The words "An original SyFy movie" don't exactly fill me with confidence. The Science Fiction cable channel has had a hard time coming up with quality shows apart from its two shows based on Battlestar Galactica but has recently discovered a way to turn its crappy programming to its advantage: embrace and own the awful movies that they know that they are going to make. SyFy has had particular success in making audaciously ridiculous monster movies and they have seemingly discovered the secret Zen formula for creature films: A shark cannot jump itself.
Perhaps taking note of the attention given to movies like Snakes on a Plane and Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, SyFy has decided to highlight their cheesy, Canadian-accented, Crocsploitation cheapos. Last night was the premiere of their new Roger Corman-directed, Dinoshark, which followed reruns of the aptly-titled Dinocroc and Spring Break Shark Attack. There's something refreshingly unpretentious about movies that tell you exactly what you are going to get in the title, particularly if they use the word "versus." Personally, I think every movie should have a "versus." Let's not pretend Jurassic Park is a meditation on science gone awry, it's Dinos vs. Humans. By fully embracing their ridiculousness, these new SyFy movies are a pleasant throwback to the loopy old monster movies of yore, like the 60's and 70's Godzilla movies.
The titular creature from Dinoshark has the head of a T-Rex on the body of a shark. I really don't need to know anything more than that. You had me at Dinoshark. Not to be outdone, Corman has another SyFy movie coming out later this year, Sharktopus. I don't need to know how a shark and an octopus got it on. That's between that shark, that octopus and the ocean. I just want to see it.
Still, not the silliest hybrid monster.What else does the future have in store? Bearasaurus? Giant Tarantula Shark? Squidcroc? Maybe a giant rampaging elephant that has a cobra for a trunk. Cobraphant anyone?
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