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An ever-popular genre, shark attack movies are enjoying a resurgence again this summer after the success of the somewhat-ludicrous Under Paris on Netflix.
But now there’s already another deep-sea horror contender in town, and this British effort is doing it a lot differently.
Aside from Under Paris’s giant shortfin mako shark in the Seine named Lilith, audiences in 2024 have also been treated to an underwater plane wreckage being circled by sharks in No Way Up, and there’s a remarkably similar premise coming up again later this year in Deep Water, starring Aaron Eckhart and Sir Ben Kingsley.
This evergreen sharksploitation subgenre will of course always be swimming in the wake of its classic inspiration too, 1975’s Jaws from director Steven Spielberg.
However, with many ways to fin a fish, so to speak, new shark film Something in the Water is adding a more unexpected ingredient to this genre by splicing the usual tale of underwater peril with a female-led narrative and characters.
Oh, and it’s a love story, too.
Directed by Hayley Easton Street in her film feature debut, Something in the Water takes place in the Caribbean after a dream destination wedding turns deadly as five friends are forced to confront their fears and brave the open waters.
While this group of pals try to unpack past trauma, get along and celebrate bride-to-be Lizzie’s (Outlander’s Lauren Lyle) big day, they rent a rickety-looking boat to explore a deserted island on their own.
Something in the Water is the new British shark attack film (Picture: Studiocanal)
This is, of course, the perfect recipe for shark-related danger to strike – but it’s initially in the background to exes Meg (Hiftu Quasem) and Kayla (Natalie Mitson), and whether or not they will rekindle their romance after a traumatic incident split them up.
Don’t worry though – for all the blood-thirsty shark enthusiasts, there’s still plenty of blood to spread in the water, and grisly injuries and gnashing of shark teeth to come.
It is, after all, the type of film that can combine S Club 7 on its soundtrack with an anal sex joke and discussions about punctuation as they all drift stranded in the ocean, waiting to be picked off one-by-one by a shark.
The cast and director are all aware of Under Paris but split in their ambitions to see it, with Easton Street joking she’s ‘a bit sharked out’ (‘But I may watch it tonight!’), while actress Natalie Mitson admits to having seen ‘a fair few shark films in my time’ as ‘they’re always good fun’.
‘That’s what makes them so good is that it is so terrifying,’ suggests Mitson, who plays Kayla, to Metro.co.uk. ‘This idea of deep water is like this primal fear that we have built in us, the fear of the unknown.’
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Source:: Metro
