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20 May 1976 (USA) morePlot:
Two adventurers set sail to find a giant man-eating great white shark. | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Poor "Jaws" rip off effort moreCast
(Credited cast) | Richard Yniguez | ... | Cabo Mendoza |
 | Phillip Clark | ... | Rick Dayner |
| Jennifer Warren | ... | Carolyn |
| Elizabeth Gill | ... | Bonnie |
| Victor Campos | ... | Luis |
| David Huddleston | ... | Bearde |
| Carmen Zapata | ... | Helena Mendoza |
 | Jim B. Smith | ... | Franey |
| Roxanna Bonilla-Giannini | ... | Maria |
| Richard Foronjy | ... | Banducci |
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Much like "Grizzly" released the same year, the made-for-TV effort "Shark Kill" is known for being one of the earliest "Jaws" rip offs. And much like in the case of "Grizzly", just because a film comes first doesn't mean it's very good. But while "Grizzly" was mildly amusing, "Shark Kill" is just plain bad. The plots pretty simple, a bunch of oil rig workers are being terrorized by a giant great white shark. Now, the whole "eco-horror" genre isn't known for impressive or original plots (especially post-"Jaws"), so I'm not going to hold that against "Shark Kill". However, what is unacceptable is that this is a tedious and completely uninteresting film. This suffers from pacing problems from start to finish and even though this lasts just a little over an hour fifteen minuets (excluding commercials) it fills a lot longer. In addition the characters are one dimensional and uninteresting; they add nothing to the story. The script offers no surprises what so ever and the dialog is very basic. And of course this being a made for TV effort, it's completely PC and tasteful with no violence or sex. Not that I was really expecting that anyway, but it would have been nice to break up the tedium with blood and breasts. Overall this is a lackluster and really disappointing effort fans of the "Jaws" rip off genre would be best served looking elsewhere such as "The Last Shark", "Piranha", "Alligator" or "Big Alligator River". All of those are much more entertaining films. On one positive note the movie does have that wonderful rough 70's look which I personally love.