SKY SHARKS (2020)
Label: Capelight Pictures
Region Code: A
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 106 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 Surround with Optional English Subtitles
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1)
Director: Marc Fehse
Cast: Thomas Morris, Barbara Nedeljakova, Eva Habermann, Oliver Kalkofe, Michaela Schaffrath, Amanda Bearse, Naomi Grossman, Tony Todd
In the German produced but English-friendly splatterfest Sky Sharks (2020) an arctic research team discovers an enormous Nazi warship long thought to be lost trapped inside the ice of a glacier. Within it they find the last remaining remnants of the Third Reich, a regiment of elite Nazis zombies armed with genetically engineered, jet-propelled, artillery-equipped sharks! That's right baby, the Third Reich is back and they are dead-set on destroying the world! This spunky but sorta clunky flick is chock full of blood-soaked gore, some fun and iffy digital effects, and a bunch of gratuitous nudity that was certainly not unappreciated. This is a film that knows exactly what it is and goes all out with the gore and insanity with a smile on it's face, so strap yourself in and lets go for a ride!
If you're a fan of the semi stupid-shit like the Sharknado franchise and also dig WWII fantasy horror along the lines of Overlord, Blood Vessel and Iron Sky I think you will find plenty to love about Sky Sharks. While I would not say that this is a good movie it is certainly over-the-top and ambitious, but also a bit long in the shark-tooth for it's own good, I fell asleep three different times over the course of two night watching this, but to be fair I was tired and it was late at night, and I was at least intrigued enough to keep coming back to finish it off, and I had a blast with it.
The gore-soaked flick is overstuffed with corny but cool cameos from Robert LaSardo (The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)) and Lynn Lowery (I Drink Your Blood) opening scenes, as well as brief appearances from Mick Garris (director of Sleepwalkers), Amanda Bearse (Fright Night), and Tony Todd (Candyman), and while most of them are gone in a geyser of blood before you can blink Tony Todd at least gets a bit of an extended role. The thin storyline has a former Nazi scientist turned American tech-industrialist named Klaus Richter (Thomas Morris, Schindler's List) assigning his super-spy daughters Angelique (Barbara Nedeljakova, Hostel II) and Diabla (Eva Habermann) to stop the undead Nazis and their flying sharks from destroying the world.
At over an hour and a half the movie is stretched very thin but the good stuff more than makes up for the bad in my opinion. The best stuff here are the assortment of carnage with a mix of bad digital and somewhat impressive practical gore, including a scene that homages the opening scene from Ghost Ship (2002), and for my money it's got the best skyjacking scenes I have seen since Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Rises (2012). We also get some animated Nazi propaganda films, and flashbacks to WWII and Vietnam that help explain the backstory. Sky Sharks offers plenty of low-budget gore, undead Nazis, nude women in peril, and of course flying sharks, if that sound like a good time to you have at it!
Audio/Video: Sky Sharks (2020) arrives on Blu-ray from Capelight Pictures in 1080p HD framed in 2.39:1 widescreen. The image looks quite good, the digitally shot movie is crisp and colorful with plenty of fine detail in the close-ups of wounds, blood-spatter and gore. Audio comes by way of an English DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround with optional English subtitles. Dialogue is never hard to discern, the action gets spread around to the surrounds and the techno score has a full-bodies resonance to it.
Special Features:
- Trailers : Coma (2 min), Attraction 2: Invasion (2 min), Ashfall (2 min), The Closet (1 min)
Sky Sharks (2020) is a fun and trashy bit of indie horror filmmaking that's chock full o' flying sharks, nudity, gore-galore and an army undead Nazis, and that's awesome! The downside is that it's a bit long in the tooth for it's own good, but I tip my hat the cast and crew, they really go for the gusto with this one, and I had a blast watching it despite some shortcomings.
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