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House Shark

  • 20172017
  • 1h 51m
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House Shark (2017)
When he finds a shark that can travel on land residing in his home, an ex-cop enlists the help of a grizzled former real estate agent, and an eccentric "house shark" expert to kill the beast.
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When he finds a shark that can travel on land residing in his home, an ex-cop enlists the help of a grizzled former real estate agent, and an eccentric "house shark" expert to kill the beast... Read allWhen he finds a shark that can travel on land residing in his home, an ex-cop enlists the help of a grizzled former real estate agent, and an eccentric "house shark" expert to kill the beast.When he finds a shark that can travel on land residing in his home, an ex-cop enlists the help of a grizzled former real estate agent, and an eccentric "house shark" expert to kill the beast.
IMDb RATING
4.0/10
1.8K
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POPULARITY
21,419
664
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    • Director
      • Ron Bonk
    • Writer
      • Ron Bonk
    • Stars
      • Collin Dean
      • Aiden Tetro
      • Nathan Bonk
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    • Director
      • Ron Bonk
    • Writer
      • Ron Bonk
    • Stars
      • Collin Dean
      • Aiden Tetro
      • Nathan Bonk
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    • 50User reviews
    • 12Critic reviews
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    House Shark (2017)
    Brett Janeski and Trey Harrison in House Shark (2017)
    Wes Reid, Michael Merchant, and Trey Harrison in House Shark (2017)
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    Wes Reid, Michael Merchant, and Trey Harrison in House Shark (2017)

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    Collin Dean
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    • Theo
    Trey Harrison
    • Frank
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    • Eleanor
    Samantha Varga
    • Betsy
    Brett Janeski
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    Melissa LaMartina
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    • Secretary
    Nathan Hine
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    Stacy M. Underwood
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    Greta Volkova
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    Alan Doshna
    • Police Officer
    • Director
      • Ron Bonk
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      • Ron Bonk
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    • Trivia
      Writer and director Ron Bonk stated that the film was conceived as a result of both a desire to make "a shark movie" and an incident in which Bonk experienced ice cracking on the roof of his home. In an interview with PopMatters, he said "It was unseasonably cold even for mid-winter in Central NY, and I made a joke about it being zombies on my roof. And that was the movie title, Zombies on an Ice Roof, or something along those lines. Then I thought what if it was a zombie apocalypse but only inside people's homes... then thinking I didn't want to do zombies, I thought what if it was a shark?"
    • Goofs
      At 50 minutes Abraham throws what appears to be boiling water on Frank and Zachary who are asleep in the tent with their feet close to Abraham. Frank and Zachary respond to the boiling water by shaking their feet/legs. In the next scene both men exhibit burns on their faces not on their feet/legs. At 52:46 the facial burns disappear.
    • Quotes

      Frank: Let's kill us some Mother Truckin' House Shark!

    • Connections
      Referenced in Macon County Movie Club: Wildcard Night (2021)

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    3/10
    Jaws indoors.
    According to Ron Bonk's comedy horror House Shark, herds of sharks used to roam the land in America until they were forced into the sea by hunters, although a few remained. It is one of these last land-dwelling sharks that terrorises homeowner Frank, forcing him out of his house to live in the garden. With the help of house shark expert Zachary (Michael Merchant) and drunken salty sea-dog Abraham (Wes Reid), Frank tries to kill the big fish.

    House Shark is, as the title suggests, a dumb movie. No... scratch that. It's a very, very, VERY dumb movie, intentionally so. Unfortunately, Bonk's particular brand of comedy - goofball lunacy with lots of toilet humour - only occasionally hits the mark, with most of the gags floundering like a shark on a Chinese fishing boat. With the film running at nearly two hours long, the silliness gets really tedious, Abraham's drunken drawl proving particularly grating on the nerves.

    The special effects range from the barely passable (I quite enjoyed the underwater scene in which things float on clearly visible wires) to the downright terrible (the shark itself looks like it's been made from chicken wire and papier-mâché). The film opens in promisingly trashy fashion with a naked woman pulled down a toilet by the shark, leaving a bloody mess in her wake, but the rest of the film is nudity free, with very little gore.

    2.5/10, generously rounded up to 3 for the one line that actually made me laugh: "I don't know how many people died that day. 3....4... maybe none."
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    • Release date
      • October 21, 2017 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Домашняя акула
    • Production companies
      • Potato Eater Productions
      • SRS Cinema
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      1 hour 51 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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