Nightmare Shark 2018 5 out of 10
Nightmare Shark is a bizarre shark movie that aired this year on the SyFy channel as a part of Sharknado Week. It was produced by Curmudgeon Films who also did Trailer Park Shark and Atomic Shark and actually features some characters from those films. So you could pretty much say those movies are a part of a shared Shark Universe.
The story focuses on a group of survivors of shark attacks that are dealing with nightmares from those encounters that seek out help of a scientist that has developed and experimental drug to help deal with the nightmares. The scientist turns out to have ulterior motives and is actually trying the use the survivors to summone a Hawaiian Shark god from the realm of dreams into the real world.
The film is like a strange Nightmare on Elm Street with a CGI shark instead of Freddy Krueger. You can never tell when a character is awake or dreaming and in fact the ending makes everything that happens even more unclear. I give the film some credit for trying to bring something different to the Shark Movie genre --but it is almost too strange and weird.
The movie was originally titled "Curse of the Dream Witch" which might explain one review on IMDB where the reviewer said that there wasn't even a shark in the movie they saw? It could explain some of the film. In certain scenes the characters are being attacked by what looks like a swarm of flies and a weird prescence instead of a shark. I almost wonder if the film wasn't re edited to add more Shark footage so the films name could change and it could be re titled as a part of Shark Week. I can't find any information to support this theory --but it might explain how it seems so strangely pieced together.
Here is the trailer for the film
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