At the root of the 1975 Steven Spielberg's Jaws success, suddenly new cinema sub -genre emerged. The sharks became the most feared creature in the world and the genre ¨Sharkploitation¨ was born. This documental explores the strange and wild legacy cinematographic of sharks in the cinema and eternal fascination of the audience of these animals.
In the wake of the blockbuster classic Jaws (1975), Spielberg and his film Jaws changed the history of cinema forever, turning a film with a limited budget into a blockbuster. ¨Jaws¨ by Spielberg, in which the shark attacks images deliver emotion , united to a thrilling score by master John Williams, stars Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw; it was followed by ¨Jaws 2¨ by Jeannot Szwarc with Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Donna Willkes, Jeffrey Kramer and Jaws 3D by Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Louis Gossett Jr, John Putch and Lea Thompson Joe Alves, producer designer of the original film and ¨Jaws : The revenge¨directed by Joseph Sargent with Michael Caine, Lorraine Gary, Lance Guest and Mario Van Pebbles . Jaws hit created a completely new genre, these shark films can be classified into three categories: 1ª Those produced by the big companies like Jaws and its official sequels and films as: ¨Deep Blue Sea¨, ¨47 meter down and 47 meters down: uncaged¨ by Johannes Roberts ¨ ; 2ª those produced on a medium budget, usually by Sy Fy Channel , such as ¨Sharknado¨ series, Shark attack¨ by David Worth, ¨Shark attack 2¨, ¨Shark attack 3 Megalodon¨, ¨Sharks in Venice¨, ¨Raging Sharks¨and 3ª: those financed on a minimal budget, such as by companies as New Image, New World, Asylum, nicknamed as ¨Mockbusters¨such as: Zombie Shark, Santa Shark, Avalanche Shark, Atomic Shark, Two-headed shark, Six-headed shark, Sharkula, Sharkenstein.
On the other hand there is a sub-genre on shipwrecked, divers, or swimmers who are relentless besieged post by hungry sharks whose greatest success was Open Water, followed by¨The Reef¨ and ¨Reef II¨.
With the proliferation of films such as the ¨Sharknado saga of Anthony Ferrante, and developing everything throughout a cult of the sharks, Thus, low -encouraged productions took advantage of this Sharkmania to exploit the concept to the maximum, even when it seemed to nod for more.
This interesting documentary was by Stephen Scarlata, who also produced the film along with Kerry Deignan Roy and Josh Miller. Scarlata previouly wrote: Beyond the Gates (2016) and Final Girl (2015)
