Right, well with a title such as "Sharkula" then of course you can't have any expectations to the movie. And I didn't, but I still opted to watch this movie from writer and director Mark Polonia.
And I have to say that the movie was bad, it was oh so gloriously bad. In fact, it was so bad that it was actually a fun watch, and that made sitting through 71 minutes of "Sharkula" seem like a walk in the park.
The storyline in "Sharkula" was laughable. Of course it was. I mean, Dracula bites a shark and turns it into a vampiric shark. But the movie is so much more than just that, because there is a lot of nonsense going on. First of all, the movie takes places in Arkham, so there was that, the fact that the movie apparently took place in Lovecraft's universe. Then there was the hobo that was supposed to be the iconic Dracula. And then you have random footage of a woman on a beach doing some dance while holding something that is ablaze, and you also have random footage of some man wearing horrible fake toy vampire teeth appear out of nowhere and hiss at the audience; it serves absolutely no purpose and made no sense. Oh, and you also have two zombies milling about, wearing cultist robes and wearing Paper Mache masks. It was gloriously bad.
The acting performances in "Sharkula" were bad. Quite bad actually. Tim Hatch, playing Arthur, was the only one gifted with something that actually resembled acting skill, whereas the other performers in the movie were just staggering and stumbling through monotonous lines and rigid acting performances. But these horrible acting performances were so cringeworthy that it actually added to the cheese that is "Sharkula" and made it all the more fun to watch.
The special effects in "Sharkula" were exactly that; special. There was no budget for the special effects in the movie, and it shows. But again, it adds to the cheese and helps pile up on the goofy stuff that actually makes "Sharkula" a fun watch.
If you enjoy horribly bad B-movies, then you most definitely have to sit down and watch "Sharkula". Because writer and director Mark Polonia delivers a top notch bad movie here.
My rating of "Sharkula" lands on a generous one out of ten stars.
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