Hasitha Fernando with a selection of essential animal horror movies to watch if you enjoyed Beast… Animal horror, creature feature or whichever way you choose to label them, all these films belong to a subgenre of horror that taps into our primal fear of what would happen if nature went haywire. With the Idris Elba […]
Shark Attack: A Deep Dive Into Cinema’s Sinister Obsession
Sarah Myles has a close encounter with the shark movie genre… Movie trends ebb and flow, with thematically similar stories washing through our cinemas at regular intervals. War films, biopics, westerns, slasher movies, ghost stories – each has its season, and they return again and again in cyclical fashion. One trend that seems to be […]
DVD Review – The Shallows (2016)
The Shallows, 2016. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. Starring Blake Lively, Oscar Jaenada, Angelo Josue Lozano Corzo, Bret Mullen, Chelsea Moody. SYNOPSIS: A surfer is attacked by a great white shark a couple of hundred yards from the shore and must battle to get back to dry land. “The best shark movie since Jaws” is a […]
Movie Review – The Shallows (2016)
The Shallows. 2016. Directed by Jaume Collett-Serra. Starring Blake Lively. SYNOPSIS: A mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills. The Shallows tells the story of Nancy, a college medical student who travels to a secluded beach […]
Second Opinion – The Shallows (2016)
The Shallows, 2016. Directed by Jaume Collet Serra. Starring Blake Lively, Oscar Jaenada, Brett Cullen and Sedona Lodge. SYNOPSIS: A mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills. When I first heard about The Shallows, my […]
Movie Review – The Shallows (2016)
The Shallows, 2016. Directed by Jaume Collett-Serra. Starring Blake Lively. SYNOPSIS: A mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills. Whatever you do, don’t go in the water. Back in 1975, a young director by the name […]
The Shallows surprises audiences and scares up a $16 million opening
Shark movie The Shallows opened domestically over the weekend [read our review here], and while it was never going to compete with giants like Finding Dory and Independence Day: Resurgence, it performed very well. Opening on just under 3,000 screens, the Blake Lively-starring film brought home an estimated $16.7 million (an average of $5,500 per screening). […]
Movie Review – The Shallows (2016)
The Shallows, 2016. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. Starring Blake Lively. SYNOPSIS: A mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills. The Shallows director Jaume Collet-Serra isn’t a well-known name to mainstream audiences, but he is beginning to slowly […]