I happen to have a friend with a degree in Marine Biology, who also used to make custom knives. I'll have to ask him if a shark is a Locomotive with a mouth full of butcher's knives. He'll know for sure.
Of course, our favorite expert is the Dark Corners Science Advisor. Oh, expert in an actual movie . . . my favorite is Ian McDiarmid's forensic pathology professor in GORKY PARK. (Now, that's A recommendation you're not going to see everyday.)
Favorite movie expert: Tony Todd in Final Destination as the mortician who somehow knows all about how Death is an active force that goes after certain people it missed.
Cruel Jaws, a real masterclass in movie making. "Does the scene match? Does the day for night work? Does the stock footage and stolen footage fit, does the soundalike music work?" "Does it matter?"
My favourite film experts are "Anyone in a 50's sf B-Movie who smokes a pipe", especially if they're in a Bert I Gordon movie, because they won't just explain what's going on, they'll also give you simple definitions of all the long words they use.
That has to be the next Jaws movie. The huge shark doesn’t attack any people, but the dozens of panicking townsfolk kill each other while trying to get the shark.
The sad thing is that this seems to be a copy of a scene from “Jaws Two”,when an older woman in a boat accidentally douses herself with gasoline and then lights herself (and the boat)on fire.
The description "Locomotive with a mouth full of butcher knives" was lifted straight out of the book. It was Hooper describing Megalodon and its impressive size, if I remember correctly.
"They are sort of locomotive." What? Did he mean they .....move? Non-native English speaker here, but since he doesn't say "like a locomotive", it sounds as if he were amazed that sharks don't remain in the same spot all the time. 😂 Which would kill them, btw.
I'm pretty sure the meaning of that description is to imitate Hooper in the first Jaws describing sharks very simply, just basic machines that swim and eat and breed. When this film says sharks "are a sort of locomotive," it's basically saying that they're just biological machines, moving from point A to B while munching on anything that gets in their path, similar to a train rolling on as a kind of basic and inexorable force. It really does go to show how mediocre some of the writing can be in these films when you encounter bizarre lines delivered with low charisma.
*Jaws 2* made us much money if not more than the first. Doesn't mean it's _better,_ but they didn't stay out of the theaters. and then there was *Jaws 3-D.*
I hear Star Wars. Where's the Star Wars? Is there not even a single Star War? Fave Movie Expert: Jeff Goldblum, in both Jurassic Park and Independence Day
Michael Caine in 'The Swarm' is my favourite expert, turned out he was not so much an expert on stopping bees as he was at shouting, but an expert none the less.
I always find the trope that a shark attack would be bad for business a bit hard to believe. I live in Cornwall. I guarantee you if someone got eaten by a shark down here the relevant beach would be heaving. Heck, we got all excited over a requiem shark. That lead to the best headline in the West Briton. "Scientists have dismissed claims of a great white shark off Cornwall, stating 'It's a different kind of man eating shark altogether'."
"Does anyone even remember Mike Bracken, the Horror Geek? Christ, I'm old." Of course we remember the Horror Geek and watch his vids. His channel's still going strong.
My favorite movie expert is the old guy from the press conference scene in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind who starts talking about Bigfoot at the meeting for UFOs.
The shark was trained by the navy.......of course, because ....... In the navy Come on, protect the mother land In the navy Come on and eat your fellow man In the navy Come on people, and make a stand In the navy, in the navy, in the navy
2:11 that is _totally_ his voice too. as far as movie experts go, I would like to throw in Gene Barry from George Pal's *War of the Worlds.* He is both the action scientist protagonist _AND_ the science advisor!
Does Hannibal Lecter from Silence of the Lambs count as an expert, since he isn't technically the actual monster/bad guy. His constant genuinely helpful advice sessions to Clarice is consistently the best part of the movie.
Moreover, the inimitable Dr. Hannibal "Jaws" Lecter was working "pro bono". Not that he could be financially recompensed for his consultative service, given that he was a convicted imprisoned serial killer. 'Cause them's the rules, y'know.
Seeing Suzie rolling down the quay really made me laugh. I like the idea of the shark being a leftover military project. Favourite Movie Expert: Benjamin Franklin Gates from the "National Treasure" franchise. He is even more plausible than the model of antiquarian rectitude, Robert Langdon, from the Dan Brown Franchise.
