Andy Van Scoyoc
And obviously, the people giving this film 1 & 2 star ratings, haven't. Anyone who watches any amount of horror/shock/scary movies at all, would know that the list of films worse than this one, is infinite. In fact, I just turned off one that bored me half to death, with pathetic shark/kill scenes and the acting in it...I've seen better High School plays. Someone pointed out the "mom" as being the worst actress in this film. Out of place... definitely and more befitting a brainless schlock movie featuring naked hotties.The rest of the nitpicking is just that...nitpicking. Watch more movies, nitpickers, and in particular some of the absolute rotting stench fests I've watched to review for various magazines and YouTube channels ...then come back and tell me this is the worst film. Not even close. Not worth paying more than $1 or two, to see, but definitely worth a watch if you can catch it for free. I can't say that about all free movies I've seen.
HaemovoreRex
Well one thing is immediately blatantly obvious from watching this......it was filmed on the cheap with a capital 'C'. However, as the saying goes, cheap and cheerful which incidentally is entirely applicable to the film in question.There's simply no point in trying to judge this film on it's technical merits, nor it's logic, nor the story, nor the acting performances. Nor is there any point bemoaning the fact that our Great White shark friends in this have suffered some almost libellous character defamation, whereby here they growl(!), pack hunt(!) and love nothing better than hanging around sunken galleons snacking on unsuspecting divers.No, the best way to judge this flick is on its pure entertainment value and in this respect it scores highly.Just marvel at some of the most obviously studio filmed scenes set on boats (my God! - you can even see the seams in the canvas 'sky'!), laugh your pants off at the franticly edited shark attack sequences (in reality stock Great White footage spliced into newly filmed scenes with flaying divers in reddened water whilst the camera is violently shaken around like crazy and exaggerated chomping noises are overdubbed on the soundtrack!) and finally spot the multiple instances of stolen footage from the Shark Attack series(!!!)Yes, this is undeniably a mightily bad movie......and an immensely satisfying one at that!
vannisand
I thought Shark Zone was fun. As always Dean Cochran was great! People take stuff too seriously, it's a shark movie and it was fun. There was a good guy, a bunch of bad guys and sharks attacking people. Sharks bad, people good, and don't mess with the sheriff. I'm not going to over analyze a shark movie but compared to 99% of the shark movies out there including that horrible summer vacation shark movie on television recently this one was great. Some people complained about the sound the sharks make - that was one of the fun parts about the movie. Who knows what it sounds like underwater, every time I watch some National Geographic show on sharks there is a voice over taking about what the shark is doing now. It's supposed to be scary so they put a scary kind of sound in there, that's what they pay the sound guys to do. If you want to watch a shark movie, rent this one, you could do A lot worse.
Moonbeam1980
This is easily the worst movie I've ever seen, but it is the kind of awful that makes it oh so worth the price of admission. I have never witnessed worse acting all around as real-life couple Brandi Sherwood and Dean Cochran (how are those for porn names?) scrape the very bottom of the acting barrel to great comedic effect.A summary of the plot is quite unnecessary, as it is really a horrible Jaws pastiche- think greedy mayor, disgruntled but ever-hopeful hero guy trying to protect his family and add a goofy subplot involving predictably nefarious Russian diamond-hunters and you get the idea. The film is basically a composite of pre-recorded shark footage from the Discovery Channel (in fact, most of these scenes are played SEVERAL times within a few minutes) meshed with fake looking death scenes. And oh, are there a lot of death scenes. I've never seen a higher body count in a shark movie, and I have made an effort to see as many as possible. Definitely a case of quantity reigning victorious over any semblance of quality, but I digress.A more warranted review of this movie would detail the numerously ridiculous and consequently wonderful mistakes:Wagner, a so-called shark expert, informs the mayor that these pesky sharks are related to the Jurassic sharks of 50 million years ago. News flash: The Jurassic period ended 145 million years ago.Sharks do not growl.It is rare to see Great Whites together, but I'll be damned if they aren't chilling with their bros all up in this Shark Zone in about every sequence.During several of the attack scenes, you can see the flesh of some animal used as bait tied to a fishing line. Well, gee, no wonder Wagner is only batting about .010 in terms of saving the many hapless victims. I guess all of the budget was spent on erasing the Discovery Channel logo from the footage.The final shark scene in the pool features a SURFBOARD with a shark painted on the bottom.How could a Spanish ship crossing the Atlantic ocean sink in the Pacific outside of San Francisco? Must have been one hell of a storm.During Wagner's dream, his wife is dragged out of the boat by a shark that has crashed through the bottom. She is dragged into the water but somehow manages to splash and drip water from her submerged hands and arms.Overall, my feelings about this movie are mixed. While it offers countless thrills in terms of sheer laughable entertainment, the truly scrate-awful acting and egregious errors render it nothing short of the worst movie ever made.