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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.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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