Theme: Killer Sharks

The killer shark film has been with us since the massive hit of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975). This was followed by three sequels and over the next two decades by a host of B-budget copies.

Since the mid-2000s, the B-budget shark film has made a movie towards the Gonzo Killer Shark film, which is predicated on ridiculous title mashups or combining sharks with the most absurd of things. This culminated with the bad movie hit of Sharknado (2013), which led to a string of sequels and a host of imitators.

The 2010s has also seen a growing move away from gonzo shark films to what might be termed a genre of Survival in Shark-Infested Waters films, played with a good deal more seriousness and drama.