson, 2004 ISBN 1-86105-766-0]
2.Jump up ^ "Remembering the Horror of Orca, The Killer Whale!". BloodyDisgusting.
3.Jump up ^ (Italian) Vincenzoni, Luciano Pane e cinema: il racconto di una vita straordinaria consacrata al mondo del cinema, Gremese Editore, 2005, ISBN 88-8440-391-X
External links[edit]
Orca at the Internet Movie Database
Orca at AllMovie
Orca at Rotten Tomatoes


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Jaws in Japan
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Jaws in Japan
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Directed by
John Hijiri
Produced by
Kyôsuke Ueno
 Rie Mikami
Written by
Yasutoshi Murakawa
 Bobby White
Starring
Nomani Takizawa
 Airi Nakajima
 Megumi Haruno
Music by
Takayoshi Tarui
Release date(s)
21 August 2009

Running time
70 minutes
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
Jaws in Japan (aka Psycho Shark) is a 2009 Japanese horror film directed by John Hijiri, written by Yasutoshi Murakawa and stars Nomani Takizawa, Airi Nakajima, and Megumi Haruno. The movie was named so in an attempt to market it as a sequel to Jaws, but has no connection with it and has received extremely negative reviews.


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Plot[edit]
On the coast off Sunny Beach, a private beach on a tropical island, a huge shark is waiting for his prey. Beautiful young college students Miki and Mai arrive on the island but are unable to find a hotel in which to stay. Both the young women find out that something is seriously wrong.
Release[edit]
The film was not rated by the Motion Picture Association of America. In both the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, it has a 12A certificate, meaning that it is not recommended that children under the age of twelve watch it unless they are accompanied by an adult.
See also[edit]
List of killer shark films
External links[edit]
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Piranha II: The Spawning
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Piranha II: The Spawning
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Spanish film poster "The Vampires of the Sea"

Directed by
James Cameron
Produced by
Chako van Leeuwen
 Jeff Schechtman
Written by
Ovidio G. Assonitis
James Cameron
Charles H. Eglee
all credited as:
 H.A. Milton
Starring
Tricia O'Neil
 Steve Marachuk
Lance Henriksen
 Ricky G. Paull
 Ted Richert
Leslie Graves
Carole Davis
 Connie Lynn Hadden
Music by
Stelvio Cipriani
credited as:
 Steve Powder
Cinematography
Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli
Edited by
Roberto Silvi
credited as:
 Robert Silvi
Distributed by
Columbia Pictures
(Sony Pictures Entertainment)
Release date(s)
December 1981 (Italy)
November 5, 1982 (United States)

Running time
94 minutes
Country
United States
 Netherlands
 Italy
Language
English
Budget
$145,786
Piranha II: The Spawning, also known as Piranha II: Flying Killers, is a 1981 American horror film, the sequel to the 1978 low-budget cult film Piranha, and the feature film directorial debut of James Cameron.


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Off the coast of a Caribbean island, a young couple flee the hotel to have sex in the sea. But they swim into a sunken wreck which is also a piranha lair and they are both killed and eaten by the unseen piranha.
The next day, a group of tourists, including Tyler Sherman, are taking the diving courses provided by Anne Kimbrough, an employee of the Hotel Elysium. One of her divers swims into the wreck, which she has strictly forbidden to her divers. Leaving Tyler to take over and lead the others to the surface, she discovers almost immediately that her 'missing' student has swum into the wreck and been killed there when his badly chewed up body is found.
Annie's estranged husband, Steve, a police officer, refuses to listen to Anne about her wanting to have a look at the body, because she needs to know what happened. The death does not seem to match the attack pattern by any of the marine life in this area, which she knows better than anyone. For her not to know what killed a diver is a dangerous sign. Steve intercepts Gabby, a dynamite fisherman, and his son, and threatens to confiscate their boat, but as Gabby explains, Steve, Anne, and he, are old friends.
Meanwhile, as the guests begin to flirt with each other, Jai and Loretta, a pair of women, arrive on a large boat. By their own admission, they are sea bandits. Jai sneaks into the kitchen to steal food, but is intercepted by Mel, a cook. She flirts with him, and he offers instead to make her a wonderful dinner. But as he goes to their boat with the meal, they take the meal and then undock, letting the boat drift. Jai and Loretta try to convince Mel to jump, and he tries, and fails, so they mock him and sail off. They sail too far out, and are attacked and killed by the piranha, who have developed the power to fly.
Worried about what is going on, Anne finds that she is being frequently bothered by Tyler Sherman, so she takes him with her to the morgue to get a look at the body. It is revealed there that she became a marine biologist before she married Steve, and so she begins taking pictures. There, she finds that the bodies have been eaten in many parts. A nurse comes in, kicks them out, and ends up quickly dead, for a piranha was hiding in the body and escaped it. Armed with the power to fly, it kills the nurse and escapes out a window.
In her hurry, Anne left her credit card behind at the scene. Anne and Tyler have a one night stand, but in the morning, while he sleeps, she begins to study the pictures, and is horrified by what she discovers. Steve arrives, throwing the card at her, angry first that she went to the morgue in defiance of him, and secondly that she has man in her bed. She tries to warn him of what she has discovered, but he ignores her and thinks she is a murderess.
Anne tries to tell the managers that she is cancelling the dives because it is not safe. He at first pretends to be concerned, but swiftly fires her, thinking she is crazy. Attempting to capture one for further study, or at the very least take some pictures so she can prove what she is trying to tell Steve and the manager, she is intercepted by Tyler, who swiftly informs her that he is a biochemist and member of a team which has developed the ultimate weapon: a specimen of genetically modified piranha, with some other fish's genes intermixed, capable of flying. Earlier, and unfortunately, the team mistakenly deposited (or lost) a cylinder full of these fish in the water where the dead couple were found.
Gabby provides the proof Anne needs to Steve, calling him and showing him, not merely some flying piranha he has recently caught, and never seen before, but also that they are a serious danger, because they are turning on each other. This is a sign that they are running out of food and will soon attack whatever they come near, including humans. At a meeting, Anne tries her best to reason with the manager, to no avail. Steve surprises her, standing up for her and proving her case for her by throwing the body of a dead piranha onto the table. Steve tells her that she cannot trust Tyler, because the army says he is crazy. She argued that Tyler has just been using her to get the message of the piranha out for him, to protect both himself and the residents of the hotel.
Later on, a piranha attacks Gabby's son and kills him, leaving a bereft Gabby to vow revenge by killing the fish in the wreck in which they hide. Anne tries to dissuade him, but it is too late. Having ignored Anne's advice, the manager, Raoul, hosts a nighttime fish party to capture grunion, who come up to the beach to spawn at this time, making them easy prey for humans to capture and kill. Unfortunately for the residents, the piranha are also partially grunion and share the same instinct. Ann gets a man named Aaron to patrol the beach but he is lured to the sea where the piranha mutilate and kill him. During the fishing party promoted by the resort, the piranhas fly out of the water and attack the guests on the beach and at the hotel's courtyard pool. Anne leads those who survive into hotel, where they shut the doors and windows. Gabby tries to attack the flying piranha, but they overwhelm and kill him.
In the morning, the flying piranha withdraw back into the ocean, for Anne had discovered that they are not fond of daylight. Tyler and Anne decide to undertake Gabby's plan, and blow up the ship to destroy the predators. Meanwhile, the situation gets even tenser, for not only can the piranha fly, but Anne and Steve's son Chris has been hired, against their wishes, by a local ship 'Captain' Dumont and his lovely daughter Allison. They sail away and strand themselves on an island, leaving them vulnerable to piranha attacks that never actually happen. Getting lost at sea, they try to set sail again, heading straight toward the wreck.
When Chris and Allison are stranded in a raft above the shipwreck, Annie and Tyler arrive in a motorboat and don scuba gear to dive down to the wreck to plant the timer charges that Gabby left behind. With only 10 minutes to get out of the wreck before the bomb explodes, Annie and Tyler are trapped in one of the sunken ships rooms by the murderous piranha who all return to the wreck. On the surface, Steve, piloting a police helicopter, ditches the chopper and swims to Annie and Tyler's motorboat where Chris and Allison are. With minutes left to spare before the bomb explodes, Steve powers up the boat and takes off. Down in the wreck, Tyler sacrifices himself to allow Annie to escape out of a porthole and to tie a survival rope around her waist, allowing herself to be pulled away by the motorboat on the surface. At the last second, Annie gets clear and the bomb detonates, destroying the sunken ship and all the piranha with it. With all the murderous fish destroyed, Annie swims to the surface and is picked up by Steve, Chris and Allison in their boat.
Cast[edit]
Tricia O'Neil - Anne Kimbrough
Steve Marachuk - Tyler Sherman
Lance Henriksen - Steve Kimbrough
Ricky Paull Goldin - Chris Kimbrough
Ted Richert - Raoul, Hotel Manager
Leslie Graves - Allison Dumont
Ancil Gloudon - Gabby
Carole Davis - Jai
Connie Lynn Hadden - Loretta
Captain Kidd Brewer Jr. - Lou
Jan Eisner Mannon - Lisa
Arnie Ross - Mal the Cook
Tracy Berg - Beverly
Albert Sanders - Leo Bell, D.D.S.
Anne Pollack - Mrs. Wilson
Lee Krug - Ron 'Ronny', the Lifeguard
Sally Ricca - Cindy
Dorothy Cunningham - Nurse April
Phil Mullins - Trip Director
Production[edit]
The original director of Piranha II was Miller Drake. Drake was yet another Corman graduate who had labored alongside Joe Dante in the New World trailer department—and had essayed the role of “First Mutant” in Dante’s directorial debut, Hollywood Boulevard—before becoming Corman’s de facto head of postproduction. “Jeff Schechtman said, ‘Would you like to direct this movie?’ and I said, ‘Sure,’” recalls Drake. “We met with Ovidio Assonitis and he said fine.” Drake set to work developing a script with writer Charles H. Eglee, who would later collaborate with James Cameron on the TV show Dark Angel. Miller’s intention was that Piranha II should hinge upon Kevin McCarthy’s scientist from Piranha, even though he had seemingly perished in the first movie. “I pitched this idea of bringing Kevin McCarthy back, all chewed up and mutilated from the previous movie,” says Drake. “He was on an abandoned oil rig and he was developing these flying piranhas out there to get revenge, or whatever. I think we were going to bring Barbara Steele back and have him kill her by smashing her head through a fish tank.”
Assonitis removed Drake from the movie and decided to replace Drake with James Cameron.
"I was replaced after two-and-a-half weeks by the Italian producer. He just fired me and took over, which is what he wanted to do when he hired me. It wasn't until much later that I even figured out what had happened. It was like, "Oh, man, I thought I was doing a good job." But when I saw what they were cutting together, it was horrible. And then the producer wouldn't take my name off the picture because [contractually] they couldn't deliver it with an Italian name. So they left me on, no matter what I did. I had no legal power to influence him from Pomona, California, where I was sleeping on a friend's couch. I didn't even know an attorney. In actual fact, I did some directing on the film, but I don't feel it was my first movie."
— James Cameron on "directing" Piranha II: The Spawning.[1]
James Cameron was originally hired as the special effects director for this film and took over the direction when the original director left[citation needed] (He also re-wrote the screenplay under the pseudonym H. A. Milton[citation needed]). Due to budget limitations the crew was composed essentially of Italians, none of whom spoke English. Some however did have prior experience on horror/fantasy movies so they were, to some extent, able to satisfy Cameron's requirements.
After the first week of shooting, the set harmony was disturbed by some discussions about the work between the director and the producers (the executive producer, Ovidio G. Assonitis, asked to verify the day-to-day activities, arguing with most of Cameron's choices), so while Cameron was only responsible for the shooting, most of the decisions were under Assonitis' authority. According to Dreaming Aloud, a biography of James Cameron by Christopher Heard, Cameron was not allowed to see his footage and was not involved in editing. He broke into the editing room in Rome and cut his own version while the film's producers were at Cannes, but was caught and Assonitis re-cut it again.
In a 2008 interview on The Hour, Cameron jokingly denied breaking into the editing room, then recounted the story as a "hypothetical scenario", and told host George Stroumboulopoulos how he "would've broken into the office" if he actually did it.[2]
Cameron was able to make a deal with a distributor, who agreed to buy his footage and allow him to re-score and re-cut the picture-basically restructure it to what was originally intended-before release, so his alternative vision eventually came out on home video in some regions, which made a profit for the distributor.[3]
As in the first film, which was one of many horror films inspired by the success of Steven Spielberg's 1975 film Jaws, piranhas act as the antagonist monsters harming human life, and have developed the ability to fly, which they did not have in the first film. On the Terminator 2: Judgment Day commentary track, Cameron jokingly defended the film, tongue firmly in cheek, as "the finest flying killer fish horror/comedy ever made." He would later employ some of the same mechanisms used to make the piranhas fly in the facehugger animatronics for Aliens.[citation needed]
Most of the underwater scenes were filmed off Grand Cayman, and the stand-in for the Club Elysium is the Mallard Beach Hyatt, now the Sunset Jamaica Grande in Ocho Rios. Interior scenes were filmed on a sound stage in Rome.[4]
Reviews[edit]
Some critics called the film "abject",[5] others opined that "the piranhas...look as though they had been remaindered from a joke shop" and that they resembled "haddock with dentures".[6] According to Tim Healey in The World's Worst Movies (1986) the film is "a strong contender...for anyone's list of all-time horror turkeys".[6] The film holds a 7% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 14 reviews.[7]
James Cameron refers to The Terminator as his first feature length film, despite the fact that it was made in 1984, three years after Piranha II: The Spawning.[1] However, Cameron acknowledged the film in a 60 Minutes segment with interviewer Morley Safer in 2010, referring to Piranha II as "the best flying piranha film ever made".[8]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b James Cameron Interview at Terminator Files
2.Jump up ^ "James Cameron on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos". YouTube. October 8, 2008.
3.Jump up ^ The Bloody Best of Fangoria vol. 4
4.Jump up ^ Dr. John L. Flynn's essay on Piranha II
5.Jump up ^ Tim Healey (1986) The World's Worst Movies. London, Octopus Books: 6
6.^ Jump up to: a b Tim Healey (1986) The World's Worst Movies. London, Octopus Books: 7
7.Jump up ^ Piranha II: The Spawning at Rotten Tomatoes
8.Jump up ^ 60 Minutes, 27 June 2010.
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Piranha II: The Spawning at the Internet Movie Database
Piranha II: The Spawning at AllMovie
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Piranha 3DD
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Piranha 3DD
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Directed by
John Gulager
Produced by
Mark Canton
Marc Toberoff
 Joel Soisson
Screenplay by
Patrick Melton
Marcus Dunstan
 Joel Soisson
Based on
Characters
 by Peter Goldfinger
Josh Stolberg
Starring
Danielle Panabaker
Matt Bush
David Koechner
Chris Zylka
Katrina Bowden
Gary Busey
Christopher Lloyd
David Hasselhoff
Music by
Elia Cmiral
Cinematography
Alexandre Lehmann
Edited by
Devin C. Lussier
 Martin Bernfeld
 Kirk Morri
Production
   company
Radius-TWC
 Mark Canton/IPW
Neo Art & Logic
Distributed by
Dimension Films
Release date(s)
May 11, 2012 (United Kingdom[1])
June 1, 2012 (United States)

