Jurassic Shark (2012)

Film Title: Jurassic Shark
Also known as: Attack of the Jurassic Shark
Released: April 20, 2012 (India)
Directed by: Brett Kelly

Written by: David A. Lloyd with additional dialogue from Trevor Payer

Starring: Emanuelle Carriere, Christine Emes & Celine Filion

Plot: An oil company's drilling unleashes a megalodon that terrorizes a group of thieves and coeds in a lake, trapping them on an island.

IMDb: 1.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes: No score
My Score: 0.5/5

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD

Jurassic Shark is 2012 Canadian horror movie from no-budget director Brett Kelly. An oil company illegally drilling on an island in a lake in Canada unleashes a giant ancient shark from its prison of ice. A gang of art thieves making a water escape after their heist lose their painting in the water after the shark tips over their boat, killing one of them. A group of coeds, one of whom is trying to gain proof of the illegal drilling operation, also show up and are tipped over on their way to the island in the lake, killing one of them as well. The two disparate groups join forces for survival after they meet. However, the thieves still need to get their painting from the water, so their leader (Angela Parent) keeps sending people in to retrieve the goods. Needless to say, everyone who goes into the water dies. In the end, with the help of some dynamite, the last two coeds end up defeating the shark. Afterward, however, another megalodon is revealed to still be in the lake and hungry, eating a pair of fisherman. Really bad effects, atrocious acting and a nonsensical script make this a terrible movie but I like terrible movies. I appreciate ridiculousness for the sake of ridiculousness and can overlook a lot when a movie can turn that corner from being bad to being good again. Jurassic Shark almost gets to that point but fails even at that. It does have its moments, though. For example, when one of the thieves is standing in shallow water and the shark eats him and swims away. Or the Free Willy moment when the shark jumps over the heads of Emanuelle Carriere and Christine Emes on the beach, eats Parent in mid-flight leaving only the bloody stumps of her legs, and goes back into the water. Pretty epic. Unfortunately, there's not enough of these types of moments to get it to the "so bad its good" level. And while there are plenty of girls in bikinis (or bikini tops, anyway), there's no nudity in the movie for a T&A factor, either. The movie itself is just over an hour but Kelly adds an additional thirteen minutes for the closing credits. Starting with everyone in the movie receiving a video credit with their name over slow motion clips of themselves, it runs for another ten minutes after that with the slowest moving credits you've ever seen in the largest font possible. This is definitely one of those movies that has the all the good parts, of which there are few, in the trailer.