Malibu Shark Attack (TV 2009)

When a tsunami floods Malibu, it brings with it a hunting pack of deep-water, prehistoric goblin sharks that go after the lifeguards in their half-submerged station on stilts and a team of construction workers stranded in a flooded house.

Director:

David Lister

Writer:

Keith Shaw

Stars:

Renee Bowen, Remi Broadway, Joel Amos Byrnes

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Renee Bowen	...	Yancey
Remi Broadway	...	Doug
Joel Amos Byrnes	...	Jason (as Joel Burns)
Warren Christie	...	Chavez
Nicholas G. Cooper	...	Bryan (as Nicholas Cooper)
Jeff Gannon	...	Colin (as Jeffery Gannon)
Mungo McKay	...	George
Evert McQueen	...	Karl
Sonya Salomaa	...	Barb
Chelan Simmons	...	Jenny
Daniel West	...	Keith
Peta Wilson	...	Heather
Simon Buckley	...	Diver #2
Brooke Cullen	...	Bikini Girl
Alex Dias	...	Teenager

Storyline

An underwater earthquake generates a tsunami that strikes Malibu, bringing a hunting pack of prehistoric-looking goblin sharks to the surface. Although the beach is evacuated before the big wave strikes, a group of lifeguards and a crew of construction workers are stranded in the high water and have to fight the sharks to get to dry land.

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Plot Keywords:

shark | tsunami | stranded | construction worker | lifeguard | 

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Taglines:

Terror Has New Teeth

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Genres:

Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

Australia Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

25 July 2009 (USA)

Also Known As:

Goblin Shark Attack

Box Office

Budget:

$3,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Insight Film Studios, Limelight International Media Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

88 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

After the sharks are discovered, it is repeatedly stated that they have not existed in millions of years. In fact, goblin sharks live in very deep water off Japan. So far the largest specimen recorded is 14 feet, but little is known, including how large they get because they are very rare and live very deep, evidence shows at least 750 fathoms (4500 feet) deep.

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Quotes

Chavez: There was a shark in the parking lot.

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Connections

References Frankenstein (1931)

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Soundtracks

"On A Summer Breeze"
Performed by Jack Howell
Courtesy of Wild Whirled Music

User Reviews

The schlockmeisters are back! I'm drowning in drivel! HELP!!!

AWFUL! Just bloody awful. The two previous reviewers must have watched this on crack (either that, or they're both flaks for the network): this is precisely the kind of B-movie that makes SciFi channel and USA Network SO unwatchable 95 percent of the time. Even the sharks were bad. That's on the dopey director, the excruciatingly bad script, the cheesy producers, and the network drones who lard the schedule with mindless babble like this. But face it: nobody watched Baywatch for its generally poor acting or the blindingly stupid scripts, either -- it was eye candy, the TV equivalent of a pulp novel. The only real eye candy here was Peta Wilson (the men were so stupid every time they spoke that they made me wince, which ruined the effect of the beefcake), and I hope Wilson at least made a decent buck off it: this one's clearly not going into her portfolio.

The 'danger in the water' movies historically have a few remarkable gems among them, but it's mostly a history of losers and throwaway flicks like this. The "Jaws" films had a much higher overall caliber, not just of directors, actors and acting, but of everything else that went into them. The rest of the "scary fish" subgenre (yes, I know sharks are really mammals) shown on cable channels like this are only made for USA/SciFi to be filler in between equally fake wrestling -- perfect for a summer schedule that just reeks of old, cheap USA Network (for SciFi, read idiot dungeons-magic-and-talking-dragons flicks and horror-aboard-the-spaceship instead). It's like for 10 or 12 weeks of the year, they're willing to tolerate a decent series or two like BSG, Eureka, the Stargate series, Burn Notice or Royal Pains, then they go the cheap-ass route the rest of the year and expect us not to notice.

This is just the same insult offered by USA/SciFi over and over again. They learned nothing from their experience with Battlestar Galactica, which brought them tons of adult ***and female*** viewers whom they are now insistently driving away. Way to go, bozos.

What I might enjoy more is video of the USA Network/SciFi execs and the 'pro' wrestlers getting eaten by a few real sharks so that we didn't have to watch them **OR** crap like this anymore. It doesn't matter how they spell it, SciFi or SyFy or Schmy-Fi -- it still translates to trash, and if it weren't for the occasional treasure like Eureka and Battlestar Galactica, nobody would bother with this channel EXCEPT 15-year-old boys: they're the only ones dumb enough to fall for this crap. Which is why I've spent my summer watching BSG on DVD and reruns of La Femme Nikita online instead.