Running time
83 minutes[1]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$5,000,000[2]
Box office
$8,493,728[3]
Piranha 3DD is a 2012 American 3D comedy horror film and sequel to the 2010 film Piranha 3D. It is directed by John Gulager from a screenplay by Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton. It stars Danielle Panabaker, Matt Bush, David Koechner, Chris Zylka, Katrina Bowden, Gary Busey, Christopher Lloyd, and David Hasselhoff. Production began on April 27, 2011 with a release scheduled for November 23, 2011, but a month prior to release this date was revised to an unspecified 2012 date. The film was eventually released in the UK on May 11, 2012 and in the U.S. on June 1, 2012.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Release 4.1 Box office
4.2 Home media
5 Reception
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
A year after the attack on Lake Victoria by prehistoric piranhas, an eradication campaign has left the lake uninhabitable, and the town itself has been largely abandoned as a result of the drying-up of the Lake. Meanwhile at Cross Lake two farmers search the waters to recover the body of a dead cow. Piranha eggs that have been laid inside the cow hatch, and the farmers are killed by the swarm, but before they both die, one farmer pops out of the water, takes a piranha, eats it and then spits it up before sinking back into the water.
Maddy, a marine biology student, returns home for the summer to the waterpark she co-owns. She finds to her horror that the other co-owner, her step-father Chet, plans to add an adult-themed section to the waterpark with "water-certified strippers", and re-open it as "Big Wet". At a party at the waterpark that night, Maddy encounters several old acquaintances, including her policeman ex-boyfriend Kyle Knight, and Barry who has secretly had a crush on her since grade school. She also runs into two of her close friends, Ashley and Shelby. Shelby and her boyfriend Josh go skinny-dipping in the lake, where a piranha makes its way inside her vagina. Meanwhile, Ashley and her boyfriend Travis begin to make love in their van, but Ashley accidentally trips the handbrake with her foot, causing the van to roll into the lake, where Travis is devoured while Ashley is on the roof of the van, calling for help but no one can hear her.
The next day, Maddy is consoling Shelby about their missing friends. While sitting on a jetty, they are both attacked by the swarm of piranhas. They manage to kill one, and Maddy, Kyle and Barry bring it to Mr. Goodman to examine. He informs them that the piranhas may be moving via sewage pipes and underground rivers between lakes, attracted by chemicals involved in swimming pool cleansers that match their spawning routes. However, the wider world wouldn't listen to him, based upon his theory that the fish would evolve to become terrain-viable. The trio return to the lake, where they establish that the piranhas cannot make their way into the outflow pipes connecting the lake and the waterpark. While Shelby and Josh are having sex, the piranha in Shelby's vagina bites Josh's penis, forcing him to chop the organ off with a knife. Both are hospitalized, but survive. Kyle is revealed to be corrupt and taking pay-offs from Chet, who is secretly pumping water from an underground river into the waterpark. Chet orders Kyle to keep Maddy from finding out the secret.
"Big Wet" opens the next day. Among the first guests are Deputy Fallon, who survived his previous ordeal with the piranhas but lost his legs, and former cameraman Andrew Cunningham (Paul Scheer). While the duo attempts to overcome their fear of the water after they were attacked a year ago, David Hasselhoff also makes an appearance as a celebrity lifeguard.
Discovering the connection between the park and the underground river, Maddy attempts to shut the waterpark down, but is stopped by Chet and Kyle. The piranhas make their way to the area and attack, killing many of the lifeguards and waterpark-goers. Fallon attaches a shotgun prosthesis to his legs in order to save the visitors, while Hasselhoff, after rescuing a small boy named David, becomes pleased that he has finally become a real lifeguard. In the chaos, Chet refuses to help any survivors, cowardly refuses to help a young girl whose mother has been eaten, and soon kills the girl with his truck. Chet is decapitated by a hanging cable when he is about to drive away and escape.
Maddy instructs Barry to begin draining the pools; however Maddy, who is rescuing people from the water, becomes caught in the suction and dragged down to the bottom of the pool. After Kyle refuses to save her because of his shock of piranhas, Barry, despite being unable to swim, leaps down and brings her to the surface, whereupon Maddy is revived when she is saved by Barry and they kiss.
Another employee, Big Dave, pours pure chlorine into the pipes, followed by a lit joint. The resulting explosion kills most of the piranhas, while Kyle is killed by a falling trident. The celebrations are cut short however, when Maddy takes a phone call from a horrified Mr. Goodman, who informs them that the piranhas are evolving and are now able to move on land, to which Maddy informs him that she knows. The film ends as one such piranha emerges from the pool and decapitates David (the small child which Hasselhoff saved earlier), to which Hasselhoff comments, "Little ginger moron" while the survived visitors pick up their phones and take a picture of the dead body of David.
In a post-credits scene, Hasselhoff is running on a beach holding a trident, which is an advertisement for a film titled Fishhunter.
Cast[edit]
##Danielle Panabaker as Maddy
##Matt Bush as Barry
##David Koechner as Chet
##Chris Zylka as Kyle
##Katrina Bowden as Shelby
##Gary Busey as Clayton
##Christopher Lloyd as Mr. Goodman
##David Hasselhoff as Himself
##Adrian Martinez as Big Dave
##Paul Scheer as Andrew
##Jean-Luc Bilodeau as Josh
##Meagan Tandy as Ashley
##Paul James Jordan as Travis
##Sierra Fisk as Bethany
##Matthew Lintz as David (Freckled Boy)
##Sylvia Jefferies as Young Mother
##Irina Voronina as Kiki
##Ving Rhames as Deputy Fallon
Production[edit]
In October 2010, Dimension Films announced that they had secured John Gulager to direct the film based on a script by Saw 3D scribes Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan. Filming was intended to take place between January 17 and February 18 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with a release date set for August 2011,[4] but this became impractical because of cold weather and the requirement for most of the cast to be wearing little or no clothing.[5] In March 2011, production on the film was delayed and Joel Soisson was brought in to produce the film and rewrite the Dunstan-Melton script.[6]
Principal photography began in Wilmington, North Carolina on April 25, 2011,[7][8] with parts of filming occurring at Jungle Rapids water park and Shaw-Speaks community center. Soisson claimed that in choosing a shooting location he was looking for an "iconic America town" that "could be anywhere". Soisson also indicated that tax rebates and the variety of geography in North Carolina had convinced them to choose the location over the alternative of Louisiana.[9]
Filming was completed on May 27, 2011 after 33 days[10] with three weeks of filming occurring at the Jungle Rapids water park.[11] The film was shot using 3D rigs, as opposed to converting the film to 3D in post-production.[12] Piranha 3DD is cinematographer Alexandre Lehmann's first 3D film.[13] Devin C. Lussier and Martin Bernfeld were hired to edit the film.[14]
Release[edit]
The film was scheduled to be released on November 23, 2011,[15] but a several month delay in the commencement of filming meant the November deadline could not be met.[5] A month prior to the scheduled November release, the date was pushed back to an unspecified 2012 date.[16] On March 3, 2012, it was announced that the film would be released simultaneously to theaters and through VOD services.[17] On March 14, it was announced that the film would be released on June 1, 2012 in the United States.[18] The movie was released on May 11, 2012 in the UK.[1] In the United States, it received only a limited release, being shown in only 75 theaters.[19]
Box office[edit]
The film made very small impact on its debut weekend of release in the UK; its box receipts for the opening weekend were just £242,889, placing it at number 8. Lower-budget films that were not new releases such as Salmon Fishing in the Yemen reached #7, one place above Piranha 3DD.[20] By the end of its limited run, it had garnered a total UK box office of $688,269.[3]
The film did not gross well in North America either; it grossed a mere $376,512 in its 3-week run.[3] In total, Piranha 3DD did significantly better internationally, accumulating 95% of its $8,493,728 gross overseas and narrowly scraping a profit.
Home media[edit]
The film was released on September 4, 2012 in a 3D Blu-ray "combo pack", Blu-ray, and DVD with all three editions containing digital copies in the US. In the UK it was released on September 3, 2012 on DVD and Blu-ray 3D (with a 2D Blu-ray version included). The film was distributed earlier to rent via Redbox. The DVD is known as Piranha DD.
Reception[edit]
Piranha 3DD has received mostly negative reviews and currently holds a 13% approval rating and average rating of 3.2/10 on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 43 reviews. The consensus states: "It strains to up the gore and self-awareness of its predecessor, and—despite some game celebrity cameos—the result is a dispiriting echo of 2010's horror-comedy."[21] It has a 24/100 rating on Metacritic, which is "generally unfavorable" on their rating system.[22]
Leslie Felperin of Variety gave the film a negative review, stating, "[The movie] ups the self-parody so much that it's practically a Wayans Brothers spoof, albeit with fewer jokes."[23] Ben Rawson-Jones gave the film a scathing review with a rating of 1/5 stars, highly critical of the use of 3D and direction, despite his enjoyment of the original film.[24]
The film is nominated for two Razzie Awards including Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel and Worst Supporting Actor for David Hasselhoff.
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c "Piranha 3DD". bbfc.co.uk. British Board of Film Classification. May 1, 2012. Retrieved May 9, 2012.
2.Jump up ^ "Screenwriters Patrick Melton And Marcus Dunstan Talk Nudity, Extremes And Hasselhoff In Piranha 3DD". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved September 4, 2012.
3.^ Jump up to: a b c "Piranha 3DD". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 29, 2012.
4.Jump up ^ Fleming, Mike (October 19, 2010). "Dimension Chomping to Get 'Piranha 3D' Sequel Into Theaters Next Summer". Deadline.com. Mail.com Media. Retrieved May 25, 2011.
5.^ Jump up to: a b "‘Piranha 3DD' trailer hits the Web". Star-News. The New York Times Company. March 1, 2012. Retrieved March 2, 2012.
6.Jump up ^ "Exclusive: Piranha 3DD hooks horror vet!". Moviehole. March 27, 2011. Retrieved May 25, 2011.
7.Jump up ^ Chitwood, Adam (April 25, 2011). "PIRANHA 3DD Starts Production". Collider.com. Retrieved May 25, 2011.
8.Jump up ^ "Production begins on 'Piranha 3D' sequel". USA Today (Gannett Company). April 27, 2011. Retrieved May 25, 2011.
9.Jump up ^ Tucker, Brian (June 5, 2011). "Q&A with ‘Piranha 3DD’ producer Joel Soisson". Star-News. The New York Times Company. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
10.Jump up ^ Tucker, Brian (May 29, 2011). "'Piranha 3DD' producer returns to Port City 25 years after 'Trick or Treat'". Star-News. The New York Times Company. Retrieved May 31, 2011.
11.Jump up ^ Wax, Alyse (June 29, 2011). "Exclusive: Danielle Panabaker Gives Us Our First Taste of 'Piranha 3DD'". Fearnet. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
12.Jump up ^ Eggertsen, Chris (November 12, 2010). "Gary Tunnicliffe Confirms 'Piranha' Sequel Will Be Shot in REAL 3-D!". Bloody Disgusting. The Collective. Retrieved May 25, 2011.
13.Jump up ^ Tucker, Brian (June 6, 2011). ""Piranha 3DD" producer Joel Soisson talks about filming and Wilmington". Star-News. The New York Times Company. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
14.Jump up ^ SeanD (June 9, 2011). "Exclusive: Director John Gulager Talks Piranha 3DD and More!". DreadCentral.com. CraveOnline. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
15.Jump up ^ Finke, Nikki (May 25, 2011). "Weinstein Dates 'Our Idiot Brother', 'I Don't Know How She Does It', 'Apollo 18', 'Piranha 3DD'". Deadline.com. Mail.com Media. Retrieved May 25, 2011.
16.Jump up ^ Turek, Ryan (October 13, 2011). "You'll Have to Wait a Bit Longer to See Piranha 3DD". Shock Till You Drop. CraveOnline. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
17.Jump up ^ Zeitchik, Steven; Fritz, Ben (March 3, 2012). "Dimension Films seeking a comeback". Los Angeles Times (Tribune Company). Retrieved March 3, 2012.
18.Jump up ^ Nicholson, Max. "Piranha 3DD Gets a Release Date". IGN. Retrieved 2012-03-14.
19.Jump up ^ Nicholson, Max. "Piranha 3DD Gets a Release Date". Shock Till You Drop. Retrieved 2012-10-30.
20.Jump up ^ "'Avengers Assemble' holds UK box office number one for third week | Film & TV News". Nme.Com. 2012-05-16. Retrieved 2012-06-06.
21.Jump up ^ "Piranha 3DD". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2012-06-06.
22.Jump up ^ "Piranha 3DD Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More". Metacritic. 2012-06-01. Retrieved 2012-06-06.
23.Jump up ^ Felperin, Leslie (2012-05-12). "Variety Reviews - Piranha 3DD - Film Reviews - New Int'l. Release - Review by Leslie Felperin". Variety.com. Retrieved 2012-06-06.
24.Jump up ^ Published Friday, May 11, 2012, 2:08pm EDT (2012-05-11). "'Piranha 3DD' review: "No titillation, just desperation..." - Movies Review". Digital Spy. Retrieved 2012-06-06.
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##Official website
##Piranha 3DD at the Internet Movie Database
##Piranha 3DD at AllMovie
##Piranha 3DD at Box Office Mojo
##Piranha 3DD at Rotten Tomatoes
##Piranha 3DD at Metacritic


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Piranha 3D
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Piranha 3D
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Theatrical poster

Directed by
Alexandre Aja
Produced by
Alexandre Aja
Mark Canton
 Marc Toberoff
Grégory Levasseur
Written by
Pete Goldfinger
Josh Stolberg
 Alexandre Aja
 Grégory Levasseur
Starring
Elisabeth Shue
Adam Scott
Jerry O'Connell
Ving Rhames
Jessica Szohr
Steven R. McQueen
Christopher Lloyd
Richard Dreyfuss
Music by
Michael Wandmacher
Cinematography
John R. Leonetti
Edited by
Baxter
Production
   company
The Weinstein Company
 Atmosphere Entertainment
 Chako Film Company
 Intellectual Properties Worldwide
Distributed by
Dimension Films
Release date(s)
August 20, 2010

Running time
88 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$24 million
Box office
$83,188,165[1]
Piranha 3D is a 2010 American 3D horror comedy film and a remake of the 1978 film Piranha. It was directed by Alexandre Aja and sports an ensemble cast featuring Steven R. McQueen, Jessica Szohr, Jerry O'Connell, Richard Dreyfuss, Christopher Lloyd, Elisabeth Shue, Adam Scott, Kelly Brook, Riley Steele, Ving Rhames and Eli Roth.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Release 4.1 Box office
4.2 Reception
4.3 Home media
5 Soundtrack 5.1 Track listing
5.2 Songs not included on the soundtrack
5.3 Credits
6 Sequel
7 References
8 External links

Plot[edit]
Fisherman Matt Boyd (Richard Dreyfuss) is fishing in Lake Havasu City, Arizona when a small earthquake hits, splitting the lake floor and causing a whirlpool. Boyd falls in and is ripped apart by a school of piranhas that emerge from the chasm and ascend the vortex.
Jake Forester (Steven R. McQueen) is admiring attractive tourists as spring break begins. He reunites with his old crush, Kelly (Jessica Szohr) and meets Derrick Jones (Jerry O'Connell), a sleazy pornographer, as well as Danni Arslow (Kelly Brook), one of his actresses. Derrick convinces Jake to show him good spots on the lake for filming a pornographic movie. That night, Jake's mother, Sheriff Julie Forester (Elisabeth Shue), searches for the missing Matt Boyd with Deputy Fallon (Ving Rhames). They find his mutilated body and contemplate closing the lake. However, this is made difficult by two thousand partying college students on spring break, who are important for bringing revenue to the small town. The next morning, a lone cliff diver is attacked and consumed by the marauding fish.
Jake bribes his sister and brother, Laura (Brooklynn Proulx) and Zane (Sage Ryan), to stay home alone so that he can show Derrick around the lake. After Jake leaves, Zane drafts Laura to go fishing on a small sandbar island. They forget to tie the boat down and are stranded in the middle of the lake. Meanwhile, Jake goes to meet with Derrick and runs into Kelly, who invites herself onto Derrick's boat, The Barracuda. Jake meets Crystal Shepard (Riley Steele), another of Derrick's actresses, and cameraman Andrew Cunningham (Paul Scheer).
Julie takes a team of seismologist divers—Novak (Adam Scott), Sam (Ricardo Chavira), and Paula (Dina Meyer)—to the fissure. Novak speculates that the rift leads to a buried prehistoric lake. Paula and Sam scuba dive to the bottom and discover a large cavern filled with large piranha egg stocks. Both are killed by the piranhas before they can alert the others to the discovery. Novak and Julie find Paula's corpse and pull it onto the boat, capturing a lone piranha, which they take to Carl Goodman (Christopher Lloyd), a marine biologist who works as a pet store owner. He explains that it is a super aggressive prehistoric species, long believed to be extinct.
Julie, Novak, Fallon, and Deputy Taylor Roberts (Jason Spisak) try to evacuate the lake, but their warnings are ignored until the piranhas begin to attack the tourists. Novak boards a jet-ski with a shotgun to help while Fallon drags people to shore and Julie and Taylor try to get swimmers into the police boat. A floating stage capsizes from the weight of the panicking guests, pulling an electric wire which mutilates some tourists. Almost everyone in the lake is either wounded or killed by the piranhas or panicking guests who were recklessly driving their speed boats and accidentally causing the deaths of others (A man tries to speed away in a boat and ends up both shredding people but a woman's hair is caught in the motor and the hair and her upper forehead skin is ripped off her face. The boat then capsizes as people try to enter it and the man and the guests are devoured).
Meanwhile, Jake spots Laura and Zane on the island, and forces Derrick to rescue them. Derrick crashes the boat into some rocks, flooding the rooms below deck. Kelly is trapped in the kitchen while Derrick, Crystal and Andrew fall overboard from the impact of the collision. Crystal is devoured and Andrew escapes to shore. Meanwhile, Danni manages to get a partially eaten Derrick back on board.
Deputy Fallon makes a last stand, taking a boat motor and using its propeller to shred and kill many piranhas, though it is implied he is finally devoured by them. After the chaos settles, Julie receives a call from Jake pleading for help. Julie and Novak steal a speed boat and head off towards the kids. They reach Jake and attach a rope to his boat. Julie, Danni, Laura, and Zane start crossing the rope, but the piranhas latch onto Danni's hair and ultimately devour her. The others make it to safety, but the rope comes loose. Using Derrick's corpse as a distraction, Jake ties the line to himself and goes to save Kelly. He ties Kelly to him and lights a flare after releasing the gas in a pair of stored propane tanks. Novak starts the boat and speeds away just as the piranhas surround Kelly and Jake. They are dragged to safety and the propane tanks explode, destroying the boat and killing most of the piranhas.
Mr. Goodman calls Julie on the radio, and Julie tells him that they seem to have killed the majority of the piranhas. Terrified, Goodman tells her that the reproductive glands on the piranha they obtained were not mature, which means that the fish they were fighting were only the babies. As Novak wonders aloud where the parents are, a human sized piranha leaps out and knocks him into the water.
Cast[edit]
##Elisabeth Shue as Julie Forester
##Steven R. McQueen as Jake Forester
##Jessica Szohr as Kelly
##Adam Scott as Novak
##Jerry O'Connell as Derrick Jones
##Ving Rhames as Deputy Fallon
##Dina Meyer as Paula
##Christopher Lloyd as Mr. Goodman
##Richard Dreyfuss as Matt Boyd
##Ricardo Chavira as Sam
##Kelly Brook as Danni
##Paul Scheer as Andrew
##Cody Longo as Todd Dupree
##Sage Ryan as Zane Forester
##Brooklynn Proulx as Laura Forester
##Riley Steele as Crystal
##Devra Korwin as Mrs. Goodman
Richard Dreyfuss said that he accepted the role with after Bob Weinstein persuaded him by offering the actor a larger salary, which Dreyfuss later donated to charity. Dreyfuss also stated that the ill-fated character he plays is a parody and a near-reincarnation of Matt Hooper, the character he portrayed in the 1975 film Jaws.[2] Jaws later served as inspiration for the parody film entitled Piranha. The song the character in Piranha 3D listens to on the radio on his boat is "Show Me the Way to Go Home", which Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider and Robert Shaw sing together in Jaws.
Eli Roth, Ashlynn Brooke, Bonnie Morgan, Genevieve Alexandra, and Gianna Michaels appear as spring breakers who meet gruesome demises, while Franck Khalfoun and Jason Spisak portray deputies.
Production[edit]
Chuck Russell was originally scheduled to direct the film, and made uncredited rewrites to the script by Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger, as well as incorporating the original John Sayles script that Joe Dante directed the first time around.[3] Alexandre Aja was selected to direct the film instead.[4]
Production on the film was scheduled to begin late 2008, but was delayed until March 2009.[5] In October 2008, Aja stated filming would begin in the spring. He further stated "it's such a difficult movie, not only because of the technicality of it and the CGI fish, but also because it all happens in a lake.[6] We were supposed to start shooting now, but the longer to leave it the colder the water gets.[7] The movie takes place during Spring Break and, of course, the studio wanted it ready for the summer, but if you've got 1,000 people who need to get murdered in the water, you have to wait for the right temperature for the water, for the weather, for everything."[8]
Shooting took place in June 2009 at Bridgewater Channel in Lake Havasu, located in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. The water was also dyed red for the shooting.[9]
Citing constraints with 3D camera rigs, Aja shot Piranha in 2D and converted to 3D in post production using a 3D conversion process developed by Michael Roderick and used by the company, Inner-D.[10] Unlike some other 3D converted films released in 2010, Piranha's conversion was not done as an afterthought, and it represents one of the first post-conversion processes to be well received by critics.[11][12][13]
Release[edit]
Piranha 3D's theatrical release date had been set for April 16, 2010, but was delayed.[14] The film was planned to premiere on August 27, 2010,[15][16] but in June 2010 was moved to August 20, 2010.[17] The film's first trailer debuted with Avatar. A second trailer was shown in prints of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Inception. It was set to have a panel on 24 July 2010 as part of the San Diego Comic-Con International but was cancelled after convention organizers decided the footage that was planned to be shown was not appropriate.[18] Nine minutes of footage, with some unfinished effects, were leaked onto websites. The clip used in promotional TV ads and the trailer that shows Jessica Szohr's character, Kelly, face to face with a pack of piranhas was not used in the movie, and was used for promotion only.
The official poster was released June 22, 2010.[19]
Box office[edit]
Piranha 3D grossed $10,106,872 in its first 3 days, opening at #6 in the United States box office.[20] In the United Kingdom, Piranha 3D opened at #4 at the box office, earning £1,487,119. As of May 16, 2011, Piranha 3D has made $83,188,165 worldwide.[21]
Reception[edit]
Piranha 3D received generally positive reviews. It is certified "fresh" on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes with an approval rating of 73% and an average score of 6.2 out of 10, based on 119 reviews. The consensus reads, "Playing exactly to expectations for a movie about killer fish run amok, Piranha 3-D dishes out gore, guffaws and gratuitous nudity with equal glee."[22] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received a score of 53, based on 20 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews".[23] A tongue-in-cheek scholarly review of the movie was written for the journal Copeia (Chakrabarty & Fink 2011), which reviewed the movie as if it were a documentary film.[24]
Empire gave the film three out of five stars, saying "Remember the film you hoped Snakes on a Plane would be – this is it! By any sane cinematic standards, meretricious trash ... but thrown at you with such good-humoured glee that it's hard to resist. It's a bumper-sticker of a movie: honk if you love tits and gore! Honk honk honk."[25] Christy Lemire, film critic for the Associated Press, said "Run, don't walk: Piranha 3D is hilariously, cleverly gory. Mere words cannot describe how awesomely gnarly Piranha 3D is, how hugely entertaining, and how urgently you must get yourself to the theatre to see it. Like, now."[26] HollywoodLife.com called the film "a campy masterpiece of a movie", adding "If you have an ounce of fun in your body, you will love this movie about killer piranhas that overtake a town of hotties – in 3D!"[27] Peter Hall of Cinematical.com said "The gore, the nudity, the language, the gags, the characters – it's all always on the rise. Just when you think things could not possibly get more ridiculous, that the film has peaked, Aja and screenwriters Pete Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg manage to ram another syringe of adrenaline into its heart."[28] The Hollywood Reporter referred to the film as "a pitch-perfect, guilty-pleasure serving of late-summer schlock that handily nails the tongue-in-cheek spirit of the Roger Corman original" while stating "Jaws it ain't – Aja exhibits little patience for such stuff as dramatic tension and tautly coiled suspense, and there are some undeniable choppy bits...but he never loses sight of the potential fun factor laid out in Pete Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg's script."[29] The Orlando Sentinel gave the film one and a half stars out of four, stating that "Piranha 3D goes for the jugular. And generally misses, but generally in an amusing way."[30]
Home media[edit]
The film was released on the DVD, Blu-ray, and Blu-ray 3D formats on Tuesday, January 11, 2011. The "3D" part of the title was taken off the 2D releases to prevent confusion of the two formats. The film was released in Australia on Thursday, December 30, 2010. The film was shown on British television on Channel 5 on February 10, 2013 for the first time, and in 2D format.
Soundtrack[edit]

Piranha 3D: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Soundtrack album by Various artists

Released
August 31, 2010
Length
42:47
Label
Lakeshore Records LKS 341872
Producer
Skip Williamson (exec.), Brian McNelis (exec.)
Lakeshore Records released the soundtrack album of Piranha 3D which included mostly rap, dance, hip-hop and R&B music. Artists include Shwayze, Envy, Flatheads, Amanda Blank, Public Enemy, Dub Pistols, and Hadouken!.[31]
Track listing[edit]

