If you know anything about me, you will know I like watching low budget horror films, and Tubi is the perfect platform to find them. I don’t actually like a lot of them, but I do find some of them dumb fun and good to put on when I want to turn my brain off. Although, some are just dumb without the fun part.
So I will be doing mini reviews, well more statements, about these films, much shorter than my other reviews, and my ratings for the films will generally be based on how much fun they are, because not many of them are actually good in the objective sense.
A demonic nun summons Satan in the form of a ferocious shark, and unleashes terror upon the sleepy fishing town of Paris Landing.
Yes, it’s as dumb as it sounds.
My Thoughts
A nun summons a demon shark
No slow burn here. The opening scene involves a nun stabbing someone and then conjuring a hell-beast from a dock. Within five minutes, Satan has possessed a shark. Respect for efficiency.
Feels like it was made by your uncle’s camcorder cult
It’s aggressively homemade, which gives it a weird charm.
It has a psychic, for some reason
Enter Roni Jonah as a psychic who seems to be in her own spin-off. She delivers monologues and occasionally channels something, though it’s unclear if it’s the shark, the demon, or just a mild headache. Whatever it is, it’s oddly captivating.
Pure, uncut cheese
This isn’t B-movie cheese. This is shelf-stable gas station cheese spread.
The blood is offensively bad
Whatever they used for fake blood here might’ve also been used to clean floors.
The shark attacks look like YouTube prank footage
The shark is barely in the movie. When it does show up, it’s either poorly composited CGI, a still photo, or just people flailing in a lake while red filters flash on screen. Most of the horror is left to implication, which is a bold choice when your entire title hinges on a demon shark.
The acting, my word the acting
There is acting, and then there is Shark Exorcist. Most of the cast seems like they learned their lines 30 seconds before the take and then forgot them halfway through.
The story peaks in the first 5 minutes
The start of the movie is the best bit, with the “demon shark summoned by murder nun.” It should be impossible to squander that kind of momentum, but Shark Exorcist makes it look effortless.
Final Thoughts on Shark Exorcist
Shark Exorcist is not good, not even in a dumb fun way.
It’s amateur, incoherent, and it’s a film made by people who just really wanted to put a demon shark on screen and didn’t let things like “budget,” “equipment,” or “scripts” get in the way.
You can’t call it a success, but you also can’t say it didn’t deliver something.
And yes, it has a damn sequel too. I will watch it at some point, but can’t bring myself to see it just yet.
I need time.
Final Score: 2 out of 10 UP: Demon shark, haunted psychic. DOWN: Acting, pacing, blood, shark, everything else.
Shark Exorcist Trailer
Simon Leasher
A lover of cinema for over 35 years, I have watched many films from around the world in many different genres, yet I still normally always come back to trashy slasher horror films when in doubt. More
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