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There have been some great names for shark movies; Deep Blue Sea, Open Water, No Way Up, Fear Below, Blue Demon, Blood Surf, Bait, Dark Tide, Red Water. I particularly like Marina Monster, you know what you’re getting with that. Or course Jaws is a pretty on the nose title itself and one that subsequently lead to Cruel Jaws, Deep Jaws, Santa Jaws and Ghost Shark 2: Urban Jaws. In terms of borrowing from Spielberg, I think 2015’s Raiders of the Lost Shark has to be my favourite. 

Now we have Thrash. I can see where they were going with this and clearly all the really good ones were taken. You’ve got to be careful calling a film Thrash though when it’s, well, a bit trash. It’s like having a movie named It’s Scrap or Terror Bubble (actually, I would watch that). 

I’m not sure whether they get away with it here. The movie is trash, there’s no doubt about that. It’s whether this is deliberate or not. I’m not sure if this is a parody or if it’s just bad. 

The special effects are sometimes strong and sometimes awful. The script is corny, and the line delivery so ill fitting that half the time it sounds like it is being dubbed from another language. The plot is contrived too and some narrative beats make absolutely no sense whatsoever. It is kind of fun though and I did find myself laughing quite a lot. When you call your Great White Nelly then you’re not expecting to be take seriously surely. 

There are some original ideas in here as well. They are struggling to keep afloat but they are here, like life buoys in a tsunami of cliche. The film also challenges A Quiet Place and last year’s Eden, for finding the worst possible scenario in which to give birth.

I don’t know if I recommend this then but it’s on Netflix and it’s under ninety minutes so give it ago and see how long you can swallow it for before you need to see the fin.

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