Ghost Shark (2013)

I love this movie so much

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Summary says it all but, SERIOUSLY THIS MOVIE IS MADE OF AWESOME! There's so many stupid in this one that it just became my #1 drinking movie. You should try it too. Take your friends and drink something really light!!! every time you see stupid! You can thank me later.In this wonderful era, where we get sick-ass awesome titles like Sharktopus, Sharknado, Piranaconda and the likes; we finally get to see this pearl emerge from the very same portal. It is what we've always wanted. It is what we've always hoped for, but never dared to speak of! It has finally shown itself to us, my brethren! THE GHOST SHARK FINALLY CAME! The movie is also entertaining and every time you're about to start not giving a damn, something stupid happens. This occurs quite often so it's okay to watch once even without drinking. I'm guessing that means it's well-paced... but lets not stick to over-analyzing this gem.I'm always a little afraid to start watching flicks of similar concepts, because there's always a possibility that it is so bad I have to turn it off. This was - at least in my case - not how it went with Ghost Shark, so that itself made the experience pretty cool. You know in our time and day one has to keep up with things, even if it means movies with funky creatures eating people, so I was gonna check it out rain or snow. I truly had difficulty deciding if the production team is bunch of level 99 trolls and intentionally packed the flick full of goofs or those were actual mistakes, but that made it even more fun to watch. 8 stars no less!

even though they are highly enjoyable subjects in the film world, sharks are kind of limited if you think about it. Obviously they are confined to water, so the killer sharks are limited to that type of atmosphere. Well Ghost Shark is a Syfy film so you know this is going to be a different type of shark film. Let's just say Ghost Shark is quite different and also entertaining.The movie was shot in Louisiana and is set in a coastal town. The town is having strange and mysterious killings around water that might be caused by a shark or a different kind of shark. As the story unfolds, we learned that the shark is a ghost shark and the story is primarily told through a local drunken sea captain named Blaise Shaw (Dave Randolph- Mayhem Davis).Obviously this is a very dumb concept if you think about it. A ghost is somehow a shark that is out to kill people? That said, once you accept this rather strange concept, the movie offers more than you might think. The shark has blue tints and good CGI. It's also a shark that can attack outside of the ocean creating different kill scenes in a slip'n slide, a pool party and in the middle of the street from an open fire hydrant. These kill scenes are new and very unique and you can be sure we will never see this again. The captain's story about the ghost shark really just kind of comes out of nowhere and there is very questionable acting here. There is good effort in the storytelling which brings us some different atmosphere and settings including caves, a maritime museum and a lighthouse.Obviously the ghost shark is entertaining but the characters are good too. Ava (Mackenzie Rosman) is a bratty, self-centered character who does what it takes to confront and kill the shark. Again Blaise is the sea captain and a hot-shot guy who knows things about this shark and is a very likable and entertaining character. Cicely (Sloane Coe) is a young girl that does not get her way because of her young age but she still tries to be the best she can be without being unlikable. Cameron (Jaren Mitchell) is one laid back character and Mick (Shawn C. Phillips) is one large guy who offers some pretty good comic relief.Unlike most Syfy movies including Sharknado, Ghost Shark pays homage to other films including Jaws with a July 4th setting, seashore atmosphere and the shark obviously. There is also a kill scene in a water-filled bathtub like Nightmare On Elm Street. The eerie lighthouse has vibes of Adrienne Barbeau from The Fog. This film's homage to other films is one reason why Ghost Shark works so well as a film.The movie does drag through most of the entire third act and as with any Syfy film, it would probably be better on the big screen. Still, not as many Syfy films are this watchable nor as smart as this one. Ghost Shark is one fun movie and one of the best Syfy movies I have seen.

Don't expect much from Ghost Shark. If you've seen Super Shark, Sand Sharks, Jersey Shore Shark Attack and even Sharknado(do the Shark Attack movies count too?) you'll know that you shouldn't expect a SyFy channel shark movie to be particularly good. Ghost Shark is a long way from good, but it is better than the first three movies listed- and the Shark Attack movies- if not quite reaching hilariously bad guilty-pleasure status like Sharknado did. And it certainly isn't the worst SyFy movie. It isn't too badly shot and edited, plus the scenery is nice, while the gore is inventive and not too cheap and the acting is adequate(especially for SyFy), Richard Moll stands out in a creepy and over-the-top performance and the female lead is likable. That is a feat though, but the dialogue is cliché-ridden, underwritten and has too much of the cheese factor. The story- deriving from a silly but potentially fun concept- is much too rushed too, which doesn't give us much time to root enough for the characters(who are little more than just-there and poorly developed stereotypes). It also veers wildly between mildly credible at best to hilariously ludicrous, with the attacks more outrageous than suspenseful or scary. The shark does look very cheap and is not particularly menacing in design or personality, goofy is more like it. In conclusion, bad but hilariously so rather than infuriatingly. 4/10 Bethany Cox

Obviously any film with the ghost of a dead shark as its antagonist is going to be pretty far out there, but the filmmakers deserve credit for taking the idea for what it is and running with it for all its worth. Unlike some other SyFy original productions, "Ghost Shark" embraces its b-movie nature and never tries to be anything other than a wildly fun monster movie. Production values are fairly good, and the spirit-shark may not win any FX awards but it looks pretty much like a giant ghostly fish ought to. Some of the attack scenes are outrageous, so much so that the viewer is more likely to laugh with glee than scream in terror, but I think that's the point. The protagonists--the usual horror movie teen set--are a varied bunch, ranging from the incredibly hot but wicked blonde who dies a quick death (wish they had kept her around for a few more scenes...she really rocked that bikini!) to the mayor's bratty son to the determined good girl and the nerd who has a crush on her. Acting is adequate and nobody embarrasses themselves, and Richard Moll adds a touch of seasoned professionalism to the proceedings as a grieving lighthouse operator who everyone thinks is crazy but is the only one who knows how the spectral predator can be stopped. "Ghost Shark" isn't a genre classic and it's easy enough to think of ways it could have been better, but as it stands it's still a fun creature feature and far better than some similar films, such as the much more strenuously promoted but far inferior "Sharknado." Anyone who enjoys b-movies and outlandish monster flicks should have a blast with "Ghost Shark."