First of all, the movie is successful because it uses a cannibal, shark, as the theme of the movie. Though there are other more gruesome movies out there that managed to scare people's pants off, such as Bikini Girls on Ice, Friday the 13th, The Human Centipede, Paranormal Activity, etc. None is close enough to beat the horror of nature. Movies like "Shark Night", "Piranha", "Sanctum", "Rogue", "Anacondas", they are the one that really freak me out. Those animals that seem to be completely harmless when we see them in the aquariums and zoo, or some of those predators that we only get to see in National Geographic Channel, those are the stuff that are capable of evoke our deepest fear, and plant it right into our mind. Those are unforgettable. Besides the terrifying beasts of nature, something that is even worse is the sickening, psychotic human nature that makes the movie even more atmospheric, giving the tingling sensation to the viewers. Characters in the movie are flawed with selfishness, cowardice, cruelty, greediness, and worst of all, self-centred. They reflected the mean and terrifying world of reality. The movie showed us that after all, the scariest creature in the world is not man eating crocodiles or sharks, but human themselves.
However, returning to my claim just now, this movie is kind of tedious in some point. If you guys have experience watching other horror movies related to animals, maybe you will notice how cliche this movie is. Let's take Piranha for instance, it all started with a nice sunny day, when people are drinking and having fun at the lake, with no sense of danger, and suddenly the creature appeared expectedly, tearing the victim apart and that's it, end of the intro. Same goes to Rogue, where a travel journalist joined a group of tourists on a crocodile watching river tour at the beginning of the story, and when they were about to return to the base, someone spotted a flare coming out of no where, which leaded them to the gigantic man eating ancient crocodile. Yeah, we know about the beast from the poster itself, even before the show, but why use the same old tactic? While we watched the movie, it's noticed that this movie only serves to scare people in the surface level. It's won't create a deep, hard to remove kind of effect on you, not like those great, meaningful nature related horror movies like "Sanctum" and "2012". Those movies are rare, as play with both your fear and your emotion, crashing you both physically and mentally. It created a lasting effect on you, and even if you watch the movie for the second and third time, those feelings will still emerge.
Well, to conclude, this movie is not as deep and powerful as "Sanctum", and not as disgusting and sickening as "Piranha" and "Saw", but still, it's really entertaining if you're just planning to exercise your heart a little bit more and enjoy realistic 3D effect.
(Note: The 3D effect in this film is beautiful)
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