Okay everyone, pop quiz time. Books and notebooks under your desks. Please look at the following titles, and identify whether they belong to a Syfy Original Movie or a program airing during Discovery Channel’s 2013 Shark Week. No cheating.
1) Dinoshark
2) Great White Serial Killer
3) Spawn of Jaws
4) Shark Swarm
5) Voodoo Sharks
6) Sharkpocalypse
7) Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy
8) The Great White Gauntlet
9) Alien Sharks of the Deep
10) Swamp Shark
11) Shark in Venice
12) Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives
13) Jersey Shore Shark Attack
Aaaaaaaaaand pencils down. Answers on page two.
1) Dinoshark – Syfy Original Movie
From Wikipedia:
The film opens with a baby dinoshark swimming away from a broken chunk of Arctic glacier that calved due to global warming. Three years later, the dinoshark is a ferocious predatory adult and kills tourists and locals offshore from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The protagonist, Trace, is the first to notice the creature and witnesses his friend getting eaten, but has trouble convincing people that a creature of such antiquity could still exist. After being apparently killed by a grenade, the dinoshark surfaces again, but is killed with a spear through the eye, its only weak-spot.
2) Great White Serial Killer – Shark Week Programming
From Discovery:
Natural history producer Jeff Kurr returns to SHARK WEEK after 2011’s Emmy®-nominated Ultimate Air Jaws and 2012’s Air Jaws Apocalypse in GREAT WHITE SERIAL KILLER. Kurr sets out to examine two fatal shark attacks near Vandenberg Air Force base in California and uses evidence found at both sites to try to determine if one shark was responsible for both attacks.
3) Spawn of Jaws – Shark Week Programming
From Discovery:
This special follows a team of scientists on the brink of a revolutionary breakthrough that for the first time will allow us to understand the mysterious life cycle of the Great White shark. Using state of the art tracking technology, they will search for the elusive Great White breeding grounds, in hopes to protect the area and re-populate their numbers.
4) Shark Swarm – Syfy Original Movie
From Wikipedia:
Corporate real estate tycoon Hamilton Lux (Armand Assante) sets his sights on developing the quaint seaside town of Full Moon Bay into a prime getaway for the wealthy, but runs into some unexpected problems. Lifelong fisherman Daniel Wilder (John Schneider) and wife Brooke (Daryl Hannah) owns property exactly where Lux wants to build high-priced condos, and isn’t planning to sell. Lux secretly laces the local waters with a toxin deadly to marine life, decimating the fishing industry in an attempt to starve Daniel out. Alas, the chemical react differently on the area’s sharks, drastically increasing their aggressive tendencies and transforming them into engines of pure destruction moving in coordinated swarms. Without fish to feed on, shark attacks on humans rapidly increase. Lux uses media contacts to paint the attacks as random incidents. Daniel, his marine biologist brother and a concerned E.P.A. agent must expose Lux’s plan and rid the area of the chemically-altered sharks before the town’s entire population is devoured by hungry sharks.
5) Voodoo Sharks – Shark Week Programming
From Discovery:
We investigate Bull Shark populations that have moved beyond oceans and U.S. coasts to the bayous of Louisiana. Nicknamed ‘Voodoo Sharks’ by local shrimp fishermen, these Bull Sharks have the extraordinary ability to live in both salt and fresh water environments and they show up by the hundreds in the bayous of Louisiana. There are many a fishermen who have encountered these dominant and startling predators in the shallow Louisiana waters. But while Bull Sharks in the Bayou are a known phenomenon, locals tell of an even larger shark lurking in swamps. Is this phantom shark the stuff of Cajun legend, or do these waters hold a brand new species?
6) Sharkpocalypse – Shark Week Programming
From Discovery:
Following one of the most fatal years of shark encounters closely followed by the media, SHARKPOCALYPSE examines the alarming trend of sharks moving in closer to shorelines and debates whether there is a connection between declining shark populations and the increase in shark attacks. Hosted by Andy Casagrande and Devon Massyn, SHARKPOCALYPSE gets you up close and personal with the Great White invasion.
7) Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy – Syfy Original Movie
From Wikipedia:
A mad scientist tries to save his son Paul from liver cancer. But his experiments turn Paul into a half-shark, half-man monster. The scientist invites the doctors that could not help his son before to the island to feed them to Hammerhead. The scientist injected Paul with hammerhead shark DNA to make him the first of a new race of half-animal beings that would be immune to diseases such as cancer. But, the Hammerhead goes on a killing spree after breaking loose and beings to stalk the workers of the island. Since the scientist believes that part of his son is still human, Paul’s fiance arrives on the island where the scientist lives after being fired from his job, hoping that the Hammerhead will mate with her.
