sharksploitation
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From shark + -sploitation.
Noun
[edit]sharksploitation (uncountable)
- (film) A genre of exploitation films focusing on sharks and shark attacks.
- 2011, Howard Hughes, Cinema Italiano: The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult, I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd, →ISBN, page 282:
- Hunky James Caan look-alike Andrés Garcia – the nominal hero who is apparently sponsored by Adidas – became a pin-up of these adventures, appearing in the sharksploitation movie Tintorera! (1977), Tonino Ricci's Cave of the Sharks and in The Bermuda Triangle (1978), with John Huston and Claudine Auger.
- 2011 January 21, David Edwards, “New Releases; DVDs”, in The Mirror, UK:
- After their yacht runs aground in Australian waters, four of them decide to swim for land but are soon stalked by a huge great white shark. While the story stutters and starts, sharksploitation fans will lap it up.