If you didn’t get your fill of 3D dumb-fun horror with Final Destination 5 then get ready for Shark Night 3D! Teens + shark = potentially satisfying film. In the first clip from the film, we see a couple of guys feed Katherine McPhee to the underwater beasts. Fun fact: sharks are immune from McPheever.
Hit the jump to check out the clip. The film also stars Sinqua Walls, Chris Carmack, Alyssa Diaz, Joel David Moore and Sara Paxton. Shark Night 3D opens September 2nd.
A weekend at a lake house in the Louisiana Gulf turns into a nightmare for seven vacationers as they are subjected to fresh-water shark attacks.
A sexy summer weekend turns into a blood-soaked nightmare for a group of college students trapped on an island surrounded by voracious underwater predators in Shark Night 3D, a terrifying thrill ride from director David Ellis (The Final Destination, Snakes On a Plane), featuring a red-hot young cast including Sara Paxton (Superhero Movie, Last House on the Left), Dustin Milligan ("90210," Slither), Chris Carmack ("The O.C."), Joel David Moore (Avatar), Chris Zylka (The Amazing Spider Man) and Katharine McPhee (The House Bunny). Arriving by boat at her family's Louisiana lake island cabin, Sara (Sara Paxton) and her friends quickly strip down to their swimsuits for a weekend of fun in the sun. But when star football player Malik (Sinqua Walls) stumbles from the salt-water lake with his arm torn off, the party mood quickly evaporates. Assuming the injury was caused by a freak wake-boarding accident, the group realizes they have to get Malik to a hospital on the other side of the lake, and fast. But as they set out in a tiny speedboat, the college friends discover the lake has been stocked with hundreds of massive, flesh-eating sharks! As they face one grisly death after another, Sara and the others struggle desperately to fend off the sharks, get help and stay alive long enough to reach the safety of dry land.
Is there any point in even discussing the “quality” of Shark Night 3D?
Well, there is, in the sense that you probably want to know: Is Shark Night a monster B-movie that celebrates it own trashiness (a la Piranha 3D) or is it one of those horror flicks that fails to recognized its own innate cheesiness -- and ends up being bad in a not-fun way?
Based on the Shark Night 3D trailer and the recently-released collection of clips, the answer seems to be “a bit of both.” It has the same setup as Piranha -- pretty, no-name actors and actresses on vacation get chomped up by killer fish (here, rare fresh-water sharks) -- and director David R. Ellis (Snakes on a Plane, the second and fourth Final Destination movies) was clearly aware that he was shooting a “glorified” exploitation flick when he made this.
The acting in Shark Night 3D looks as hokey as you’d expect, but it also seems like the film could’ve used some more experienced stars, similar to those in Piranha 3D (ex. Elisabeth Shue, Ving Rhames, Christopher Lloyd) who really have that self-aware, tongue-in-cheek style down pat.
Here’s a fun drinking game idea for those planning to either watch Shark Night 3D at home, or by sneaking some sort of intoxicating beverage (heck, even plain soda will work) into the theater: take a shot every time a gratuitous camera angle of a woman in a bikini or a horror movie cliché (ex. when the sharks go after the token black guy first) pops up. Be careful, though, you’ll probably pass out after the first ten minutes.
There is one big factor working against the film: it’s Rated PG-13. Seriously, what’s the point of releasing a movie called Shark Night 3D if you’ve not going to go the whole nine yards and feature tons of R-Rated gore and nudity? It’s not as though it’s difficult to hit the lowest-common denominator, when you’re aiming for it.
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