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Ghost Shark
USA 2013
produced by Kevin M. Badish, Griff Furst, Daniel Lewis, James T. Bruce IV (executive), R. Bryan Wright (executive) for Active Entertainment/SyFy
directed by Griff Furst
starring Mackenzie Rosman, Dave Randolph-Mayhem Davis, Lucky Johnson, Shawn C. Phillips, Richard Moll, Sloane Coe, Thomast Francis Murphy, Jaren Mitchell, Brooke Hurring, Jayme Bohn, Kim Collins, Amy Brassette, Robert Aberdeen, Carl Palmer, Han Soto, Michael Whitener, Mark Haya, Liann Pattison, Tim Taylor, Ben Lemoine, LaJessie Smith, Eliot Brasseaux, Chelsea Bruland, Angela Meredith Furst, Sean O'Regan, Ronnie Hooks
story by Eric Forsberg, Griff Furst, screenplay by Paul A. Birkett, music by Andrew Morgan Smith, mechanical effects by Mike V. Schultz, special effects coordinated by Mark Hava, visual effects supervised by Brock Jolet
review by Mike Haberfelner
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After a shark is killed by a redneck fisherman (Kim Collins) and his
wife (Amy Brussette), he just about makes it to a mythical cave to return
as a ghost and exact his revenge of those who killed him - not that they
deserve too much sympathy, having killed the shark merely as sport. Thing
is, the shark doesn't stop there but travels around a nearby coastal town
killing people rather at random, just as long as there is water involved
in some way - he can't manifest on dry land, but at one point manifests in
a glass of water and lets a victim swallow him to in return devour him
from the inside. Ava (Mackenzie Rosman) is the daughter of said
fisherman who also witnesses several of her friends killed by the ghost
shark - but when she tells all this to the authorities, her claims about
the translucent shark are just laughed off. So she and her friends Blaise
(Dave Randolph-Mayhem Davis), Cicely (Sloane Coe) - for some reason the
only human who was ever spit out by the ghost shark virtually unscathed,
no explanation given - and Cameron (Jaren Mitchell) - the stubborn mayor's
(Lucky Johnson) son who gets killed way too soon - team up with the only
man who seems to know what's going on, Finch (Richard Moll) the alcoholic
lighthouse keeper. He knows the secret of the mythical cave that brings
predators of all sorts back to life thanks to the anger of the people who
have died there ... including Finch's own wife (Jayme Bohn), whom he has
killed in a drunken rage. Eventually, our unlikely heroes figure out the
only way to kill the shark is to stab it with the very instrument he was
originally killed with - an arrow. But while Ava kills the ghost shark
with the arrow alright, he comes back to ghost-life a couple of hours
later, angrier than ever, and while Finch gets his just desserts for
killing his wife, Ava manages to blow up the mythical cave and all shark
terror with it ... As far as SyFy original movies go, Ghost
Shark is a pretty decent effort: Sure, it's directorial effort is
rather functional at best, the effects work leaves something to be
desired, the story is both derivative and silly as heck and is riddled
with plotholes - but on the other hand the film doesn't take itself too
seriously (without being moronic) and relies way less on mere gimmickery
than SyFy's way better known Sharknado
from the same year. And at least in Ava the movie has a strong lead
character ably embodied by Mackenzie Rosman. That all said, expect
neither a total disaster nor the greatest shark movie in the world ... but
if you watch this one with an open mind, you might be more entertained
than you expect to be.
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