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Sharknado

  • TV Movie
  • 20132013
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 26m
IMDb RATING
3.3/10
51K
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Sharknado (2013)
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When a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, nature's deadliest killer rules sea, land, and air as thousands of sharks terrorize the waterlogged populace.When a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, nature's deadliest killer rules sea, land, and air as thousands of sharks terrorize the waterlogged populace.When a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, nature's deadliest killer rules sea, land, and air as thousands of sharks terrorize the waterlogged populace.
IMDb RATING
3.3/10
51K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
2,096
195
    • Anthony C. Ferrante
    • Thunder Levin
  • Stars
    • Ian Ziering
    • Tara Reid
    • John Heard
    • Anthony C. Ferrante
    • Thunder Levin
  • Stars
    • Ian Ziering
    • Tara Reid
    • John Heard
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 380User reviews
    • 166Critic reviews
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    Videos4

    Sharknado
    Trailer 1:07
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    Cowboys! Detectives! Giant Bugs! B-Movie History!
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    Sharks on Sharks: The "Shark Tank" Judges Pick Their Favorite Shark Movies
    Video 2:30
    Watch Sharks on Sharks: The "Shark Tank" Judges Pick Their Favorite Shark Movies

    Photos222

    Cassandra Scerbo in Sharknado (2013)
    Tara Reid in Sharknado (2013)
    Tara Reid and Ian Ziering in Sharknado (2013)
    Aubrey Peeples in Sharknado (2013)
    Ian Ziering, Jaason Simmons, and Cassandra Scerbo in Sharknado (2013)
    Ryan Budds in Sharknado (2013)
    Ryan Budds in Sharknado (2013)
    Sharknado (2013)
    Tara Reid, Ian Ziering, and Steve Moulton in Sharknado (2013)
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    John Heard and Cassandra Scerbo in Sharknado (2013)
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    Ian Ziering
    Ian Ziering
    • Fin Shepard
    Tara Reid
    Tara Reid
    • April Wexler
    John Heard
    John Heard
    • George
    Cassandra Scerbo
    Cassandra Scerbo
    • Nova Clarke
    • (as Cassie Scerbo)
    Jaason Simmons
    Jaason Simmons
    • Baz Hogan
    Alex Arleo
    • Bobby
    Neil H. Berkow
    Neil H. Berkow
    • Carl Hubert
    Heather Jocelyn Blair
    Heather Jocelyn Blair
    • Candice
    Sumiko Braun
    Sumiko Braun
    • Deanna
    Diane Chambers
    • Agnes
    Julie McCullough
    Julie McCullough
    • Joni Waves
    Marcus Choi
    Marcus Choi
    • Palmer
    Israel Sáez de Miguel
    Israel Sáez de Miguel
    • Captain Carlos Santiago
    Tiffany Cole
    Tiffany Cole
    • Derek
    Trish Coren
    • Nurse Holden
    Charles Hittinger
    Charles Hittinger
    • Matt
    • (as Chuck Hittinger)
    Aubrey Peeples
    Aubrey Peeples
    • Claudia
    Michael Teh
    Michael Teh
    • Weinstein
      • Anthony C. Ferrante
      • Thunder Levin
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Shot in eighteen days.
    • Goofs
      (at around 34 mins) When the crew arrives at April's house, the water gushes in from the window, beginning the indoor shark fight scene. Immediately after this, when the characters leave the house to look for Matt, the water level outside is almost nonexistent.
    • Quotes

      Baz Hogan: Storm's dying down.

      Nova Clarke: How can you tell?

      Baz Hogan: Not as many sharks flying around.

    • Crazy credits
      The closing credits start, appropriately, with the word 'Fin', which is Spanish and French for 'End'.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #21.179 (2013)
    • Soundtracks
      (The Ballad Of) Sharknado
      Written by Robbie Rist and Anthony C. Ferrante

      Performed by Quint

      Produced and Engineered by Robbie Rist

      Publisher: God Bless Captain Vere (ASCAP) & Zero Charisma Publishing (ASCAP)

    User reviews380

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    1/10
    Brilliantly Awful
    While I give this one star, I strongly encourage everyone to see this movie. Not because it is good or has a single redeeming factor, but because if Ed Wood set out intentionally with an unlimited budget to make the worst movie ever, he could not have made something this bad.

    The law of large numbers would seem to imply that in 86 minutes you'd have to get something right by accident, and yet this movie doesn't. A second look at Alien Apocalypse (which admittedly requires a masochistic nature to undertake) at least reveals passable cinematography and consistent lighting. And yet Sharknado rises above mathematics to give us a film that is bad in every single possible way.

    Continuity is shrugged off completely. The same scene moves from daylight to dusk, rain to sunshine, storm surge to quiet beach, with every single new camera angle. It is so blatantly bad you are distracted from the more subtle inconsistencies like objects moving around, attire, wind, or quality of film from one cut to the next.

    If you manage to close your eyes you are immediately taken in by the sound. How the sound editor managed to get to work on what had to be an acid-enhanced bender of epic proportions to warrant these results is beyond me. I'm reluctant to suggest using your stereo's sound-leveling technology for fear your sound system will simply melt from the strain.

    One is almost loath to point a finger at suspension of disbelief when it comes to a movie whose premise is sharks in tornadoes, but whatever level you plan to come in with is almost surely going to fall far short. This movie has more WTF moments in 86 minutes than Lost could pull off in 86 seasons. And everyone gets to play, not just those with a working knowledge of wind shear or the physics that keep a helicopter in the air. If you've played pool, fished, surfed, driven a car in water deeper than two inches, been exposed to gravity, or otherwise in any way have interacted with or gained some understanding of the world around you, this movie has something for you to go "wha!?!" about.

    And while you would think that once you had bad special effects, bad editing, and bad sound strung together you'd get at least one Bruce Campbell out of the cast to latch on to. Not so here, as every actor turned in a performance that shows they were more confused than the viewer about what was happening. We could guess it was because they were given the script out of order, but as a viewer of the final product I'm not sure I've seen the scenes in order, they are that disjointed.

    I've tried very hard to find something that was done well or noteworthy about this movie and the only thing I can come up with is that it is the only movie I have ever seen that has failed on absolutely every level. If you tried to make a movie this bad you would inadvertently get something right purely on accident. And that is its one bright, shining point of light. That it would be almost impossible to make something this terrible ever again.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • July 11, 2013 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Mo's Place - 203 Culver Boulevard, Playa del Rey, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Southward Films
      • Syfy
      • The Asylum
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    Technical specs

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    • 1 hour 26 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital

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