Awful Movie Madness: Shark Week 2015

The first movie on our list you might be tempted to actually watch is the titular Shark Week. Of course, this is an obvious trap, because Shark Week is a production of The Asylum, a.k.a. the cinematic graveyard where human decency and good taste go to painfully die. Who else but fucking Asylum could come up with a title as gripping and original as Shark Week: The Movie?

Goddamn it, they went full Birdemic on us.And of course, wheresoever goeth Asylum, so too go the hallmarks of their brand: dumb and/or confusing gimmick, totally unnecessary swooping helicopter shots, a talent pool so shallow it makes the Baldwin family look like the Coppola family, and an operative understanding of "parody" so low most 10-year-olds would find it cringeworthy, at best. All of these come together to form the most half-assed, unwatchable ripoff movies you could ever imagine. This is a tragedy because it feels like even more of a waste, somehow; you could probably make a dozen Slaughterhouse Massacre sequels for the price of one Shark Week, and we'd rather sit through The Marty Sickle Chronicles: Parts I-XII by far, although getting beaten to death with a rubber hose would be strongly preferable to either experience.

Unlike most Asylum productions, Shark Week at least has the distinction of not being an obvious rip-off of an existing movie designed solely as a cynical cash grab directed at confused grandparents buying Christmas gifts. This is, predictably, not an improvement, leading to a shark-obsessed villain called Tiburon whose hobbies include feeding random people to baby sharks and looking like the Dos Equis guy's stunt double after he got his DNA crossed with Joe Estevez in a cloning machine.

Choice Quotable Lines to Repeat While Watching Actual Shark Week:

• "The ancient Hawaiians used to drown sharks."
• "They're eating me alive" (delivered with the same intonation one might use to say "Oh darn, we're out of milk." or "oops, I dropped the soap.")
• Who the hell are we kidding? This is an Asylum movie, there aren't any other notable lines. Watching this movie is clinically equivalent to total brain death.

You should watch this movie if:

• You hate your life enough to actually sit through an Asylum picture, but lack the fortitude to actually end it all
• You want to partake in some shark-attack SFX which make the invisible piranha pool from Unmasking the Idol look grippingly realistic by comparison