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The "Sharksploitation" subgenre has struggled to produce dominant hits since 2016's The Shallows. Between examples like The Black Demon and The Requin, fans of fin flicks have been subjected to an overflow of waterlogged atrocities. Joachim Hedn seemed destined to turn the tides with The Last Breath, coming from a filmmaker who'd already astounded us with underwater thrills in Breaking Surface (2020). Submerged cinematography is once again sharp, and the claustrophobia of being trapped inside a shipwreck while diving is real, but chalk another loss for sharky cinema. The Last Breath is competent to a point, without ever exceeding or even achieving baseline aquatic horror standards.

After watching a scary shark movie like Jaws or Deep Blue Sea, beach trips or water sports don't feel as alluring. Shark movies like these often exploit a viewer's inherent fear of flesh-eating sharks, even though attacks in real life are surprisingly uncommon. They make viewers feel scared and intimidated by the water, even when they're in scenic, beautiful locations. Many a vacation has been destroyed by this subgenre of horror.

Shark movies from the year 2000 onward are often more frightening than the films that came before them, having been made on higher budgets and with enhanced special or practical effects. There are often gorier action sequences and more life-like antagonists. Some contemporary shark movies, like Sharknado or The Meg, go the opposite route and have fun with the genre, adding humor and levity to the horror. Either way, there are plenty of top-notch shark movies from the last 20 years worth watching.

The Requin. The Reef: Stalked. The Black Demon. Now Something in the Water. I’m reaching my breaking point with shark attack movies that are too distracted by other plotlines to deliver on their promise: shark attacks. Hayley Easton Street’s Something in the Water might be the biggest offender listed, taking roughly thirty minutes until the first shark-related incident, then another fifteen(ish) minutes for the first of frustratingly few substantial shark spottings. Cat Clarke’s screenplay tries to establish poignant storytelling about hate crimes, broken relationships, and debilitating traumas, but in doing so, forgets about the massive shark plastered all over the film’s marketing materials. Street and Clarke aim to elevate shark cinema with emotional throughlines, but sink the entire project with an alarmingly imbalanced approach.

The film opens with same-sex couple Meg (Hiftu Quasem) and Kayla (Natalie Mitson) strolling home one night, publicly displaying their love,...

How can a "plane crash shark attack" movie be this sinfully dull? Claudio Fäh's No Way Up swings for the moon with its sunken premise but doesn't fulfill much of the B-Movie potential this fin-slash-disaster flick promises. Writer Andy Mayson transports viewers to the bottom of the sea in an unpredictable fashion, but the vacation nightmare’s swerve into chompy aquatic horror doesn’t blend into storytelling all that well. Fäh and Mayson desperately attempt to make No Way Up more than just an eye-catching poster that sounds hatched from a 30 Rock character's pitch, only to run out of storytelling steam in record time.

Mayson begins with a sparsely booked flight bound for Cabo that suffers catastrophic engine damage caused by a now-mincemeat flock of birds. Shrapnel tears free, piercing the plane's fuselage and blowing a hole wide open that sucks passengers out while the aircraft plummets downward into the Pacific Ocean.

If the past three years have been any indication, there is currently a wave of renewed interest in shark movies. Not even counting the numerous low-budget productions, recent theatrically released shark movies include The Requin, The Reef: Stalked, The Black Demon, and Meg 2: The Trench, the latter likely being the most widely known. Swimming alongside these new screen sharks is Shudder’s recent documentary exploration of shark horror, Sharksploitation.

Stars: Josh Lucas, Fernanda Urrejola, Venus Ariel, Carlos Solorzan, Julio Cesar Cedillo, Jorge A. Jimenez | Written by Carlos Cisco, Boise Esquerra | Directed by Adrian Grunberg

After the trainwreck that was Cocaine Shark and with the spectre of Jurassic Shark 3: Seavenge looming over me, The Black Demon, or any other shark film for that matter, may not have been an obvious choice. But this one caught my attention when it was announced and the idea of a finned fear film with enough of a budget to give it some bite was hard to say no to.

Paul Sturges is the safety officer for Nixon Oil, a corporate name that does not exactly inspire confidence. He has been sent to Baja to inspect one of the company’s rigs and has brought his family along. He may have to work but his wife Ines, daughter, Audrey, and son Tommy can have a vacation.

