THE LOS ANGELES TIMES' SHOW TRACKER: Review: In Syfy's 'Ghost Shark,' it's hard to fault ... the shark
By Robert Lloyd
Los Angeles Times Television Critic
August 22, 2013
As the first shark-themed SyFy TV movie since “Sharknado,” which swallowed social media (and consequently the “actual” media) whole last month, “Ghost Shark,” which premieres Thursday, is automatic big news. There is nothing I can do about it.
I am, I confess, one of the more than 300 million Americans who somehow managed to miss “Sharknado” over its multiple airings and am therefore unable to compare the two, except to say that the reported “scientific” ridiculousness of “Sharknado” sounds more fun than the standard supernatural ridiculousness of “Ghost Shark,” which I have experienced for myself.
Our premise: A couple of uncouth yahoos you will not miss are out late at night, trying to win a fishing contest off the shore of a Southern harbor town called, almost unavoidably, Smallport. When a big shark makes a meal of their potentially prize-winning catch, they shoot it with a pistol and then with a crossbow, pour hot sauce into its mouth and lob in a grenade as a kind of after-dinner mint.
Somehow the shark manages to last long enough to swim into a magical cave, where it dies and immediately transforms into an indiscriminately vengeful ghost shark (blue, glowing, translucent) that can materialize wherever water is present: a puddle, a pool, a water cooler. Mayhem ensues. Also bikinis...
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE GHOST SHARK MOVIE TRAILER - AIRS THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2013 AT 9/8C ON SYFY
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