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Stars: Brittany Altenbach, Brittany Salsman, Bridget Nicole Andrews, Jessica Claire Crosby, Lukas Silva, Austin Nix, Rudon Brannon | Written by Aaron Jackson | Directed by Paul Tomborello

Alien Shark opens with a badly animated CGI meteor heading for Earth. We don’t see it enter the atmosphere or anything, but it must have made it through because a couple of women jogging on the beach find some pieces of glowing space rock. One of them is dumb enough to pick a chunk up and goes wandering into the surf, her concerned friend following her, until both suddenly drop out of the frame in ankle-deep water.

I should have stopped watching then, but I’m stubborn, unfortunately this time I was too stubborn for my own good.

Aleesha is about to go through Ranger training, so what are her plans for the four days before it starts? Rest up, make sure she’s ready for the challenge?...

A couple months ago – soon after the successful theatrical release of director Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear (read our review Here) – we saw the trailer for Cocaine Shark, the latest movie from prolific low budget filmmaker Mark Polonia. We already knew at that time that the movie had secured a distribution deal with Wild Eye Releasing, and now we know when Wild Eye is going to be sending Cocaine Shark out into the world. The film is set to receive a DVD and VOD release on July 11th!

July 11th also happens to be the start of the Shark Week marathon on the Discovery Channel, so this is some perfect timing.

Scripted by Bando Glutz, Polonia’s Cocaine Shark has the following synopsis: A mafia drug lord has unleashed a new, highly addictive stimulant on the streets called HT25, derived from sharks held captive in a secret lab, and which causes monstrous side effects.

Who knew movie-goers had such a hunger for movies about animals on cocaine-fuelled rampages? In less than two weeks of release, director Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear (read our review Here) has racked up over $50 million at the box office. In the build-up to the release of that film, a news report about New Zealand police recovering more than three tons of cocaine that was found floating in the Pacific Ocean got people talking about the possibility of a Cocaine Shark movie… and the idea was even passed along to Banks, who said, “Jaws with cocaine, I don’t see how that loses.” But as it turns out, Banks has been beaten to the Cocaine Shark idea by prolific low budget filmmaker Mark Polonia, whose own Cocaine Shark movie is so far along that it has already secured a distribution deal with Wild Eye Releasing, and a trailer is already online!

Stars: Samantha Coolidge, Ryan Dalton, Drew Patrick, Houston Baker, A.T. Tomas, Jeff Kirkendall, Cassandra Hayes | Written by John Oak Dalton | Directed by Mark Polonia

[Note: With the film now out on DVD, here’s a reposting of our review of Sand World, formerly Dune World, from its digital review last year]

With Denis Villeneuve’s Dune getting its first festival showings, Mark Polonia, is here to cash in with Sand World. And not only is it bad, but it may also be a new low even by his standards!

After a debate about marriage, “I believe marriage should be between two men and two women.”, the crew of the mining ship Robert Indiana, flying the Martian flag, are struck by a strange energy blast and crash on a desert planet.

Babylon, Kondor (Ryan Dalton; Invasion of the Empire of the Apes), Kidd (Drew Patrick; Return to Splatter Farm), Chafe and Link (A.T. Tomas), an android that needs to go on a diet, trudge along in front of a...

From writer/director Mark Polonia, noted for the 'shark exploitation' comedies "Noah's Shark" and "Sharkenstein", comes Wild Eye Releasing's latest feature "Sharkula", releasing June 2022:

"...the curse of 'Count Dracula' lives on in shark-infested waters, claiming the lives of a tourist community. A sea hunt for the new species results in monsters, madness and bloodshed. This great white is putting the bite back into terror, with the aid of new vampires intent on seeing it survive..."

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Stars: Samantha Coolidge, Ryan Dalton, Drew Patrick, Houston Baker, A.T. Tomas, Jeff Kirkendall, Cassandra Hayes | Written by John Oak Dalton | Directed by Mark Polonia

With Denis Villeneuve’s Dune getting its first festival showings, Mark Polonia, is here to cash in with Dune World. And not only is it bad, but it may also be a new low even by his standards!

After a debate about marriage, “I believe marriage should be between two men and two women.”, the crew of the mining ship Robert Indiana, flying the Martian flag, are struck by a strange energy blast and crash on a desert planet.

Babylon, Kondor (Ryan Dalton; Invasion of the Empire of the Apes), Kidd (Drew Patrick; Return to Splatter Farm), Chafe and Link (A.T. Tomas), an android that needs to go on a diet, trudge along in front of a green screen until they find a plastic...