Sharkman - swim for your life

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Movie
German title Sharkman - swim for your life
Original title Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Michael Oblowitz
script Kenneth M. Badish ,
Boaz Davidson ,
Monty Featherstone ,
Howard Zemski
production Kenneth M. Badish,
Boaz Davidson,
David Varod
music John Dickson
camera Emil Topuzov
cut Alain Jakubowicz
occupation
synchronization

Sharkman - swimming for your life (Original title: Shark Frenzy Hammerhead ) is an American science fiction - horror film from the year 2005 . The low-budget film, which was filmed under the direction of Australian Michael Oblowitz and produced for broadcast as a television film for the Syfy broadcaster , premiered there on June 18, 2005; the release in Germany , where the film is available on DVD and Blu-ray , took place on October 11, 2005. Sharkman - Swim for Your Life received consistently low ratings, which were largely based on the poor overall impression of what was seen.

action

After Paul King died of cancer , scientist Dr. Preston King, his father, takes a group of various doctors whom he accuses of being responsible for his son's death to an unmapped island in the Pacific. Amelia Lockhart, Paul's ex-wife and current widow, and Tom Reed, again Amelia's new lover, are also there. When the pack arrives, they confront Dr. King with the statement that Paul was never really dead and that he succeeded in modifying Paul's stem cells with the DNA of a hammerhead, which made him a viable humanoid fish being - half human, half shark. Shortly afterwards, Dr. King creates a pool of water in which "Paul" is, and lets his creation loose on his astonished "guests". But after a short time Paul escapes the facility and is now raging uncontrollably among those working on the island and others present ...

synchronization

The German synchronous processing was created by Berliner Synchron GmbH . For dialogue book as well -regie recorded Boris Tessmann responsible.

role actor Voice actor
Tom Reed William Forsythe Gerald Paradise
Amelia Lockhart Hunter Tylo Claudia Urbschat-Mingues
Dr. Preston King Jeffrey Combs Hans-Jürgen Dittberner
Whitney pen Arthur Roberts Ernst Meincke

reception

The critics of the program magazine TV Spielfilm describe the film as "so clumsy that it is hard to appreciate even for trash fans." They gave a symbolic "thumbs down" and summed up: "A deadly combination: cheap and boring".

“Very simple horror film; What might have been hilariously funny 50 years ago is now just an expression of bottomless stupidity and bag tailoring. "

On kino.de, Sharkman - Swim for Your Life is rated as an "SF horror trip in the low-budget class". It is suitable "for less demanding horror viewers and rubber poplar fetishists."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release Certificate for Sharkman - Swim for Your Life . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2005 (PDF; test number: 103 102 V / DVD).
  2. Sharkman - Swim for Your Life. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on October 12, 2016 .
  3. Sharkman - Swim for Your Life on tvspielfilm.de
  4. Sharkman - Swim for Your Life. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 12, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. Sharkman - swim for your life on kino.de