Best 'Expert' in a movie to help in plot development and exposition? OK I'LL BITE! 😆 1- Ash (Ian Holm) in 'Alien' in his 'perfect organism' monologue. After that the audience really gave the crew little chance to survive. 2- The Julian Sands character in 'Arachnophobia' and on the same level the Bird lady in Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds.' You know humanity is done for if these creatures unite 3- All the Russian mafia bosses in John Wick movies telling us why you shouldn't mess with John 'Baba Yaga' Wick ..and then do so anyway. 4- My latest addition these days is the Jeremy Irons character in 'The Beekeeper' who goes out of his way to tell people how you can't stop the beekeeper character (he's so badass) even as he's hiring them; like those JW Russian bosses warnings but only times ten! (Deltas..Seals..in other words Pussies!) COME TO THINK OF IT 🤔THESE EXPERTS ARE PRETTY MUCH ALL PESSIMISTS WHEN IT COMES TO ANSWERING THE QUESTION : WHAT ARE MY CHANCES? That's my five minutes. 🖖 PS I just added 'Cruel Jaws' to my watch later list.👍
"Mom can I go to see Jaws?" "What? All that predatory violence and dismemberment? No honey, we have that at home." "Your mother's right, son. You don't need to go to the theater; just look out the window."
Have you by any chance seen the incredible 2015 Turkish-made acid trip horror BASKIN? At least twice the police characters threaten to rip the balls off of presumed wrongdoers.
My favorite expert is Dr. Robert Hoak from Piranha; the ONLY best Jaws ripoff. He is like a cross between Hooper and Quint, but trying to make amends for what he has done.
This cast was great. They didn't need Roy Schieder or Richard Dreyfus. And we have time to set up the celebration for the 30 year reunion in 2025. Get 'em all together again in one room to discuss the glory of this film.
my favorite movie expert is…your dad, the DCR science consultant you never said it had to be an expert in a movie, your dad is an expert and he consults regarding movie science so i count it!
Given the amount of stock footage from other films, I've often wondered if "Cruel Jaws" can even be classified as a film. As for my favorite scientific expert in film, that would be Dr. David West (played by Edward Judd) in "Island Of Terror" (1969). I can't think of any other film that features a "bone specialist" as a lead character, not to mention also being the romantic lead.
Poor guy's career took a real dive after 'Real Genius'. As for "Experts" I'd nominate Miki, the psychic girl from the Heisei Godzilla movies. Almost, but not quite, completely useless for anything other covering up plot holes. Definitely gets the Councilor Troi Award.
@@DamnedSilly Gotcha, i could see that. Interestingly, the actor who played Kent (Robert Prescott) has done some pretty high profile stuff very occasionally, like have a decent sized part in Michael Clayton. Love all the characters in the ridiculously fun movie (Real Genius). Oddly enough, it was Mitch (Gabe Jarret) who really fell off the map afterwards - I can only remember him having what amounts to a cameo in Karate Kid part 3.
Okay, taking a contract out on a shark sounds like it would've been mentioned on The Sopranos" in discussion of who would win: one of them or the shark.
And then there's Simon Oakland as the down-to-earth psychiatrist who, in the next-to-closing scene in Hitch's PSYCHO, helpfully explains the clinical meaning of transvestism to John Gavin & Vera Miles.
Usually in Kaiju films (or most other budget sci-fi really), the first person to come up with a wildly unscientific theory for why something is happening is spot-on correct, and they just go from there.
Its Cicada season here in Pevely , Missouri. But back in the early 1900's around Saint Louis there a number of shark attacks in the Mississippi River. Right there I came up with a better plot then CRUEL JAWS. I bet this video spent the 80's and the 90's in the dollar bin at BLOCKBUSTERS.
I know any movie featuring a shark is gonna get compared to Jaws, but some of these movies feel like they were required by LAW to rip off Jaws plot point for plot point. Like any attempt to shake up the formula was going to get someone put in prison.
@@andrewgwilliam4831 I think GREAT WHITE was the one with a prominent lawsuit, but the American studios generally tried to go after these ripoffs. I think some stayed under the radar by not attempting a North American release.
