Even thouth their wedding ceremony on the beautiful island of malta couldn't be much nicer, their marriage is pretty much dead on arrival - heck, Tina (Alice Eve) and Tom (Eric Michael Cole) don't even spend their wedding night with one another. And yet, they next day their best friends (Elle HAymond, Sarah Siadat, Johnny Gaffney, Lisa Yaro) pretty much force them to join them on what was supposed to be a fun yacht trip - that's cut short when a shark - that shouldn't even be in the Mediterranean Sea - rams their boat and their skipper (Vince Jolivette) goes overboard and is promptly eaten by the beast. Now this is bad enough, but it gets worse by the yacht catching fire and the shark ramming them again hoping for seconds. Now fortunately they are all saved at the nick of time by Roy (Jim Klock), apparently a professional shark hunter who manages to chase the animal away and take them all on board - and then he drugs them and ties them up, because he has a terrible secret: His wife has been killed by the exact shark our heroes have been attacked by. Since then he has been chasing the beast to kill it, but to bait it, he needs human flesh - something our heroes of course have in spades ...

Sure, by 2026, shark movies are pretty much a dime a dozen, and Chum isn't exactly a film that's afraid of using all the tropes you'd expect from a shark movie - but at the same time it deviates from the genre-generic narrative of good (human) vs evil (shark) or man vx nature and instead presents the shark as a mere force of nature while making man - both indivicually in the character of Roy or collectively as the cause of climate change) the actual villain of the piece. Now add to that briskly paced storytelling, a polished directorial effort and a very solid cast, and you're left with a pretty cool piece of genre cinema.

Chum will come to all major digital platforms in the UK August 17th 2026.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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