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:

Russell Mulcahy, John Kim

Stars:

Xavier Samuel, Sharni Vinson, Adrian Pang

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Xavier Samuel	...	Josh
Sharni Vinson	...	Tina
Adrian Pang	...	Jessup
Yuwu Qi	...	Steven
Alex Russell	...	Ryan
Phoebe Tonkin	...	Jaime
Martin Sacks	...	Todd
Alice Parkinson	...	Naomi
Lincoln Lewis	...	Kyle
Damien Garvey	...	Colins
Cariba Heine	...	Heather
Richard Brancatisano	...	Rory
Dan Wyllie	...	Kirby
Julian McMahon	...	Doyle
Chris Betts	...	Lockie

Storyline

A group of people 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 are 12 foot sharks swimming around them, and they're hungry.

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Plot Keywords:

shark | barefoot male | camera shot of feet | camera shot of bare feet | man wears a swimsuit | 

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Taglines:

A tsunami just flipped the food chain.

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for bloody violence, some grisly images and language

Did You Know?

Trivia

Co-writer and executive producer Russel Mulcahy was going to direct the film, however, his involvement with the television series Teen Wolf made this impractical. So he hired Kimble Rendall to direct instead.

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Goofs

The characters are worried about live electrical wires touching the water, yet to turn it off they flip a switch already underwater. This would mean that the water is already conducting electricity in the first place.

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Quotes

Jaimie: It's coming back!
[we see the fin swimming past the far end]
Jaimie: Why does it keep doing that, just circling?
Tina: Cause it's not sure what we are. It's curious.
Kirby: Curious about what, sharks are only curious about one thing. It's trying to decide if we're food or not!

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Crazy Credits

No sharks were harmed in the making of this movie.

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Connections

Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Scariest Movie Shark Attacks (2017)

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Soundtracks

Mack the Knife
Written by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
English lyrics by Marc Blitzstein
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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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

Filming Locations:

Coolangatta, Queensland, Australia

Box Office

Budget:

AUD30,000,000 (estimated)

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$33,492,566

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