Spring is here and we’re kicking off our May slate with The Ancestral, the disturbing new horror film from renowned director Le-Van Kiet that’s now streaming on Screambox!

The Ancestral released theatrically in Vietnam last year. It held the top spot for two consecutive weekends, making it the second consecutive success for the visionary director Kiet. His bold style first caught the eye of the international community after his film Furie became Vietnam’s highest-grossing film of all time; the film went on to become the country’s submission to the Academy Awards for Best International Feature.

In The Ancestral…

“After suffering a family tragedy, a widower moves his two daughters to a centuries-old ancestral home. When both daughters fall prey to sleep paralysis and night terrors, their father seeks the help of a local psychologist. These chilling secrets and frightening visions eventually prove that not everything is...

"You saw it, too, didn't you?" Screambox has revealed an official US trailer for a Vietnamese supernatural horror film titled The Ancestral, arriving for streaming next week. It's the latest feature from renowned filmmaker Le-Van Kiet, who also directed the action hit Furie, shark movie The Requin, and Joey King's action movie The Princess. A Vietnamese family moves into a centuries-old ancestral home, only to discover sinister secrets and visions in the old family's ancient crypt. A haunting twist on sleep paralysis and trauma, the film held the top spot at the box office in Vietnam upon release last year. "Horror films that take place in the home, like The Ancestral, are a different level of unsettling, and I'm thrilled to share this terrifying film with our Screambox viewers," Bloody Disgusting's Brad Miska explains. Starring Lâm Thanh Mỹ, Quang Tuấn, Mai Cát Vi, and Dieu Nhi. This looks like...

Warner Bros. has released the first teaser for "The Penguin," the upcoming spin-off series set within "The Batman" universe. This show will be heading to Max, the brand new streaming service that was announced by Warner Bros. Discovery recently, which will combine HBO Max and Discovery+ under the same roof. That means it will be the new hub for the DC Universe, including Colin Farrell's upcoming return as Oswald Cobblepot on the small screen.

Lauren LeFranc ("Impulse") is the writer, executive producer, and showrunner of the series, which will have an eight-episode season. Meanwhile, "The Batman" director Matt Reeves is also on board as an executive producer, helping to steer the ship as this show will bridge the gap before "The Batman: Part 2" arrives. So, how is Penguin going to do in taking center stage? Let's have a look.

The Penguin Trailer Reveals The Batman Spin-Off Series

The teaser...

As is tradition, the Golden Raspberry Awards announced its winners on Oscar weekend. The Razzies, now in their 43rd year, are a tongue-in-cheek ceremony that “honor” the worst films of the year. Scroll down for the full list of winners (and nominees) in all nine Razzie Awards categories ranging from Worst Picture to Worst Remake, Rip-Off, or Sequel.

Netflix’s Marilyn Monroe biopic “Blonde,” reaped a leading eight bids and won two: Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay for director Andrew Dominik. The film’s star, Ana de Armas, was not nominated here but reaped a Best Actress bid at the Oscars.

Conversely, two-time Oscar champ Tom Hanks was overlooked by the academy for his portrayal of Colonel Tom Parker in “Elvis” but he won two Razzies: Worst Supporting Actor and Worst Screen Combo for “Tom Hanks & His Latex-Laden Face (and That Ludicrous Accent).”

Another past Oscar winner, Jared Leto (“Dallas...

The Razzies have opted not to award the Worst Actress prize to anyone this year. When the nominations for the bad movie awards were announced this January, they were instantly mired in controversy. Included on the list was Ryan Kiera Armstrong, the 12-year-old star of the Blumhouse remake Firestarter, a nomination they rescinded after online reactions accused them of bullying a child.

Per Entertainment Weekly, the 2023 Razzie Award winners have been announced. While a lot of the usual suspects were awarded, including the Jared Leto superhero vehicle Morbius and Tom Hanks' villainous performance in Elvis, the Worst Actress award went to The Razzies themselves. They opted to own their mistake rather than award one of the other nominees, which included Bryce Dallas Howard in Jurassic World Dominion, Diane Keaton in Mack & Rita, Alicia Silverstone in The Requin, and Kaya Scodelario in The King's Daughter.

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Cinedigm and Bloody Disgusting have acquired all North American rights to The Ancestral, the disturbing new horror film from renowned director Le-Van Kiet (The Requin). The Ancestral will be a Screambox Original, news that was first announced by Deadline this afternoon.