No.
Title
Writer(s)
Artist
Length

1. "Get U Home"   Cisco Adler & Aaron Smith Shwayze 3:14
2. "Shake Shake"   Emmanuel Duncan & Leviticus Envy feat. Leviticus 3:25
3. "Here She Comes"   Geoff Segel & Nik Frost Flatheads 3:34
4. "Make It Take It"   Amanda McGrath, Alex Epton, Mario Andreoni, Santi White & Tyler Pope Amanda Blank 2:27
5. "Bring the Noise (Remix Pump-kin Edit)"   Carlten Ridenhour, Eric Sadler & Hank Shocklee Public Enemy vs. Benny Benassi 3:39
6. "She Moves"   Jason O'Bryan, Barry Ashworth & Ter K. Lawrence Dub Pistols 3:12
7. "Flower Duet from Lakmé"   Léo Delibes Adriana Kohutkova & Denisa Slepkovska 6:37
8. "Nadas Por Free"   Willy "Wil-Dog" Abers, Ulises Bella, Raul Pacheco, Justin Porée, Asdru Sierra & Jiro Yamaguchi Ozomatli 2:57
9. "Come And Get It"   Eli Paperboy Reed, Ryan Spraker & Michael Montgomery Eli Paperboy Reed 3:33
10. "Now You See It (Benny Benassi & DJ Shimik Extended Mix)"   Armando C. Perez, Justin Roman, Vince Garcia, Tony Arazadon & Richard Bailey Honorebel feat. Pitbull & Jump Smokers 3:25
11. "M.A.D."   James Smith, Alice Spooner, Daniel Rice, Nick Rice & Chris Purcell Hadouken! 3:25
12. "I'm in the House"   Steve Aoki, William Adams & Justin Bates Steve Aoki feat. Zuper Blahq 3:24
Songs not included on the soundtrack[edit]
##"Show Me the Way to Go Home" by Mitch Miller & The Gang
##"I'm Not a Whore" by LMFAO
##"Fetish" by Far East Movement
##"Girls on the Dance Floor" by Far East Movement
Credits[edit]
##A&r [Director] – Eric Craig
##Cello [Electric Cello], Guitar, Percussion, Programmed By – Michael Wandmacher
##Composed By – Susie Benchasil Seiter
##Conductor – Michael Wandmacher
##Edited By [Music] – Joshua Winget
##Executive Producer [Executive Producer For Lakeshore Records] – Brian McNelis, Skip Williamson
##Mixed By – Mark Curry (3)
##Orchestrated By – Chad Seiter, Michael Wandmacher, Susie Benchasil Seiter
##Producer – Michael Wandmacher
Sequel[edit]
Main article: Piranha 3DD
Dimension Films announced a sequel shortly after the first film was released.[32] The film is Piranha 3DD and is directed by John Gulager with Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan writing. It was released on June 1, 2012. It stars Ving Rhames, Paul Scheer and Christopher Lloyd, reprising their roles from Piranha 3D .[33] Piranha 3DD is set at a waterpark where the piranhas find a way through the pipes.[34]
Following its release, it failed to generate the positive critical reaction of its predecessor and grossed only $8,493,728.[35]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Piranha 3D (2010)". Box Office Mojo. Amazon.com. 2010-0-20. Retrieved 2010-09-06.
2.Jump up ^ "Richard Dreyfuss reveals why he made ‘Piranha 3-D:' "to get money";– Film.com". Film.com. Retrieved August 19, 2010.
3.Jump up ^ Fleming, Michael (June 6, 2005). "Chiller chomps Piranha". Variety. Retrieved 2008-10-26.
4.Jump up ^ "Attack of the 'Piranha'! Massive Richard Dreyfus Scoop, Tons of Meaty Images!". Bloody Disgusting. 2010-01-14. Retrieved 2010-07-24.
5.Jump up ^ "Aja Doesn't Start Piranha Until '09". ShockTillYouDrop.com. September 10, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-26.
6.Jump up ^ "Bootlegged Look at the 'Piranha 3D' Trailer!". Bloody Disgusting. 2010-01-09. Retrieved 2010-07-24.
7.Jump up ^ "Piranha 3D to Take a Bite Out of Avatar this Weekend". Dread Central. Retrieved 2010-07-24.
8.Jump up ^ Utichi, Joe (October 10, 2008). "Exclusive: Alexandre Aja talks Mirrors and Piranha 3D". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2008-10-26.
9.Jump up ^ "'Piranha 3D' Test Screened, Bloodiest Movie Ever?". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved 2010-07-24.
10.Jump up ^ "Inner-D". Inner-D. 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2010-08-21.
11.Jump up ^ "Death Fish, Piranha 3D Movie Review". Critics Notebook. 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2010-08-21.
12.Jump up ^ "Piranha 3D Movie Reivew". Cinematical. 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2010-08-21.
13.Jump up ^ "Kevin Carr's Weekly Report Card: August 20, 2010". Film School Rejects. 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2010-08-21.
14.Jump up ^ "Weinsteins Push Piranha 3D Back At Least Four Months". Dread Central. 2010-01-15. Retrieved 2010-07-24.
15.Jump up ^ "Weinstein Co.'s 'Piranha 3-D' isn't going to be biting anyone for a while". LA Times. 2010-01-14. Retrieved 2010-01-14.
16.Jump up ^ "'Piranha 3D' Has its Ass Kicked Out of April". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved 2010-07-24.
17.Jump up ^ "Piranha 3D Spawns a New Release Date". Dread Central. Retrieved 2010-07-24.
18.Jump up ^ "SD Comic-Con '10 Schedules Updated; Piranha 3D Panel Disappears!". Dread Central. Retrieved 2010-07-24.
19.Jump up ^ "First Poster for Piranha 3D". The Film Stage. June 22, 2010. Retrieved June 22, 2010.
20.Jump up ^ "North American Box Office Chart for August 20–22, 2010". The Numbers. September 16, 2010. Retrieved September 16, 2010.
21.Jump up ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=piranha3d.htm
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23.Jump up ^ "Piranha 3-D (2010): Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
24.Jump up ^ Chakrabarty, P., and Fink, W.L. (2011) [Review of] Piranha 3D. Copeia 2011 (1): 181 url= http://www.asihcopeiaonline.org/doi/full/10.1643/OT-10-147.
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27.Jump up ^ "Piranha 3D Review". Hollywood Life. 2010-08-19. Retrieved 2010-09-22.
28.Jump up ^ Hall, Peter (2010-08-20). "Piranha 3D Review". Cinematical.com. Retrieved 2010-09-22.
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30.Jump up ^ Moore, Roger (August 20, 2010). "Movie Review: Piranha 3D". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved August 21, 2010.
31.Jump up ^ "Music from Piranha". MusicfromFilm.com. Retrieved 2011-01-03.
32.Jump up ^ "Dimension Films Announces Piranha 3D Sequel – ComingSoon.net". ComingSoon.net. August 22, 2010. Retrieved August 22, 2010.
33.Jump up ^ "Ving Rhames to Swim With the Fishes Again in Piranha 3DD?". DreadCentral.com. December 16, 2011. Retrieved December 17, 2011.
34.Jump up ^ "'Piranha 3 Double D' Meat Eaters Swim Into a Waterpark!". Bloody Disgusting. March 29, 2011.
35.Jump up ^ http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=piranha3dd.htm
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##Official website
##Piranha 3D at AllMovie
##Piranha 3D at the Internet Movie Database
##Piranha 3D at Rotten Tomatoes
##Piranha 3D at Metacritic


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Piranha (1978 film)
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Piranha
PiranhaPosterA.jpg
US theatrical release poster by John Solie

Directed by
Joe Dante
Produced by
Roger Corman
Jon Davison
 Chako van Leeuwen
Screenplay by
John Sayles
Story by
John Sayles
Richard Robinson[disambiguation needed]
Starring
Bradford Dillman
Heather Menzies
Kevin McCarthy
Keenan Wynn
Dick Miller
Music by
Pino Donaggio
Cinematography
Jamie Anderson
Edited by
Joe Dante
Mark Goldblatt
Distributed by
New World Pictures (US)
United Artists (international)
Release date(s)
August 3, 1978

Running time
95 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$770,000[1]
Box office
$6 million (US)
 $10 million (international)[1]
Piranha is a 1978 American B movie about a swarm of killer piranhas. It was directed and co-edited by Joe Dante and starred Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Steele, and Dick Miller. Produced by Roger Corman, Piranha is a parody of the 1975 film Jaws, which had been a major success for distributor Universal Studios and director Steven Spielberg, and inspired a series of similarly themed B movies such as Grizzly, Tintorera, Tentacles, Orca, Monster Shark and Great White.
Piranha was followed by a sequel, Piranha II: The Spawning, in 1981, and two remakes, one in 1995, and another in 2010, which spawned its own sequel in 2012.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Reception
4 Release
5 Remakes
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

Plot[edit]
Two teenagers come upon an apparently abandoned military installation. They take advantage of what appears to be a swimming pool to skinny dip. The teenagers are attacked by an unseen force and disappear under the water. A light activates in the main building and a silhouetted figure investigates the screams, but is too late to help.
A determined but somewhat absent-minded insurance investigator named Maggie McKeown is dispatched to find the missing teenagers near Lost River Lake. She hires surly backwoods drunkard Paul Grogan to serve as her guide. They come upon the abandoned compound, which functioned as a fish hatchery before being militarized. They discover bizarre specimens in jars and indications of an occupant. Maggie locates the drainage switch for the outside pool and decides to empty it to search the bottom, but the moment she activates it a haggard and frantic man begins to panic and attacks her, attempting to stop the draining until he is subdued by Grogan. The two found a skeleton in the filtration trap of the empty pool, and learn it was filled with salt water. The man awakens and steals their jeep, but crashes it due to his disorientation, and is taken to Grogan's home where they spend the night. They take Grogan's raft down the river, where the man wakes up and tells them that the pool in the facility was filled with a school of piranhas, and that Maggie released them. They are skeptical when they heard a dog barking until they come across the corpse of Grogan's friend Jack, who has bled to death from an attack on a fishing dock.
The man reveals himself to be Doctor Robert Hoak, lead scientist of a defunct Vietnam War project, Operation: Razorteeth, tasked with engineering a ravenous and prodigious strain of piranha that could endure the cold water of the North Vietnamese rivers and inhibit Viet Cong movement. The project was shut down when the war ended, but some of the mutant specimens survived, and Hoak tended to them to salvage his work. Grogan realizes that if the local dam is opened, the school will have access to the Lost River water park and summer camp, where his daughter is in attendance. They encounter a capsized canoe with a boy whose father has been killed by the fish. Hoak rescues the boy but suffers mortal injuries when the school attacks him; he dies before he can reveal how to kill them. Blood from Hoak's corpse causes the piranha to tear away the raft's lashings, and they barely reach shore. Grogan stops the dam attendant from opening the spillway and calls the military.
A military team led by Colonel Waxman and former Razorteeth scientist Dr. Mengers feed poison into the upstream section, ignoring the protests that the fish survived the first attempt. When Grogan discovers that a tributary bypasses the dam, Waxman and Mengers quarantine them to prevent the agitated pair from alerting the media. After they escape, Waxman alerts law enforcement to capture them. The school attacks the summer camp during a swimming marathon, injuring and killing many children and a supervisor. Grogan's daughter escapes due to her fear of water, and aids her camp mates in escaping.
The school continues downriver. Waxman and Mengers arrive at the water park to intercept Grogan and Maggie, but the piranha attack the resort and kill many vacationers and Waxman. Grogan and Maggie commandeer a speedboat and rush to the shuttered smelting plant at the narrowest point of the river. Remembering the empty facility pond, Grogan realizes the fish can survive in salt water; if the school passes the delta, they will reach the ocean and spread over the world. He intends to open the smelting refuse tanks, hoping the industrial waste will kill the fish. They arrive at the plant ahead of the fish, but the elevated water level has submerged the control office, and Grogan must go underwater; he ties a rope around his waist and instructs Maggie to count to 100 before pulling him out. Grogan struggles to move the rusted valve wheel when the school arrives and attacks him. The assault hyperadrenalizes him, and he manages to open the valves just as Maggie pulls him to safety. Maggie takes Grogan back to the water park, where a massive MEDEVAC is tending to the victims; his injuries are severe and he is seen in a catatonic state.
Mengers gives an on-site television interview, providing a sanitized version of events and downplaying the existence of piranha. Her voice is heard carrying out over a radio on the shore of a West Coast beach. As she says "there's nothing left to fear", the piranha's characteristic trilling sound drowns out the waves on a beach.
Cast[edit]
##Bradford Dillman as Paul Grogan
##Heather Menzies as Maggie McKeown
##Kevin McCarthy as Dr. Robert Hoak
##Keenan Wynn as Jack
##Dick Miller as Buck Gardner
##Barbara Steele as Dr. Mengers
##Belinda Balaski as Betsy
##Melody Thomas Scott as Laura Dickinson
##Bruce Gordon as Colonel Waxman
##Barry Brown as a Trooper
##Paul Bartel as Mr. Dumont
##Shannon Collins as Suzie Grogan
##Shawn Nelson as Whitney
Reception[edit]
Based on reviews from 25 critics collected by the film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 72% gave Piranha a positive review.[2]
 Steven Spielberg called it "the best of the Jaws ripoffs".[3]
Release[edit]
The film was released theatrically in the United States by New World Pictures in August 1978.[citation needed] Given the proximity to Jaws 2, Universal Pictures had considered an injunction, but Spielberg convinced them otherwise.[3]
In 2004, New Concorde Home Entertainment released the film on special edition DVD.[4] This version is currently out of print.
In 2010, Shout! Factory re-released Piranha on DVD and Blu-ray.[5]
Remakes[edit]
Main article: Piranha (1995 film)
Main article: Piranha 3-D
Piranha was first remade in 1995, and this version was also produced by Roger Corman and originally debuted on Showtime. It used footage from the original for certain sequences.
Another remake of the 1978 film is directed by Alexandre Aja, who again works with filmmaking partner Grégory Levasseur; the two have worked on other genre films as well, including the 2006 remake, The Hills Have Eyes. Distributor Dimension Films' Bob Weinstein told Variety, "We will maintain the fun and thrilling aspects of the original film, but look forward to upping the ante with a modern-day twist."[6] Piranha 3D was theatrically released in the United States on August 20, 2010 and is in 3D.
Dimension had been developing the remake of the 1978 Joe Dante film Piranha for over a year. It intended to have Chuck Russell, who previously reworked the 1988 version of The Blob, direct the film before taking on Alexandre Aja. Aja will rewrite a previous script from Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger. Aja explains, "My goal is not to remake Piranha, but to create a completely new adventure paying homage to all the creature films [...] I am very proud to follow the path of Joe Dante and James Cameron in the Piranha franchise and look forward to working with Greg Levasseur to write, produce, and direct such a fun and gory thrill ride."[7] The film's cast includes Elisabeth Shue, Christopher Lloyd, Richard Dreyfus, Adam Scott, and Jerry O'Connell.
See also[edit]
##Killer Fish
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Christopher T Koetting, Mind Warp!: The Fantastic True Story of Roger Corman's New World Pictures, Hemlock Books. 2009 p 146-147
2.Jump up ^ "Piranha (1978)". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved December 10, 2010.
3.^ Jump up to: a b McBride, Joseph (1999). Steven Spielberg: A Biography. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press. p. 257. ISBN 0-306-80900-1.
4.Jump up ^ "Piranha: The Directors' Series". dvdempire.com. Retrieved 2011-03-31.
5.Jump up ^ Barton, Steve (May 26, 2010). "Shout! Factory Dishes the Dirt on Piranha and Humanoids from the Deep Special Edition Blu-ray Releases". Dread Central. Archived from the original on December 10, 2010. Retrieved December 10, 2010.
6.Jump up ^ McClintock, Pamela (March 15, 2007). "Aja bites into 'Piranha'". Variety. Archived from the original on August 28, 2009. Retrieved August 28, 2009.
7.Jump up ^ "Piranha, Escape From NY remake updates". Fangoria.com. Archived from the original on February 17, 2008. Retrieved September 9, 2007.
External links[edit]
##Piranha at the Internet Movie Database
##Piranha at AllMovie
##Piranha at Rotten Tomatoes


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Jaws 2
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Jaws 2
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Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Jeannot Szwarc
Produced by
Richard D. Zanuck
David Brown
Written by
Carl Gottlieb
Howard Sackler
Based on
Characters created by
Peter Benchley
Starring
Roy Scheider
Lorraine Gary
Murray Hamilton
Music by
John Williams
Cinematography
Michael Butler
Edited by
Neil Travis
Arthur Schmidt
 Steve Potter
Distributed by
Universal Pictures
Release date(s)
June 16, 1978

Running time
116 minutes
Country
United States
Budget
$20 million
Box office
$208,900,376
Jaws 2 is a 1978 American horror thriller film and the first sequel to Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975), and the second installment in the Jaws franchise, which was based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. Directed by Jeannot Szwarc, it stars Roy Scheider as Police Chief Martin Brody, who must deal with another great white shark terrorizing the waters of Amity Island, a fictional seaside resort.
Like the first film, the production of Jaws 2 was troubled. The original director, John D. Hancock, proved to be unsuitable for an action film and was replaced by Szwarc.[1] Scheider, who only reprised his role to end a contractual issue with Universal, was also unhappy during production and had several heated exchanges with Szwarc.[2]
Jaws 2 remained on Variety's list of top ten box office hits of all time until the mid-1990s, and was briefly the highest-grossing sequel in history until Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back was released in 1980. The film's tagline, "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...," has become one of the most famous in film history and has been parodied and homaged several times.[3] It is widely regarded as being the best Jaws sequel.[4]
Jaws 2 was followed by Jaws 3-D and Jaws: The Revenge, released in 1983 and 1987, respectively.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Location
3.2 Casting
3.3 Music 3.3.1 Soundtrack track listing

