Hello, everyone, Trace here. And in case you haven't heard, there are not one but two shark movies out from directors Tommy Verkola and Rennie Harlam, the latter of whom is returning to the world of aquatic horror 27 years after his 1999 masterpiece, Deep Blue Sea.

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of our other Patreon episodes, there will be major spoilers for both films. You've officially been

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And now, your double-feature Patreon clip.

And we're going back into the water to discuss Tommy Verkola's Thrash, formerly known as Before the Storm, and formerly known as Shiver.

Oh my God. It's another film that has been a little bit delayed, Trace. So this one, we don't fully understand why it's been sitting on the shelf. But I think some people are going to speculate, oh, it's because it's a not very good shark movie, and I'm going to say, you shut your fool mouth because this is a good time. Okay, y'all, so Sony had this slated for theatrical release last summer, then postponed it to this summer, and then dumped it on Netflix Netflix. So like, I think you're right.

It's because, yeah, people are like, oh, it's not a very good movie.

But I have seen worse Sony movies this year and last year than this movie.

And also, anybody who watches shark movies knows what a bad shark movie looks like.

Yes! This is not one of those like am i

going to pretend that this is one of the best films i've ever seen is it the best shark movie i've

ever seen no and no but does this movie have its tongue firmly planted in cheek knows what it's

doing people are having a good time occasionally janky FX, but also not at times.

Like, there's a lot to go with for this.

I mean, I was shocked by looking at reviews for this, both professional and cat and letterbox

reviews where I was seeing so many like one and a half star ratings.

Oh, come on.

I, yeah, I gave this a three. I mean, truthfully, this is kind of barely a movie. Like, it's more of a collection of scenes that are just thrown together. There's not really a big, like, narrative thrust outside of, yeah, there's bull sharks in a hurricane that's flooded this town. But I'm going back to the Tommy Verkola of it all. This movie is so dumb and it knows it's dumb. It is only here so that you have a good time. And honestly, like, I've seen people compare it to Krall, the Alexander Aja Alligator Hurricane movie, and apt comparison. I think... Yeah, this one's dumber. Oh, it's much dumber. And I think because the big difference is, you know, in crawl, we're following a father and his daughter and a dog in a single location, whereas this has been more of a disaster movie band where we're following a couple different sets of people. Some people that don't ever interact with each other, by the way. And that, to me, is actually one of the things that does knock this down a peg or two is the fact that you keep

waiting for these people to at least come together and have a shared experience in the climax.

And the fact that we ended and they have not met, these two groups of people have stayed siloed.

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