The Ancestral released theatrically in Vietnam last year. It held the top spot for two consecutive weekends, making it the second consecutive success for the visionary director Kiet. His bold style first caught the eye of the international community after his film Furie became Vietnam’s highest-grossing film of all time; the film went on to become the country’s submission to the Academy Awards for Best International Feature.

In The Ancestral…

“After suffering a family tragedy, a widower moves his two daughters to a centuries-old ancestral home. When both daughters fall prey to sleep paralysis and night terrors, their father seeks the help of a local psychologist. These...

The Dutch comedy duo of Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil have a new project heading our way -- and it stars some pretty recognizable faces. Nick Frost has been tapped to lead the pair's first English-language feature, which is already gaining some pretty intense buzz. In a statement to Variety, Haars and van der Kuil said, "It's a dream come true working with this amazing, talented cast on our most insane movie yet." That's one hell of a claim considering these are the folks who made the cocktail of absurdity and vulgarity known as "Ron Goossens, Low Budget Stuntman."

Frost also spoke with Variety and said, "'Krazy House' has been a completely bonkers project to be a part of and I've absolutely loved every minute of it." This is also certainly quite a claim, as Nick Frost is somewhat synonymous with wild, wacky, and wonderful comedy films.

The Razzie Awards are owning their own bad judgment.

After nominating 11-year-old “Firestarter” star Ryan Kiera Armstrong in the Worst Actress category, Razzie co-founder John Wilson issued a statement rescinding the nomination and apologizing to Armstrong.

“Sometimes, you do things without thinking, then you are called out for it,” Wilson said. “Then you get it. It’s why the Razzies were created in the first place. The recent valid criticism of the choice of 11-year-old Armstrong as a nominee for one of our awards brought our attention to how insensitive we’ve been in this instance. As a result, we have removed Armstrong’s name from the Final Ballot that our members will cast next month.”

Wilson added, “We also believe a public apology is owed Ms. Armstrong, and wish to say we regret any hurt she experienced as a result of our choices. Having learned from this lesson, we...

Razzie Awards organizers have removed Ryan Kiera Armstrong from their ballot following backlash against including the actress, who is 12, in its annual picks for the worst films and performances of the year.

John Wilson, head of the group that organizes the Golden Raspberry Awards — aka the Razzies — also issued an apology in a statement released Wednesday morning.

“Sometimes, you do things without thinking,” Wilson said. “Then you are called out for it. Then you get it. It’s why the Razzies were created in the first place.”

Wilson called the criticism “valid,” noting that it “brought our attention to how insensitive we’ve been in this instance. As a result, we have removed Armstrong’s name from the final ballot that our members will cast next month. We also believe a public apology is owed Ms. Armstrong, and wish to say we regret any hurt she experienced as a result of our choices.

The 43rd Razzie Awards nominations are in.

Amid the gongs being given out for the best flicks out there during awards season, the Razzies are honouring the worst.

“Blonde”, starring Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe, leads this year’s noms with eight, while Machine Gun Kelly’s “Good Mourning” nabs seven.

Read More: Ana de Armas Explains Why It’s Been ‘Tough’ For Audiences To Understand Marilyn Monroe In ‘Blonde’: ‘The Emotional Truth Is Powerful’

Disney’s “Pinocchio”, starring Tom Hanks, Cynthia Erivo and Luke Evans, picks up six noms, while “Morbius”, featuring Jared Leto and Matt Smith, has five and “The King’s Daughter”, starring Pierce Brosnan, nabs three.

See the full list of nominations below:

Worst Picture

“Blonde”

“Pinocchio”

“Good Mourning”

“The King’s Daughter”

“Morbius”

Worst Actor

Colson Baker (aka Machine Gun Kelly)/ “Good Mourning”

Pete Davidson (Voice Only)/ “Marmaduke”

Tom Hanks (As Gepetto)/ Disney’s “Pinocchio...

Awards season is upon us, and while Hollywood is honoring 2022’s best films and performances, the Razzie Awards shine a light on the “worst” movies and actors of the year.