4 Release 4.1 Box office
4.2 Reception
5 Home Media
6 See also
7 References
8 Bibliography
9 External links

Plot[edit]
About four years after the Amity Island shark attacks, two scuba divers find Quint's sunken boat, the Orca, on the seabed before they are suddenly attacked by a huge great white shark. Both divers are killed but, one of them manages to take a picture of the creature. A few days later, the shark enters Amity Island's coastal waters, killing a female water skier named Terry. The speedboat's female driver Diana, who is Terry's mother, tries to defend herself by first throwing a gasoline can at the shark, though accidentally spilling some on herself and on the boat. She then fires a flare gun at the shark which ignites the fuel and the speedboat explodes, killing her. The shark survives, but is burned on the right side of its head.
In addition to these incidents, a dead 7 1/2 meter killer whale is beached at a nearby lighthouse with large wounds all over its body which Police Chief Martin Brody, suggests were caused by a great white shark. Once again, Mayor Vaughn doesn't share Brody's belief that the town has another shark problem and warns him not to press the issue, afraid that it will cause mass hysteria. Later, Brody spots a section of a ruined speedboat bobbing in the surf just off the beach. When he goes to retrieve it, he encounters the burnt remains of the female speed boat driver.
Brody bans his 17-year-old son Mike from going sailing, and finds him a summer job working at the beach. The following day, while Brody is in an observation tower, he sees a large shadow in the ocean moving towards the beach. Brody hastily orders everyone out of the water, and adds to the panic he causes by firing his revolver at the shadow, only to be told it is actually not a shark at all, but a harmless school of bluefish. Later that night, he receives a blurred photo of the shark's face, recovered from the camera of the attacked divers. Brody shows it to Vaughn and the town council, but they decline to accept the evidence put in front of them, being extremely reluctant to close the beaches during the tourist season. In Amity, the tourist season is big money. Len Peterson, who has built a new resort in Amity to attract people, has convinced the town council to suspend Brody. Deputy Hendricks is promoted to Brody's position despite never killing a shark before.
The next morning, Mike sneaks out and goes sailing with his friends, but has to take his young brother Sean along to stop him from telling his parents about the trip. Later, they go past a group of divers led by Tom Andrews. Tom encounters the shark minutes after entering the water. He escapes but suffers an embolism due to rushing to the surface too fast. Teenagers Tina and Eddie later encounter the shark when it hits their sailboat, killing Eddie and leaving Tina terrified and alone.
Brody and his wife Ellen find Tom Andrews being put into an ambulance, and Brody suspects that something must have scared him to make him come up so fast. Hendricks informs Brody that Mike has gone out sailing to the lighthouse with his friends, so Brody insists on taking the police patrol boat to rescue them, with Ellen and Hendricks both joining him. They find Tina's boat, and Tina, hiding in the hull. Tina, in an obvious state of shock confirms Brody's suspicions about the shark in the area when she screams out the word "Shark!" Hendricks and Ellen take Tina ashore in a passing boat, while Brody continues to search for the teenagers using the police launch.
All seems well with the other teenagers until the shark appears and hits one of their sail boats, causing panic as their boats collide with each other. Mike is knocked unconscious and falls into the water. Two of his friends pull him out just as the shark approaches, and they take him back to the shore for medical help. The rest of the teens remain floating on the wreckage of tangled boats, helplessly drifting out toward the open sea. A harbor patrol marine helicopter arrives and a rope line is rigged to tow the boats to shore but, before the pilot can tow them, the shark attacks the chopper, causing it to capsize and sink. Sean also falls into the water, but he is quickly saved by Marge. As Marge tries to get back into the boat, her hands slip on the wet hull, and she falls back into the water. The shark approaches and devours Marge (which is unseen). Back at mainland, Tina is sent to the hospital, and Ellen berates Peterson and Vaughn for getting her husband fired and denying the shark's presence.
Brody finds Mike, who informs his father about the situation. His friends and Sean are drifting on the wreckage toward Cable Junction, a small rocky island housing an electrical relay station, with the open sea beyond it. Brody quickly finds the teenagers, but the shark attacks again, which causes Brody to run his boat aground on the rocks. Brody tries to tie a rope line and use the boat's motorized winch to pull the teens to safety, but he snags an underwater power cable instead. Most of the teenagers are tossed into the water during the shark's next attack, and they swim to safety on Cable Junction, though the shark grazes Lucy while Sean and Jackie are left marooned on one of the boats. Using an inflatable raft, Brody attracts the shark's attention by repeatedly hitting the power line with an oar; thus creating a rhythmic vibration under the water, and gets the shark to bite the power cable. The shark is electrocuted to death and its charred remains sink to the bottom of the sea. Brody collects Sean and Jackie and paddles over to Cable Junction to await rescue with the other teenagers.
Cast[edit]
Roy Scheider as Chief Martin Brody
Lorraine Gary as Ellen Brody
Murray Hamilton as Mayor Larry Vaughn
Joseph Mascolo as Len Peterson
Jeffrey Kramer as Deputy Jeff Hendricks
Collin Wilcox as Dr. Lureen Elkins
Ann Dusenberry as Tina Wilcox
Mark Gruner as Michael Brody
Barry Coe as Tom Andrews
Susan French as Grace Witherspoon
Gary Springer as Andy Williams
Donna Wilkes as Jackie Peters
Gary Dubin as Eddie Marchand
John Dukakis as Paul 'Polo' Loman
G. Thomas Dunlop as Timmy Weldon
David Elliott as Larry Vaughn Jr.
Marc Gilpin as Sean Brody
Keith Gordon as Doug Fetterman
Cynthia Grover as Lucy
Ben Marley as Patrick
Martha Swatek as Marge
Billy Van Zandt as Bob
Gigi Vorgan as Brooke Peters
Fritzi Jane Courtney as Mrs. Taft
Jerry M. Baxter as Helicopter Pilot
Jean Coulter as Diane the Ski Boat Driver
Christine Freeman as Terry the Water Skier
Herb Muller as Phil Fogerty
William Green as Irate Man
Production[edit]
Universal Studios ordered a sequel to Jaws early into the success of the original film.[1] The producers, Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown, realized that someone else would produce the film if they didn't, and they preferred to be in charge of the project themselves.[5]
In October 1975, Steven Spielberg told the San Francisco Film Festival that "making a sequel to anything is just a cheap carny trick" and that he did not even respond to the producers when they asked him to direct Jaws 2. He claimed that the planned plot was to involve the sons of Quint and Brody hunting a new shark.[6] Brown said that Spielberg did not want to direct the sequel because he felt that he had done the "definitive shark movie".[1][7] The director later added that his decision was influenced by the problems the Jaws production faced - "I would have done the sequel if I hadn’t had such a horrible time at sea on the first film."[8]
Despite Spielberg's rejection, the studio went ahead with plans to make the sequel, leading to an arduous 18 month pre-production process. Howard Sackler, who had contributed to the first film's script but chose not to be credited, was charged with writing the first draft. He originally proposed a prequel based on the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, the story relayed by Quint in the first film. Although Universal Studios President Sid Sheinberg thought Sackler's treatment for the film was intriguing, he rejected the idea.[9] On Sackler's recommendation, theatre and film director John D. Hancock was chosen to helm the picture.[10] Sackler later felt betrayed when Dorothy Tristan, Hancock's wife, was invited to rewrite his script.
The film, under Hancock's direction and Tristan's writing, had originally a different tone and premise than what would eventually be seen in the final film. The two had envisioned Amity as a sort of ghost-town when the film opened with several businesses shuttered and the island's overall economy in ruins due to the events seen in the first film. The new resort and condos built on the island by developer Len Peterson were to help celebrate its rebirth giving the island's economy a much needed boost. Tristan had borrowed a subplot from the original Jaws novel and from a discarded early draft of the first film, in which Amity officials were in debt to the Mafia. Both Mayor Vaughn and Len Peterson were anxious for the new island resort to be a success not only to revive Amity but to pay back loans from the Mob that helped build it, thus leading to Vaughn's and Peterson's ignoring of Brody's warning. Tristan and Hancock felt this treatment would lead to more character development that would make the overall story that much more believable.
Hancock began filming the movie in June 1977. However, after nearly a month of filming, Universal and MCA executives disliked the dark, subtle tone that the film was taking and wanted a more lighthearted and action oriented story. Additionally, Hancock ran into trouble with Sid Sheinberg. Sheinberg suggested to Hancock and Tristan that his wife, actress Lorraine Gary (Ellen Brody), "should go out on a boat and help to rescue the kids." When told of the idea, Richard D. Zanuck replied, "Over my dead body." The next draft of the film's screenplay was turned in with Gary not going out to sea. Hancock says that this, and his later firing of another actress who turned out to be a Universal executive's girlfriend, contributed to his own dismissal from the film.[11]
Hancock began to feel the pressure of directing his first epic adventure film "with only three film credits, and all small-scale dramas".[12] The producers were unhappy with his material, and on a Saturday evening in June 1977, after a meeting with the producers and Universal executives, the director was fired. He and his wife left for Rome and production was shut down for a few weeks. The couple had been involved in the film for eighteen months.[13] Hancock blamed his departure on the mechanical shark, telling a newspaper that it still couldn't swim or bite after a year and a half; "You get a couple of shots and [the shark] breaks."[14] Echoing the first film's production, Carl Gottlieb was enlisted to further revise the script, adding humor and reducing some of the violence.[15] Gottlieb wrote on location at Fort Walton Beach, Florida.[16] It cost the producers more money to hire Gottlieb to do the rewrite than it would have if they had hired him in the first place.[15]
At this point, Spielberg considered returning to direct the sequel. Over the Bicentennial weekend in 1976, Spielberg had hammered out a screenplay based on Quint's Indianapolis speech. Because of his contract for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, however, he would not be able to work on the film for a further year, a gap too long for the producers.[17] Production designer Joe Alves (who would direct Jaws 3-D) and Verna Fields (who had been promoted to vice-president at Universal after her acclaimed editing on the first film) proposed that they co-direct it.[1][18] The request was declined by the Directors Guild of America,[19] partly because they would not allow a DGA member to be replaced by someone who was not one of its members, and partly because they, in the wake of events on the set of The Outlaw Josey Wales, had instituted a ban on any cast or crew members taking over as director during a film's production. The reins were eventually handed to Jeannot Szwarc, best known for the film Bug and whom Alves knew from working on the TV series Night Gallery.[20] Szwarc recommenced production by filming the complicated waterskier scene, giving Gottlieb some time to complete the script.[1] He reinstated the character of Deputy Hendricks, played by Jeffrey Kramer, who had been missing from the earlier script.[1] Many of the teenagers were sacked, with the remaining roles developed.[21]
Three sharks were built for the film. The first was the "platform shark", also referred to as the "luxurious shark". Special mechanical effects supervisor Robert Mattey and Roy Arbogast used the same body mould used for the shark in the first film.[1] The sharks from the original film had rotted behind sheds on the lower lot of Universal Studios in the intervening years, and the only pieces that were salvageable were the chromoly tube frames. Mattey's design was much more complicated and ambitious than the first film. The same (male) body was used, but a brand new head was made by sculptor Chris Mueller which made use of an all-new mouth mechanism, one which incorporated jowls to disguise the pinching of the cheeks that had proven to be a problem with the shark in the original film. The sharks for Jaws 2 were known as Bruce Two (the sharks for the original film had been nicknamed "Bruce", after Steven Spielberg's lawyer), but on set they were referred to as "Fidel" and "Harold", the latter after David Brown's Beverly Hills lawyer.[22] The other shark props used were a fin and a full shark, both of which could be pulled by boats. "Cable Junction", the island shown in the film's climax, was actually a floating barge covered with fiber-glass rocks. This was created in order to enable the shark platform to be positioned to it as close as possible (a real island would have hindered this due to the upward slope of the seabed making the shark platform visible). Like the first film, footage of real sharks filmed by Australian divers Ron & Valerie Taylor were used for movement shots that could not be convincingly achieved using the mechanical sharks.[1]
Although the first film was commended for leaving the shark to the imagination until two thirds of the way through, Szwarc felt that they should show it as much as possible because the dramatic "first image of it coming out of the water" in the first film could never be repeated. Szwarc believed that the reduction of the first film's Hitchcockian suspense was inevitable because the audience already knew what the shark looked like from the first film. Reviewers have since commented that there was no way that they were ever going to duplicate the original's effectiveness. The filmmakers gave the new shark a more menacing look by scarring it in the early boat explosion.[1]
Like the first film, shooting on water proved challenging. Scheider said that they were "always contending with tides, surf and winds [...] jellyfish, sharks, waterspouts and hurricane warnings."[22] After spending hours anchoring the sailboats, the wind would change as they were ready to shoot, blowing the sails in the wrong direction. The saltwater's corrosive effect damaged some equipment, including the metal parts in the sharks.[22]
Susan Ford, daughter of U.S. President Gerald Ford, was hired to shoot publicity photographs.[23] Many of these appeared in Ray Loynd's Jaws 2 Log, a book documenting the film's production, similar to what Carl Gottlieb had done for the first film.
Location[edit]
Martha's Vineyard was again used as the location for the town scenes. Although some residents guarded their privacy, many islanders welcomed the money that the company was bringing.[24] Shortly after the production arrived in June 1977, local newspaper the Grapevine wrote:

The Jaws people are back among us, more efficient, more organized and more moneyed. Gone are the happy-go-lucky days of the first Jaws, where the big trucks roved about the Island from day to day, always highly visible with miles of cables snaking here and there over roads and lawns. Gone are the acrimonious wrangles and Select persons over noise and zoning regulations and this and that. What is still here is money—about $2 million of it.[25]
Many residents enjoyed being cast as extras. Some people, however, were less pleased by the film crew's presence and refused to cooperate. Only one drugstore allowed its windows to be boarded up for the moody look that Hancock wanted. "Universal Go Home" T-shirts began appearing on the streets in mid-June 1977.[26]



 The majority of filming was at Navarre Beach in Florida
When Szwarc took over, the majority of the film was shot at Navarre Beach in Florida, because of the warm weather and the water's depth being appropriate for the shark platform. The company was at this location from August 1 until December 22, 1977.[1] The production "was a boost to the local economy because local boaters, extras and stand-ins or doubles were hired. Universal brought in actors, directors, producers and their wives, camera and crew people who needed housing, food and clothing for the movie. Services were needed for laundry, dry-cleaning and recreation." Navarre's Holiday Inn "Holidome" was used as the film's headquarters, with the ground floor converted into production offices, and some of the Gulf-front suites remodelled for David Brown and Roy Scheider. Universal rented 100 of the hotel's 200 rooms, spending $1 million.[27] Boats and parts for their maintenance were purchased from local businesses. One proprietor said that he sold "Universal approximately $400,000 worth of boats and equipment".[28]
On one occasion, the Cable Junction Island set, which was built on a barge, broke loose from its anchorage and had to be rescued. Szwarc was contacted one night and told that his island was drifting towards Cuba.[1] Real hammerhead sharks circled the teen actors during the filming of one shot. Because the characters they were playing were meant to be in distress, the crew (filming from a distance) did not realize that the actors were genuinely calling for help.[29]
The interior shots of the teen hang-out where they play pinball were filmed in the original location of the Hog's Breath Saloon on Okaloosa Island. This restaurant later relocated to Destin, Florida as its original building was susceptible to hurricane damage.[27] The production company had to seek dredge and fill permits from Florida's Department of Environmental Regulation to sink the revised platform that controlled the shark on the sea bottom.
Principal photography ended three days before Christmas 1977, on the Choctawhatchee Bay, near Destin, Florida.[14] The actors had to put ice cubes in their mouths to prevent their breath showing on camera. The final sequence to be filmed was the shark being electrocuted on the cable.[1] In mid-January, the crew reconvened in Hollywood with some of the teenage actors for five weeks of post-production photography.[14]
Jaws 2 cost $30 million to produce, over three times more than the original. David Brown says that they did not budget the film "because Universal would never have given a green light to a $30 million budget in those days."[7] The Marine Division Head for Universal on location, Philip Kingry, says that "It cost approximately $80,000 per day to make that movie." When Kingry asked Brown what his budget was, the producer responded, "We're not wasteful, but we're spending the profit from Jaws, and it will take what it takes."[28]
Casting[edit]
Roy Scheider reluctantly returned to reprise his role as Martin Brody. In 1977, he had quit the role of Steven Pushkov in The Deer Hunter two weeks before the start of filming because of "creative differences".[30] Scheider was contracted to Universal at the time for a three picture deal, but the studio offered to forgive his failure to fulfill his contractual obligation if he agreed to appear in Jaws 2. The actor heavily resisted the film, claiming that there was nothing new to create and that people would be watching the film to see the shark, not him.[30] According to his biographer, Scheider was so desperate to be relieved from the role that he "pleaded insanity and went crazy in The Beverly Hills Hotel".[30] However, he was given an attractive financial package for appearing in Jaws 2; he quadrupled his base salary from the first film, and negotiated points (a percentage of the film's net profits).[5] The Star newspaper reported that Scheider received $500,000 for 12 weeks work, plus $35,000 for each additional week that the schedule ran over.[5]
Despite his reluctance, Scheider pledged to do the best job that he could, wanting to make Brody believable.[31] However, the atmosphere was tense on the set, and he often argued with Szwarc. On one occasion, Scheider complained (in front of extras) that Szwarc was wasting time with technical issues and the extras while ignoring the principal actors. A meeting was called with the two, David Brown and Verna Fields, in which Scheider and Szwarc were encouraged to settle their differences. The discussion became heated and a physical fight broke out, which Brown and Fields broke up.[23] The rift was also articulated in written correspondence. In a letter to Szwarc, Scheider wrote that "working with Jeannot Szwarc is knowing he will never say he is sorry or ever admitting he overlooked something. Well, enough of that shit for me!" He requested an apology from the director for not consulting him.[2] Szwarc's reply focused upon completing the film to the "best possible" standard.

Time and pressure are part of my reality and priorities something I must deal with.
 You have been consulted and your suggestions made part of my scenes many times, whenever they did not contradict the overall concept of the picture.
 If you have to be offended, I deplore it, for no offense was meant. At this point in the game, your feelings or my feelings are immaterial and irrelevant, the picture is all that matters.
 Sincerely, Jeannot[32]
Many extras were recruited from Gulf Breeze High School. The students were paid $3 per hour, well above the minimum wage at the time, and revelled in being able to miss classes. Casting director Shari Rhodes, requested members of the Gulf Breeze band performed as the Amity High Band, seen in an early scene in the film showing the opening of the Holiday Inn Amity Shores "Amity Scholarship Fund Benefit". "The GBHS band consisted of approximately 100 members, and band director John Henley chose 28 student musicians, including the band's section known as Henley's Honkers." Universal scheduled their involvement for mid-afternoons to prevent them missing too much time in school. Universal made a contribution of $3,500 to the school and the band for their part in the film.[33] Several other GBHS students were hired as stand-ins or doubles for the teenage actors to appear in the water scenes and to maintain and sail the boats.[34]
Music[edit]

Jaws 2

Soundtrack album by John Williams

Released
1978
Recorded
20th Century Fox Studios, Stage One
Genre
Film score
Length
41:19
Label
MCA Records
Producer
John Williams
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Professional ratings

Review scores

Source
Rating
AllMusic 4/5 stars
Filmtracks 4/5 stars
Music from the Movies 4/5 stars[4]
John Williams returned to score Jaws 2 after winning an Academy Award for Original Music Score for his work on the first film. Williams says that it was assumed by everyone that "the music would come back also and be part of the cast ... it would require new music, certainly, but the signature music of Jaws should be used as well". He compares this to "the great tradition" for repeating musical themes in Hollywood serials such as Roy Rogers and The Lone Ranger. In addition to the familiar themes, Szwarc says Williams also composed a "youthful counterpoint to the shark that is always around when the kids are sailing or going out to sea. It was very inventive".[35]
Szwarc said that the sequel's music should be "more complex because it was a more complex film". Williams says that this score is broader, allowing him to make more use of the orchestra, and use longer notes, and "fill the space" created by the director. Williams used a larger ensemble than for the first film, and "the orchestral palette may have been broader or had longer notes". Delays in shooting meant that Williams was forced to start working on the score before the film was completed. Szwarc discussed the film with the composer, showing him edited sequences and storyboards. The director praises Williams in being able to work under such difficult conditions.[35] Critic Mike Beek suggests these time constraints enabled Williams "to create themes based on ideas and suggestions, rather than a locked down print."[4]
Critics have praised Williams' score, comparing it favorably to the original. Williams "uses a few basic elements of the original—the obligatory shark motif, for one—and takes the music off in some new and interesting directions." The score is "more disturbing in places" than the original, and "Williams fashion [sic] some new and hugely memorable out to sea adventure music." Because Jaws 2 "isn't a film that requires subtlety ... Williams pulls out all the stops to make it as exciting and hair raising as possible."[36]
According to the liner notes on the soundtrack album, Williams' "sense of the dramatic, coupled with his exquisite musical taste and knowledge of the orchestra definitely stamp this score as truly one of his best." It is "brilliantly performed by a mini-symphony made up of the finest instrumentalists to be found anywhere."[37] Mike Beek makes positive comments about the film, saying that "the music certainly elevates it to a level it would otherwise never have achieved."[4]
Soundtrack track listing[edit]

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 A selection of merchandise from Jaws 2. Top: Movie Program; Soundtrack LP Album, Middle: The Jaws 2 Log by Ray Loynd; Jaws 2 novelization by Hank Searls, Bottom: A selection of trading cards
Jaws 2 was the most expensive film that Universal had produced up until that point, costing the studio $20 million.[38][39][40] The film grossed 45% of the original film's box office, not adjusted for inflation.[41] Despite this, the film became the highest-grossing sequel in history at that point. It opened in 640 theaters to a $9,866,023 gross, ranking first.[42] The domestic gross for its first release was $77,737,272,[43] making it the seventh highest domestic grossing film of 1978. It eventually surpassed the $100 million mark with further reissues, with a final gross of $102,922,376.[38] It was also the third highest grossing film worldwide in 1978 with $187,884,007. Its current worldwide gross stands at $208,900,376, so that it stayed on Variety's list of top ten box office hits of all time until the mid-nineties.[44]
Jaws 2 inspired much more merchandising and sponsors than the first film. Products included sets of trading cards from Topps and Baker's bread, paper cups from Coca-Cola, beach towels, a souvenir program, shark tooth necklaces, coloring and activity books, and a model kit of Brody's truck.[45] A novelization by Hank Searls, based on an earlier draft of the screenplay by Sackler and Tristan, was released, as well as Ray Loynd's The Jaws 2 Log, an account of the film's production.[45] Marvel Comics published a comic book adaptation of the film by writer Rick Marschall and artists Gene Colan and Tom Palmer in Marvel Super Special #6 (also based on the earlier script).[46]
Reception[edit]
The film, throughout the years, has met with mixed reviews, though it is regarded as the best of the Jaws sequels.[47] John Kenneth Muir comments that opinions towards Jaws 2 depend upon which side of the series it is being compared. Against Spielberg's original, "it is an inferior sequel to a classic", but the reviewing the subsequent films Jaws 3-D and Jaws the Revenge shows Szwarc's film to be "a decent sequel, and one produced before the franchise hit troubled waters."[48] Jaws 2, he says, is "at the deep end of the pool, better than its two shallow follow ups, and there is enough of Jaws' lingering greatness floating about to make it an entertaining and exciting two hours."[49]
On the film's Rotten Tomatoes listing, 53% of critics gave the film positive reviews from a total of 19 reviews.[50] DVD Authority says "After this one, the other Jaws movies seemed to just not be as good.[51] One review says: "it's obviously not a patch on Spielberg's classic, but it's about as good as could be hoped for, with some excellent sequences, almost worthy of the original, several genuine shocks, a different enough story and some pretty decent characters."[36] The performances of Scheider, Gary and Hamilton are particularly praised.[4][45][52] George Morris for the Texas Monthly preferred Jaws 2 over the original because it is "less insidious in its methods of manipulation" and "because director Jeannot Szwarc streamlines the terror ... By crosscutting among the teenagers, Scheider, and the officials' efforts to rescue them, Szwarc works up enough suspense to keep the adrenaline going."[53] However, Morris' review is not entirely complimentary. He would have preferred the shark to have been seen less, positing "producers and audiences alike seem to have forgotten that the greatest suspense derives from the unseen and the unknown, and that the imagination is capable of conceiving far worse than the materialization of a mere mechanical monster."[53] Similarly, John Simon felt that the "shark's waning is caused by a decline in direction: Jeannot Szwarc has none of Steven Spielberg's manipulative cleverness. For one thing, he allows us close and disarming close-ups of the shark almost immediately..."[52] A reviewer for the BBC complained that the additional screen time awarded to the shark makes it "seems far less terrifying than its almost mystical contemporary".[54] The Radio Times was not pleased with Jaws 2, calling it a "pale imitation of the classic original" and stating that "the suspense comes unglued because the film floats in all-too-familiar waters. You just know how everyone is going to react — from the stars to the director, and even the mechanical shark."[55]
Although many critics identify some flaws, often comparing Szwarc negatively to Spielberg, they say that "this sequel does have some redeeming qualities going for it that make it a good movie in its own right".[56] The presence of Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw are missed, especially since the teenage characters are labeled "largely annoying 'Afterschool Special' archetypes"[57] who are "irritating and incessantly screaming" and "don't make for very sympathetic victims".[54] Because of its emphasis upon the teenage cast, some critics have compared the film to the slasher films that were rising in popularity at that time.[58] Also comparing the film's "interchangeable teens to slasher films, particularly the Friday the 13th franchise, Muir says that "it feels wrong for a Jaws film to dwell in that shallow domain."[48] However, Muir commends the teen characters' comradeship and heroism, citing the girl killed when saving Sean from the shark.[49]
The film's tagline, "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...", has become one of the most famous in film history.[27][45] Andrew J. Kuehn, who developed the first film's trailer, is credited with coining the phrase.[3] It has been parodied in numerous films; most notably the tagline of the 1996 feature film adaptation of the television series, Flipper, "This summer it's finally safe to go back in the water."[59]
Home Media[edit]
In 1980, MCA Home Video (then known as MCA Videocassette Inc.) released Jaws 2 on VHS and Laserdisc, following its 1980 theatrical re-release. In the 1990s, MCA-Universal Home Video reissued it on both formats. The film received a DVD release on May 22, 2001.[60] Many reviewers praised it for the quantity of special features,[57] with DVD Authority asserting that it had "more than a lot of titles labeled as 'special edition' discs".[51] It includes a 45-minute documentary produced by Laurent Bouzereau, who is responsible for many of the documentaries about Universal's films. Actor Keith Gordon reminisces in a short feature, and Szwarc explains the phonetic problem with its original French title, Les Dents de la mer 2, as it sounded like it ended with the expletive merde (mer deux). This was combated by using the suffix Part 2.[61]
The disc also contains a variety of deleted scenes. These scenes show the animosity between Brody and his wife's boss, and the selectmen voting to fire Brody; the Mayor (Murray Hamilton) is the only person to vote to save him. These scenes were cut because they were slowing the film's pace.[1] Also included is footage of the shark attacking the coast guard pilot underwater after his helicopter had capsized. The scene was cut because of the struggle with the ratings board to acquire a PG certificate.[1]
Although the audio was presented in Dolby Digital 2.0 mono, a reviewer for Film Freak Central comments that "Williams' score often sounds deceptively stereophonic".[57] The BBC, though, suggest that the mix "really demands the added bass that a 5.1 effort could have lent it".[62]
See also[edit]
List of killer shark films
References[edit]
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Jaws 2 Reconsidered at 2012 Movies
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Jaws 3-D
Jaws 3d.jpg
Theatrical Release Poster

