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Oh dear Lord, this was horrible.

Well, actually I knew that right away from the title alone, but at the same time I wanted to see it because I knew it was going to be one of those campy movies that make you shake your head in disbelief, and trust me, it did.

The story itself is so amazingly ridiculous. Sharks swimming through sand. Come on. Who comes up with ideas like these?

And the cast, well even though some of them were actually putting on adequate performances, the movie was just weighed down by a poor plot and bad CGI effects.

There are lots of really bad shark movies available on the movie market, and "Sand Sharks" is right up there with them. It is utterly non-plausible and just down right stupid at times. "Sand Sharks" is worth a watch if you want something to laugh at while trying to recover from a bad hang over, and that is about it.

What's next, Concrete Alligators?

Well I certainly don't know the answer to that, and judging by what was on display here I am not sure if the movie did either. Haphazardly edited with cheap special effects, Sand Sharks is a poorly-made film, that is further disadvantaged by a number of other things including a soundtrack that is overbearing and in danger of slowing down the film, a script that is filled with bad puns and unbearably cheesy dialogue, a ridiculous and predictable story not helped by the witless premise, characters that are stereotypical, cartoonish and annoying and acting that is generally over-played and forced. The sharks are not menacing at all and their attacks are not thrilling or suspenseful in the least, plus how they are used in this movie is what makes Sand Sharks so ridiculous in the first place. The only redeeming qualities for me were the idyllic opening shot and the likable enough performance of Brooke Hogan, who managed to be the sole redeeming quality of 2-Headed Shark Attack as well. The rest overall was pointless and too annoying and ridiculous to be entertained by. In all honesty reading the reviews here excusing Sand Sharks' badness was much more entertaining than the whole movie put together. 2/10 Bethany Cox

If you see Mark Atkins as the directors name and you see the title of a movie that looks stupid or looks like a rip-off of a popular title then you know you will get ultra trash.

This here is no exception. But it's so strange to see the name Gina Holden on the credits. Face it, she has done so much excellent horrors like Saw 7, The Butterfly Effect, AVP and I can go on and on. Others here in this cheesy flick deliver performances from stupid ones to wooden ones. But also the CGI used is one to see. It's on of those SyFy quality and you know what that means. As bad as it can get. But I must admit that I somehow enjoyed it because they added some comedy towards this flick. If you take it seriously then you will hate this flick but if you watch it as a stupid flick then you maybe will enjoy if you can dig ultra low budgets. And the production didn't take themselves seriously because in this flick they even mention Roger Corman, so a big hint to what you will get.

It's weird that this is even available in a cut version although it doesn't have that much red stuff in it, except some CGI one. But the uncut version does deliver one gory shot of a copper being bitten in half, intestines shown. Here and there their are a few other nasty shots. Where they also added some comedy is in the fact that a voluptuous girl is getting undressed and is ready to show her juggs is bitten by a sand shark, funny to see and a big finger to the perverted ones out there. So no nudity here.

Get yourself a pint and some crisps and invite a few friends, you surely will have a few laughs. Not as bad as I thought it would be but still, cheesy as hell. And I wont go into the really bad and predictable ending....

Gore 1/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 1/5

No seriously, what did I watch???

I didn't know whether to cry or laugh at the stupidity throughout the movie.

Sure the CGI isn't great, and the idea of sand sharks itself isn't exactly a genius' work, but that didn't really disturb me. I think the over and under the top acting was the worst part, additionally, whoever took part in writing the script should be shot. I've seen pornos or "romantic dramas" from 1995 with better scripts... (reference:"I like to play games").

I guess I would watch this movie again if friends came over and we would all get really really really high while watching the movie, then I would say it's an amazing comedy.

Seriously, this is quite possibly the worst film I have ever seen. Really poor B-movies from the '60s rank higher than this abomination.

I implore anyone reading this before seeing the film to instead, pop down to a DIY store, buy a can of paint. Find a wall in your home that needs some attention, paint said wall, pull up a chair and watch it dry. It's a much better use of an hour and a half! Some positive feedback on the film, there's a couple of stunning ladies cast, pity that their dialogue is written, presumably by an illiterate horse (sorry, I think that's a bit tough on horses).

The location setting is o.k. The script, plot, acting, concept, visual effects and directing though is woeful. One for the Razzies!

Hahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha (choke!) (gag) (wheeze) hahahaha hahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahaha ((Stops for a moment to wipe a tear from his eye)) Hahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha (gasp!) (chuckle) (gip!)