Leading the field is Andrew Dominik’s controversial Marilyn Monroe biopic “Blonde,” with eight nominations. While Ana de Armas is not up for worst actress, the film is nominated for worst picture and Dominik for worst director and screenplay. Evan Williams and Xavier Samuel are also both competing for worst supporting actor alongside Mod Sun and Pete Davidson for “Good Mourning” and Oscar winner Tom Hanks for “Elvis.”

Hanks is also in the worst actor race for his turn as Geppetto in Disney’s live-action “Pinocchio.” Filling out the worst actor race are Colson Baker, Davidson (for a voice role in “Marmaduke”), Sylvester Stallone (“Samaritan”) and Jared Leto (“Morbius.”)

The Sony Pictures vampire movie based on the Marvel villain flopped...

If you thought the Razzie Awards learned a lesson last year about bullying, decency and humanity when they graciously rescinded an “award” they’d given to Bruce Willis due to his failing health, you’d be dead wrong. This year’s Golden Raspberry “honorees” include a 12-year-old girl (wait — how is that okay?) in Worst Actress, Ryan Kiera Armstrong (“Firestarter”). Also recognized is movie star Tom Hanks in Worst Actor (“Disney’s Pinocchio”) and Worst Supporting Actor (“Elvis”) — he of course is a two-time Oscar winner for “Philadelphia” (1993) and “Forrest Gump” (1994). Scroll down to see all of the 2023 Razzie Awards nominations.

The biggest film nominee this year is Netflix’s Marilyn Monroe biopic “Blonde,” which scored a jaw-dropping eight bids including Worst Picture and Worst Supporting Actor x2 for Xavier Samuel and Evan Williams. Luckily, Best Actress Oscar hopeful Ana de Armas was spared.

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Up next from Jennifer Reeder (V/H/S/94, Night’s End, Knives and Skin) is the horror movie Perpetrator, which follows Jonny (Kiah McKirnan), an impulsive teenage girl living in a town where young women continue to go missing, and revolves around the power she’s forced to unlock to survive.

Bloody Disgusting has a first look at McKirnan in the film as well as Alicia Silverstone (Clueless, The Lodge, The Requin), who star alongside Christopher Lowell (My Best Friend’s Exorcism), Melanie Liburd (The Idol), and Ireon Roach (Candyman)

“The filmmakers say that the film is inspired by the shared experience of generations of women, as well as an exploration of youthful chaos,” explained Variety when they broke the news on the film, which was acquired by Shudder late last year.

“This is a significant moment for women working in genre films,” said Reeder. “Women are very well suited for...

Poppy tunes open Vo Thanh Hoa’s screen adaptation of Kenji Uchida’s “Key of Life” (2012), following the first action scene that introduces one of the film’s three key characters – Thach (Kieu Minh Tuan), a notorious assasin who’s seen completing his task and then disappearing from the crime scene. In just a couple of minutes he will shake of a bunch of armed criminals by swiftly changing roles from one type of servant to the other, to be ridiculously defeated by a simple bar of soap. Just like in Kenji’s original, the fantom assasin gets knocked unconscious in a bath house, and wakes up with amnesia and a wrong locker key in his hand, logically believing to be someone else.

Chìa Khoá Trăm Tỷ (A Hundred Billion Key) has opened in 50 major U.S. theaters nationally on Friday, Oct 28th.

Thach starts living...

Anne Heche at the 25th Annual Race To Erase Ms Gala at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on April 20, 2018. Pic credit: ©ImageCollect.com/Admedia

Several years ago, this writer spent some time on the set of the NBC military drama The Brave and had the opportunity to talk mom-to-mom with Anne Heche.

She was playing The Brave’s leading role of badass Patricia Campbell, the head of operations for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, opposite Mike Vogel (Under the Dome), who led a second surveillance team.

The role required 12 to 14-hour days and the cast and crew explained that they became like a second family led by “den mother Anne Heche,” who frequently fed them and looked after them. The 13-episode one-season series even took them to Afghanistan for the fourth episode where they cemented their bonds.

With Heche succumbing to her injuries after a tragic fiery car crash resulting in brain trauma,...