Directed by
Joe Alves
Produced by
Rupert Hitzig
Screenplay by
Carl Gottlieb
Richard Matheson
Story by
Guerdon Trueblood
Based on
Characters:
Peter Benchley
Starring
Dennis Quaid
Bess Armstrong
Simon MacCorkindale
Louis Gossett, Jr.
Music by
Alan Parker
Theme:
John Williams
Cinematography
James A. Contner
Chris Condon
 Austin McKinney
Edited by
Corky Ehlers
 Randy Roberts
Distributed by
Universal Pictures
Release date(s)
July 22, 1983

Running time
99 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$20.5 million
Box office
$87,987,055
Jaws 3-D (also known as Jaws 3 or Jaws III) is a 1983 American horror thriller film directed by Joe Alves and starring Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Lea Thompson and Louis Gossett, Jr. It is the second sequel to Steven Spielberg's Jaws, which was based on the novel of Peter Benchley.
As SeaWorld, a Florida marine park with underwater tunnels and lagoons, prepares for opening, a young great white shark infiltrates the park from the sea, attacking and terrifying employees. Once the baby shark is captured, it becomes apparent that it was the mother, a much larger shark who also entered the park, who was the real killer.
The film is notable for making use of 3D film during the revived interest in the technology in the 1980s, amongst other horror films such as Friday the 13th Part III and Amityville 3D. Cinema audiences could wear disposable cardboard polarized 3D glasses to create the illusion that elements penetrate the screen.[1] Several shots and sequences were designed to utilise the effect, such as the shark's destruction. Since 3D was ineffective in home viewing until the advent of 3D televisions in the late 2000s, the alternative title Jaws III is used for television broadcasts, VHS and DVD.[2]
Jaws 3-D was followed by Jaws: The Revenge in 1987.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 3D
4 Music 4.1 Track listing
5 Reception 5.1 Box office
5.2 Critical response
6 Home Media
7 See also
8 References 8.1 Notes
8.2 Bibliography
9 External links

Plot[edit]
The film begins with a great white shark moving throughout the ocean as it starts to follow an unsuspecting team of water skiers. The driver, Richie, stalls the boat and manages to get it going again before the shark can attack anyone. The shark follows the water skiers into the park and throws the gate off its rails while it is closing. Meanwhile, Florida announces the opening of SeaWorld's new underwater tunnels.
Kathryn "Kay" Morgan (Bess Armstrong), the senior marine biologist, and her assistants wonder why the dolphins, Cindy and Sandy, are so afraid of leaving their dolphin pen. Shelby Overman (Harry Grant), one of the mechanics, dives into the water to repair and secure the gates. He is attacked by a shark and killed, leaving only his severed right arm. Additionally that night, two men in diving equipment sneak into the park in a small inflatable boat to steal coral they intend to sell. One slips into the water quietly, but is taken by the shark, leaving only his diving mask drifting in the water. The other man is pulled into the water also; then something sinks the inflatable.
The next day, Michael Brody (Dennis Quaid) and Kay are informed of Overman's disappearance. They go down in a submarine to look in the tunnels to find Overman's body. Kay suggests the filtration pipe but Mike says that the current is too strong and that it flows into the lagoon every hour. They decide to go into a piece of scenery, the Spanish Galleon, despite the two dolphins attempting to keep them out. As they search the Spanish Galleon they encounter a small great white shark. The dolphins rescue Kay and Mike but the shark escapes back into the park.
The news of the shark is disbelieved by Calvin Bouchard (Louis Gossett, Jr.), the SeaWorld park manager, although the news is exciting to his hunter friend, Phillip FitzRoyce (Simon MacCorkindale), who states his intention to kill the shark on network television. Kay protests, arguing that while killing the shark would be good for one headline, capturing and keeping a great white shark alive in captivity would guarantee TV crews and money constantly rolling into SeaWorld. The baby shark is captured and Kay and her staff nurse it to health. Calvin, desperate to start the money rolling in immediately, orders it moved to an exhibit as "the first great white in captivity". However, the baby shark dies in the exhibit.
At the underwater tunnel, a girl is terrified when she sees part of Overman's corpse bob up to a window. Forcing Mike and a paramedic to let her review Overman's corpse, Kay realizes that the shark that killed him must be the young shark's mother, and that since Overman was killed inside the park, the mother shark must also be inside the park; the shape of the bite shows that the shark's mouth must be about three feet wide and thus the shark about 35 feet long. She captures the attention of FitzRoyce, but she cannot convince Calvin until the enormous shark herself shows up at the window of their underwater cafe, terrifying the customers.
Flushed out from her refuge inside the filtration pipe, the shark begins to wreak havoc on the park and attacks water skier Kelly Ann Bukowski (Lea Thompson) and Sean Brody (John Putch). The shark injures Kelly in the left leg and leaves. Sean is unharmed but the shark causes a leak that nearly drowns everyone in the underwater tunnel. FitzRoyce and his assistant Jack (P. H. Moriarty) go down to the filtration pipe in an attempt to trap the shark back inside to kill it. FitzRoyce leads the shark into the pipe but his lifeline rope snaps and the shark attacks him. FitzRoyce grabs a grenade and prepares to use it, but before he can get his other hand to the grenade to pull its safety pin he is crushed and chewed, in the shark's mouth as it swallows him fins first, cylinder and all as far as it can.
Hearing the shark has been lured into the pipe, Michael goes down to repair the underwater tunnel so the technicians can restore air pressure and drain the water, with Kay to watch his back. He welds the repair piece and Calvin orders the pump shut down to suffocate the shark, but all shutting the pump down does is let her break free from the pipe and attack Mike and Kay. They escape thanks to help from Cindy and Sandy, who attack the shark to distract her briefly.
They make their way back to the control room with Calvin and the technicians, but the shark appears in front of the window and smashes its way through the glass and floods the room. Calvin manages to swim out and rescue one technician but another technician is killed in the process. Mike notices FitzRoyce's corpse still in the shark's throat with the grenade in his hand trailing into its mouth, and uses a bent pole to pull the grenade's pin, killing the shark. Its jaws then float through the blood and water and are shown to the viewer in 3D.
In the aftermath, Mike and Kay celebrate with Cindy and Sandy, who survived their brush with the shark at the snapshot to portraits as the background and screen fades to black and the movie ends.
Cast[edit]
##Dennis Quaid as Michael Brody
##Bess Armstrong as Kathryn Morgan
##Simon MacCorkindale as Philip FitzRoyce
##Louis Gossett, Jr. as Calvin Bouchard
##John Putch as Sean Brody
##Lea Thompson as Kelly Ann Bukowski
##Harry Grant as Shelby Overman
##P. H. Moriarty as Jack Tate
##Dan Glasko as Danny
##Elizabeth Morris as Elizabeth
##Lisa Maurer as Ethal
##Kaye Stevens as Mrs. Kallender
##John Edson as Bob Woodbury
##Catherine Cervenka as Sherrie
##Jane Horner as Suzie
##Katherine Jenkins as Sheila
##John Gaffey as Rick
##Dolores Starling as Charlene Tutt
##Tamie Steinke as Candy
##Daniel Stewart as Ed
##Jim Wilhelm as Randy
##Ronnie Parks as Clyde
##Ken Olsen as Red
##Al Pipkin as Mr. Bluster
##Capricorn as Sandy the dolphin
##August Schwartz as Ted
##Joe Gilbert as Mr. Brit
##Doreen Weese as Mrs. Brit
##Alonzo Ward as Fred
##Rich Valliere as Leonard Glass
##Roxie Stice as Mermaid
Production[edit]
David Brown and Richard Zanuck, the producers for the first two films, originally pitched the second Jaws sequel as a spoof named Jaws 3, People 0.[3] Matty Simmons, fresh off the success of National Lampoon's Animal House, was brought in as producer, with Brown and Zanuck taking on executive producer roles. Simmons outlined a story and commissioned National Lampoon writers John Hughes and Todd Carroll for a script.[4] Joe Dante was briefly pursued as a director.[5] The project was shut down due to conflicts with Universal Studios.[4] David Brown later said that the studio attitude was that a spoof would have been a mistake and that it would be like "fouling in your own nest. We should have fouled the nest. It would have been golden, maybe even platinum."[3]
Alan Landsburg bought the rights to produce the film.[6] He attempted to involve experimental filmmaker Murray Lerner in Jaws 3, telling him that people at the Marineland theme park in Florida had seen his 1978 3D film Sea Dream. Lerner said that his "heart sank" when he was sent the first script of Jaws 3-D, saying "I can't really get involved in this". As the production already had an art director, Lerner, who didn't like the script, declined to be involved in the film.[6]
The film was directed by Joe Alves, who was the production designer for the first two films and was the second unit director for Jaws 2. It had been suggested that Alves co-direct the first sequel with Verna Fields when first director John D. Hancock left the project.[3] It was filmed at SeaWorld Orlando, a landlocked water park; and Navarre, Florida, a community in the Florida Panhandle near Pensacola.[7]
As with the first two films in the series, many people were involved in writing the film. Richard Matheson, who had written the script for Steven Spielberg's celebrated 1971 television film Duel, says that he wrote a "very interesting" outline, although the story is credited to "some other writer".[8] Universal forced Matheson to include Brody's two sons, which the writer "thought was dumb". They also wanted it to be the same shark that was electrocuted in Jaws 2.[8] Matheson was also requested to write a custom-role for Mickey Rooney, "which I did so successfully that when Mickey Rooney turned out not to be available, the whole part was pointless".[9] The writer was unhappy with the finished film.

I'm a good storyteller and I wrote a good outline and a good script. And if they had done it right and if it had been directed by somebody who knew how to direct, I think it would have been an excellent movie. Jaws 3-D was the only thing Joe Alves ever directed; the man is a very skilled production designer, but as a director, no. And the so-called 3D just made the film look murky – it had no effect whatsoever. It was a waste of time.[8]
Guerdon Trueblood is credited for the story; a reviewer for the website SciFilm says that the screenplay was based upon Trueblood's story about a white shark swimming upstream and becoming trapped in a lake.[10] Carl Gottlieb, who had also revised the screenplays for the first two Jaws films, was credited for the script alongside Richard Matheson.[11] Matheson has reported in interviews that the screenplay was revised by script doctors.[10]
The film did not use any actors from the first two Jaws films. Roy Scheider, who played Police Chief Martin Brody in the first two films, laughed at the thought of Jaws 3, saying that "Mephistopheles ... couldn't talk me into doing [it] ... They knew better than to even ask".[12] He agreed to do Blue Thunder to ensure his unavailability for Jaws 3-D.[12]
3D[edit]
There was a revival in popularity of 3D at this time, with many films using the technique. Jaws' second sequel integrated the technology into its title, as did Amityville 3D. Friday the 13th Part III could also make dual use of the number three.[13] The gimmick was also advertised in the tagline "the third dimension is terror."[10] As it was Joe Alves' first film as director, he thought that 3D would "give him an edge".[13]



 The shark's jaws coming toward the viewer after its destruction.
Cinema audiences could wear disposable polarized glasses to view the film, creating the illusion that elements from the film were penetrating the screen to come towards the viewers. The opening sequence makes obvious use of the technique, with the titles flying to the forefront of the screen, leaving a trail. There are more subtle instances in the film where props are meant to leave the screen. The more obvious examples are in the climactic sequence of the shark attacking the control room and its subsequent destruction. The glass as the shark smashes into the room uses 3D, as does the shot where the shark explodes, with fragmented parts of it apparently bursting through the screen, ending with its jaws. There were many difficulties in making the green screen compositing work in 3D, and a lot of material had to be reshot.[6]
Jaws 3-D had two 3D consultants: the production started with Chris Condon, president of StereoVision,[14] and Stan Loth was later added to the team for the Arrivision 3D. Production began using the StereoVision, but this was dropped after a week for the Arrivision system, "which Alves believed was a superior system because it has a wider variety of lenses".[13] According to Alves, inferior systems lead to ghosting and blurring, leaving audiences with headaches. He says that "the left and right images [in Jaws 3-D] are very well-matched, and the photography is very clean; it's restful to the eye, and though we do have the occasional effects where things do emerge toward the audience from the plane of projection, you come out of the film without a headache."[13][15] Historian R. M. Hayes says that the film was shot using both the Arrivision and StereoVision single strip-over-and-under units.[16] Both cameras were used in conjunction with each other. This is a means of shooting 3D movies in normal color with a single camera and single strip of film: the Arrivision 3D technique uses a special twin-lens adapter fitted to the film camera, and divides the 35 mm film frame in half along the middle, capturing the left-eye image in the upper half of the frame and the right-eye image in the lower half – this is known as "over/under". This allows filming to proceed as for any standard 2D film, without the considerable additional expense of having to double up on cameras and film stock for every shot. When the resultant film is projected through a normal projector (albeit one requiring a special lens that combines the upper and lower images), a true polarised 3D image is produced. This system allows 3D films to be shown in almost any cinema since it does not require two projectors running simultaneously through the presentation – something most cinemas are not equipped to handle. What is required of the theatre is both the special projection lens and a reflective "silver" screen to enable the polarized images to reflect back to the viewer with the appropriate filter on each eye blocking out the wrong image, thus leaving the viewer to see the film from two angles as the eyes naturally see the world. According to the company that built the underwater camera housings for Jaws 3-D, the underwater sequences were shot using an Arriflex 35–3 camera with Arrivision 18 mm over/under 3D lens.[1]
This kind of 3D effect does not work on television without special electronic hardware at the viewer's end, and so with two exceptions, the home video and broadcast TV versions of Jaws 3-D were created using just the left-eye image, and with the title changed to "Jaws 3" or "Jaws III". Because the left-eye image only takes up half the 35 mm film frame, the picture resolution is noticeably poorer than would normally be expected of a film shot on 35 mm.
One of the above-mentioned exceptions was a 1986 release of the film for the now-obsolete VHD video disc system (not to be confused with LaserDisc). This required a special 3D VHD player, or a standard VHD player with a hardware 3D adapter, and a set of LCD glasses that shuttered the viewer's eyes according to control signals sent by the player, allowing the polarised 3D effect to work.[17] The other exception was the Sensio 3D DVD of Jaws 3-D released in February 2008. The Sensio 3D Processor is needed for 3D home viewing.[18]
TVRI in Indonesia broadcast the 3D version of the film on New Year's Eve 2011 & 2012. The event was advertised heavily and required viewers to buy or obtain a pair of anaglyph glasses to fully enjoy the movie; this was an anaglyph 3D version of the film created from the Arrivision original.
Music[edit]

Jaws 3-D

Soundtrack album by Alan Parker

Released
1983
Recorded
Angel Studios, London
Genre
Orchestral
Length
35:43
Label
MCA Records
Producer
Graham Walker
Jaws chronology

Jaws 2 Jaws 3-D Jaws: The Revenge

The score was composed and conducted by Alan Parker, who had previously provided music for British television shows including Van der Valk and Minder.[19][20] It was Parker's first feature score, but he would later work on What's Eating Gilbert Grape and American Gothic.[21] John Williams' famous shark motif is, however, integrated into the score. The soundtrack album was released by MCA Records which was absorbed by Geffen Records. The soundtrack was later released on CD by Intrada and was limited to only 3000 copies.[22]
Track listing[edit]
1."Jaws 3-D Main Title" (2:59)
2."Kay and Mike's Love Theme" (2:18)
3."Panic at Seaworld" (2:07)
4."Underwater Kingdom and Shark Chase" (4:20)
5."Shark Chase and Dolphin Rescue" (1:22)
6."Saved by the Dolphins" (2:05)
7."The Shark's Gonna Hit Us!" (2:42)
8."It's Alive/Seaworld Opening Day/Silver Bullet" (2:34)
9."Overman's Last Dive" (1:18)
10."Philip's Demise" (4:59)
11."Night Capture" (4:53)
12."Jaws 3-D End Titles" (4:06)
Reception[edit]
The film opened in more than a thousand screens across the U.S. There were many promotions to accompany the release of the film. As with Jaws 2, Topps produced a series of trading cards.[23] Television stations were encouraged to broadcast the featurette, Making of Jaws 3-D: Sharks Don't Die, in a prime-time slot between July 16 and 22, 1983 to take advantage of an advertisement in that week's issue of TV Guide.[24] Alan Landsburg Productions found itself in trouble for using 90 seconds of footage from the National Geographic's 1983 documentary film The Sharks in the featurette without authorization.[25]
Box office[edit]
The film grossed $13,422,500 on its opening weekend,[26] playing to 1,311 theaters at its widest release. This was 29.5% of its total gross. It has achieved total lifetime worldwide gross of $87,987,055.[27] Despite being No. 1 at the box office, this illustrates the series' diminishing returns, since Jaws 3-D has earned $120 million less than the total lifetime gross of its predecessor[28] and almost $400 million less than the original film[29] which is even less when taking inflation into account. The final sequel would attract an even lower income, with around two thirds of Jaws 3-D's total lifetime gross.[30] However, it has been claimed that the film was still drawing huge audiences when it was pulled from theaters; film historian R.M. Hayes says this action "was pure nonsense considering some cinemas were actually turning over more money per screen than the latest Star Wars film".[16]
Critical response[edit]
Reception for the movie was generally poor. Variety calls it "tepid" and suggests that Alves "fails to linger long enough on the Great White."[31] It has an 11% 'rotten' rating at Rotten Tomatoes.[32] The 3D was criticized as being a gimmick to attract audiences to the aging series[33] and for being ineffective.[34] Allmovie, however, says that "the suspense sequences were made somewhat more memorable during the film's original release with 3D photography, an attribute lost on video, thereby removing the most distinctive element of an otherwise run-of-the-mill sequel."[35] Derek Winnert says that "with Richard Matheson's name on the script you'd expect a better yarn" although he continues to say that the film "is entirely watchable with a big pack of popcorn."[36] Others are disappointed that Matheson and Gottlieb produced this script given their previous success.[10]
Although most critics are in agreement that Jaws 2 is the best of the Jaws sequels, some are unsure if Jaws-3D is better than Jaws: The Revenge. One reviewer says of Jaws 3-D:

Campy performances, cheesy special effects, and downright awful dialogue all contribute to making Jaws 3 a truly dismal experience for just about everyone. It's not only hard to believe that a sequel this downright abominable didn't kill the franchise, but that it actually would be followed by a movie that was arguably worse—Jaws: the Revenge.[21]
Amongst some flaws, some critics describe the film as "marginally entertaining."[37] The sound design has been commended, however. The moment when an infant's cry is heard when the baby shark dies in the pool is particularly praised by one reviewer.[10] Gossett, Jet magazine says, was the "only cast member to survive the generally negative reviews".[26]
In her screenwriting textbook, Linda Aronson suggests that its protagonist, played by Quaid, is a major problem with the film. She says that after taking too long for him to be introduced, the character is "essentially a passive onlooker." There is no hunt until the climax when the shark is terrorizing the people in the aquarium; only then does Mike Brody become center of the action. She also highlights inaccuracies in the plot. For instance, she refutes the idea of a "mother shark protecting her offspring [as] sharks do not mother their young," and points out that dolphins can attack sharks.[38]
Leonard Maltin calls the film a "road-company Irwin Allen type-disaster film" and notes that its premise is similar to the 1955 sequel to The Creature from the Black Lagoon.[39]
Jaws 3-D was nominated for five 1983 Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (Lou Gossett, Jr.), Screenplay, and Newcomer (Cindy and Sandy, "The Shrieking Dolphins"), but received none.[40]
Home Media[edit]
The film was released in a standard 2-D format on DVD by Universal on June 3, 2003 under the title Jaws 3. With the exception of one theatrical trailer, no bonus features were included.
See also[edit]
##Revenge of the Creature, a 1955 3D sequel film, featuring an attack on a Floridian marine mammal park by a piscene antagonist.
##List of killer shark films
References[edit]
Notes[edit]
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3.^ Jump up to: a b c The Making of Jaws 2, Jaws 2 DVD documentary, [2002]
4.^ Jump up to: a b Patrizio, Andy (October 31, 2003). "An Interview with Matty Simmons". IGN.com.
5.Jump up ^ Dursin, Andy (2003). "Aisle Seat – Fourth of July Edition". Film Score Monthly.
6.^ Jump up to: a b c Zone 2005, p. 49
7.Jump up ^ Pohlen 2003, p. 135
8.^ Jump up to: a b c Weaver 2006, p. 318
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Jaws: The Revenge
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Jaws: The Revenge
Jaws the revenge.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Joseph Sargent
Produced by
Joseph Sargent
Screenplay by
Michael de Guzman
Based on
Characters:
Peter Benchley
Starring
Lorraine Gary
Lance Guest
Mario Van Peebles
Karen Young
Judith Barsi
Michael Caine
Music by
Michael Small
 Theme:
John Williams
Cinematography
John McPherson
Distributed by
Universal Pictures
Release date(s)
July 17, 1987