(((takes a few deep breaths to calm his hysterics)))

I've just finished watching this film and it's a hoot! There's really not much more I can say about this unbelievably awful film. The acting, the script (what there is of one) the props, the special (hahahaha) effects (they have to be seen to be believed, I honestly haven't laughed this much in years) everything is so bad it's hilarious. One line in the film is a parody from Jaws but instead of "smile you son of a bitch" so heroically belted out by the great Roy Scheider, this donk yells out "smile you SAND of a bitch" (No seriously, this really is in the film I ain't kidding) We're talking reaching the bottom of the barrel here, breaking through the bottom and digging down until you can't dig anymore and then pitching a pile of dynamite at the end just to go that few feet lower. This film is THAT bad. A 2.6 rating on here? Most of the votes pushing this up have got to be joke votes or the director and casts families, this deserves to be lower than a 1.0 for sure "One more time for the road...Hahahahahahahaha

Damn. I remember when the Scifi channel was a great channel. Battlestar Galactica. Caprica. Classic sf movies. Twilight zone (ok, they still show that). then NBC took over and the channel went down hill, linking up with those losers at The Asylum, where they should all be committed, and showing absolute garbage like this. This crap makes stuff by Shyamalan look good. I'm not even kidding here. Bad acting. Bad SFX, bad story. Bad everything. And then some idiot will say, "Oh it's a homage to the great B's of the past." Ha. These aren't even as good as the trailers of B's of the past. They should all go to Corman school and learn how to do things on a budget. I'm swearing off the formerly known as the scifi channel forever.

I saw this movie without knowing when it was made. I was surprised to find here that it was made in 2012, because the movie has a look and feel of something made in the'80s.

An island that looks very much like the beaches of southern California has casualties of dirt bikers. They've been mauled by something, but the sheriffs are not sure what did it. An entrepreneur plans a big beach party for college kids. You know the rest of the story .....

The story is like a mix of Jaws and Piranha in that man eating shark is prowling the sea shore, and just coincidentally, large group of kids are going to have a festival there.

Asides from a story that's like "I've seen this before", the movie is pretty well made for something that's made on a low budget.

They should have came up with little more original story, and it might have been a lot more entertaining.

What can I say? Just a waste of time. Even 30 minutes of this is like an eternity! I hope nobody actually made any money off of this horrible excuse for a film production. It should not even be allowed as a tax write-off for a business loss. In fact, decency should compel society to make such films illegal. It's that bad!

Even Attack of the Killer Tomatoes was more entertaining; and made more sense! There is no humor, no acting, no nothing!

But Gina Holden is very nice to look at, I must say! But don't let that be any motivation for you to watch this travesty; she has appeared in other films, after all.

I honestly don't know why this got such a bad rap?

I'm not trying to be a "troll" or a dick but I honestly enjoyed it a lot. It came across as what it was meant too be, a movie that was ridiculous to the point where it was funny. A movie to poke fun at when it pokes fun at itself.

I liked that it wasn't hung up on gore (like Piranha(a pointless gorefest)) I'm assuming people took this as a serious horror movie and if so... Wow. It's called sand sharks, sharks that live in the sand (if you didn't already get that).

That aside, the acting suited the movie very much, the characters were great and how they got off that rock made me laugh till my stomach hurt.

It's my first review so please excuse punctuation and I really suggest this movie if you enjoy watching terrible movies to poke fun at.

Sand Sharks (2012)

* 1/2 (out of 4)

JAWS meets TREMORS in this silly, straight-to-DVD creature feature that lacks any real bite. A small town discovers that there is a deadly shark swimming through the sand but they're able to destroy it before a bunch of college kids show up for a beach party. As you'd guess, it turns out that the shark was just a baby and soon its mother shows up. If you're looking for some sort of classic then it's best to stick with one of the films mentioned before. If you're looking for a really cheap, really silly movie then SAND SHARKS might just be for you. When you go into a movie like this quality isn't what you should be looking for but instead you can just hope for some "so bad it's good" moments and this film offers plenty of those. I must admit that there were several times where I found myself laughing extremely loud at what's going on in this thing. The first glimpses of the sharks swimming around in the sand were rather hilarious and there are other bits of comedy here that works. One such example is a scene where a woman gets bitten in two and the guy with her tries to save her life by attaching her guts together. The film certainly shouldn't be taken too serious as there are so many logical problems here. With that said, what really kills this movie is the fact that it clocks in at a way-too-long 90-minutes. Remember when movies like this clocked in less than 70-minutes? I guess the films of today must clock in at 90-minutes for television but it's really too bad because if you took out the boring personal drama crap then you'd be left with a fun monster movie. Believe it or not but the performances are actually above average for this type of thing and it appears that Brooke Hogan took some acting classes as her work here is much better than we saw in 2-HEADED SHARK ATTACK. I'm a little surprised that the producers didn't get into some trouble because there are several scenes that rip-off JAWS and the heads of the monsters also rip off the ones in TREMORS. This film here isn't nearly in the same league as those two classics but with dialogue like "We're stuck between a rock and a shark place," you can at least have a laugh.

