Shark Night

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Shark Night

PG-13

2011

1h 31m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Newly arrived at her family's lake-island cabin, college student Sara (Sara Paxton) and her friends prepare for a weekend of fun in the sun. But soon after they dive into the lake, football player Malik (Sinqua Walls) stumbles out of the water with a grievous wound. Thinking Malik is the victim of a freak accident, the friends pile into a tiny speedboat and head for the hospital. To their horror, they discover that they are surrounded by hundreds of massive, hungry sharks.

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Critics Consensus

A joyless excursion into the water that doesn't even produce good gore or nudity thanks to the neutered PG-13 rating.

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Kimberley Jones

Austin Chronicle

Sep 9, 2011

0.5/5

Not content to restrict itself to an exercise in "When Nature Attacks," the filmmakers take a hard, ugly turn into torture-porn territory.

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Nick Pinkerton

Village Voice

Sep 7, 2011

Shark Night, handled with impersonality by Snakes on a Plane pilot David R. Ellis, aspires to nothing more or less than carrying along an audience through a string of unremarkable kills, often involving high-jumping fish.

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Wesley Morris

Boston Globe

Sep 5, 2011

1/4

A second round is out of the question. Unless, of course, they called it "Gladys Knight 3D.'' Then all is forgiven.

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

Feb 28, 2024

2/10

This is the sort of lazy commercial filmmaking that should not be rewarded.

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

Sep 24, 2023

1/5

Even with a slightly different plot from its peers, it's still a completely dull and uninspired experience.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Mar 8, 2023

0.5/4

Trash, but without even the benefit of being good trash.

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Georgia P

@RT70958088 Sep 14, 2026

One of the best shark movies I’ve watched. Great plot

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The W

@TheWagners Jul 5, 2026

3D garbage, no plot, characters get themselves killed by horrible cgi sharks. The villain is a stereotypical yeehaw redneck who likes watching shark week. The teens that are trying to survive have no acting skills whatsoever. Horrible movie.

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Animal K

@AnimalKing Jun 1, 2026

No shark first ~50min But more to the poin the point I hate the inaccuracy,I'm not even talking about just the classic "shark would never be that aggressive of a hunter" I suspend belief for these kinds of movies But a saltwater lake, the same salinity of the ocean surrounded by that much vegetation? Absurd, also absurd is the idea all these sharks could live in the same lake, sure maybe they been feeding them to not kill eachother and aside from cookie cutters they can all live pretty close to the surface but great whites need cool temperature water, and the other sharks need warmwater That great white is going to have a stroke by spring. Speaking of which how did they get those sharks there? did they go fishing for them? how far inland did they transport them? did no one notice a great white getting transported in a tanker down i5? they could have just made it a normal lake with bull sharks and it would have been plausible, wouldn't have fixed the bad plot. but at least be plausable

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thiago s

@Thiagostone Sep 24, 2025

Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas de terror são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom

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Christopher G

@RT23087372 Sep 8, 2025

It’s the reference to Hungry shark night but it was removed from the AppStore

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Jul 27, 2025

Success in 1 hour and 31 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated PG-13 for Language, Disturbing Images, Violence and Terror, Partial Nudity, Sexual References and Thematic Material!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The USA grossed over $18,900,000.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Synopsis

Newly arrived at her family's lake-island cabin, college student Sara (Sara Paxton) and her friends prepare for a weekend of fun in the sun. But soon after they dive into the lake, football player Malik (Sinqua Walls) stumbles out of the water with a grievous wound. Thinking Malik is the victim of a freak accident, the friends pile into a tiny speedboat and head for the hospital. To their horror, they discover that they are surrounded by hundreds of massive, hungry sharks.

Director: David R. Ellis
Producer: Mike Fleiss, Lynette Howell Taylor, Chris Briggs
Screenwriter: Will Hayes, Jesse Studenberg
Distributor: Relativity Media
Production Co: Sierra / Affinity, Silverwood Films, Incentive Filmed Entertainment, Next Films
Rating: PG-13 (Language|Disturbing Images|Violence and Terror|Partial Nudity|Sexual References|Thematic Material)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 2, 2011, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 2, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $18.9M
Runtime: 1h 31m

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