You take the idea and change it just enough. I mean, there's not much to a 'rampaging animal' movie. Pick your species, select your prey---er, characters---and have at it. As long as the threat is resolved at the end, you can do quite a lot in between. In a cash-grab mockbuster, they do the minimum.
Favorite expert in films? Hard to say, but I want to nominate Vic Morrow from The Last Shark. It's great you're covering this. I actually love this film and some of its reviews of late (Jason Brant and The Horror Geek did delightful jobs on this flick). Wish it would get a re-release because copies are few in number.
@@kronos_rides_about_a_bit6125 --- I tried to watch it with my dad, he refused to finish after the first 30 minutes and we haven't gotten back to it since, but when I first showed it to him he got a huge laugh out of seeing Morrow was in it.
I've seen a lot of reviews of this movie on how bad it is, but your the first to show enough scenes from the movie to actually give a sense of how hilariously awful it is.
Ohh it has to be Dr. Verena Brandauer from the Marine Biology Institute from the German movie "Hai-Alarm auf Mallorca", along with Julia Bennet. It's a movie that's a mix between a soap-opera and "Alarm for Cobra 11 - The Highway Police". So you have amazing car stunts, but also soapy lines of dialogue like: Sven: "I believe that one plus one makes two, sharks eat humans" Julia: "I also believe that one plus one makes two. The question is why one plus one makes two. It's not important what you believe in, Sven. It's only important that you believe in anything." Sven: "And what do you believe in?" Julia: "I believe in love!" Or this one: "You know, water is my life, and life came from the water. At least water never disappointed me." Or this one: "Every stone, every tree reminds me of Rebekka. Her death has changed everything. I simply don't belong here anymore!"
This is how desperate Italian filmmakers were in the 80's - they didn't just shamelessly rip off American blockbusters, they shamelessly ripped off other Italian filmmakers' rip-offs and threw in footage from other unconnected movies just to pad their rip-offs to feature length!
The fact you crack a laugh when saying "sleeping with the fishes" in regards to the mob putting a hit on the shark is priceless.
I happen to have a friend with a degree in Marine Biology, who also used to make custom knives. I'll have to ask him if a shark is a Locomotive with a mouth full of butcher's knives. He'll know for sure.
Of course, our favorite expert is the Dark Corners Science Advisor.
Oh, expert in an actual movie . . . my favorite is Ian McDiarmid's forensic pathology professor in GORKY PARK. (Now, that's A recommendation you're not going to see everyday.)
Favorite movie expert: Tony Todd in Final Destination as the mortician who somehow knows all about how Death is an active force that goes after certain people it missed.
I've always interpreted that character as Death's Mouth of Sauron, more than an actual human being
@@christopherwall2121 "Well of _course_ I know him! He's _me!"_
Cruel Jaws, a real masterclass in movie making.
"Does the scene match? Does the day for night work? Does the stock footage and stolen footage fit, does the soundalike music work?"
"Does it matter?"
My favourite film experts are "Anyone in a 50's sf B-Movie who smokes a pipe", especially if they're in a Bert I Gordon movie, because they won't just explain what's going on, they'll also give you simple definitions of all the long words they use.
And show you a bunch of tangentially related stock footage while providing the world's most redundant narration.
@@atrendlecalledreese443 And they always just happen to have a nearby movie projector with said footage ready to go.
Quite true.
Yeah! I want to be one of those when I grow up!
The best movie expert is the one from the Amazing Colossal Man, who explains that the human heart is just one cell.
In all fairness, he was probably dumbing it WAAAAAY down
In all fairness, he was probably dumbing it WAAAAAY down
@@tuckerbowen4626 I heard you the first time!
@@tuckerbowen4626 It's a Bert I. Gordon production. Like, what else would you expect?
@@ajivins1 sorry, phone was having wifi problems
That scene of those teenagers blowing their own self up on that boat. The direction must have been act as horribly as you possibly can.
That has to be the next Jaws movie.
The huge shark doesn’t attack any people, but the dozens of panicking townsfolk kill each other while trying to get the shark.
“…blowing themselves up…”
The sad thing is that this seems to be a copy of a scene from “Jaws Two”,when an older woman in a boat accidentally douses herself with gasoline and then lights herself (and the boat)on fire.
The description "Locomotive with a mouth full of butcher knives" was lifted straight out of the book. It was Hooper describing Megalodon and its impressive size, if I remember correctly.
