Giant, bad-CG sharks have been a staple of the B-movie horror genre for a long time, even before the Sharknado series made them popular. Wild Eye Releasing will be adding to the massive pile of shark-related low-budget films soon with Sharkula.
The titular Sharkula is what it sounds like — a shark vampire. It’s swimming around out there, attacking tourists in a coastal community, and the local residents have made it their mission to slay it, possibly with a stake harpoon or a garlic-shooting machine gun. Given what a vampire does, and what a shark does, there would seem to barely be any difference — unless you turn into a shark if you get bit by one. Does that happen?
Sharkula stars Kyle Rappaport (Return to Return to Nuke ‘Em High Aka Vol. 2) as Renfield and Jeff Kirkendall (Return to Splatter Farm) as Dracula — oh yeah, Dracula himself is involved. Did he bite the shark at some point to get all this started? The film was written and directed by Mark Polonia, and will be unleashed this summer from Wild Eye Releasing.
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, and it has help with the aid of new vampires intent on seeing it survive
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Is this from the makers of Sharknado? I watched the whole series and got sad when it ended.
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Is this from the makers of Sharknado? I watched the whole series and got sad when it ended.
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Nope, Sharknado was made by Sifi channel.
The special effects appeared to be on par with low-budget Ugandan action movies. The pandemic appears to have sparked a burst of uninspired inventiveness. I have no idea what they thought when they decided to make this film.