# Ghost Shark premiers August 22nd on SyFy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 13, 2013, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-shark-premiers-august-22nd-on-syfy/663392 "2013-07-13T06:45:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2013, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-shark-premiers-august-22nd-on-syfy/663392/1 "2013-07-13T06:45:53Z")
Still quivering from the awesomeness that was Sharknado? Yeah, OK, maybe not. But if so, you’ll have more than a month to recover for the truly awesome [Ghost Shark](http://io9.com/5625141/ghost-shark-2-urban-jaws-is-the-ultimate-sharksploitation-flick) on [August 22nd](http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2013/07/12/sharknado-is-the-weeks-most-important-news/) (see last line). ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2013, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-shark-premiers-august-22nd-on-syfy/663392/2 "2013-07-13T23:45:07Z")
After Sharknado, this one is a “must see”. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-shark-premiers-august-22nd-on-syfy/663392/3 "2013-07-15T05:53:57Z")
[Ghost Shark Trailer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y48HGKeHS_I) and [more](http://www.movieweb.com/movie/ghost-shark) ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-shark-premiers-august-22nd-on-syfy/663392/4 "2013-07-17T16:58:06Z")
OK, I guess I shouldn’t have put the date in the title. Shit. I’m not going to request a change yet since this might be a head fake, but I don’t think so. According to this site, which I’ve never heard of but sounds every bit as legit as a guy in a beat up van offering a discount on a flatscreen, {inhale} the date for the premier is the 11th, not the 22nd. Looks like an honest typo but one that could go either way. As long as I’m here though, I have to share this quote. > [@](#): > > If we’re being honest with ourselves, we can all probably agree that there will never be another shark-based entertainment that reaches the (self-consciously) [batshit creative heights of _Sharknado_](http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/81562/sharknado-sharknado-sharknado). Accuse us of a failure of imagination in this regard if you must, but you’ve reached Peak Shark when you’ve made a movie about tornadoes full of the ocean’s deadliest predators, especially when that movie [SPOILER ALERT] _ends with a chainsaw-wielding Steve Sanders [diving into the gaping maw](https://vine.co/v/hZB0Q6v3jex) of a free-falling great white and THEN proceeds to cut it apart from the inside to free a ladyfriend from its stomach._ That cannot be topped. We’ll say it again: THAT CANNOT BE TOPPED. You can’t give Ian Ziering two chainsaws, or give Jason Priestley and Shannen Doherty matching weed whackers, or put bat wings made of lightning-shooting swords on the sharks, or have an earthquake that releases prehistoric sharks from deep within the earth’s crust. Well, you _could_, but what would be the point? ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-shark-premiers-august-22nd-on-syfy/663392/5 "2013-07-17T17:13:45Z")
It’s got Ruth from 7th Heaven! Guaranteed classic. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-shark-premiers-august-22nd-on-syfy/663392/6 "2013-07-19T05:30:14Z")
The 22nd is the date I’ve been seeing, not the 11th. [Not everybody is looking forward to it though.](http://screenrant.com/syfy-ghost-shark-clip/) > [@](#): > > This preview of the film seems to confirm that \*Ghost Shark \*will probably play out as yet another \*Jaws \*rip-off, doing very little with the idea of an immaterial great white. Not only does the depicted scene trudge through the familiar paces of the 1975 classic, it does so in ways that will be familiar to anyone who has ever sat through one of Syfy’s Z-grade monster flicks – i.e., with flat camera work, stilted acting, and special effects that would have looked painful 20 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-shark-premiers-august-22nd-on-syfy/663392/7 "2013-07-19T13:12:21Z")
I’m hoping they do “Jabberjaw the serial killer” some day. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-shark-premiers-august-22nd-on-syfy/663392/8 "2013-07-19T13:53:39Z")
Not an Oglaf ghost shark? That can swim anyplace where water was when it was alive? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-shark-premiers-august-22nd-on-syfy/663392/9 "2013-07-19T14:44:40Z")
Once again, there will be more people tweeting about a SyFy movie than are actually watching it. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-shark-premiers-august-22nd-on-syfy/663392/10 "2013-07-28T01:11:44Z")
[Three new previews for Ghost Shark](http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/69008/three-new-sneak-peeks-ghost-shark-and-slew-promo-videos-syfys-july-27th-sharkathon) ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-shark-premiers-august-22nd-on-syfy/663392/11 "2013-07-29T01:56:19Z")
> [@deltasigma](#): > > [Three new previews for Ghost Shark](http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/69008/three-new-sneak-peeks-ghost-shark-and-slew-promo-videos-syfys-july-27th-sharkathon) Awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-shark-premiers-august-22nd-on-syfy/663392/12 "2013-07-29T02:24:22Z")