Good to know.
So it's not all Bruno Mattei's fault.
@@DarkCornersReviewsruclips.net/video/Vg7eBNLkJNc/видео.htmlsi=X3MJpORTrGUHqBGR
4:55 Looked like a Shot from Jaws 2 Followed up by a Shot from The Last Shark movies.
"They are sort of locomotive."
What? Did he mean they .....move?
Non-native English speaker here, but since he doesn't say "like a locomotive", it sounds as if he were amazed that sharks don't remain in the same spot all the time. 😂 Which would kill them, btw.
No, he meant they are licensed through Con-Rail.
@@emmanuelwinner4149 Please explain that to a German person. 😄 Is that a railroad company?
@@grimesdaughter9042 Yes.
@@emmanuelwinner4149 Thanks, I am sure, the shark-train is always on time. Especially for lunch-break.
I'm pretty sure the meaning of that description is to imitate Hooper in the first Jaws describing sharks very simply, just basic machines that swim and eat and breed. When this film says sharks "are a sort of locomotive," it's basically saying that they're just biological machines, moving from point A to B while munching on anything that gets in their path, similar to a train rolling on as a kind of basic and inexorable force. It really does go to show how mediocre some of the writing can be in these films when you encounter bizarre lines delivered with low charisma.
It's been said that while the first Jaws movie kept people out of the water, its sequels (official and otherwise) kept them out of the theaters.
I can believe that.
*Jaws 2* made us much money if not more than the first. Doesn't mean it's _better,_ but they didn't stay out of the theaters.
and then there was *Jaws 3-D.*
@@TheRealNormanBatesJaws 2 made barely half what Jaws made
They were considering the title Kind Jaws, but it just wasn’t working for them…
Well, territoriality is a theory I happen to agree with, so just in case someone hasn't mentioned him yet already: Hooper from the original Jaws.
I love the "Met him in Istanbul..." line! Cracks me up every time 🤣
I'm glad someone liked that. It's a bit off the wall but it made me smile
My favorite movie expert is Hooper from Jaws, because he believes in the shark territoriality theory.
Even as recently as that, not a lot was known about sharks.
I hear Star Wars. Where's the Star Wars? Is there not even a single Star War?
Fave Movie Expert: Jeff Goldblum, in both Jurassic Park and Independence Day
No wars; not even any stars!
I can agree with that.
Michael Caine in 'The Swarm' is my favourite expert, turned out he was not so much an expert on stopping bees as he was at shouting, but an expert none the less.
SHAHTIN!
"But the bees has always been our friends until now"
I always find the trope that a shark attack would be bad for business a bit hard to believe. I live in Cornwall. I guarantee you if someone got eaten by a shark down here the relevant beach would be heaving. Heck, we got all excited over a requiem shark.
That lead to the best headline in the West Briton.
"Scientists have dismissed claims of a great white shark off Cornwall, stating 'It's a different kind of man eating shark altogether'."
I was so surprised to find out that Peter Benchley was the son of one of my favorite humorists/writers, Robert Benchley.
Surprise! Peter was Robert's grandson.
Well, I didn't know that they were related until just now.
Surprise! 😃@@patriciadilday447
The Horror Geek did this a few years ago. Two great reviews, two different styles. Great job!
"Does anyone even remember Mike Bracken, the Horror Geek? Christ, I'm old."
Of course we remember the Horror Geek and watch his vids. His channel's still going strong.
@@dngillikin Heehee, "Hell, Yeah!"
"Not like that, you pervs!"
We'd better stop before someone references "Football practice!!!" or Lynda Day George.
@@dngillikin "BASTARD!" Heehee...House establishing shot...
@@dngillikin "BASTARD! BAASSSTTARRDDD!" House establishing shot...
"The sea was angry that day, my friends!"
much like a old man trying to return soup you might say?
Superb. The deadpan, dry and matter-of-fact style of humor delivered with impecable timing make these reviews awesome!
My favorite movie expert is the old guy from the press conference scene in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind who starts talking about Bigfoot at the meeting for UFOs.
That shark wouldn't stand a chance if the Hulkster dropped the leg drop of doom on it.
That's right Brother, you know the Hulkster rules!❤💪😂Dem Pythons Brother!❤💪🤡
"Be careful! That shark has been trained by the navy!"