From the directors of The Asylum’s Dune knockoff and the writers/director of The Asylum’s Aladdin ripoff comes The Asylum’s Tubi Original Shark Side of the Moon. Just when you thought it was safe to colonize Earth’s crater-covered moon again, Glenn Campbell and Tammy Klein introduce Russian human-shark hybrids as cosmic predators. Or, more appropriately, lower-than-low-budget digital renderings of what The Asylum standards define as extraterrestrial Street Shark lookin’ freakshows. You’re going to read the review you’d expect for Shark Side of the Moon, a zero-star technical affair that’s barely fit for Syfy’s Sunday headliner slot — but with such an out-of-bounds concept, it’s hard to ignore and not marvel at the Frankensteining of genres on display.

The gist is simple. Russian scientists create humanoid-shark supersoldiers that can survive any situation, which escape their facility and are flown to the moon by...

Stars: Teressa Liane, Saskia Hampele, Tim Ross, Ann Truong, Kate Lister, Saskia Archer | Written and Directed by Andrew Traucki

Despite the title and presence of writer/director Andrew Traucki, The Reef: Stalked is not a sequel to The Reef. Rather, like his films Black Water and Black Water: Abyss they’re unrelated films that share only a common monster, crocodiles in Black Water, and sharks in The Reef.

This time around we’re introduced to diving enthusiast Nic. After she finds her sister Cath dead, drowned in the bathtub by her abusive boyfriend Greg however that changes.

Nine months later she can’t even see water let alone resume diving, without imagining her sister’s death. Hoping it’ll be therapeutic she joins her old diving crew Jodie and Lisa, and her other sister Annie (Saskia Archer; Bali 2002) at the beach. Their kayaking trip turns out to be anything but...

Exclusive: Ellen Wander’s Film Bridge International has sold shark survival thriller Maneater to a host of buyers during the Cannes market including Saban Films, Challan Films (Korea), Superfine Films (India), YouPlanet (Spain), Ily Films (France), Monolith (Poland), Suraya Filem (Se Asia), Blitz Film Group (Ex-Yugo), and Selim Ramia and Co. (Middle East).

Starring Nicky Whelan (Hall Pass), country music star and actor Trace Adkins (The Lincoln Lawyer) and Shane West (A Walk to Remember), the story follows a group of friends on vacation in a seeming island paradise who are stalked by an unrelenting great white after an accident leaves them stranded and left for dead.

Justin Lee (Apache Junction) wrote and directed. Pic was produced by Daemon Hillin under his Hillin Entertainment banner. Exec producers are Adkins, Joseph Lanius, Simon Williams, Landon Gorman of Bgg Capital, and Ellen Wander...

Stars: Holly Earl, Jack Trueman, Thomas Flynn, Malachi Pullar-Latchman, Catherine Hannay | Written by Nick Saltrese | Directed by James Nunn

Shark movies. What to say about the genre? Well, one thing you can say is that genre films featuring sharks terrorising humans are certainly prolific in their production, it feels like every month we get another shark movie of some kind. However, at this rate, there’s not many stories left to tell about shark versus man so filmmakers need the extra special something to make their movie stand out… So what does Shark Bait offer?

Well for a start it comes from director James Nunn, the British filmmaker behind a slew of great low-budget action movies over the years. He originally exploded on the scene with 2012’s Tower Block, before helming the likes of Green Street 3, Eliminators and One Shot, all starring Scott Adkins; as well as lensing The Marine...

James Nunn‘s Shark Bait earns its praise only by comparison in today’s grim state of contemporary fin flicks. Anyone could record more thrilling aquatic horrors than 2021’s Great White or 2022’s The Requin with a handheld camera, a kiddie pool, and a Street Sharks puppet. Not since 2020’s Deep Blue Sea 3 has shark cinema […]

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"What's it doing?" "Circling us." Vertical Entertainment has revealed the official trailer for Shark Bait, formerly known as just Jetski, a horror thriller shark movie set in Mexico. Yet another of these "haven't we seen this before?" stuck-on-the-water shark movies (also see: The Requin). This has been set for release in May in just a few weeks, which is why they're pushing everything right now to build up some hype. A group of friends enjoying a weekend steal a couple of jetskis racing them out to sea, ending up in a horrific head-on collision. They struggle to find a way back after the accident with a badly injured friend, then end up drifting into dangerous territory where predators lurk below the surface. This "British sharksploitation" film stars Holly Earl, Jack Trueman, Catherine Hannay, Malachi Pullar-Latchman, & Thomas Flynn. This really looks like every other cheap shark movie recently, but as usual...