Running time
89 minutes
 92 minutes (Unrated cut)
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$23 million
Box office
$51,881,013
Jaws: The Revenge (also known as Jaws 4: The Revenge or simply Jaws 4), is a 1987 American horror thriller film directed by Joseph Sargent. It is the third and final sequel to Steven Spielberg's Jaws.
The film focuses on Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary), and her convictions that a shark is after her family, especially when a great white follows her to the Bahamas. Jaws: The Revenge was shot on location in New England and in the Bahamas, and completed on the Universal lot. Like the first two films, Martha's Vineyard was the location of the fictional Amity Island for the opening scenes. Although preceded by Jaws 3-D, The Revenge ignores plot elements introduced in that film.
Jaws: The Revenge earned the least amount of money in the series. It was panned by critics, with a 0% rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes. It was nominated for seven Razzie awards.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Special effects
3.2 Underwater sequences
3.3 Ending changes
3.4 Series continuity
3.5 Casting
4 Soundtrack 4.1 Track listing
5 Novelization
6 Reception 6.1 Critical response
6.2 Awards and nominations
6.3 Cultural impact
7 Home media
8 See also
9 References
10 External links

Plot[edit]
On Amity Island, sheriff Martin Brody, the hero of two previous shark attacks, has recently died from a heart attack. His wife, Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary), thinks it was from fear of sharks. She now lives with their son Sean (Mitchell Anderson) and his fiancée Tiffany (Mary Smith). Sean works as a police deputy and is sent to clear a log from a buoy a few days before Christmas. As he does so, a massive great white shark bursts out of the water, severing his arm, then pulls him under the surface and kills him, sinking his boat in the process.
Ellen is convinced that the shark deliberately targeted Sean. She decides to go to the Bahamas to spend time with her older son Michael (Lance Guest), his wife Carla (Karen Young), and their 5-year-old daughter Thea (Judith Barsi). At the islands, Ellen meets carefree airplane pilot Hoagie (Michael Caine). Michael—along with partners Jake (Mario Van Peebles), William, and Clarence—works as a marine biologist.
The shark that killed Sean unexpectedly appears and attempts to devour their boat. The crew decides to keep quiet about the shark's presence due to Ellen's attempts to convince Michael to find a job on land. Ellen becomes so obsessive that she starts having nightmares of being attacked by a shark. Then she starts getting psychic feelings when the shark is near or attacks. She and the shark seem to share a strange connection that is unexplained. The crew decides to attach a device to the shark that would track its heartbeat. Using chum to attract it, Jake stabs the device's tracking pole into the side of the shark. The next day, Michael is chased by the shark and barely manages to escape unharmed.
Thea goes on an inflatable banana boat with her friend Margaret and her mother. The shark attacks and kills Margaret's mother. Thea and Carla are traumatized following the attack. Ellen boards Jake's boat to track down the shark, intending to sacrifice herself to save the rest of her family. Michael and Jake are flown by Hoagie to search for Ellen and find the shark in pursuit of their boat (which Ellen has hijacked). During the search, Hoagie explains to Michael Ellen's theory that the shark that killed Sean has followed her to the Bahamas to exact revenge on the Brodys. When they finally find her, Hoagie lands the plane on the water, ordering Michael and Jake swim to the boat as the shark drags the plane and Hoagie underwater.
Much to Ellen's disbelief, Hoagie survives. Michael was upset with Ellen because he was worried that she would've been killed by the shark. Jake and Michael hastily put together an explosive powered by electrical impulses. They begin blasting the shark with the impulses, which begin to drive it mad; it repeatedly jumps out of the water, roaring in pain. As Jake moves to the front of the boat, the shark lunges, giving it the chance to pull Jake under and maul him. He manages to get the explosive into the shark's mouth before he is taken under.
Michael continues to blast the shark with the impulses, causing it to leap out of the water again, igniting the bomb as Ellen rams the shark with the sailboat. The broken bowsprit impales the shark, and its corpse sinks to the bottom of the sea. Michael then hears Jake, seriously injured but alive, floating in the water. The four survive the harsh encounter and make it back to land. Hoagie then flies Ellen back to Amity Island.
Cast[edit]
Roy Scheider as Martin Brody (Flashbacks only)
Lorraine Gary as Ellen Brody
Lance Guest as Michael Brody
Mario Van Peebles as Jake
Karen Young as Carla Brody
Michael Caine as Hoagie Newcombe
Judith Barsi as Thea Brody
Lynn Whitfield as Louisa
Mitchell Anderson as Sean Brody Jay Mello as Young Sean Brody
Cedric Scott as Clarence
Charles Bowleg as William
Melvin Van Peebles as Mr. Witherspoon
Mary Smith as Tiffany
Edna Billotto as Polly
Fritzi Jane Courtney as Mrs. Taft
Cyprian R. Dube as Mayor
Lee Fierro as Mrs. Kinter
William E. Marks as Deputy Lenny
Diane Hetfield as Mrs. Ferguson
Production[edit]
Joseph Sargent produced and directed the film. He had worked with Lorraine Gary in 1969's The Marcus-Nelson Murders, for which he won his first Directors Guild of America Award.[1] Indeed, Steven Spielberg cites this television movie, that later spawned Kojak, as motivation for casting Gary as Ellen Brody in the original Jaws film, besides the fact she was the wife of the studio's chief executive at that time.[2]
Jaws: The Revenge was filmed on location in New England and in the Bahamas, and completed on the Universal lot. Like the first two films of the series, Martha's Vineyard was the location of the fictional Amity Island for the film's opening scenes. Production commenced on February 2, 1987, by which time "snowstorms had blanketed" the island for almost a month, "providing a frosty backdrop for the opening scenes."[3]
In addition to the 124 cast and crew members, 250 local extras were also hired. The majority of the extras were used as members of the local high school band, chorus and dramatic society that can be seen as the Brodys walk through the town, and during Sean's attack. A local gravestone maker produced 51 slabs for the mock graveyard used for Sean's funeral.[3]
The cast and crew moved to Nassau in the Bahamas on February 9, beginning principal photography there the next day. Like the production of the first two films, they encountered many problems with varying weather conditions. The location did not offer the "perfect world" that the 38-day shoot required. Cover shots were filmed on shore and in interior sets.[3] The film was shot in the Super 35 format.[4]
Special effects[edit]
The special effects team, headed by Henry Millar, had arrived at South Beach, Nassau on January 12, 1987, almost a month before principal photography commenced there. In the official press release, Millar says that when he got involved "we didn't even have a script... but as the story developed and they started telling us all what they wanted... I knew this wasn't going to be like any other shark anyone had ever seen."[3]
The shark was to be launched from atop an 88-foot (27 m) long platform, made from the trussed turret of a 30-foot (9.1 m) crane, and floated out into Clifton Bay. Seven sharks, or segments, were produced.

Two models were fully articulated, two were made for jumping, one for ramming, one was a half shark (the top half) and one was just a fin. The two fully articulated models each had 22 sectioned ribs and movable jaws covered by a flexible water-based latex skin, measured 25 feet (7.6 m) in length and weighed 2500 pounds. Each tooth was half-a-foot long and as sharp as it looked. All models were housed under cover... in a secret location on the island.[3]
The film company returned to Universal Studios to finish shooting on April 2. Principal photography was completed in Los Angeles on May 26. Millar's special effects team, however, remained in Nassau, completing second unit photography on June 4.
Underwater sequences[edit]
Cinematographer John McPherson also supervised the underwater unit, which was headed by Pete Romano. Whereas underwater photography was normally filmed with an anamorphic lens, requiring overhead lighting, Romano filmed these "sequences with Zeiss, a 35 mm super-speed lens, which allows the natural ambiance to come through on film."[3] Additional underwater photography was completed in a water tank, measuring 50 feet (15 m) by 100 feet (30 m) across, and 17 feet (5.2 m) in depth, in Universal Studio's Stage 27. Also, a replica of Nassau's Clifton Bay and its skyline was created on the man-made Falls Lake on the studio backlot.[3]
A television documentary, "Behind the Scenes with Jaws: The Revenge", was broadcast in the U.S. on July 10, 1987. Twenty-two minutes in length, it was written and directed by William Rus for Zaloom Mayfield Productions.[5]
Ending changes[edit]
In the ending that was originally filmed, Ellen rammed the shark with Michael's boat, mortally wounding it. The shark then causes the boat to break apart with its death contortions, forcing the people on the boat to jump off to avoid going down with it.[6] Test audiences disapproved of this ending. A new ending was shot with the shark getting stabbed with the bow sprit and then exploding; and with Jake being found wounded but alive. According to Orange Coast, the magazine of Orange County, reshooting the ending prevented Michael Caine from collecting his Academy Award for Hannah and Her Sisters.[7] One version can be seen on cable broadcasts, while the other version is featured on the home releases.[7]
The new ending had left many audiences confused. In his scathing review, Roger Ebert says that he cannot believe "that the director, Joseph Sargent, would film this final climactic scene so incompetently that there is not even an establishing shot, so we have to figure out what happened on the basis of empirical evidence."[8]
Series continuity[edit]
No reference is made to the character development or events depicted in Jaws 3-D. In its predecessor, Michael is an engineer for SeaWorld, whereas here he is a marine research scientist.[6] Sean is not associated with the police force in Jaws 3-D, and there is no mention of their respective partners. One of the Universal Studios press releases for Jaws: The Revenge omits Jaws 3-D by referring to Jaws: The Revenge as the "third film of the remarkable Jaws trilogy."[9]
Casting[edit]
Lorraine Gary portrayed Ellen Brody in the first two films. In a press release, Gary says Jaws: The Revenge' is "also about relationships which... makes it much more like the first Jaws." This was Gary's first film since appearing in Spielberg's 1941 eight years earlier, as well as being her final film role.
The press release proposes that the character "had much more depth and texture than either of the other films was able to explore. The promise of further developing this multi-dimensional woman under the extraordinary circumstances... intrigued Gary enough to lure her back to the screen after a lengthy hiatus."[10] Although the film was always going to be centered on Gary, Roy Scheider was offered a cameo. If he had accepted it, it was his Martin Brody character, rather than Sean Brody, who would have been killed by the shark at the film's beginning.[6]
Gary is the only principal cast member from the original film who returned, although Lee Fierro made a brief cameo as Mrs. Kintner (the mother of a boy killed in Jaws), as did Fritzi Jane Courtney, who played Mrs. Taft, one of the Amity town council members in both Jaws and Jaws 2. Cyprian R. Dube, who played Amity Selectman Mr. Posner in both Jaws and Jaws 2, is upgraded to mayor following the death of Murray Hamilton, who played Larry Vaughn.
Gary states that one of the reasons she was attracted to the film was the idea of an on-screen romance with Academy Award winner Michael Caine. Caine had previously starred in another Peter Benchley-adapted flop, The Island).

The first day we were to work together I was nervous as a school girl. We were shooting a Junkanoo Festival with noisy drums and hundreds of extras. But he never faltered in his concentration and he put me completely at ease. It was all so natural. He's an extraordinary actor – and just a nice human being.[10]
Caine had mixed feelings about both the production and the final version. He thinks that it was a first for him to be involved with someone his own age in a film. He compares the relationship between two middle-aged people to the romance between two teenagers. Although disappointed not to be able to collect an Academy Award because of filming in the Bahamas, he was glad to be involved in the film. In the press release, he explains that "it is part of movie history... the original was one of the great all-time thrillers. I thought it might be nice to be mixed up with that. I liked the script very much."[11] However, Caine later claimed: "I have never seen it [the film], but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific!"[12] In his 1992 autobiography What's it All About?, he says that the film "will go down in my memory as the time when I won an Oscar, paid for a house and had a great holiday. Not bad for a flop movie."[13]
Lance Guest played Ellen's eldest son Michael. Guest had dropped out of his sophomore year at UCLA to appear in another sequel to a horror classic; Halloween II.[14] Karen Young played his wife Carla. She commended the director's emphasis upon characterization.[9] Thea, Michael and Carla's daughter, was played by Judith Barsi. She was murdered by her father a year after the film was released.[15]
Mario Van Peebles played Jake, Michael's colleague. His father, Melvin Van Peebles, has a cameo in the film as Nassau's mayor.[16] Mitchell Anderson appeared as Ellen's youngest son, Sean. Lynn Whitfield played Louisa, and stunt performer Diane Hetfield was the victim of the banana boat attack.
Soundtrack[edit]

Jaws: The Revenge

Soundtrack album by Michael Small

Released
2000
Recorded
1987
Genre
Orchestral
Length
27:20
Jaws chronology

Jaws 3-D Jaws: The Revenge 


Professional ratings

Review scores

Source
Rating
filmscoremonthly.com link
soundtrack.net link
The score was composed and conducted by Michael Small, who had previously provided music for Klute, Marathon Man (both of which featured Jaws star Roy Scheider) and The Parallax View.[17] John Williams' famous shark motif is integrated into the score, although Small removed the Orca theme. Soundtrack.net says that "Small's score is generally tense, and he comes up with a few new themes of his own."[18]
The film also contained the songs "Nail it to the Wall", performed by Stacy Lattisaw, and the 1986 hit "You Got It All", performed by The Jets.[19] Unlike the preceding entries in the series, the soundtrack was not released at the same time as the film, although Small appears to have mixed tracks for a release. However, it was given a promotional release in 2000 on Audio CD and Compact Cassette.
Reviews for the soundtrack album were more favorable than for the film. Indeed, writing for Film Score Monthly, AK Benjamin says that "on a CD, Small's material fares better since it's not accompanied by the film." Dismissing the film as "engagingly unwatchable", he says that "Small certainly gave Revenge a lot more than it deserved – and this a much better score than Deep Blue Sea... whatever that means."[20] Benjamin portrays Small as 'knowing' and his work as being superior to the film.

The hysterical coda tacked onto the end of "Revenge and Finale" is almost worth the price of the disc, as it no doubt sums up Small's opinion of the film. It's sad that the great Michael Small was delegated utter crap like Jaws the Revenge in the late '80s – and even worse that he never found his way back to the material that he deserves.[20]
Upon Small's death in 2003, The Independent wrote that the "composer of some distinction ... had the indignity of working on one of the worst films of all time". Like most reviews of the soundtrack, the article criticizes the film whilst saying "Small produced a fine score in the circumstances, as if anyone noticed."[21]
Track listing[edit]
1."Main Title"
2."Underwater"
3."The Bahamas"
4."Premonition"
5."Moray Eel"
6."Alive Or Dead"
7."The Shark"
8."Revenge & Finale"
Novelization[edit]
Jaws: The Revenge

Author
Hank Searls
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Novelization
Publisher
Berkley Books

Publication date
 July 1, 1987
Media type
Print (Paperback)
Pages
195
ISBN
0-425-10546-6
OCLC
79936995
The novelization was written by Hank Searls, who also adapted Jaws 2.[22] While Searls' Jaws 2 novelization was based on an earlier draft of that film and was significantly different from the finished film, his Jaws: The Revenge novelization sticks fairly close to the final film, although it does contain some extra subplots. The novel contains a subplot in which Hoagie is a government agent and he transports laundered money. The only reference to this in the film is when Michael Brody asks "What do you do when you’re not flying people?" to which Hoagie replies, "I deliver laundry." In Searls' novel, the character of Jake is ultimately killed by the shark; Jake was originally supposed to die in the film, but the script was changed to allow him to survive.
The novelization suggests that the shark may be acting under the influence of a vengeful voodoo witch doctor (who has a feud with the Brody family), and the shark's apparent revenge has magical implications. Therefore, the witch doctor is the 'revenge' and the shark is his tool. This also explains the strange psychic connection Ellen and the shark have with each other. The plot was deleted as it strayed too far away from the plot of the killer shark. However, at one point in the theatrical version, Michael Brody says, "Come on, sharks don’t commit murder. Tell me you don’t believe in that voodoo."
Searls' novelization presents a continuity that combines elements from Peter Benchley's Jaws novel as well as the Jaws film series. The novelization makes a reference to Ellen Brody's affair with Matt Hooper, a subplot that exists in Benchley's novel but is entirely absent from the film adaptation.
Reception[edit]
Critical response[edit]
Jaws: The Revenge was panned by critics, it has a 0% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus reading: "Illogical, tension-free, and filled with cut-rate special effects, Jaws 4 - The Revenge is a sorry chapter in a once-proud series."[23] Gary did get nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Actress for her performance, but also a Razzie. It was rated by Entertainment Weekly as one of "The 25 Worst Sequels Ever Made".[24] It was voted number 22 by readers of Empire magazine in their list of The 50 Worst Movies Ever.[25]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a rare zero stars, writing in his review that it "is not simply a bad movie, but also a stupid and incompetent one." He lists several elements that he finds unbelievable, including that Ellen is "haunted by flashbacks to events where she was not present." Ebert joked that Michael Caine could not attend the ceremony to collect his Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor earned for Hannah and Her Sisters because of his shooting commitments on this film, but may not have wanted to return to the shoot if he had left it.[8]



 A frame from the sequence where the shark is destroyed, showing the rather primitive model. Henry Millar was awarded for "Worst Visual Effects" at the 1987 Golden Raspberry Awards.
Many scenes are considered implausible, such as the shark swimming from a New York island to the Bahamas (approx. 2000 km) in less than three days, or following Michael through an underwater labyrinth, as well as the implication that a creature was seeking revenge. The Independent pointed out that "the film was riddled with inconsistencies [and] errors (sharks cannot float or roar like lions)".[21] The special effects were criticized, especially some frames of the shark being speared by the boat's prow. Also, the mechanisms propelling the shark can be seen in some shots.[6]
Within his otherwise lukewarm review, Derek Winnert ends with "the Bahamas backdrops are pretty and the shark looks as toothsome as ever."[26] Richard Scheib also praises the "beautiful above and below water photography" and the "realistic mechanical shark," although he considers "the melodrama back on dry land... a bore."[27] Critics commented upon the sepia-toned flashbacks to the first film. A scene with Michael and Thea imitating each other is interspersed with shots from a similar scene in Jaws of Sean (Jay Mello) and Martin Brody. Similarly, the shark's destruction contains footage of Martin Brody aiming at the compressed air tank, saying "Smile, you son of a ...," The New York Times comments "nothing kills a sequel faster than reverence... Joseph Sargent, the director, has turned this into a color-by-numbers version of Steven Spielberg's original Jaws."[28]
Awards and nominations[edit]

Award
Category
Nominee
Result
Saturn Award Best Actress Lorraine Gary Nominated
Golden Raspberry Award Worst Actress Nominated
Worst Actor "Bruce the shark" Nominated
Worst Supporting Actor Michael Caine Nominated
Worst Screenplay Michael de Guzman Nominated
Worst Picture Joseph Sargent Nominated
Worst Director Nominated
Worst Visual Effects Henry Millar Won
Cultural impact[edit]
The increasing number of sequels in the Jaws series was spoofed in the 1989 film Back to the Future Part II (which was produced by Steven Spielberg and featured Jaws 3 star Lea Thompson), when Marty McFly travels to the year 2015 and sees a theater showing Jaws 19, (fictionally directed by Max Spielberg) with the tagline "This time it's REALLY personal!". This alludes to the tagline of Jaws: The Revenge: "This time it's personal."[29] After being "attacked" by a promotional volumetric image of the shark outside the theatre, Marty says "the shark still looks fake."
Comedian Richard Jeni performed a popular stand-up routine based solely on this film.[30]
The film is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made.[31]
Home media[edit]
Jaws The Revenge was the first film of the series to be released on DVD. It was released on Region 1 as a 'vanilla' disc by Goodtimes, featuring Spanish and French subtitles. The feature is presented in a non-anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen transfer. The soundtrack was presented in Dolby Digital 4.1, with one reviewer saying that the "stereo separation is great with ocean waves swirling around you, the bubbles going by during the scuba scenes, and Hoagie's airplane flying around behind you." The same reviewer praised the image transfer of Mcpherson's "extremely well photographed" cinematography.[32] The film was re-released on DVD by Universal on June 3, 2003 in an anamorphic transfer.
See also[edit]
List of killer shark films
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Joseph Sargent "Jaws The Revenge" Universal News" (Press release). Universal Studios. 1987.
2.Jump up ^ The Making of Jaws. Documentary on Jaws DVD, directed by Laurent Bouzereau
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Jaws
Jaws boxset.jpg
The Jaws trilogy box set containing the first 3 films

Directed by
Steven Spielberg (first film)
Jeannot Szwarc (second film)
Joe Alves (third film)
Joseph Sargent (fourth film)
Based on
Jaws by
Peter Benchley
Distributed by
Universal Studios (1975-1987)
Release date(s)
June 20, 1975
-
July 17, 1987

Running time
478 minutes
Country
US
Language
English
Box office
$798,415,075



Jaws shark at Universal Studios Florida
Jaws is an American film franchise that consists of a novel, four films, a theme park ride, and other tie-in merchandise. The main subject of the franchise a great white shark, and its attacks on people in specific areas of the United States. The Brody family is featured in all of the films as the primary antithesis to the shark. The original film was based on a novel written by Peter Benchley, which itself was inspired by the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916. Benchley would adapt his own work, along with help from Carl Gottlieb and Howard Sackler, into the 1975 film Jaws, which was directed by Steven Spielberg. Although Gottlieb would go on to pen two of the three sequels, neither Benchley or Spielberg would return to the film series in any capacity.
The first film was regarded as a watershed film in motion picture history; it became the father of the summer blockbuster movies and one of the first "high-concept" films.[1][2] The film is also known for the introduction of John Williams' famous theme music, which was a simple alternating pattern of the E and F notes of a piano. Williams' theme would go on to win an Academy Award. The film would win other Academy Awards, and even be nominated for Best Picture.
The success of Jaws led to three sequels, which have amassed almost $800 million worldwide in box office gross. The franchise has also seen the release of various soundtrack albums, additional novelizations based on the sequels, trading cards, inspired theme park rides at Universal Studios Florida and Universal Studios Japan, multiple video games, and a musical that premiered in 2004. Although the first film was popular with critics when it was originally released, the sequels have generally been seen negatively by critics. This reception has spread to the merchandise, with video games seen as poor imitations of the original concept. Nevertheless, the original 1975 film has generally been regarded as one of the greatest films ever, and frequently appears in the top 100 of various American Film Institute rankings.