The shark was trained by the navy.......of course, because ....... In the navy
Come on, protect the mother land
In the navy
Come on and eat your fellow man
In the navy
Come on people, and make a stand
In the navy, in the navy, in the navy
2:11 that is _totally_ his voice too.
as far as movie experts go, I would like to throw in Gene Barry from George Pal's *War of the Worlds.* He is both the action scientist protagonist _AND_ the science advisor!
8:42 Sheer luck? It was in the script and that shark is a true professional and never misses his mark.
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
Honestly, I'd watch a movie pitched as Romeo and Juliet and Jaws, especially if one (and only one) of the title characters is the shark.
0:27 "This time it's even more personal than the last time." What an amazing tagline. It sounds like a parody!
Does Hannibal Lecter from Silence of the Lambs count as an expert, since he isn't technically the actual monster/bad guy. His constant genuinely helpful advice sessions to Clarice is consistently the best part of the movie.
Moreover, the inimitable Dr. Hannibal "Jaws" Lecter was working "pro bono". Not that he could be financially recompensed for his consultative service, given that he was a convicted imprisoned serial killer. 'Cause them's the rules, y'know.
Seeing Suzie rolling down the quay really made me laugh.
I like the idea of the shark being a leftover military project.
Favourite Movie Expert: Benjamin Franklin Gates from the "National Treasure" franchise. He is even more plausible than the model of antiquarian rectitude, Robert Langdon, from the Dan Brown Franchise.
“Paralyzed” Suzy was cured by almost being eaten by a shark.
Best 'Expert' in a movie to help in plot development and exposition? OK I'LL BITE! 😆 1- Ash (Ian Holm) in 'Alien' in his 'perfect organism' monologue. After that the audience really gave the crew little chance to survive. 2- The Julian Sands character in 'Arachnophobia' and on the same level the Bird lady in Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds.' You know humanity is done for if these creatures unite 3- All the Russian mafia bosses in John Wick movies telling us why you shouldn't mess with John 'Baba Yaga' Wick ..and then do so anyway. 4- My latest addition these days is the Jeremy Irons character in 'The Beekeeper' who goes out of his way to tell people how you can't stop the beekeeper character (he's so badass) even as he's hiring them; like those JW Russian bosses warnings but only times ten! (Deltas..Seals..in other words Pussies!) COME TO THINK OF IT 🤔THESE EXPERTS ARE PRETTY MUCH ALL PESSIMISTS WHEN IT COMES TO ANSWERING THE QUESTION : WHAT ARE MY CHANCES? That's my five minutes. 🖖 PS I just added 'Cruel Jaws' to my watch later list.👍
Favorite expert
The SARGE
'" The whole thing stinks of kickbacks'"
I wanted to see "Jaws" when it first came out, but I was too young to see all that violence; I was 11 years old. Meantime, we lived in Detroit...
"Mom can I go to see Jaws?"
"What? All that predatory violence and dismemberment? No honey, we have that at home."
"Your mother's right, son. You don't need to go to the theater; just look out the window."
Movie: "Sharks are locomotives!"
Dark Corners Science Advisor: "N-o-o-o-o".
It comes down to one letter: Q. The Douglas Llewellyn version. He knows all about gadgits
I believe you mean Desmond Llewelyn.
Wasn’t Doug with Judge Wapner and the Peoples Court? Haha. I rather like that idea! 😂
Favorite expert is Van Helsing by Sloan in 1931 Dracula. Best wig and thick spectacles, too.
At least Jaws 4 gave us that classic Richard Jeni stand-up bit.
There should be a movie about orcas attacking luxury yachts.
There is the jaws inspired Orca. Not sure what he attacks
There are actually three separate instances where characters threaten to rip someone’s balls off. I think that’s a record.
Have you by any chance seen the incredible 2015 Turkish-made acid trip horror BASKIN? At least twice the police characters threaten to rip the balls off of presumed wrongdoers.
The number of times I've ended a statement with, "And I have no reason to doubt it..." Can't think of one time it was right. 😬
My favorite expert is Dr. Robert Hoak from Piranha; the ONLY best Jaws ripoff. He is like a cross between Hooper and Quint, but trying to make amends for what he has done.
I dont know which line is better; sleeps with the fishes or gone to live on a farm.
