Bait (2012)

A freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building - along with 12-foot Great White Sharks.

Director:

Kimble Rendall

Writers:

Shayne Armstrong (additional writing by), Duncan Kennedy (additional writing by)

Stars:

Richard Brancatisano, Xavier Samuel, Chris Betts

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Richard Brancatisano	...	Rory
Xavier Samuel	...	Josh
Chris Betts	...	Lockie
Sharni Vinson	...	Tina
Simon Edds	...	Lifeguard
Miranda Deakin	...	TV Reporter
Julian McMahon	...	Doyle
Dan Wyllie	...	Kirby
Alice Parkinson	...	Naomi
Phoebe Tonkin	...	Jaimie
Damien Garvey	...	Colins
Lincoln Lewis	...	Kyle
Cariba Heine	...	Heather
Alex Russell	...	Ryan
Adrian Pang	...	Jessup

Storyline

This movie is about a group of people who get trapped in a Supermarket after a Tsunami hits the coast of Queensland, Australia. But they soon find out that they have more to worry about than being in a flooded grocery store, there's 12 foot sharks swimming around them, and it's hungry.

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Plot Keywords:

tsunami | supermarket | shark | great white shark | swimming | 

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Taglines:

Cleanup on aisle 7.

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Genres:

Action | Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for bloody violence, some grisly images and language

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Japan] Screamworks Records [Sweden]

Country:

Australia Singapore China

Language:

English

Release Date:

20 September 2012 (Australia)

Also Known As:

Bait (Carnada)

Filming Locations:

Coolangatta, Queensland, Australia

Box Office

Budget:

AUD 30,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bait Productions, Media Development Authority (MDA), Pictures in Paradise

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital (5.1)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Cariba Heine and Phoebe Tonkin starred together in the Australian TV show H2O: Just Add Water (2006). They played two of the three mermaid friends, Rikki Chadwick and Cleo Sertori. However, in this film, they don't share any screen time till the end of the film and they do not have dialogue together. When Martin Sacks' character walks in the store after locking Phoebe's character in the car, a board has a Melon named as H20 Melon.

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Goofs

When the underground garage of the supermarket is flooded, several people remain in their cars and vans for more than an hour without leaks, and the cars don't float. In reality, cars that are submerged up to the roof become totally flooded within 1-3 minutes. Occupants have less than a minute to get out, otherwise they will drown. If the windows are shut, a car will tilt up and sink front first.

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Quotes

Heather: Do you see it anywhere?
Kyle: [sarcastically] Yeah, I see it, but I'm keeping it a secret from you because I want you to be surprised!
Heather: Oh, thank you for your thoughtfulness, Kyle. Really, it's always what I wanted in a boyfriend.
[the shark swims past the rear end of the car]
Heather: Oh! I can't handle this much longer. It may seem surprising, but I'm not equipped to deal with this kind of situation.
Heather: [puts her dog in the back seat] Here, Bulli, you need some space.
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Crazy Credits

No sharks were harmed in the making of this movie.

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Connections

Referenced in I Hate Everything: the Search for the Worst: Jurassic Shark (2015)

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Soundtracks

Music For Cars
Written by Kimble Rendall & The Slice
Performed by Kimble Rendall & The Slice

User Reviews

Surpsingly enough not horrible.

It was real surprising for me to find out how watchable this movie actually was. I mean, a movie in which a shark attacks a bunch of people trapped in a supermarket, after a tsunami hit, doesn't exactly sound like high quality stuff. As a matter of fact. you would normally expect a movie like this to be extremely bad and cheesy but the movie, as it turned out, was far from cheesy and simply was being pretty good for what it was.

I still expected the worst, after the first 15 minutes or so, which wasn't exactly being a very promising start for the movie. It looked horrible and I feared for the rest of the movie. I expected it to be a very formulaic genre flick, in which nothing exciting or original ever happened. And even while the movie isn't being all that original, it still feels like a good watch, since it manages to entertain and takes itself serious enough.

That was perhaps being the key as to why the movie worked out; it took itself serious. Normally modern B-movies are very self aware and actors and directors obviously don't take their work all that serious. They make things deliberately cheesy to add to the fun factor and while this does work out at times, at others it makes the movie noting less but bad and annoying. In that regard it also was being refreshing to see how serious everybody involved took this movie. It definitely adds to the overall quality of the movie and its nice to see that this is a movie that took its audience serious and didn't treated them like a bunch of popcorn-eating-no-brainers, who only wanted to see lots of blood and nudity. The movie is not like that at all, even though the first 15 minutes would still suggest otherwise. Perhaps it was all deliberate and in the first 15 minutes they were like; 'this is what you expect us to do' and what after that follows was 'but this is what we are going to do with the concept'.

Thing I also liked about the movie was that it didn't featured one main, heroic character, in it, who saved everybody. instead there is a wide range of different characters in this, who all, just about, share an equal amount of screen time. None of them is pretending to be a hero, which also lets all of them all feel somewhat realistic and human-like.

On the downside; the special effects in this are pretty horrendous. Sort of funny that after 40-years, "Jaws" still has the most convincing looking shark in it. This movie too often relies on CGI effects, which aren't exactly of the best quality. But still, as far as shark movies go, this definitely is being one of the better ones, believe it or not.

Definitely watchable!

6/10

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