Wind, or whatever the shark is either there or it isn't (it does A strange noise can't turn out to be a cat, or the ItĬan't even contrive false alarms, the mainstay of horror filmsĮverywhere. It's hard to imagine a film like this succeeding. If she tries to swim, the circling shark will get She's perched on a rock, which is due to disappear at high tide,Īnd totally trapped. Yards from shore she can see the beach, could even call out for help -īut the beach is empty, and those 200 yards might as well be 200 miles. On the other hand, Nancy (Blake Lively) can barely even move, once the
That couple could drift, new elements could be added to the mix. Open Water was a similarly spartanĪquatic thriller a decade ago - that's the one where a coupleįound themselves stranded in the ocean, beset by sharks - but at least It's not just that the ingredients are so few, it'sĪlso that the situation is static. It doesn't even bother going out to sea, justĭirector Jaume Collet-Serra has set himself an almost impossible The Shallows is an even simpler concept: one girl, one shark, It (this strategy may involve waiting till it comes to the small Question - then ignore the silly, increasingly literal-minded rest of Terrifying first 10 minutes - a bigger-budget version of the short in Short, and the way to watch that film is to watch the ingeniously Really small films, the kind that clock in at under 90 minutes and areīased around a small, simple concept. Too, despite all its bells and whistles - but I'm talking about
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