As we get ready to say goodbye to March, we have one last round of horror and sci-fi Blu-ray and DVD releases headed our way before the new month arrives, and this week’s assortment of titles is pretty damn great. Tragedy Girls is receiving a new Blu-ray release courtesy of those fine fiends over at Vinegar Syndrome, and they are also keeping busy with several other titles this week, too: Flesh for Frankenstein, Beware! Children at Play, and Sister, Sister.

Severin Films is also doing the dark lord’s work with all their amazing releases on tap for this Tuesday, including their 3-Disc Limited Edition set for House on the Edge of the Park, Ballad in Blood, and The Forbidden Door. And for those of you who dig shark-themed horror, you should definitely check out The Requin.

Other releases for March 29th include Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge...

The suspenseful horror-thriller The Requin arrives on Blu-ray™ + Digital and DVD March 29 from Lionsgate. The film follows a couple’s romantic getaway that goes awry after finding themselves at sea in danger of killer sharks. Directed and written by Le-Van Kiet (Furie), The Requin will be available for the suggested retail prices of $21.99 …

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Released onto VOD outlets last month, the Alicia Silverstone shark movie The Requin is now headed to Blu-ray, we’ve learned, swimming onto shelves on March 29, 2022. Lionsgate will release The Requin on both Blu-ray and DVD. Special Features include: Audio Commentary with Writer-Director Le-Van Kiet “Making The Requin” Featurette In the film, written and directed […]

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Stars: Alicia Silverstone, James Tupper, Deirdre O’Connell, Danny Chung, Kha Mai | Written and Directed by Le-Van Kiet

Opens with an oddly “fake” looking scene that feels like it was shot entirely on a green screen soundstage – which for all I know might be true, especially given the copious amounts of CGI featured in the film as a whole… Yes, we’re in CGI shark territory (combined with stock footage – how very The Asylum of this film) in this one folks!

The Requin, aka From Below, stars Alicia Silverstone [Sidebar; who would have thought we’d ever see Alicia Silverstone in a shark movie? Seriously?] as Jaelyn who, along with her husband Kyle (James Tupper) are on holiday in Vietnam following Jaelyn’s miscarriage. Of course, being a shark movie we know things aren’t going to go according to plan for the couple. Kyle gets injured whilst swimming, his blood pouring into the ocean waters like some sort of obvious foreshadowing, whilst Jaelyn has flashbacks to her miscarriage.

Written and directed by Le-Van Kiet, The Requin follows Jaelyn (Alicia Silverstone) and Kyle (James Tupper), who have taken off to vacation in Vietnam and escape some recent pain. One night, a horrible storm sweeps in and wreaks havoc on their villa, which just so happens to be standing over the water. The ferocity of […]

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The first thing you need to know about “The Requin” is that its title refers to any shark of the Carcharhinidae family — although no one in this movie ever uses that term. The second thing you need to know is that no sharks, requin or otherwise, appear until nearly an hour into writer-director Le Van Kiet’s 89-minute film, which may cause some impatient viewers to suspect they have been targeted with a bait-and-switch scam, and react by repeatedly hitting the fast-forward button.

Last, and arguably most important: It may be more of a survival-at-sea drama than a people-versus-sharks thriller, but “The Requin” is largely satisfying as a popcorn distraction with a nifty gender-swapping approach to genre tropes and stereotypes. Kiet sustains a fair amount of suspense throughout, and once again demonstrates, as he did in his well-received 2019 Vietnamese martial-arts actioner “Furie,” that distressed damsels can be deadlier than the male.

When Alicia Silverstone debuted on the scene with 1993's "The Crush," audiences knew immediately that they were witnessing a superstar in the making. A certifiable teen queen thanks to her beloved performances as Cher Horowitz in "Clueless" and as Batgirl in "Batman & Robin," Silverstone has continued a wonderful career as an actor, activist, and vegan cookbook author.

Nearly three decades since her debut, Silverstone is wading into new career territory, starring in the shark survival thriller, "The Requin." We sat down with Silverstone to chat about rethinking the way we view shark movies, breaking new ground for women's representation in survival thrillers,...

