Director: John Migliore
Year: 2022
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: Ouija Shark vs. Tarot Gator
Genre: Sharks
Plot:
After defeating the released shark, the former mystic finds himself stalked by the shark and its maniacal controller to see through a plan to take over our dimension, and when the plan is put into motion forces him to call on long-hidden means of his mystical expertise to stop them.
Review:
This was a rather fun if decidedly odd killer shark film. Among the finer features here is the strong setup that allows this one to continue with the bizarre storyline connections from the original. Featuring the means of trying to contact him after the initial encounter with him trapped in the spirit world confronting the series of minion creatures that have been summoned to battle him in this different environment, this allows for a fine spiritualistic follow-up to the original based on what happened to him in that one. The use of black magic and other forms of occult practices to talk to those who know how to go toe-to-toe with the occult practices to finally come up with the final way of defeating the madman. This type of action is a different take on the traditional shark movie formula as the mystical black magic is a new way to take everything and keeps this one going with enough cheesy reveals and confrontations to be interesting.
There are a few factors present in the film. The main drawback is the more supernatural-based material present which is a fine approach to take but leaves this one with a pronounced lack of traditional shark action here. Focusing on the adventure-film scenario in the spirit realm involving the search for the owner of the shark's powers, this one features more scenes of confrontations in this location rather than horror scenarios with the killer shark taking out people. This helps to make the flimsy effects stand out more by having people stand around in front of bad green-screen locations than dealing with a killer creature so it's got little in the way of any expected effects so it takes an entirely different route than normal for most of the film. These are what end up lowering this one somewhat.
Overview: **.5/5
An enjoyable cheesy genre effort, there’s enough to like with this one which gets enjoyable enough for what this is while being brought down by several of the flaws featured throughout here. Those who are fans of the style featured here or are fans of the original will want to give it a shot while most others should heed caution with this one.
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