8) The Great White Gauntlet – Shark Week Programming
From Discovery:
The coast of South Australia is a place like no other. It is home to a Great White feeding ground that is one of the most dangerous places in the world. Known in local legend as the Great White Gauntlet, this deadly stretch of waters holds a prize bounty for divers: a rare sea snail called the abalone which is worth thousands on the international market. Abalone diving can be both lucrative and dangerous because it happens in one of the most deadly shark feeding grounds in the world where the Great White sharks prowl. This special takes a closer look at the real-life dangers these divers encounter every day.
9) Alien Sharks of the Deep – Shark Week Programming
From Discovery:
This special follows American and Japanese scientists as they descend into the deepest and darkest unexplored oceans on earth in search of some of the more incredible and bizarre sharks on the planet, from the Goblin shark to the elusive, giant Megamouth shark.
10) Swamp Shark – Syfy Original Movie
From Wikipedia:
Open on gorgeous swamplands of the Atchafalaya Basin in the summer. Lots of beautiful teens are at the beach the weekend before Gator Fest. That night an animal smuggling deal goes wrong and a large sea creature escapes into a swampy backwoods river. At the McDaniel’s “Gator Shack” restaurant, a local, Jackson is drunk, and gets mangled to bits. The town sheriff blames the carnage on the McDaniel’s “escaped” pack of gators and tries hauling them off to jail. Rachel McDaniel, head of the family, claims to have seen the fin of a shark! Rachel and her family, along with the help of a mysterious stranger, Charlie, take on the Swamp Shark and the law to clear their names, save Rachel’s kid sister Krystal and prevent the unwitting folks at the upcoming Gator Fest from being torn to shreds by a beast the likes of which no one has ever seen!
11) Shark in Venice – Syfy Original Movie
From Wikipedia:
The film takes place in Venice, where David Franks (Stephen Baldwin) and girlfriend Laura (Vanessa Johansson) are meeting with Venetian police to learn more about the mysterious disappearance of David’s father. During the boatride to where they think David’s father may have last been seen, David sees the dorsal fin of a large shark. In double-take he looks back and the fin is gone. David and another man enter the canals wearing wetsuits and scuba gear. A large shark preys on the two and in a sudden attack the Italian man is eaten. David is bitten in the shoulder but manages to escape to a cave.
In the cave, David narrowly escapes several close calls with contraptions recalling those in the opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark; the film also borrows quite liberally from the plot of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. He then emerges on a large room in the cave which holds vast amounts of treasure. David stares in wonder at it, pockets a gold and emerald brooch and returns to Laura in the boat. The next scene shows him recuperating in a hospital bed with Laura by his side.
David and Laura are asked to meet and have dinner with business-man Vito Clemenza (Giacomo Gonnella). Clemenza produces the brooch David had taken from the treasure room and asks David to return to the cave. As unsuspecting tourists are devoured, David contemplates his next move. Before too long Laura is kidnapped by Clemenza’s Mafia goons. David decides to try to save her with the help of the Venetian police.
It is unclear whether it is a scientific phenomenon leading to the gradual increase in the temperature of the Grand Canal and the presence of at least one Great white shark taking up residence in the city of Venice.[2] Later in the film Clemenza appears to tell David that he is the one who has introduced the sharks to the waterways.
12) Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives – Shark Week Programming
From Discovery:
Discovery brings SHARK WEEK viewers on a search for a massive killer Great White shark responsible for a rash of fatalities off the coast of South Africa. One controversial scientist believes that the shark responsible could be Megalodon, a 60-foot relative of the Great White that is one of the largest and most powerful predators in history. Our oceans remain 95% unexplored, and this massive prehistoric predator has always been shrouded in secrecy, but after a rash of newly discovered evidence, authorities are forced to investigate and hunt for the predator long thought to be extinct. A crew of scientists and shark experts examine evidence and fearlessly seek answers to the many questions surrounding one of the last great mysteries of the deep ocean while creating the largest chum slick in history.
13) Jersey Shore Shark Attack – Syfy Original Movie
From Wikipedia:
The film centers around a series of deadly shark attacks in New Jersey.
Yeah it does.
