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| File:Dinoshark.jpgThe Dinoshark | |
| Directed by | Kevin O'Neill |
| Written by | Frances Doel Guy Prevost |
| Produced by | Roger Corman Julie Corman |
| Cinematography | Eduardo Flores Torres |
| Edited by | Vikram Kale Olena Kuhtaryeva |
| Music by | Cynthia Brown |
| Production company | Syfy |
| Running time | 92 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Dinoshark is a 2010 low budget Syfy horror film.
Background
The film premiered on Syfy on the evening of March 13, 2010. The film had 2 million viewers during the premiere. Dinoshark followed up Dinocroc; Roger Corman proposed a sequel (Dinocroc 2) but Syfy felt that television audiences tended to respond better to new-but-similar ideas more than direct sequels. April MacIntyre, of Monsters and Critics compared the film to old B movies. A planned sequel titled Dinocroc vs. Supergator is also intended. Roger Corman said that while the plot is hard to believe, the film can be enjoyed if belief is suspended and that the film is internally consistent.
Dinoshark has been described as Dinocroc with flippers. Before the film was released, Margaret Lyons of Entertainment Weekly said that this along with Sharktopus were destined to be classics of the "awesomely awful made-for-TV movie genre".
Plot summary
The film opens with a baby dinoshark swimming away from a broken chunk of Arctic glacier that calved due to global warming. Three years later, the dinoshark is a ferocious predatory adult and kills tourists and locals offshore from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The protagonist, Trace, is first to notice the Dinoshark and witnesses his friend get eaten, but has trouble convincing people that a creature of such antiquity is still alive and eating people.
Reception
A Dread Central review was condemnatory of the "rubbery" monster, "exceptionally chintzy" effects and "some of the worst acting ever seen in a Syfy original movie", concluding that users who did not regularly watch "schlocky shark flicks" would probably enjoy laughing at "this silly offering in which half the cast sound like they were voiced over by George Lopez". April MacIntyre, of Monsters and Critics, said that she wouldn't want the film any other way.
References
- ^ MacIntyre, April (2010-03-05). "Review: Dinoshark is epic, Syfy's Roger Corman fish tale airs Sat, March 13". Monsters and Critics. Retrieved 2010-06-10.
- "Syfy Announces Schedule Of Upcoming Saturday Original Movies". Broadway World. Retrieved 2010-06-10.
- "Syfy teams with Corman for "Dinoshark" movie". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2010-06-10.
- "Sharktopus Plot Details and Dinoshark Image Revealed!". Dread Central. Retrieved 2010-06-10.
- Lyons, Margaret (2010-02-18). "'Dinoshark,' 'Sharktopus,' and the 10 greatest Syfy titles and taglines ever". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2010-06-10.
- "Dinoshark (2010)". Dread Central. 2010-03-15. Retrieved 2010-06-10.