Land Shark Movie Review

Trailer here.

Land Shark is a 2017 horror/ Sci-Fi movie directed by Mark Polonia and starring Sarah French and Peter Baldo.

The film begins with a woman who is walking on the beach. She notices a shark but goes sunbathing. It attacks her on the beach. Cut to MALCO Oceanic Research facility. A worker called Lucinda(French) talks to Dr. Foster(Baldo) about strange things happening with their sharks. He tells her that it isn't possible. He speaks to his boss, Dr. Lorca(Kathryn Sue Young) about it. They are involved in some plan together. They are experimenting with sharks. Lucinda notices that a shark is missing. Foster tells her that he has it. The shark claims more victims. This is a shark that can survive on land. How can that be?????

Lucinda and Foster find the body of a worker at the centre. Dr. Foster won't allow her to report it. He tells her that she has to help him cover it up or lose her job. She has no choice. They talk to Lorca and she threatens Lucinda. Foster informs her that they are trying to make sharks to adapt to living on land so that they can be used by the military. Three of their sharks are on the loose. Lorca tells them that they have to find the sharks and kill them all. When Lucinda is out of the room, she tells Foster that he has to take care of Lucinda when the sharks are dead. Foster and Lucinda head off to find the sharks.

They have a tracker to trace the sharks. Foster has a laser gun. They meet a homeless guy who says that he saw a land shark. They split up to search. They find one. They shoot it and they burn it. Two fishermen get another one and kill it. There is one left. It kills the homeless guy. Lucinda and Foster arrive at an old house where the tracker says the last shark is. They find it and he comes after them. They shoot at it. The shark goes into the river and they manage to get it out and electrocute it. Foster has been bitten and he feels unwell. He tells her that they have gotten all the sharks. He injects himself with the same serum that he used on the sharks. He turns into some sort of man shark hybrid. Lucinda tries to kill him. She ends up doing it but he tells her that there are other experiments. The movie ends with a shark jumping up in the water.

This film is cheap and silly. I mean, when you have a title like Land Shark, it can't be taken seriously. This was fun but the film was just too cheap. The shark was obviously rubber and the special effects were dire. The acting was bad but I still think that there is fun to be had here. If you know what you are getting, then you won't be disappointed. Just be warned. I give this a 3/10.

The Murder Mansion Movie Review

Trailer here.

The Murder Mansion is a 1972 horror/thriller directed by Francisco Lara Polop and starring Analia Gade, Ida Galli and Andres Resino.

Fred(Resino) is on his motorbike driving along. He stops at a pub and he meets a girl called Laura(Lisa Leonardi) and she decides to go along with him. There is a woman- Elsa(Gade) who is also at the pub. She is waiting for her cheating husband, Ernest(Alberto Dalbes). Elsa is supposed to pick him up so they can sign some document. There is a couple who want it. Elsa ends up veering off the road. Fred and Laura meet a stranger on the road who gives them directions to a village. Elsa is wandering around and she sees shadows in the fog. She is scared and she runs. Fred and Laura end up crashing too. Elsa meets them and she says that someone is after her. The group seek shelter and come upon a large house. A lawyer and his wife are there along with another man who they had met on the road earlier.

Everyone is stranded there. A woman appears. She is Martha Clinton(Galli). It turns out that they are in an abandoned village. There is a weird chauffeur hanging around. Martha's aunt owned the house and left it to her. She tells them that there was a chauffeur working there but he died, along with the aunt. Elsa realises that she saw them in the cemetery. They hear a noise in the cellar and Fred wants to investigate. They all do and see scratches on the door.  People start to die . Fred goes down to the cellar and Laura joins him. He tells her that he found a crypt. Elsa wakes up and sees Martha who has changed into the old aunt and the chauffeur is outside. Are they ghosts?

Elsa runs down to the cellar and discovers dead bodies. Fred and Laura see Martha and the chauffeur. There is a fire in the cellar and everyone sees a dead body. Elsa is rescued by Fred. He wats to go to Milan but ends up creeping around outside instead. Elsa and Laura see the head of a dead woman and then they see Martha. There is something going on. Martha has been pretending to be her aunt. Fred gets hurt by the 'ghost' chauffeur. They have a fight. The chauffeur is in on the plan.  A man appears and shoots the baddies. He is Ernest who was in on the plan too. He wanted to drive Elsa insane. She already had a nervous breakdown and he wanted to send her back to the brink of insanity and get her money.Fred and Laura run for help. Elsa is left and she grabs the gun and shoots Ernest dead.

This was a weird movie, but there were plenty of twists and turns to keep you interested. I like a good mystery film and this one will keep you entertained if you don't mind the weirdness. I recommend it and I will give it a 5/10.