Special Report: Stephen Scarlata on Sharksploitation (2023)

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Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Friend of The Projection Booth, Stephen Scarlata (host of The Best Movies Never Made podcast) discusses his directorial debut, Sharksploitation, a terrific documentary about the vilification and exploitation of sharks in movies.

The film is streaming on Shudder.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Cut it off.
0:22.6	Turn it off.
0:26.6	Turn it off.
0:27.6	There is a genre alive today that has survived 90 years of evolution, causing people to live in fear.
0:47.9	Hollywood has created a monster and given it the name shark's exploitation.
0:52.9	It's because of Jaws.
0:56.0	Shark craze, which has gripped America. Suddenly society developed this massive fear of sharks.
1:00.0	Shark mania.
1:01.0	Movie that made $100 million, and everybody wanted some of that.
1:05.0	Our focus was creating a shark.
1:07.0	We weren't thinking about what it was going to do to the future.
1:10.0	Great White. Man-eater do to the future. Great white.
1:11.6	Man-eater.
1:12.6	Sharkipose.
1:13.6	Sharknado.
1:14.6	The shallows.
1:15.6	The meg.
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