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‘The Shallows’: Blake Lively Stranded and Surrounded By a Shark! (Trailer)
Survival horror is hotter than ever, but you wouldn’t know it since most are bizarre releases that blend things like sharks and exorcisms.
Even though the Syfy-esque Sharknado‘s dominate the business, there’s still plenty of survival thrillers in the works, such as this new one from Sony’s Columbia Pictures.
Sony is getting behind the shark craze with The Shallows, which has been described as a cross between 127 Hours and Jaws.
In the taut thriller The Shallows, penned by Tony Jaswinski, Nancy (Blake Lively) is surfing alone on a secluded beach when she is attacked by a great white shark and stranded just a short distance from shore. Though she is only 200 yards from her survival, getting there proves the ultimate contest of wills.
While the concept itself is exciting, knowing that it was directed by Orphan and House of Wax‘s Jaume Collet-Serra just adds icing to the cake.
The first trailer, above, is the perfect tease that sets the tone, tension and dilemma Lively’s character faces. It’s sort of like a home invasion movie, only the victim is trapped on a rock instead of in a house. Collet-Serra is going to kill it, I’m sure of it!
And the poster, well, it’s phenomenal. If the film ends up being great, the poster will surely be hanging on a lot of people’s walls.
The Shallows swims into theaters June 29th.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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