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Sharks, Alligators, Piranhas, and the Top 10 Garbage Fish Movies

The Big Picture

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Sharknado: A Subgenre Storyteller's Guide

Jaws is legendary for a slow reveal of its killing machine. I need to see evidence that shit is going really sideways about 22 minutes in, but I love there's nothing like alien watching them all eat. There was something very tongue-in-cheek, very non-scary about the Sharknado movies. They became a huge event for sci-fi, the sci-fi channel. But now we lean more like almost mainstream mid-budget studio movies trying to replicate Jaws or something like it.

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