Movie genre: Shark horror!

Australia is famous for its great variety in animals, from the cute and cuddly koalas and the curious looking kangaroos to hungry crocodiles and dangerous sharks. With the summer season coming in a couple of months, my husband decided to read up a little about the sharks in Australia. He informed me that the probability to drown in Australia is 1/30,000 while a shark attack is only 1/300,000. My husband knows that I am very skeptical towards sharks and do not believe for one second that any shark attack on humans are ”just accidents as humans are not their natural prey”. Bah, I say. Sharks are just mean killing-machines and will eat anything that they can put their saw-like teeth into.

Sharks are not only terrifying and fascinating to rest of the world, Australians themselves have a very special relationship to this grime yet magnificent  creature. So special in fact they have an entire genre of horror-movies featuring this over sized fish. How about ”Sand sharks” where mutated sharks can swim not only in water but also in sand? There are a number of films where sharks have been mutated to fit into the environment, ”Snow Sharks”, ”Swamp Shark” and the new movie for this year ”Sharknado” where a tornado with man-eating sharks is sweeping through California. How about ”Bait”, a movie where a tsunami outside a coastal town in Australia brings a group of sharks into a supermarket where a bunch of shoppers are trapped? There are so many odd movies I’m amazed how it’s even possible to come up with some of the plots: ”Mega shark versus Giant Octopus” and ”versus Crocosaurus”, ”Sharktopus”... just to mention a few. According to my husband there is only one shark movie and that is ”Jaws”. I’ve seen ”Jaws” and some of the sequels too. Is there anyone middle-aged who hasn’t seen ”Jaws” and isn’t familiar with the theme song? It’s enough to hear a few notes to send thrills down my spine.

                                        No, not my genre in movies, not even in 3D

It’s Friday night. I’ve been spending most of the week in my study researching and putting together an essay that is due in one week. I’m very pleased with being ahead of schedule. So pleased actually I will treat myself with a glass of wine in front of the TV. How about a movie? A romantic one, without any man-eating fishes.

My kind of film...