“The seals are on to us!” lol
Dr. Frank Baxter, who gave us such timely information at the start of THE MOLE PEOPLE.
"Down . . . down . . . down into the Hollow Earth!"
This cast was great. They didn't need Roy Schieder or Richard Dreyfus. And we have time to set up the celebration for the 30 year reunion in 2025. Get 'em all together again in one room to discuss the glory of this film.
according to Space Ghost sharks explode to attract mates. too bad this movie missed out on mentioning that.
Wasn’t there a bear wandering around in that one?! And Willie Nelson the guest? That would have added some excitement to the movie. 😅
Doesn't this movie steal footage from "Great White", a Jaws ripoff from 1981?
my favorite movie expert is…your dad, the DCR science consultant
you never said it had to be an expert in a movie, your dad is an expert and he consults regarding movie science so i count it!
It's not often a movie comes along that makes Tintorera look almost competent but Cruel Jaws did.
Given the amount of stock footage from other films, I've often wondered if "Cruel Jaws" can even be classified as a film. As for my favorite scientific expert in film, that would be Dr. David West (played by Edward Judd) in "Island Of Terror" (1969). I can't think of any other film that features a "bone specialist" as a lead character, not to mention also being the romantic lead.
Favorite movie expert. Whoever Jared Harris is playing.
Favorite movie "experts"...the scientists in "Reptilicus"...😂😂😂
My favorite expert is Dark Corners Dad!
I'm always surprised by how several cheap Italian ripoffs were actually able to film in the US somehow.
Poor guy's career took a real dive after 'Real Genius'. As for "Experts" I'd nominate Miki, the psychic girl from the Heisei Godzilla movies. Almost, but not quite, completely useless for anything other covering up plot holes. Definitely gets the Councilor Troi Award.
Who's career took a dive after "Real Genuis?"
Was someone involved in 'Real Genius' (a personal fav) also involved in Cruel Jaws? If so, who?
@@grahamgreene779 Just a bad joke about how much Billy reminds me of Kent without the braces.
@@DamnedSilly Gotcha, i could see that. Interestingly, the actor who played Kent (Robert Prescott) has done some pretty high profile stuff very occasionally, like have a decent sized part in Michael Clayton. Love all the characters in the ridiculously fun movie (Real Genius). Oddly enough, it was Mitch (Gabe Jarret) who really fell off the map afterwards - I can only remember him having what amounts to a cameo in Karate Kid part 3.
Love her ears!
1.) Existential Flirting. 2.) Why was that woman pouring gas on herself BEFORE the attack ?
Honestly, I always heard the Jaws sequels were bad but I never imagined this. How could they let it happen?
Maybe they could have used the Rats from 'RATS: Night of Terror' to devour the shark!
movie experts? Oliver Platt in Lake Placid!
"They hide information like that in books."
Okay, taking a contract out on a shark sounds like it would've been mentioned on
The Sopranos" in discussion of who would win: one of them or the shark.
Deep Blue Sea came up with a new plot for shark movies - and people pretty much turn their noses up at those.
Best Movie expert: The one in Glen or Glenda who explains about cross-dressing.
And then there's Simon Oakland as the down-to-earth psychiatrist who, in the next-to-closing scene in Hitch's PSYCHO, helpfully explains the clinical meaning of transvestism to John Gavin & Vera Miles.
Nice job, Robin! That was hilarious!
Usually in Kaiju films (or most other budget sci-fi really), the first person to come up with a wildly unscientific theory for why something is happening is spot-on correct, and they just go from there.
That always irritates me
best movie experts? Hooper in Jaws, Van Helsing, and the psychiatrist in Psycho... oh and the Science Expert
Yeah this is if Hulk Hogan ever opened up his own water park😂
No giant shark is a match for those 24 inch pythons brother.
It looks like Dr. Evil isn't the only character who has a "Mini-Me".
Favourite movie expert is Dr Luten from the Vulture. And his ability to be in favour of island godess theory and still take the high ground on science
Great turns of the phrase in this.
Its Cicada season here in Pevely , Missouri. But back in the early 1900's around Saint Louis there a number of shark attacks in the Mississippi River. Right there I came up with a better plot then CRUEL JAWS. I bet this video spent the 80's and the 90's in the dollar bin at BLOCKBUSTERS.
