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Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy
Sharkman
USA / Aruba 2005
produced by Boaz Davidson, Kenneth M. Badish, Avi Lerner (executive), Danny Dimbort (executive), Trevor Short (executive), John Thompson (executive), Josef Lautenschlager (executive), Andreas Thiesmeyer (executive), Gerd Koechlin (executive), Manfred D.Heid (executive) for Nu Image, Active Entertainment, Equity Pictures
directed by Michael Oblowitz
starring William Forsythe, Hunter Tylo, Jeffrey Combs, Elise Muller, Arthur Roberts, G.R.Johnson, Antony Argirov, Maria Ignatova, Velizar Srebrev, Pavel Doychev, Emil Markov, Yoanna Boukovska, Nikolai Iliev, Nikolai Soritov, Raicho Vasilev, Ivo Kehayov, Dimiter Doichinov, Stanimir Stamatov, Velizar Peev, Stilyan Mavrov, Radoslav Parvanov, George Karlukovski, Krasimir Simeonov, Lydie Denier
story by Boaz Davidson, Kenneth M.Badish, screenplay by Monty Featherstone, Howard Zemski, music by John Dickson, special effects by Willie Botha, visual effects by Stanislav Dragiev
review by Mike Haberfelner
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On an uncharted island, scientist Dr King (Jeffrey Combs) has crossed
man with shark, mainly as an effort to find a cure for cancer, and his own
son Robert, who has been suffering from terminal cancer, had to serve as
his first testsubject ... and has been turned into a deadly cross between
hammerhead shark and man. But King figures everything will be alright if
only he gets to mate - though it escapes me why. Anyways, one day,
unscrupolous businessman Whitney (Arthur Roberts), who has been funding
King's experiments, decides to pay the scientist a visit with the usual
delegation of cannonfodder (Elise Muller, Maria Ignatova, G.R.Johnson) and
heroes (William Forsythe, Hunter Tylo) - but soon, Whitney's party has to
find out that the good Doctor King is actually quite mad, and he plans to
use the whole group in his experiments, especially Amelia (Hunter Tylo),
who once was in a relationship with his son. Whitney's group escapes the
Doctor's lab, but they are soon decimated by the Doctor's machine-gun
wielding guards and Robert the Hammerhead - whom King has set free for
undeterminable reasons - alike. Ultimately, King has recaptured Amelia
and has her all tied up for his son to mate better - which is when King is
attacked by his own son the Hammerhead ... before Amelia's current
boyfriend Tom (William Forsythe) storms in, machineguns blazing and
chemicals to kill Hammerhead in hand, and wouldn't you know it, he saves
Amelia before the two of them blow up King's lab and make it off his
island on a nice little yacht.
Very lame horror film relying
more on machinegun action that actual scares let alone atmosphere.
Accordingly, shocks are few and far between, and they are weakly executed
at that, making the film little more than a by-the-numbers action
spectacle with a somewhat weird storyline. The one saving grace of the
film is Jeffrey Combs as mad scientist, who really makes his role his own
- but unfortunately, that's too little to save the picture.
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