Raging Sharks is a 2005 low-budget direct-to-DVD

Direct-to-video

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 science fiction

Science fiction film

Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that are not necessarily accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial life forms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception, and time travel, often along with futuristic...

/horror film

Horror film

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Description

Raging Sharks is the seventh shark movie that was released by Nu Image Films, following Shark Attack, Shark Attack 2, Shark Attack 3: Megalodon, Shark Zone

Shark Zone

Shark Zone is a 2003 direct to video film. It is the third sequel to the film Shark Attack.-Reception:Critical reception was mostly negative. It currently hols a 2.8 rating on IMDb. On RottenTomatoes it has 23% rating....

, and Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy

Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy

Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy is a 2005 Sci-Fi Channel original movie, written by Kenneth M. Badish and Boaz Davidson, and directed by Michael Oblowitz. The film stars William Forsythe, Hunter Tylo, and Jeffrey Combs. The film premiered on Sci Fi Channel June 18, 2005.-Plot:A mad scientist revitalizes...

. The back of the DVD case calls the undersea laboratory Oceania although it is called Oshona in the film. The film uses a substantial amount of stock footage

Stock footage

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. The film has been described as a low budget version of The Abyss

The Abyss

The Abyss is a 1989 science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron. It stars Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn. The original musical score was composed by Alan Silvestri...

, but with the addition of killer sharks tearing people apart. It has also been described as a poor man’s combination of early Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...

 films. Contactmusic.com

Contactmusic.com

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 said that the film is a lot like Deep Blue Sea

Deep Blue Sea

Deep Blue Sea is a 1999 science fiction horror film that stars Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, LL Cool J, and Samuel L Jackson. The film was directed by Renny Harlin and was released in the United States on July 28, 1999.- Plot :...

and The Abyss, minus the camp value and special effects.

Plot summary

In the opening, a collision between two alien spaceships occurs. The collision unleashes a capsule which heads toward Earth. The capsule collides with a small ship, causing an explosion. The capsule lands near an undersea research lab, the Oshona. The capsule, full of red crystals, attracts sharks. The sharks eat the crystals which cause them to become vicious killers, eating anyone and attacking anything that comes near them. Now, the researchers of the Oshona are stuck underneath the Bermuda Triangle

Bermuda Triangle

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. The Navy

Navy

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 attempts to rescue them, but many people die in the process.

Partial cast

• Corin Nemec
  Corin Nemec
  Corin "Corky" Nemec is an American actor. Nemec is known for playing the title character on Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Jonas Quinn on Stargate SG-1, and Harold Lauder in the ABC miniseries The Stand.-Personal life:Nemec's mother was a graphic artist as well as a painter, writer and poet...
  
   as Dr. Mike Olsen
• Vanessa Angel
  Vanessa Angel
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   as Linda Olsen
• Corbin Bernsen
  Corbin Bernsen
  Corbin Dean Bernsen is an American actor and director, known for his work on television. He is best known for his roles as divorce attorney Arnold Becker on the NBC drama series L.A. Law, and as retired police detective Henry Spencer on the USA Network comedy-drama series Psych...
  
   as Captain Riley
• Todd Jensen as Ben Stiles
• Binky van Bilderbeek as Harvey
• Elise Muller as Vera
• Simone Levin as Simona
• Jonas Talkington as Jonas
• Atanas Srebrev as Carlo
• Emil Markov as Leo

DVD

The DVD has a crisp and slightly grainy widescreen transfer, the sound is Dolby Digital

Dolby Digital

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 5.1 Surround, and there are Spanish subtitles. The only extras on the DVD are a few movie trailers.

Reception

A Horror.Net review said that the film is a good use of live stock footage, computer effects, and fake shark heads-and gallons of blood. Alison Nastasi, of Horror Squad, said that the film has several hilariously bad moments that B movie

B movie

A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....

shark fanatics will enjoy.