I know any movie featuring a shark is gonna get compared to Jaws, but some of these movies feel like they were required by LAW to rip off Jaws plot point for plot point.
Like any attempt to shake up the formula was going to get someone put in prison.
Surprised this one hasnt been covered already!
Copyright lawyers back in those days must have been blind. Maybe they even went out at night in red tights.
Didn't MGM sue the makers of this film, and win? But maybe I'm muddling it up with another "Jaws" rip-off.
@@andrewgwilliam4831 I think GREAT WHITE was the one with a prominent lawsuit, but the American studios generally tried to go after these ripoffs. I think some stayed under the radar by not attempting a North American release.
@@andrewgwilliam4831 that was THE LAST SHARK.
You take the idea and change it just enough.
I mean, there's not much to a 'rampaging animal' movie. Pick your species, select your prey---er, characters---and have at it. As long as the threat is resolved at the end, you can do quite a lot in between. In a cash-grab mockbuster, they do the minimum.
@@julietfischer5056 but what about the gratuitous usage of footage from the original JAWS movies?
how'd they get the jaws shark to be in this?
He doesn't get much work
If I only knew I could have been a marine biologist by watching "Jaws".
Favorite expert in films? Hard to say, but I want to nominate Vic Morrow from The Last Shark.
It's great you're covering this. I actually love this film and some of its reviews of late (Jason Brant and The Horror Geek did delightful jobs on this flick). Wish it would get a re-release because copies are few in number.
Vic's
attempt at a "Scottish" accent in that was hilarious
@@kronos_rides_about_a_bit6125 --- I tried to watch it with my dad, he refused to finish after the first 30 minutes and we haven't gotten back to it since, but when I first showed it to him he got a huge laugh out of seeing Morrow was in it.
Cruel Jaws makes Jaws 3D look like Jaws 1 in comparison
Well, better a locomotive than a battleship, I suppose.
Well, fair play to them, they stretched the $10 SFX budget a long way.
Any expert played by Donald Pleasance.
Yes! I forgot about him.
Is that explosion from Jaws 2?
Yep. So is some footage from other Jaws movies.
One of those few films where the girlfriend (Vanessa) getting eaten is almost entirely justified by her being a cow.
I've seen a lot of reviews of this movie on how bad it is, but your the first to show enough scenes from the movie to actually give a sense of how hilariously awful it is.
Ohh it has to be Dr. Verena Brandauer from the Marine Biology Institute from the German movie "Hai-Alarm auf Mallorca", along with Julia Bennet. It's a movie that's a mix between a soap-opera and "Alarm for Cobra 11 - The Highway Police". So you have amazing car stunts, but also soapy lines of dialogue like:
Sven: "I believe that one plus one makes two, sharks eat humans"
Julia: "I also believe that one plus one makes two. The question is why one plus one makes two. It's not important what you believe in, Sven. It's only important that you believe in anything."
Sven: "And what do you believe in?"
Julia: "I believe in love!"
Or this one:
"You know, water is my life, and life came from the water. At least water never disappointed me."
Or this one:
"Every stone, every tree reminds me of Rebekka. Her death has changed everything. I simply don't belong here anymore!"
All I can think of is handicap parking while watching this
Good one. Maybe kinda sick, but nevertheless a good one.
Today I learned there was an appropriately terrible Jaws 5 and a Dark Corners Patreon, it's a good day.
Hulk Hogan and Mario Lopez along with Nic Cage would make this a masterpiece 💯
The shark was trained by the Navy.
Those dammed local girls are their witty insults !
This is how desperate Italian filmmakers were in the 80's - they didn't just shamelessly rip off American blockbusters, they shamelessly ripped off other Italian filmmakers' rip-offs and threw in footage from other unconnected movies just to pad their rip-offs to feature length!
Gonna shock you here. This may look like a peak 80s movie, but was actually 1995.
The best Hulk Hogan movie ever Brother!❤💪😀
Oh no, killer fish.🙄
Whatcha gonna do, when the big shark comes down on you? Tell em Brother!
Still more entertaining that Jaws the Revenge.
to be honest I say this is the greatest animal horror movie of all time, I give Cruel Jaws 10 out of 10.
Not just Hulk Hogan, 5:25 it seems we have also a Harvey Weinstein lookalike...