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Alicia Silverstone gets her own shark movie with The Requin from Saban Films, a new aquatic horror movie that pits the Clueless star up against a very hungry, very deadly shark. In the film written and directed by Le-Van Kiet (Furie)… “There’s terror in paradise when Jaelyn (Silverstone) and Kyle (James Tupper) arrive at a remote seaside […]

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"The new 'killer shark' feature "The Requin", directed by Le-Van Kiet, stars Alicia Silverstone and James Tupper, in theaters and On Demand, January 28, 2022:

"...there's terror in paradise when 'Jaelyn' (Silverstone) and 'Kyle' (Tupper) arrive at a remote seaside villa for a romantic getaway. A torrential storm descends, sweeping the young couple out to sea. 

"Suddenly, another danger appears: a school of great white sharks. With her injured husband watching helplessly, Jaelyn must battle the deadly predators alone..." 

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Happy New Year, dear readers! As we bid farewell (or good riddance) to the year that was 2021, we have plenty of brand new digital and VOD releases headed our way to keep us busy over the next few weeks from the comfort of our own homes. January’s VOD and digital release highlights include Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Last Night in Soho during the first week of the month, then the final season of A Discovery of Witches hits several platforms on the 8th. Beyond that, Arrow is debuting a new documentary on A Clockwork Orange on January 13th, The Last Thing Mary Saw hits Shudder on the 20th, and Season 3 of Servant begins on January 21st. January’s VOD and digital releases wrap up with a new doc on Boris Karloff on the 27th, and the shark-fueled thriller The Requin is set to be released on January 28th.

Happy Streaming!

Starring: Alicia Silverstone and James Tupper Directed by: Le-Van Kiet Written by: Le-Van Kiet There’s terror in paradise when Jaelyn (Alicia Silverstone) and Kyle (James Tupper) arrive at a remote seaside villa in Vietnam for a romantic getaway. A torrential storm descends, reducing the villa to little more than a raft and sweeping the young …

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The Requin stars Alicia Silverstone (Clueless) and James Tupper (“Big Little Lies”). The film was written and directed by Le-Van Kiet (Furie). Saban Films will release the thriller film The Requin in theaters, on demand and digital January 28, 2022.

Here’s the scary trailer:

There’s terror in paradise when Jaelyn (Alicia Silverstone) and Kyle (James Tupper) arrive at a remote seaside villa in Vietnam for a romantic getaway. A torrential storm descends, reducing the villa to little more than a raft and sweeping the young couple out to sea. Suddenly, another danger appears: a school of great white sharks. With her injured husband watching helplessly, Jaelyn must battle the deadly predators alone in this tense thriller that rides an unrelenting wave of fear.

The Requin is rated R for language and some grisly images

The post Alicia Silverstone Battles Killer Sharks! The Requin In Theaters, on Demand and Digital January...

"We need to focus on surviving!" Saban Films has revealed the first official trailer for another new shark horror movie titled The Requin, this one made in Vietnam by a Vietnamese filmmaker named Le-Van Kiet. He last made the action film Furie a few years ago. A couple on a romantic getaway to the beach in Vietnam find themselves stranded at sea when a tropical storm sweeps away their villa. In order to survive, they are forced to fight the elements. But soon a school of Great White sharks circle below. This sounds like another "been there, done that" kind of concept, no? But everyone loves shark movies and is always frightened by them. Alicia Silverstone and James Tupper star as the couple, with a small cast including Deirdre O'Connell, Jennifer Mudge, and Danny Chung. This looks terrifying, but also looks like a copy of every other shark survival movie.

Bloody Disgusting readers know we’re a sucker for any shark-themed genre movie, which is why we’re stoked for The Requin, which stars both Alicia Silverstone (Clueless, The Lodge) and James Tupper (“Big Little Lies”) as a stranded couple being stalked by a Great White. In the film written and directed by Le-Van Kiet (Furie)… “There’s terror in paradise when Jaelyn (Silverstone) […]...

Exclusive: Here’s a hot one that has gone under the radar. Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians), Noomi Rapace (Prometheus), Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) and Suicide Squad breakout Daniela Melchior have been quietly filming action film Assassin Club in Italy.

EuropaCorp veteran Camille Delamarre (Transporter: Refueled) is directing the movie, which has just wrapped shoot in Turin, Italy.

