Nerds That Geek Movie Review: ‘Land Shark’

Written by Scott ‘Sharky’ Edwards

Still from ‘Land Shark’ Courtesy of Polonia Brothers Entertainment.

This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movie being covered here wouldn’t exist.
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With so many incredible scientific discoveries being made every year, do you ever wonder what discoveries we are not told about? As there are plenty of rules and regulations on how and what the scientist can experiment on, it is easy to believe that there are some rogue scientists out there that will not allow these rules to get in their way. With these scientists going off on their own paths to discovery, we are left in the dark as to what they are really doing and what effect it could have on the rest of us. Just a little food for thought if you were not having enough to stress about in this day and age.
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Checking out the reports from the previous night, researcher Lucinda spots an anomaly in her sharks’ numbers that does not make sense. Seeing that two sharks somehow escaped the facility and made their way back an hour later, she puts in a call to her boss Dr. Foster to show him the report. With all of the sharks accounted for however, Foster does not believe that this is a cause for concern but as a precaution, he puts in a call to his boss Dr. Lorca to give him the chilling news. With the tests going well, Lorca suggests keeping an eye on the situation, but that might not be enough when the sharks start breaking out on the regular. 

As a day has passed, Lucinda sees that there are three less sharks in the holding pen and Foster believes that it is time for his employee to be put into the loop. Putting Lucinda in front of his boss, she is now part of the underground scientific research that is really taking place in the facility. With secret orders for Foster to execute after they leave the facility, Foster kills all of the other test subjects in the facility and he is ready to go hunting for the sharks that have escaped. With Lucinda in tow and some additional information revolving around everything that needs to be done on his end, Foster has another secret of his own that will come to fruition sooner or later.

With the sharks all having a tracking beacon attached, the hunt should go off without a hitch, and with special laser guns, Lucinda and Foster should be able to eliminate the threat before anyone takes notice.  Being able to track their first shark inland further than it should have been, Foster comes out with more information about the experiments, in that, the sharks can be out of the water for longer than ever. Taking out their first target, the two move onto the next one and come across what appears to be an abandoned cabin, but little do they know that the experimental sharks are not only able to move freely on land, but they are super smart as well.

I will be first to say that the effects in this movie were not the best, but that being said, they did a great job with what they had to work with and I loved the blood splatter. The storyline took a little different turn as you find out that the tests that were being run on the sharks were to make an unstoppable fighting force that can fight on land or sea, which was pretty cool. Then you get to find out that the sharks are not the only test subjects, and it quickly becomes apparent that the world is going to be in big trouble if all of the test subjects are not eliminated. With random Land Shark killings, some blood, a photo session gone wrong, some more blood, a trip to the pool, some more blood and a trip that takes you into the hills that reveals more secrets as to what is going on in the long haul, if you go into the movie with an open mind and wild imagination, this might be more enjoyable than you expected. Stay Scared.

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