I’m still waiting for Tsuzombie. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-shark-premiers-august-22nd-on-syfy/663392/13 "2013-07-29T02:28:00Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > Awesome. Yeah, I couldn’t watch them before posting that but I did later. The one with the little kid on the water slide I really liked. They seem to do the concept more justice than the original trailer which just made it look like yet another Jaws spoof/rip-off. These give you the impression that it might be something much more original. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-shark-premiers-august-22nd-on-syfy/663392/14 "2013-07-31T01:56:35Z")
[New trailer (via the Daily Mail)](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2381107/Ghost-Shark-outdoes-ridiculousness-Sharknado-new-supernatural-trailer.html?ito=feeds-newsxml). LOL. You’ve seen most of this if you’ve watched the other links but there is some new stuff, just don’t blink (plenty of stills at the link though) and I like how it’s cut together with the typical cheesy voice over. Some good quotes from the article > [@](#): > > Ghost Shark centres on a supernatural great white shark who returns from the dead to exact vengeance on all humankind for its own wrongful murder at the hands of a vigilante fisherman. > . > . > . > One of the main plot devices of the story hinges on the supernatural powers of the demonic sea beast, who is capable of appearing in any environment as long as there is even a little bit of water - thus making it possible for the ghostly predator to appear in the rain or even in the spray of a lawn sprinkler. The article does go into the story and looks like it might have some potential spoilers near the end. It’s hard to tell w/o having watched the movie, so be warned. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-shark-premiers-august-22nd-on-syfy/663392/15 "2013-08-15T02:55:03Z")
First we hit peak shark with Sharknado. Now we have reached critical shark with the announcement of Ghost Shark 2. Yes boys and girls - Deux, Dos, numero uhh whatever is after uno. The first of the . . . can we really call it a series yet? Franchise? WTF is it? Anyway, the first installment won’t even be shown until the 22nd but [here we have the trailer for the sequel](http://www.ghostshark2.com/). Now to be fair, it looks like this was already in development and unlike the GS to be shown in a week or so, this is much more ‘serious.’ I’m not sure how that works given the subject matter and if this is really suborbital, over-the-top irony or what, but there you have it. You can read a little more about it [here](http://www.3news.co.nz/Ghost-Shark-2-Urban-Jaws-trailer/tabid/418/articleID/308967/Default.aspx). [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Shark_2:_Urban_Jaws) has this to say. > [@](#): > > The plot concerns the mayor of [Auckland](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland) and an “expert ghost shark hunter” as they fight to save the city from a supernatural beast known as Ghost Shark. Despite being labelled “Ghost Shark 2”, there currently exists no first installment in the series, and the decision to make it a sequel was made for narrative reasons. The tone of the film is that of a serious drama, despite the seemingly parodic subject material.[[1]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Shark_2:_Urban_Jaws#cite_note-1) ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-shark-premiers-august-22nd-on-syfy/663392/16 "2013-08-15T03:18:32Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > I’m still waiting for Tsuzombie. Set off by the [arachnoquake](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2151543/)! ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-shark-premiers-august-22nd-on-syfy/663392/17 "2013-08-15T04:09:40Z")
[Slothcano](http://img.pandawhale.com/post-23467-Slothcano-Sharknado-sequel-Img-dqfh.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2013, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-shark-premiers-august-22nd-on-syfy/663392/18 "2013-08-15T04:28:32Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > [Slothcano](http://img.pandawhale.com/post-23467-Slothcano-Sharknado-sequel-Img-dqfh.jpeg) That might be my new desktop 😃 ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-shark-premiers-august-22nd-on-syfy/663392/19 "2013-08-17T19:18:39Z")
[Only 5 more days - time to set the DVRs.](http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/ghost-shark-on-syfy-bite-of-the-living-dead-1.5897480) > [@](#): > > Syfy stays in the what-else-can-we-do-to-a-shark game with its latest original movie, debuting Thursday at 9 p.m. Indeed, the title creature is undead, having been killed by a fisherman … and it returns to wreak vengeance, one of its targets being the father of a young woman played by “7th Heaven” alum Mackenzie Rosman. She tries to stop the terror before she becomes a victim herself, getting assistance from a lighthouse keeper portrayed by Richard Moll, famous as bailiff Bull on the sitcom “Night Court.” ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-shark-premiers-august-22nd-on-syfy/663392/20 "2013-08-18T18:15:24Z")
demonic sea beast!! love it! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghost-shark-premiers-august-22nd-on-syfy/663392.md?page=2)