Sand Sharks

release year: 2011
genre: sci-fi/horror
viewing setting: home DVD 7/31/22

synopsis: A small beach town is terrorized by unusual sharks.

impressions: This was your basic "here's some sharks that can do something unusual" monster movie. In other films, they can fly, or they're alien, or they're undead, or whatever. In this one, they could move through sand. So...it was fairly entertaining, if silly. It had a lot of movie references, including one character straight out of Jaws. There wasn't much blood and gore, and the sizes of the various sharks were at times inconsistent. But - and it really hurts me that I can say this - at least it didn't have paper shark drawings pushed across the screen to represent the sharks. What has the world of shark movies come to, that I can make that statement?

body count: 21, plus whoever got swept off a dock at the 1:11 mark

acting: Brooke Hogan (and her ass, featured prominently in one scene) is/are the scientist lady and one main hero. Eric Scott Woods, who looks and acts as if he has cotton stuffed into his cheeks, is the sheriff. Vanessa Lee Evigan is his sister, also a town cop. Corin Nemec is an overconfident entrepreneur/con-man/punk who doesn't really have the town's best interests in mind. Hilary Cruz, who plays the douche's intern helper, looks for all the world like a slightly thinner Denise Richards.

final word: Passable shark variant cheese.

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