Assassin Club takes place in the world of international spies and elite assassins. In this world of contract killers, Morgan Gaines (Henry Golding) is the best of the best. When Morgan is hired to kill six people around the world, he soon discovers all the targets are also assassins unknowingly hired to kill each other. Rapace plays Falk, the only assassin with skills to match his own. Under the guidance of his mentor Jonathan Caldwell (Neill), Morgan must defeat Falk and the other assassins to keep himself and his girlfriend Sophie (Melchior) alive.

Exclusive: Paper Street Pictures (The Pale Door) has set YouTuber Chris Stuckmann to write and direct the mystery horror movie Shelby Oaks, about a group of missing paranormal investigators.

The project will chart the story of a fictional mid-2000s U.S. paranormal investigative team called The Paranormal Paranoids. Multiple found footage videos have surfaced online in recent months that prompted horror and Arg (Alternate Reality Game) fans to speculate about the veracity of the case and the whereabouts of the investigators. One video uploaded last week appeared to show the abduction of one of the group, known as Riley.

Genre outfit Paper Street have leapt on the fan following for the online fiction and set Stuckmann — who has close to 2 million YouTube subscribers — to steer the project creatively in his feature debut. The shorts filmmaker and critic recently signed with Gotham Group and has multiple horror scripts in the works.

Alicia Silverstone is back and she’s ready to fight some sharks in The Requin. Saban Films just hooked themselves the U.S. rights to the pic, which stars Silverstone and James Tupper (Big Little Lies) as a couple on a romantic getaway to Vietnam. A tropical storm blows away their seaside villa and leaves them stranded and injured. And […]

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Exclusive: Saban Films has boarded U.S. rights to shark attack survival pic The Requin.

Starring Alicia Silverstone (Clueless) and James Tupper (Big Little Lies), the film is slated for delivery in June, 2021.

Pic follows a couple on a romantic getaway in Vietnam, who find themselves stranded at sea after a massive tropical storm sweeps away their seaside villa. With the husband maimed and dying, the wife must fight the elements alone, while Great White sharks circle below.

Earlier today, we revealed that LA-based sales firm Film Bridge International has sold the movie to key international markets including Reset Collective (Australia/New Zealand), YouPlanet (Spain), Mediawan (France), Monolith (Poland), Purple Plan (Se Asia), Blitz Film Group (Ex-Yugo), and Blue Lantern (Vietnam).

We also revealed a first look image from the movie.

Le-Van Kiet (Furie) wrote and directed. Ellen Wander and Jordan Dykstra of Film Bridge International produced.

Currently in post-production,...

Exclusive: LA-based sales firm Film Bridge International has sold shark survival pic The Requin to Reset Collective (Australia/New Zealand), YouPlanet (Spain), Mediawan (France), Monolith (Poland), Purple Plan (Se Asia), Blitz Film Group (Ex-Yugo), and Blue Lantern (Vietnam).

Starring Alicia Silverstone (Clueless) and James Tupper (Big Little Lies), the film is slated for delivery in June, 2021. We can also reveal a first look image from the movie.

The film follows a couple on a romantic getaway in Vietnam, who find themselves stranded at sea after a massive tropical storm sweeps away their seaside villa. With the husband maimed and dying, the wife must fight the elements alone, while Great White sharks circle below.

Le-Van Kiet (Furie) wrote and directed. Ellen Wander and Jordan Dykstra of Film Bridge International produced.

Currently in post-production, the producers tell us The Requin has nearly 1,000 VFX shots. “Not only has Kiet delivered an exciting film to watch,...

Exclusive: Drew Van Acker, Alicia Silverstone and Stephen Moyer have just wrapped production on Shtf (Sh*t Hits the Fan), a sci-fi thriller directed by Drew Mylrea from a script by Josh Janowicz. Shooting just finished in Butte, Mt.

The pic is set in the aftermath of an apocalyptic event that forces people into extreme isolation. A father (Moyer) and son (Van Acker), who have been living off grid for 20 years, encounter an outsider (Silverstone) who threatens to destroy the utopia they’ve built.

Sunil Perkash, Colin Bates, Akaash Yadav and Michael Jefferson are producing. Van Acker, Wes Hull and Daniel Brandt are executive producers.

For Pretty Little Liars alum Van Acker, the movie marks a reteam with Mylrea after the actor starred in the director’s Spy Intervention last year opposite Poppy Delevingne. He also plays Aqualad on DC Universe’s Titans and is repped by ICM Partners and Luber/Roklin.