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Subgenre of exploitation film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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For the 2023 documentary film, see Sharksploitation (film).

Sharksploitation is a subgenre of exploitation film that involves sharks or shark attacks.[1][2] The genre emerged in the wake of the 1975 film Jaws and its sequels, but fell in popularity soon after.[3] The 1999 film Deep Blue Sea brought it back to public prominence. Other examples of sharksploitation films include Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus (2009), Dinoshark, Sharktopus (both 2010), Snow Shark (2012), Ghost Shark (2013), Avalanche Sharks (2014), and the Sharknado film series (2013–2018).[4]

In 2023, a feature-length documentary film about the subgenre, titled Sharksploitation, was produced and released by Shudder.[5][6][7]

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Notable sharksploitation films

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  1. Open Water 2 has been excluded from this list. Although it is nominally part of the Open Water franchise, it is thematically unrelated to either Open Water or Open Water 3.
  2. Cocaine Shark does feature character and geographical connections to both the Jurassic Shark franchise and Sharkenstein film, it is thematically unrelated to either film at this stage, with actors playing different characters in each film.
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