Plagiarism is defined in dictionaries as the "wrongful appropriation," "close imitation," or "purloining and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions," and the representation of them as one's own original work (as copied from Wikipedia) The filming, camera work ,lighting, music and even some of the acting is OK to quite good, but God O'mighty the idea, and even most of the scenes are exactly like Jaws. At least the beginning of it that is. I don't recall if there were any scenes in the film that were not actually predictable when it wasn't being copied from jaws. ah yes I do remember,there weren't any. I wouldn't say that this movie is a complete waste of time because some of the crews actually worked very hard on this and I wouldn't want to neglect their work nor efforts, however that being said I am definitely not talking about the writers, producers or director. They should know better. I am glad to have watched this at home and not at a theatre where I would have to pay a large amount for it.

As a child, whenever I'd go to a beach I'd imagine sharks gliding effortlessly through the sand. I must have been 6 or 7 back then. Now, 20 years later, someone had the idea to turn that into a film. I love that this film exists even if I don't love the film itself. This has the exact same plot as Jaws, all the way down to the expert called in, the old hunter guy showing up at the town meeting, and the wrong shark being caught early on. The problem with the film is that it tries too hard to be funny. And when it tries it fails, or simply confuses. There are some nice touches, such as one of the characters giving "As my father always said..." speeches, but lapsing into bad impressions. It's when it shies away from something that could have been emotional, for a few needless gory gags. Casting Brooke Hogan as a doctor of marine biology is the first red flag this film gives off. The film trudges towards a climax involving a couple of dozen people trying to give off the impression of a huge party. Seeing the actors crowd around the camera to make it looked pack, or the same actor running back and forth, is mildly amusing. Bad CGI, bad jokes that you laugh at and not with, and exceptionally bad one liners "Your party is no longer on the sand, it's on the ice." It all adds up to what I was expecting, but it didn't have the budget to be the parody it seemed to be aiming for.

I love ridiculous movies - funny movies - stupid movies . This movie is just terrible even if it was meant to be terrible . I found my kids watching it and even they said to me we need to turn this thing off. Do Not in any way turn this movie on for fear of brain damage. It may very well end up being a cult type film especially in Colorado and Washington State in the near future as they may be more apt to enjoy said film while treating their ailments. For them it will be a great way to enjoy the legalities afforded to them recently - The rest of America would be better served to "just say no" to this movie until the laws are changed in their respective states.

Before I started to watch this movie I had been thinking that it would be exciting and breathtaking movie. But, such a fiasco! I just laughed, and I felt myself as if I was watching a comedy movie. Briefly, it became the worst movie I have ever seen. It can make no sense and no excitement. Just became a waste of time, just a funny horror comedy.

Carachters were incredibly unrealistic and the plot was a medium quality plot acting was not good or bad.Even, entering an ad or a comment is also waste of time, it doesn't worth anything.A film in that level can be made even by high school students with an ability of creating special effects, but nonetheless I liked the last scene when sharks were destroyed.

What really gets to me is how some people like to say how bad these movies are.... THEY ARE MADE THAT WAY.... I would watch this any day of the week over garbage remakes that Hollywood dumps 200 million into and tanks. Its too bad people think that they need to grade this in a comparison to a top of the line film. This film is MEANT to come out like it did. It doesn't have some crappy sellout actor that keeps showing up in all the Hollywood overpriced films. Try judging the movies on how they were meant to come out. When people see its a SyFy movie, they realize its gonna be corny, have bad acting and storyline/one liners that make the movie worth watching. Shockingly, Brook Hogan wasn't that bad in this movie.

Anybody who watches something so obviously meant to be ridiculous and then complains because it is ridiculous is probably the same kind of moron who lies in the sun and then complains that it is hot. As such, I suggest you ignore the negative reviews on this page. They probably wrote them on the way home from seeing The Who in concert after leaving early and complaining that "it was just too loud in there".

There are two types of terrible movie. The first is best represented by Terror Inside. Badly acted, poorly written and generally excruciating to watch. Almost universally such movies take themselves too seriously (ANY hint of seriousness is too serious).

The second type includes such knowingly comic gems as Flight Of The Living Dead. A ridiculous name which diligently ticks all the boxes, as does the film. We're talking boxes such as a consciously silly script, a good cast of weird and/or attractive stereotypes and the collective tongue jammed so deep in cheek that it resembles a particularly greedy squirrel.

Whenever you are in doubt, the rule of thumb is that the more outlandish the name, the more likely it is to be brilliantly terrible.

But rules are made to be broken. Sand Sharks nearly passed me by, as it is quite a sensible and vague title. Then I saw the 2.7 rating and realised it might well be more preposterous and unashamed than the title suggested. Thank goodness I did.

This is a hilarious, over the top, over-acted and actually quite skilfully constructed comic b-movie-esque homage to Jaws, with a hint of Deep Blue Sea.