Sharknado
Schlock masterpieceSharknadobecame an unexpected hit in 2013 and was apace succeed by five sequels , and here ’s how the films pile up against one another . make by independent film company The Asylum and released by the B - movie powerhouse SyFy meshing , the absurd revulsion - comedy starredBeverly Hills 90210 ’s Ian Ziering andVan Wilder ’s Tara Reid . The story kicks off when a monolithic cyclone go up the peaceable sea-coast of Mexico scoop up cloud of sharks nut - route to Los Angeles , eventually flooding the City of Angels and fulfill its waterlogged street with hundreds of shape - rust aquatic predators .
Steven Spielberg’sJawswas relinquish in 1975 and would delimit the aquatic horror genre for tenner to come . Ever since then , shark movies , and to a greater extent , any man vs. animal revulsion film would , perhaps unfairly , be appraise up against the original summertime blockbuster ’s template . The only way for subsequent shark movies to make an impact would be to go in a wholly different direction in tone and style , such as the Frankenstein ’s goliath themedDeep Blue Sea , and the thoroughgoing realism ofOpen Water . These films were popular , but niche .
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Then along cameSyFywithSharknado , whichrevivedthe shark horror writing style as an over the top splatterfest ofabsurd humor . The Discovery Channel ’s long running annualShark Weekis now fuck more for the original horror films than for nature documentaries . That ’s in big part due to the influence ofSharknadoand its five continuation . But how do each of the films rank ?
6. Sharknado: The 4th Awakens (2016)
set about with itsStar Wars - inspired title , the fourth film in the serial veers from the region of ludicrous caustic remark into straight - up parody , relying more on winking - at - the - audience pa culture references than the pure comedic spectacle that the franchise was build up on . More so than any of the other films , Sharknado : The quaternary Awakensseems cognizant of itself as a movie and the characters behave as such . Despite the freshness of branching out into the realm of science fabrication , adding such campiness to the already cockeyed cause the plastic film to collapse under its own weight .
5. Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (2017)
The 5th cinema takes heroes Fin and April on a orb - trotting adventure as they chase down clues surrounding a mythological shark god , unwittingly unleashing a young kind of sharknado open of spawn an interdimensional vortex . Teleporting from London , to Australia , Rio De Janeiro , Rome , Tokyo , and eventually to the pyramids of Egypt , the diaphanous scope of the Sharknado serial ' take on anIndiana Jones - esque escapade is highly impressive .
4. Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (2015)
release at the apex of Sharknado popularity , the third film was more overtly comedic than the two previous films , as well as overcharge with the inevitable merchandise locating that come along with being the hot pop culture good of the metre . The film ended with Tara Reid ’s April being squeeze by a clump of hang space shuttle , leave alone witness to settle her fate with the # AprilLives or # AprilDies"hashtag campaign . April lived , re - emerging as a cyborg in the quaternary celluloid the next year .
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3. The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time (2018)
The abject lunacy of injecting fourth dimension locomotion into the Sharknado films may be enough in and of itself for thelast(?)film of the franchise to rank so high on this list . Starting in the Cretaceous period and going everywhere from Dark Ages Europe , Colonial America , and the Wild West , the story has Fin meet such figures as King Arthur , Benjamin Franklin , and Billy the Kid as he work to trigger a paradox that would create a new , sharknado - free timeline .
2. Sharknado (2013)
The popularity of theSharknadofranchise make it gentle to overlook the fact that the original film of the series is quite dim . Despite the gaud of the premise , the movie primarily consist of its main characters driving around and arguing as they essay to figure out what the hell is going on and what the hell they should do about it . More striking than subsequent picture show , the low budget is contemplate in sparse , shoddy VFX .
1. Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014)
From the curtain raising episode when a passenger planing machine flies into a sharknado and sharks rive aside an airplane full of rider a crew , to the ending when Fin rides a dandy white , impaling it on the antennae of the Empire State construction , the 2nd motion-picture show of the serial is firing all piston chamber . large on theJawsreferences , Sharknado 2is where the trademark fame cameos began in the long - lastingSharknadofranchise .
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