Contents  [hide]
1 Overview
2 Films 2.1 Novel
2.2 Production
2.3 Crew
2.4 Music
2.5 Box office
2.6 Critical reception
2.7 Unofficial sequels and Rip-offs
3 Merchandise
4 References 4.1 Notes
4.2 Bibliography
5 External links

Overview[edit]
The original Jaws, directed by Steven Spielberg is based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. It tells the story of Police Chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, Martin Brody (Roy Scheider), in his quest to protect beachgoers from a great white shark by closing the beach. This is overruled by the town council, headed by the Mayor (Murray Hamilton) that wants the beach to remain open in order to sustain the local tourist economy. After several attacks, the police chief enlists the help of a marine biologist Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter Quint (Robert Shaw). The three voyage out onto the ocean in Quint's boat Orca. The shark kills the fisherman, but Brody manages to destroy the shark by shooting at the highly pressurized air tank that he has wedged in its mouth.
The first sequel, Jaws 2, depicts the same town four years after the events of the original film, when another great white shark arrives on the shores of fictional seaside resort of Amity Island. Directed by Jeannot Szwarc and starring Roy Scheider as Police Chief Martin Brody, who, after a series of deaths and disappearances, suspects that the culprit is another shark. However, he has trouble convincing the town's selectmen. He has to act alone to save the group of teenagers, including his two sons, who encounter the shark whilst out sailing.
The plot of Jaws 3-D moves away from Amity Island to SeaWorld in Florida, a water theme-park with underwater tunnels and lagoons. As the park prepares to open, it is infiltrated by a baby great white shark which attacks and kills water-skiers and park employees. Once the baby shark is captured, it becomes apparent that a much larger shark, the mother, is present. The characters of Martin's sons from the first two films are developed in this film: Michael Brody (Dennis Quaid) is the chief engineer, and his younger brother Sean (John Putch) arrives at the resort to visit. The events of the earlier films are implied through Sean's dislike of the water because of "something that happened when he was a kid". The events and character development from Jaws 3-D is independent from the rest of the series.[3]
In the fourth film Jaws: The Revenge, the story line returns to Amity Island, but ignores all plot elements introduced in Jaws:3-D. No mention is made of Michael's girlfriend, Katherine Morgan (Bess Armstrong), or his career change from engineer at SeaWorld to a marine biologist. In fact, one of the Universal Studios press releases for Jaws: The Revenge omits Jaws 3-D by referring to Jaws: The Revenge as the "third film of the remarkable Jaws trilogy."[3] By the start of the film, Martin Brody had died of a heart attack, although his wife, Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary), claims that he died through fear of the shark. Her youngest son Sean (Mitchell Anderson), now working as a police deputy in Amity, is dispatched to clear a log from a buoy. As he does so, he is attacked and killed by a shark. Ellen becomes convinced that a shark is deliberately victimizing her family for the deaths of the first two sharks. Michael (Lance Guest) convinces her to spend some time with his family in The Bahamas. However, as his job involves a lot of time on and in the sea, Ellen fears that he will be the shark's next victim. When her granddaughter, Thea (Judith Barsi), narrowly avoids being attacked by a shark, Ellen takes a boat in order to kill her family's alleged stalker. Hoagie (Michael Caine), Michael and his friend Jake (Mario Van Peebles) find Ellen, and then proceed to electrocute the shark, driving it out of the water and impaling it on the prow of Ellen's boat.
Films[edit]
Novel[edit]
Peter Benchley had been thinking for years "about a story about a shark that attacks people and what would happen if it came in and wouldn't go away."[4] Doubleday editor Tom Congdon was interested in Benchley's idea of a novel about a great white shark terrorizing a beach resort.[5] After various revisions and rewrites, Benchley delivered his final draft in January 1973.[6] The title was not decided until shortly before the book went to print. Benchley says that he had spent months thinking of titles, many of which he calls "pretentious", such as The Stillness in the Water and Leviathan Rising. Benchley regarded other ideas, such as The Jaws of Death and The Jaws of Leviathan, as "melodramatic, weird or pretentious".[4] According to Benchley, the novel still did not have a title until twenty minutes before production of the book.[4]
The Book of the Month Club made the novel an "A book", qualifying it for its main selection, then the Reader's Digest also selected it. The publication date was moved back to allow a carefully orchestrated release. It was released first in hardcover in February 1974,[7] then in the book clubs, followed by a national campaign for the paperback release.[6] Bantam bought the paperback rights for $575,000.[7]
Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown, film producers at Universal Pictures, heard about the book at identical times at different locations. Brown heard about it in the fiction department of Cosmopolitan, a lifestyle magazine then edited by his wife, Helen Gurley Brown. A small card gave a detailed description of the plot, concluding with the comment "might make a good movie".[8] The producers each read it overnight and agreed that it was "the most exciting thing that they had ever read" and that, although they were unsure how they would accomplish it, they had to produce the film.[9] Brown says that had they read the book twice they would have never have made the film because of the difficulties in executing some of the sequences. However, he says that "we just loved the book. We thought it would make a very good movie."[8]
Production[edit]
Zanuck and Brown had originally planned to hire John Sturges to direct the film, before considering Dick Richards.[10] However, they grew irritated by Richards' vision of continually calling the shark "the whale"; Richards was subsequently dropped from the project.[10] Zanuck and Brown then signed Spielberg in June 1973 to direct before the release of his first theatrical film, The Sugarland Express.[10] Spielberg wanted to take the novel's basic concept, removing Benchley's many subplots.[11] Zanuck, Brown and Spielberg removed the novel's adulterous affair between Ellen Brody and Matt Hooper because it would compromise the camaraderie between the men when they went out on the Orca.[8]
Peter Benchley wrote three drafts of the screenplay before deciding to bow out of the project.[11] Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Howard Sackler happened to be in Los Angeles when the filmmakers began looking for another writer and offered to do an uncredited rewrite, and since the producers and Spielberg were unhappy with Benchley's drafts, they quickly accepted his offer.[12] Spielberg sent the script to Carl Gottlieb, asking for advice.[12] Gottlieb rewrote most scenes during principal photography, and John Milius contributed dialogue polishes. Spielberg has claimed that he prepared his own draft. The authorship of Quint's monologue about the fate of the cruiser USS Indianapolis has caused substantial controversy as to who deserves the most credit for the speech. Spielberg described it as a collaboration among John Milius, Howard Sackler, and actor Robert Shaw.[13] Gottlieb gives primary credit to Shaw, downplaying Milius' contribution.[14]
Three mechanical sharks were made for the production: a full version for underwater shots, one that moved from camera-left to right (with its hidden side completely exposing the internal machinery), and an opposite model with its right flank uncovered.[11] Their construction was supervised by production designer Joe Alves and special effects artist Robert A. Mattey. After the sharks were completed, they were shipped to the shooting location, but had not been tested in water and when placed in the ocean the full model sank to the ocean floor, forcing a team of divers to retrieve it.[12] Location shooting occurred on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, chosen because the ocean had a sandy bottom while 12 miles (19 km) out at sea.[12] This helped the mechanical sharks to operate smoothly and still provide a realistic location. The film nonetheless had a famously troubled shoot and went considerably over budget. David Brown said that the budget "was $4 million and the picture wound up costing $9 million".[15] Shooting at sea led to many delays: unwanted sailboats drifted into frame, cameras were soaked, and the Orca once began to sink with the actors on board. The mechanical shark frequently malfunctioned, due to the hydraulic innards being corroded by salt water.[12] The three mechanical sharks were collectively nicknamed "Bruce" by the production team after Spielberg's lawyer.[16] To some degree, the delays in the production proved serendipitous. The script was refined during production, and the unreliable mechanical sharks forced Spielberg to shoot most of the scenes with the shark only hinted at. For example, for much of the shark hunt, its location is represented by the floating yellow barrels. Spielberg also included multiple shots of just the dorsal fin due to its ease of filming. This forced restraint is widely thought to have increased the suspense of these scenes, giving it a Hitchcockian tone.[17]
The studio ordered a sequel early into the success of Jaws.[18] The success of The Godfather Part II and other sequels meant that the producers were under pressure to deliver a bigger and better shark. They realized that someone else would produce the film if they didn't, and they preferred to be in charge of the project themselves.[19] Spielberg declined to be involved in the sequel.[15][18]
Like the first film, the production of Jaws 2 was troubled. The original director, John D. Hancock, proved to be unsuitable for an action film and was replaced by Jeannot Szwarc.[18] Scheider, who only reprised his role to end a contractual issue with Universal,[20] was also unhappy during production and had several heated exchanges with Szwarc.[21][22] Martha's Vineyard was again used as the location for the town scenes. Although some residents guarded their privacy, many islanders welcomed the money that the company was bringing.[23] The majority of filming was at Navarre Beach, Florida, because of the warm weather and the water's depth being appropriate for the shark platform.[18] Like the first film, shooting on water proved challenging. After spending hours anchoring the sailboats, the wind would change as they were ready to shoot, blowing the sails in the wrong direction.[24] The corrosive effect of the saltwater damaged some equipment, including the metal parts in the sharks.[24] As with the first film, footage of real sharks filmed by Australian divers Ron & Valerie Taylor was used for movement shots that could not be convincingly achieved using the mechanical sharks.[18]
The producers of the first two films considered originally pitched the second Jaws sequel as a spoof named Jaws 3, People 0.[18] National Lampoon writers John Hughes and Todd Carroll were commissioned to write a script.[25] The project was abandoned due to conflicts with Universal Studios.[25]
Alan Landsburg bought the rights to produce the third film.[26] The second sequel capitalized upon the revived interest of 3-D film in the 1980s, amongst other horror films such as Friday the 13th Part III and Amityville 3-D that also make dual use of the number three.[27] As it was Joe Alves' first film as director, having been the production designer for the first two films, he thought that 3-D would "give him an edge".[27] Cinema audiences could wear disposable cardboard polarized glasses to create the illusion that elements penetrate the screen.[28] Richard Matheson worked on the story and script, although many of his contributions were unused: the writer is unhappy with the finished film.[29] Carl Gottlieb, who had also revised the screenplays for the first two Jaws films, was credited for the script alongside Matheson.[30]
Joseph Sargent produced and directed the fourth and final film in the series. Jaws The Revenge was filmed on location in New England and in the Caribbean, and completed on the Universal lot. Like the first two films of the series, Martha's Vineyard was the location of the fictional Amity Island for the opening scenes of the film.[31] Principal photography moved to Nassau in The Bahamas, but the location did not offer the "perfect world" that the 38-day shoot required. The cast and crew encountered many problems with varying weather conditions.[31]
In February 2010, film website Cinema Blend reported that a source from Universal Pictures has indicated that Universal is "strongly considering" remaking Jaws in 3-D, following the commercial success of Avatar.[32] The source also reported that 30 Rock star Tracy Morgan was considered to portray Matt Hooper in the remake, which they say could be more comedic and make more use of special effects.[33] The studio has not officially commented upon the rumor.[34][35]
Crew[edit]

Film
Director
Writer(s)
Producer(s)
1. Jaws Steven Spielberg Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb, & Howard Sackler (uncredited) David Brown & Richard D. Zanuck
2. Jaws 2 Jeannot Szwarc Carl Gottlieb & Howard Sackler
3. Jaws 3-D Joe Alves Carl Gottlieb & Richard Matheson Rupert Hitzig
4. Jaws: The Revenge Joseph Sargent Michael De Guzman Joseph Sargent
Music[edit]
John Williams composed and conducted the score for the first two films. The main "shark" theme, a simple alternating pattern of two notes, E and F,[36] became a classic piece of suspense music, synonymous with approaching danger. Williams described the theme as having the "effect of grinding away at you, just as a shark would do, instinctual, relentless, unstoppable."[37] When the piece was first played for Spielberg, he was said to have laughed at Williams, thinking that it was a joke. Spielberg later said that without Williams' score the film would have been only half as successful, and Williams acknowledges that the score jumpstarted his career.[12] Williams won an Academy Award for Original Music Score for his work on the first film.[38]
The shark theme is used in all three sequels, a continuity that Williams compares to "the great tradition" for repeating musical themes in Hollywood serials such as Roy Rogers and The Lone Ranger.[38] Alan Parker composed and conducted the score for Jaws 3-D, while the final film was scored by Michael Small. The latter was particularly praised for his work, which many critics considered superior to the film.[39][40]
Box office[edit]
Jaws was the first film to use "wide release" as a distribution pattern. As such, it is an important film in the history of film distribution and marketing.[41] Prior to the release of Jaws, films typically opened slowly, usually in a few theaters in major cities, which allowed for a series of "premieres." As the success of a film increased, and word of mouth grew, distributors would forward the prints to additional cities across the country.[42] The film became the first to use extensive television advertising.[43] Universal executive Sidney Sheinberg's rationale was that nationwide marketing costs would be amortized at a more favorable rate per print than if a slow, scaled release were carried out. Scheinberg's gamble paid off, with Jaws becoming a box office smash hit and the father of the summer blockbuster.[44][45]
When Jaws was released on June 20, 1975, it opened at 464 theaters.[46] The release was subsequently expanded on July 25 to a total of 675 theaters, the largest simultaneous distribution of a film in motion picture history at the time. During the first weekend of wide release, Jaws grossed more than $7 million, and was the top grosser for the following five weeks.[47] During its run in theaters, the film became the first to reach more than $100 million in U.S. box office receipts.[43][48] Jaws eventually grossed more than $470 million worldwide ($1.9 billion in 2010 dollars[49]) and was the highest grossing box office film until Star Wars debuted two years later.[50][51]
Jaws 2 was the most expensive film that Universal had produced up until that point, costing the studio almost $30 million.[19] According to David Brown, the film made 40% gross of the original. This was attractive to studios because it reduced market risk.[18] The film became the highest-grossing sequel in history, succeeded by the release of Rocky II in 1979. It opened in 640 theaters, making $9,866,023 in its opening weekend.[52] The final domestic gross for Jaws 2 was $81,766,007, making it the sixth highest domestic grossing film of 1978.[53]
Jaws 3-D grossed $13,422,500 on its opening weekend,[54] playing to 1,311 theaters at its widest release. It has achieved total lifetime worldwide gross of $87,987,055.[55] Despite being #1 at the box office, this illustrates the series' diminishing returns, since Jaws 3-D has earned nearly $100,000,000 less than the total lifetime gross of its predecessor[56] and $300,000,000 less than the original film.[57]
The third sequel would attract an even lower income, with around two thirds of Jaws 3-D's total lifetime gross.[58] Jaws: The Revenge received a poor critical reception, and earned the lowest amount of money from the series. It is considered one of the worst movies ever made. Even though it received negative reviews, the film was able to cover costs (estimated US$23 million) with a worldwide box office take of $51,881,013.[59] The film, though, continued the series diminishing returns. It only grossed $7,154,890 in its opening weekend, when it opened to 1,606 screens.[60] This was around $5 million less than its predecessor.[55] It has also achieved the lowest total lifetime gross of the series.[57][61]
Film U.S. release date Box office revenue Reference
Domestic Foreign Worldwide
Jaws June 20, 1975 $260,000,000 $210,653,000 $470,653,000 [62]
Jaws 2 June 16, 1978 $81,766,007 $106,118,000 $187,884,000 [63]
Jaws 3-D July 22, 1983 $45,517,055 $42,470,000 $87,987,055 [64]
Jaws: The Revenge July 17, 1987 $20,763,013 $31,118,000 $51,881,013 [65]
Jaws film series
$408,056,075 $390,359,000 $798,415,075

Critical reception[edit]
Jaws is regarded as a watershed film in motion picture history, the father of the summer blockbuster movie and one of the first "high concept" films.[2][66] Due to the film's success in advance screenings, studio executives decided to distribute it in a much wider release than ever before. The Omen followed suit in the summer of 1976 and then Star Wars one year later in 1977, cementing the notion for movie studios to distribute their big-release action and adventure pictures (commonly referred to as tentpole pictures) during the summer. Jaws is widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time. Jaws was number 48 on American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Movies, a list of the greatest American films of all time, dropping down to number 56 on the 10 Year Anniversary list. It was ranked second on a similar list for thrillers, 100 Years... 100 Thrills.
The sequels are not held in such high regard. Many reviewers criticized director Jeannot Szwarc for showing more of the shark than the first film had, reducing the Hitchcockian notion "that the greatest suspense derives from the unseen and the unknown, and that the imagination is capable of conceiving far worse than the materialization of a mere mechanical monster."[67] However, the performances of Scheider, Gary and Hamilton were praised.,[68] although the teenagers, who are "irritating and incessantly screaming"... don't make for very sympathetic victims".[69]
Reception for Jaws 3-D was generally poor. Variety calls it "tepid" and suggests that Alves "fails to linger long enough on the Great White."[70] It has an 11% 'rotten' rating at Rotten Tomatoes.[71] The 3-D was criticized as being a gimmick to attract audiences to the aging series[72] and for being ineffective.[73][74] Derek Winnert says that "with Richard Matheson's name on the script you'd expect a better yarn" although he continues to say that the film "is entirely watchable with a big pack of popcorn."[75]
Jaws The Revenge attracted the poorest critical reception of the series, and was nominated for Worst Picture in the 1987 Golden Raspberry Awards. It is often considered one of the worst movies ever made.[40] It was rated by Entertainment Weekly as one of "The 25 Worst Sequels Ever Made".[76] Roger Ebert said that it "is not simply a bad movie, but also a stupid and incompetent one." He lists several elements that he finds unbelievable, including that Ellen is "haunted by flashbacks to events where she was not present." Ebert also laments that Michael Caine could not attend the ceremony to collect his Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor earned for Hannah and Her Sisters because of his shooting commitments on this film.[77]
In an era in which documentaries were attempting responsible, accurate reporting about the natural world, ecocriticism says that Hollywood continued to produce films that exploited the fear of animals.[78] Scholar Greg Garrard cites David Ingram's suggestion that the Jaws series "represents a backlash against conservationist ideas in which an 'evil, threatening nature is eventually mastered through male heroism, technology and the blood sacrifice of the wild animal'".[79][80] Greg Garrard observes in Jaws The Revenge that "the marine biologist Mike Brody's environmentalist concerns are effectively ridiculed as his colleague is eaten by the enraged fish; he joins the hunt for it and the shark in turn hunts him down."[78]
Unofficial sequels and Rip-offs[edit]
Many films based on man-eating animals, usually aquatic, were released through the 1970s and 1980s, such as: Grizzly, Orca, Nightwing, Alligator, Creature, Cruel Jaws, Day of the Animals, Eaten Alive, Up from the Depths, the Mexican Tintorera, the French-Italian Killer Fish and the Japanese Jaws in Japan. The betters of these are considered Piranha[81] as a rip-off, and Great White (aka The Last Shark) as unofficial sequel.[82]
Merchandise[edit]



 A small selection of merchandise from Jaws 2.
Universal "devised and co-ordinated a highly innovative plan" for the first film's distribution and exhibition.[41] The studio and publisher Bantam designed a logo which would appear on both the paperback and on all film advertising. "Both publisher and distributor recognized the mutual benefits that a joint promotion strategy would bring."[41] Producers Zanuck and Brown toured six cities to promote the paperback and the film.[41] Once the film was released, more merchandising was created, including shark-illustrated swimming towels and T-shirts, plastic shark fins for swimmers to wear, and shark-shaped inflatables for them to float on. The Ideal Toy Company produced a game where the player had to use a hook to fish out items from the shark's mouth before the jaws closed.[83]
Jaws 2 inspired much more merchandising and sponsors than the first film. Products included sets of trading cards from Topps and Baker's bread, paper cups from Coca-Cola, beach towels, a souvenir program, shark tooth necklaces, coloring and activity books, and a model kit of Brody's truck.[68] A novelization by Hank Searls, based on an earlier draft of the screenplay by Howard Sackler and Dorothy Tristan, was released, as well as Ray Loynd's The Jaws 2 Log, an account of the film's production.[68]
There have been a number of video game releases based upon the franchise. The first, titled Jaws, was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1987. A same titled, but different Jaws game was released on the Atari ST and Commodore 64 in 1989.[84][85] Jaws Unleashed, developed by Appaloosa Interactive, was released in 2006 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC platforms.[86] A game titled Jaws: Ultimate Predator was released on the Nintendo Wii and 3DS in 2011.
References[edit]
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Rise of the blockbuster". BBC News Online. 2001-11-16. Retrieved 2006-08-20.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Wyatt 1994, p. 76
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Lake Placid: The Final Chapter
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Lake Placid: The Final Chapter
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Distributed by
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Directed by
Don Michael Paul
Produced by
Jeffery Beach
 Phillip Roth
Written by
David Reed
Starring
Elisabeth Röhm
Yancy Butler
Robert Englund
Music by
Frederik Wiedmann
Cinematography
Martin Chichov
Editing by
John Quinn
Country
United States
Language
English
Original channel
Syfy
Release date
September 29, 2012

Running time
90 minutes
Lake Placid: The Final Chapter is a 2012 made-for-television horror film and the fourth and final installment in the Lake Placid film series. The film premiered on September 29, 2012 by Syfy and was released on DVD on February 19, 2013.


