This film at first glance seems like it is a long line of films that are copying Jaws; however, I do believe the writer of this one got his inspiration from Willard. Apparently, he wrote this before Jaws, but wasn't able to get anyone to consider it until the success of Jaws. No, this one is like Willard, Stanley and Kiss of the Tarantula where a man or woman has a friend that is either icky or super dangerous or both. The film plays out in the same fashion as Willard and Stanley as these films always have the creature the person loves turn on them and kill them in the end.
The story has a man who has a special connection with sharks thanks to a medallion that we will see the origins of in a flashback. He is first shown cutting the line of some bozos fishing for sharks and then climbing on board and killing all three of them. Suffice to say, it is easy to see, this guy is not right in the head. He has people wanting him to get sharks including a woman he saves from being raped, but everyone does things to make the sharks suffer, so he will make all those people suffer!
The one point that is a bit off with the story is we are supposed to believe this guy loves sharks, but he lets a researcher have a pregnant shark and then lets this very scummy looking bar owner have one for his wife to swim with as he has a tank behind the bar and she puts on a very boring show. Obviously, the sharks are not going to like this, yet he is supposed to care deeply for them?
So we get revenge and then the guy gets his comeuppance as the sharks he loves nom nom him to death at the end as he loses his precious medallion as he becomes completely unhinged. You kind of feel sorry for him, but you just cannot murder everyone. The wife to me was the most despicable character, he saved her from a rape and she basically betrays his trust. Besides, all she had to do to draw more people to her show was get naked...
The story has a man who has a special connection with sharks thanks to a medallion that we will see the origins of in a flashback. He is first shown cutting the line of some bozos fishing for sharks and then climbing on board and killing all three of them. Suffice to say, it is easy to see, this guy is not right in the head. He has people wanting him to get sharks including a woman he saves from being raped, but everyone does things to make the sharks suffer, so he will make all those people suffer!
The one point that is a bit off with the story is we are supposed to believe this guy loves sharks, but he lets a researcher have a pregnant shark and then lets this very scummy looking bar owner have one for his wife to swim with as he has a tank behind the bar and she puts on a very boring show. Obviously, the sharks are not going to like this, yet he is supposed to care deeply for them?
So we get revenge and then the guy gets his comeuppance as the sharks he loves nom nom him to death at the end as he loses his precious medallion as he becomes completely unhinged. You kind of feel sorry for him, but you just cannot murder everyone. The wife to me was the most despicable character, he saved her from a rape and she basically betrays his trust. Besides, all she had to do to draw more people to her show was get naked...