2010 · tv-movie · horror · sci-fi
Sharktopus
Directed by Declan O'Brien1h 29m2010
The U.S. Navy's special group "Blue Water" builds a half-shark, half-octopus for combat. But the sharktopus escapes and terrorizes the beaches of Puerto Vallarta.
Our read: Sharktopus (2010) reads as a warm, breathless, surreal tv-movie · horror · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured tv-movie / horror, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- kinetic
- intense
- surreal
- cold
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