Contents  [hide]
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2 Cast
3 Production
4 Critical response
5 Home media
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

"Plot"[edit]
Reba the poacher is back after surviving the battles with the crocodiles in the store in the third installment. She's now an EPA agent who attempts to exterminate the crocodiles in Black Lake. The lake has been corralled by the Army Corps of Engineers with a 10,000-volt electric barrier to lock the crocodiles in the lake to let them starve and die off. Reba and her group are scheduled to get inside the lake to capture young crocodiles for examination. However, they soon discover that the crocodiles have survived by cannibalism, which makes them continue breeding and increase their strength and aggressiveness. The problems become more serious when a group of students of Marshfield Swimming Team and an illegal group of hunters led by Jim Bickerman, who want to find crocodiles eggs, decide to trespass. Afterward, they all have to continue fighting the giant killer crocodiles until the group can escape the barrier.
During the process, most people died, including a member of Reba's group who came inside the barrier to investigate. At the end, the group seems to have completely exterminated the crocodiles, and Reba keeps a croc head for house decoration. But later, as Jim Bickerman wakes up after being punched out by Max's dad Ryan, he is devoured by one last crocodile. As the camera focuses on a jogging woman who is listening to a radio, she is attacked and devoured by the surviving crocodile right in front of the Black Lake signboard.
Cast[edit]
Elisabeth Röhm as Sheriff Theresa Giove
Yancy Butler as Reba
Paul Nicholls as Ryan Loflin
Poppy Lee Friar as Chloe Giove
Benedict Smith as Max Loflin
Caroline Ford as Elaine
Scarlett Byrne as Brittany
Daniel Black as Drew
Jeff Stewart as Deputy Nermal
Robert Englund as Jim Bickerman
Production[edit]
In October 2011, Yancy Butler said she had signed on to the project.
Critical response[edit]
The film receives generally mixed reviews, mostly due to its uses of unrealistic, low-budget CGI (just like the two predecessors) and an open ending that is conflicting with its name.
However, Lake Placid: The Final Chapter has been stated to be much better than both of its predecessors. It received positive reviews from some critics who praise its plot and character development. One of the critics David E. Kelley, the writer of the original film, who gave the film 4.5 out of 5 stars, says, "Is this the last one really? The ending doesn't make me think so. I am glad to see Robert Englund in this and some of the cast from the previous movie! The effects are still lame as second and third, but the story is good". Another critic, Marcie Frank said she was totally into it and couldn't change the channel. Scott Weinberg from FEARnet, who gave the film a review "Rotten", said "I've seen a lot worse "crocs run wild" movies than Lake Placid 4".
Home media[edit]
Lake Placid: The Final Chapter was released on DVD on February 19, 2013.
See also[edit]
List of killer crocodile films
References[edit]

External links[edit]
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Lake Placid 2
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Lake Placid 2
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Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Directed by
David Flores
Produced by
Jeffery Beach
 Phillip J. Roth
 T.J. Sakasegawa
Written by
Todd Hurvitz
 Howie Miller
David E. Kelley (original concept)
Starring
John Schneider
Sarah LaFleur
Sam McMurray
 Chad Collins
 Alicia Zielger
 Joe Holt
Cloris Leachman
Music by
Nathan Furst
Cinematography
Lorenzo Senatore
Editing by
John Quinn
Country
United States
Language
English
Original channel
Syfy
Release date
April 27, 2007

Running time
85 minutes
Lake Placid 2 is a 2007 television horror film starring John Schneider and produced by Sony Pictures and the Sci Fi Channel. This sequel to the 1999 film, Lake Placid, aired as a Syfy original movie on April 27, 2007. The rated, and unrated DVD, releases of the film are distributed by 20th Century Fox. They also distributed the unrated Blu-Ray.
The movie was filmed in Bulgaria and directed by David Flores.[1] The DVD to the film was released on January 29, 2008. The sequel, Lake Placid 3 first aired on August 21, 2010.[2] The third sequel, Lake Placid: The Final Chapter, was released in September 2012.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Reception
3 Cast
4 Home Media
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
Years after the events of the first film, Sheriff Riley (John Schneider) investigates the disappearance of a researcher in Lake Placid. Emma, a member of the Fish and Wildlife department, is enlisted to help him. At the lake, they discover the severed head of the missing man, and move to decide to question Sadie, Delores Bickerman's sister. Sadie refuses to aid the investigation, and they leave. On their way back into the town, they are attacked by a twenty foot crocodile, and their boat is destroyed. They swim to the shore, and the crocodile follows them. Sadie is revealed to be feeding the crocodiles with hormone enhanced meat, and two of them have mated, creating a nest of giant eggs.
Reception[edit]
The film received generally negative reviews, citing an unoriginal plot and low-budget special effects.[3][4]
Cast[edit]
John Schneider as Sheriff James Riley
Sarah LaFleur as Emma Warner
Sam McMurray as Jack Struthers
Chad Michael Collins as Scott
Alicia Ziegler as Kerri
Joe Holt as Ahmad
Ian Reed Kesler as Thad
Justin Urich as Larry
Cloris Leachman as Sadie Bickerman
VJ Kewl as Rachel
Robert Blush as Frank
Jonas Talkington as Cal Miner
Terence H. Winkless as Deputy Dale Davis
Home Media[edit]
Lake Placid 2 was released to DVD on January 29, 2008 on both rated and unrated versions. The unrated Blu-Ray was released in 2011.
See also[edit]
List of killer crocodile films
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Morris, Clint (2007-02-25). "Exclusive: Lake Placid 2 Stills, Story & Stars!". Moviehole. Archived from the original on October 13, 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-06.
2.Jump up ^ Lake Placid 3 at the Internet Movie Database
3.Jump up ^ Lowry, Brian (2007-04-26). "Recently Reviewed: Lake Placid 2". Variety. Retrieved 2008-01-06.
4.Jump up ^ Felix, Justin (2007-12-26). "Lake Placid 2". DVD Talk. Retrieved 2008-01-06.
External links[edit]
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Lake Placid 3
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Lake Placid 3
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Directed by
G.E. Furst
Produced by
Jeffery Beach
 Phillip Roth
Written by
David Reed
Starring
Colin Ferguson
Yancy Butler
Michael Ironside

Music by
Nathan Furst
Cinematography
Anton Bakarski
Editing by
Matt Michael
Production company
Stage 6 Films
Country
United States
Language
English
Original channel
Syfy
Release date
August 21, 2010

Running time
93 minutes
Lake Placid 3 is a 2010 made-for-television horror film starring Colin Ferguson produced by Syfy. This sequel to the 2007 film, Lake Placid 2, and the 1999 film, Lake Placid, aired as a Syfy original movie on August 21, 2010.


Contents  [hide]
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2 Cast
3 Reception
4 Home media
5 Sequel
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

Plot[edit]
One year after the events of the second movie, at Black Lake, in Aroostook County, Maine, young couple April (Roxanne Pallett) and Jason (James Marchant) go skinny dipping and are attacked and eaten by a group of baby crocodiles. Meanwhile, at the house of the deceased Sadie Bickerman, her nephew Nathan (Colin Ferguson), his wife Susan (Kirsty Mitchell) and their son Connor (Jordan Kennedy) are cleaning out the house so they can sell it. However, Sheriff Tony Willinger (Michael Ironside) soon arrives and convinces Nathan and Susan not to sell. Connor chases an escaped pet lizard down to the lake where he encounters the baby crocodiles, and begins to secretly feed them.
Two years later, Connor has continued to feed the now adult crocodiles stolen meat from the supermarket, but he is soon caught for shoplifting by Dimitri (Velizar Binev) and sent home to his babysitter, Vica (Bianca Ilich), by Susan. However, Connor goes to the lake to feed the crocodiles, followed by Vica who is attacked. Vica, whose arm has been badly injured, find Susan at Sadie's house, where they tend to Vica's arm and Connor confesses to feeding the crocodiles. Meanwhile, Nathan is searching the lake due to a number of elk disappearances. He bumps into four teenagers, Ellie (Kacey Barnfield), Tara (Angelica Penn), Aaron (Nils Hognestad) and Charlie (Brian Landon) who are camping on the lake. The teenagers show Nathan an elk head they previously found, leading Nathan to believe it was the act of hunter Reba (Yancy Butler), but he persuades Sheriff Tony to search the lake to make sure it is clear of crocodiles. While the teenagers camp, Charlie is devoured.
Reba is approached by teenager Brett (Mark Evans), to help him find his girl friend Ellie, who he fears will be taken advantage of by Aaron. Reba agrees and takes Brett out onto the lake in her boat with Jonas (Atanas Srebrev) and Walt (Donald Anderson). Stopping to hunt elk, a crocodile attacks the boat and knocks the group into the water. Walt is eaten, but the others escape to shore; however, they are now stranded in the forest. After hours, Ellie and Aaron search for the missing Charlie, leaving Tara by the lake where she is attacked by a crocodile that drags her into the lake. Ellie and Aaron return to find Tara missing, and decide to try and reach help. They discover Charlie's dead body, before finding what Ellie thinks is Brett's jacket. Ellie decides to search for Brett, angering Aaron who walks the other way, only to be attacked by a crocodile.
After searching the lake, Nathan and Sheriff Tony arrive at Sadie's house and reunite with Susan, Connor and Vica. They decide they should try and escape the house to get to a hospital, but in their attempt Vica and Sheriff Tony are devoured and the car is submerged in the lake. Nathan, Susan and Connor take shelter in the house. Meanwhile, Brett, Reba and Jonas manage to shoot a crocodile dead, but another crocodile arrives and decapitates Jonas before attacking Reba, who manages to get away. Desperate, Reba and a reluctant Brett travel on Reba's boat to Sadie's house and meet with Nathan, Susan and Connor. Determined to find Ellie, Brett escapes to Reba's boat and searches for her. He finds Ellie, but a crocodile kills him.
Reba kills a crocodile that gets into the house, before she leaves with Nathan, Susan and Connor. Ellie joins them, and they make it to the town. The group break into the supermarket to call for help, setting off the alarm that attracts Dimitri, but he is swiftly devoured as a group of crocodiles enter the supermarket. The group are attacked but manage to kill most of the crocodiles, but Reba is seemingly killed in the process. The only remaining crocodile chases Nathan, Susan, Ellie and Connor to the gas station where the group manage to ignite gas with a lighter, causing an explosion that kills the crocodile. An ambulance then comes and helps Nathan, Susan, Ellie and Connor.
Sometime later, Nathan, is taking a group of tourists around the lake, telling them of the crocodiles that are believed to be extinct. However, a baby crocodile is seen swimming in the lake, before an adult crocodile attacks the camera.
Cast[edit]
Colin Ferguson as Nathan Bickerman
Yancy Butler as Reba Butler
Kirsty Mitchell as Susan Bickerman
Kacey Barnfield as Ellie
Jordan Grehs as Connor Bickerman
Michael Ironside as Sheriff Tony Willinger
Mark Evans as Brett
Nils Hognestad as Aaron
Bianca Kajlich as Vica
Angelica Penn as Tara
Brian Landon as Charlie Berman
Atanas Srebrev as Jonas
Donald Anderson as Walt
Roxanne Pallett as April
James Marchant as Jason
Velizar Binev as Dimitri
John Laskowski as Station Attendant
Ivo Simeonov as Town Drunk
Kremena Otashliyska as Girl
Alexander Nikolov as Cadet (uncredited)
Reception[edit]
Reviews have been mixed to negative. Ken Tucker gave the film a bad review.[1]
Home media[edit]
Lake Placid 3 was released to DVD and Blu-ray on October 26, 2010. The DVD is Unrated and contains scenes of nudity.
Sequel[edit]
The sequel Lake Placid: The Final Chapter (2012) stars Yancy Butler, who also starred in Lake Placid 3. It was directed by Don Michael Paul.
See also[edit]
List of killer crocodile films
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ 'Lake Placid 3' review: Eureka! We have a new bad Syfy movie winner!
External links[edit]
Lake Placid 3 at the Internet Movie Database
Lake Placid 3 at SCI-FI.com


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Lake Placid
Lake placid ver2.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Steve Miner
Produced by
David E. Kelley
 Michael Pressman
 Peter Bogart
Written by
David E. Kelley
Starring
Bill Pullman
Bridget Fonda
Oliver Platt
Brendan Gleeson
Betty White
Meredith Salenger
Mariska Hargitay
Music by
John Ottman
Cinematography
Daryn Okada
Edited by
Paul Hirsch
 Marshall Harvey
Production
   company
Phoenix Pictures
Stan Winston Studios
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Release date(s)
July 16, 1999

Running time
82 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$27 million[1]
Box office
$56,870,414[2]
Lake Placid is a 1999 American monster horror comedy film. The film was written by David E. Kelley and directed by Steve Miner, starring Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt, Brendan Gleeson, Betty White, Meredith Salenger and Mariska Hargitay. The plot revolves around a giant, 30-foot-long man-eating crocodile which terrorizes the fictional location of Black Lake, Maine, United States, and also follows the dysfunctional group who attempt to capture or destroy the creature.
The film was produced by Fox 2000 Pictures and Stan Winston Studios (which did the special effects for the creatures) and principal photography was shot in British Columbia, Canada. The film was distributed by 20th Century Fox and released in cinemas in the United States on July 16, 1999, and in the United Kingdom on March 31, 2000.[3] The film was a financial success at the box office and was followed by three made-for-television sequels, Lake Placid 2 (2007), Lake Placid 3 (2010) and Lake Placid: The Final Chapter (2012).


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Reception
5 Sequels
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
In Lincoln County, Maine, a marine Fish and Game officer is attacked and bitten in half by something unseen in Black Lake. Sheriff Hank Keough (Brendan Gleeson), Fish and Game officer Jack Wells (Bill Pullman), American Museum of Natural History paleontologist Kelly Scott (Bridget Fonda), and mythology professor/crocodile enthusiast Hector Cyr (Oliver Platt) go to the lake to investigate.
A series of strange events occur, including Kelly and Hank's canoe mysteriously flying into the air and flipping, the discovery of a severed toe and a severed Moose head, and the decapitation of a Fish and Game deputy.
Later, as Hank and Hector argue, a brown bear attacks them before a giant saltwater crocodile leaps out of the water and drags it into the lake. Jack, Kelly, and Hank visit Delores Bickerman (Betty White), one of few people living on the lake. After finding the deputy's severed head, they witness her feeding a blindfolded cow to the enormous crocodile. Delores reveals that she has been feeding the crocodile for years after it followed her husband home. It eventually killed him. She is placed under house arrest for initially lying to the police.
Hector decides to take one of Hank's deputies on a trip in the helicopter, and lands the helicopter in the cove where the crocodile lives. While he is diving, it attacks him, but he escapes. Jack and Hank plan to allow Florida Fish and Game to kill the crocodile when they arrive, but Hector suggests instead that he lure it out of the water and drug it. Jack reluctantly accepts the proposal, and they use one of Delores' cows, dangled from the helicopter, as bait. After a few hours, the crocodile lunges at the cow. Hector pulls up, loses the cow, and crashes the helicopter into the lake. The crocodile comes on land and attacks Jack and Kelly. Kelly is knocked into the lake, but she makes it to the helicopter just in time.
The crocodile then gets trapped in the helicopter. Despite Hector and Kelly's protests to let the animal live, Jack grabs a gun and shoots it. The gun is revealed to be a tranquilizer rifle. As Hector comes out of the water, a second crocodile attacks him, but Hank blows it up with his grenade launcher. Florida Fish and Game officers arrive seconds later. They load the crocodile on a truck and take it to Portland, Maine to figure out what to do with it. The last scene shows Delores feeding bread crumbs to many baby crocodiles, implying the two adults were a mating pair. During the end credits, the surviving adult crocodile is seen tied to the back of a flat-bed truck, speeding down a road.
Cast[edit]
Bill Pullman as Jack Wells
Bridget Fonda as Kelly Scott
Oliver Platt as Hector Cyr
Brendan Gleeson as Sheriff Hank Keough
Betty White as Mrs. Delores Bickerman
David Lewis as Alex Lawson
Tim Dixon as Stephen Daniels
Natassia Malthe as Janine
Mariska Hargitay as Myra Okubo
Meredith Salenger as Deputy Sharon Gare
Jed Rees as Deputy Burke
Richard Leacock as Deputy Stevens
Jake T. Roberts as Officer Coulson
Ty Olsson as State Trooper
Production[edit]
The film was produced by Fox 2000 Pictures, Phoenix Pictures, and Rocking Chair Productions.[4] The 30-foot (9.1 m) long crocodile was created by Stan Winston Studios.
Almost the entire film was shot on location in remote locations in Lincoln, Maine, which stood in for the fictional locations of the film in the American state of Maine. Some scenes were shot in Vancouver and Surrey, B.C. Three different lakes stood in for the fictional "Black Lake"; these were Shawnigan Lake, Vancouver Island, B.C.; Buntzen Lake, Anmore, B.C.; and Hayward Lake, Mission, B.C.[5]
Betty White's character is told that PETA would be interested to learn of her alleged mistreatment of her cows. In reality, Betty White is a major on-air spokesperson for PETA.[6]
Reception[edit]
Although Lake Placid was a financial success at the box office, critical reception was mixed. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 39% rating with the critical consensus being "Faux horror schtick fails to elicit any laughs or scares."[7] Roger Ebert described it as "completely wrong-headed from beginning to end".[8] Empire gave the film four out of five stars, saying "You can enjoy Placid as a straightforward camping-holiday nightmare, or as a sly, ironic take on the same. It works deliciously as both."[9]
Sequels[edit]
Three sequels follow the film Lake Placid. All are television/Syfy films and were not as successful as the original.
Lake Placid 2, produced by Sony Pictures and the Sci Fi Channel, is a made-for-television movie aired as a Sci Fi Channel original movie on April 28, 2007. Changes from the original film include a completely different cast, filming locations in Bulgaria and a severely reduced budget. The unrated DVD release of the film was distributed by 20th Century Fox and released on January 29, 2008.
Lake Placid 3, produced by Syfy, starring Colin Ferguson. Aired on August 21, 2010[10] and was released as a DVD on October 26, 2010. Lake Placid 3 have two versions; The TV version was rated R, the DVD version was unrated and contains nudity.[11]
Its final sequel, Lake Placid: The Final Chapter or Lake Placid 4 was released on September 29, 2012. Yancy Butler, who starred in the third film, reprised her role as Reba who survived being attacked by a crocodile at the end of the third movie.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139414/business
2.Jump up ^ Lake Placid (1999) - Box Office Mojo
3.Jump up ^ Lake Placid (1999) - Release dates
4.Jump up ^ Lake Placid (1999) - Company credits
5.Jump up ^ Lake Placid (1999) - Filming locations
6.Jump up ^ Lake Placid (2000) - Trivia - IMDb
7.Jump up ^ Lake Placid - Rotten Tomatoes
8.Jump up ^ rogerebert.com
9.Jump up ^ "Lake Placid Review." EmpireOnline.com.
10.Jump up ^ imdb
11.Jump up ^ Moviecensorship.com Detailed info and pictorials.
External links[edit]
Lake Placid at the Internet Movie Database
Lake Placid at AllMovie
Lake Placid at Box Office Mojo


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