Tag: Chompfest

Malibu Shark Attack (2008) – By Baron Craze

August 31, 2024
Film Reviews

CHOMPFEAST 2024 Screenwriter Keith Shaw (The Thing Below [2004]) and director David Lister (Beauty and the Beast [2010]) worked with the Syfy channel who produced the production that was originally known as Mega Shark of Malibu which was the 19th film of the strange low-budget Maneater Series. The movie was released on DVD in 2011….

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Crawl (2019) – By Creepy Crazy Cathy (3C)

August 30, 2024
Film Reviews

Chompfest 2024 The owner of the site asked me to participate in Chompfest with Baron’s shark reviews and I was more than happy to; with the first film Meg 2: The Trench. I didn’t know what other shark movie to pick as Jaws was already done. Baron suggested I do a review of a non-shark…

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DOA: Psycho Shark (2009) – By Baron Craze

August 29, 2024
Film Reviews

CHOMPFEST 2024 CASE NUMBER #100 This is a movie I like to use that noun very loosely when describing this outrageous smelly carcass laying on the shores of the DOA graveyard it could not manage to flounder itself into an open grave. It officially lacks any semblance of what a movie is, a series of…

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Meg 2: The Trench (2023) – By Creepy Crazy Cathy (3C)

August 28, 2024
Film Reviews

Chompfest 2024 There are so many bad shark movies out there but of course there are good ones the main one is Jaws [1975] others include 47 Meters Down [2016] and the first film of this series The Meg [2018] which I reviewed in 2021 and 2 years later Meg 2: The Trench was released…

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Capsized: Blood In the Water (2019) – By Baron Craze

August 27, 2024
Film Reviews

Chompfest 2024 In 2019 the Discovery channel decided it was time to do something new to celebrate their 31st shark week, and hence an original television movie was the final decision of Howard Swartz, Discovery’s senior vice president of production and development. Hence, instead of having narration about just sharks they used the real-life survival…

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12 Days of Terror (2004) – By Baron Craze

August 26, 2024
Film Reviews

Chompfest 2024 In 2001 author Richard Fernicola wrote the non-fiction novel “Twelve Days of Terror: A Definitive Investigation of the 1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks” which was later made into an episode of The History Channel’s In search of… (2001) and then on May 1, 2004 for the Animal Planet (later the Discovery channel for…

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Up From the Depths (1979) – By Baron Craze

August 25, 2024
Film Reviews

CHOMPFEST 2024 After the incredible success of the Steven Spielberg’s Jaws [1975] the animals attack (aka: nature’s revenge/environmental horror) began appearing in every facet all for the b-movie market where low budgets reigned supreme and so bizarre storylines were in abundance. There was no shortage of films even if one limits themselves to the sea-fearing…

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Jaws 2 (1978) – By Baron Craze

August 31, 2023
Film Reviews

Well, the time has come to review the last film of the Jaws franchise to many it would also be the last of the good sequels to the beloved classic horror thriller; I had taken a few years to finish four parts and did them by celebrating their anniversaries and now in 2023 we come…

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The Meg (2018) – By Baron Craze

August 30, 2023
Film Reviews

CHOMPFEST 2023 Before diving too far into this review of The Meg one needs to swim through the backstory there’s quite a bit to uncover and discover about this film, first it was never intended to be on the same level as Jaws nor does it have the tension building sequences in The Shallows or…

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2-Headed Shark Attack (2012) – By Baron Craze

August 29, 2023
Film Reviews

CHOMPFEST 2023 This movie is horrendously atrocious, and very little saves it from becoming one our infamous ‘DOA Reviewed’ films, and that salvation is the form of using a rarity in nature showcased in the film, yes, the two heads. That concept is based from the principle of a 2-headed animal which is called polycephaly…

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