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Swamp Shark2011

Name: Swamp Shark
Genre: Monster & Creature, Survival, Comedy Horror
Released: 2011-06-25
Rating: 4.1

“Fresh water. Fresh meat.”

Directed by Griff Furst

4.1

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 3.7TMDB 4.1

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Year

2011

Runtime

85 min

The premise

Open on gorgeous swamplands of the Atchafalaya Basin in the summer. Lots of beautiful teens are at the beach the weekend before Gator Fest. That night an animal smuggling deal goes wrong and a large sea creature escapes into a swampy backwoods river. At the McDaniel's "Gator Shack" restaurant, a local, Jackson is drunk, and gets mangled to bits. The town sheriff blames the carnage on the McDaniel's "escaped" pack of gators and tries hauling them off to jail. Rachel McDaniel, head of the family, claims to have seen the fin of a shark! Rachel and her family, along with the help of a mysterious stranger, Charlie, take on the Swampshark and the law to clear their names, save Rachel's kid sister Krystal and prevent the unwitting folks at the upcoming Gator Fest from being torn to shreds by a beast the likes of which no one has ever seen!

Horror Vault's take

Deep in Louisiana's bayou, a botched animal-smuggling operation unleashes something far more terrifying than the local gators — a massive shark that has no business thriving in murky swampwater. When bodies start turning up and the sheriff pins the blame on the McDaniel family's roadside restaurant, matriarch Rachel refuses to stay silent. With a crowd-packed Gator Fest just around the corner and a mysterious drifter offering unlikely backup, Rachel's family races to expose the real predator before it turns the celebration into a bloodbath. Equal parts creature-feature chaos and backwoods B-movie charm, this one wears its budget on its sleeve and dives in headfirst.

Content: Creature Violence, Gore, Animal Attack Sequences