This is just another zombie flick, and as such, I’m not seeing any credible way this could turn into a franchise. Say what you like about Sharknado, it undeniably gave the viewer stuff they’d never seen before. While by no means bad on its own terms, this doesn’t offer anything new. The plot offers no real surprises either, proceeding through a discovery of the cause, and a way by which they can be stopped, to the expected grand finale, complete with heroic sacrifice by a supporting character.
None of the other cast make any more of an impression, from the black sidekick (Jolivette), through the teenager in peril (Chiniquy) to the local sheriff (Linzbichler). But even on the human front, there’s a surprising amount of squirting as the gnawing intensifies, and you get a nice sense of devastation, especially around the eerily-deserted streets of Emrys Bay.Ĭonsiderably less successful are the characters, with Shaw such a carbon-copy of Fin from Sharknado, that Chris wondered where his one-armed wife had gone. They also bleed something more akin to anti-freeze than blood, perhaps why Ferrante can get away with feeding zombies into a wood-chipper, or having Shaw carve them up with an outboard motor.
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It’s also refreshingly practical in its effects, Ferrante largely opting to pass on the CGI-heavy work necessary for Sharknado, Given this is a TV movie, it’s impressively gory, though it probably helps that the zombies are hard to kill not even a bullet in the head will necessarily stop them permanently. Italian director Lucio Fulci, of course, famously had a shark vs. Romero beer and a rock-band called The Fulcis. Here, the cameos are limited to nods to the auteurs of the genre, e.g. That’s especially so, if you were looking for something like the Sharknado movies, a high-camp exercise in celebrity cameos and goofy jokes. Thereafter, what we have is a straightforward zombie film, although as such, it’s probably darker than most would be expecting. Rather than being the movie’s climax, barely 20 minutes in, and we’re already witnessing the surfin’ dead. I was quite surprised that the titular disaster is unleashed quite so quickly. They are unleashed from the ocean floor to terrorize Hunter Shaw (Ziering), his family and friends, and the residents of Emrys Bay in Thailand. But rather than flying sharks, it’s tsunami-powered undead that are the threat here. The only new entry was this movie, starring and directed by linchpins of the Sharknado series.
As you’ve probably guessed, this film is heavily influenced by Lucio. Within the first 20 minutes or so, we get our first zombie attack, we get a shot of an amazing female butt in tight shorts, a hero armed with a machete and a zombie tsunami. This year? While they had an ‘Off the Deep End’ weekend, this was almost all re-runs. First of all, Zombie Tidal Wave doesn’t waste any time on anything that is unnecessary. In both 20, we reviewed the veritable plethora of shark-themed movies provided by SyFy, from the terrible to the thoroughly entertaining. Last year was the final entry in the Sharknado franchise – and with it, we waved a sad farewell to the SyFy Channel’s Shark Weeks. Star: Ian Ziering, Shelton Jolivette, Tatum Chiniquy, Chikashi Linzbichler
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