I can honestly say that after watching this and Jurassic Shark, both have become my favourite bad shark movies from Brett Kelly. Raiders I would say is my favourite out of the bunch mostly because it was trying to add some silly charm to it to make it somewhat memorable - well, to me personally as I have watched it many times. Whenever I next organise another movie night with friends, I'm definitely putting these two on the list as they are short and sweet and to the point.
One story about this movie: Whilst watching, I posted a clip of recordings I took of Carly saying "Damn it, Janet!" (which by the way became a favourite joke of mine as I would always mock it). One of the first likes on that post was actually from Jessica Huether who plays May. I was very surprised by this and messaged her (confirming that it was indeed her). She was very aware that the movie had pretty bad reception and that it was her first proper movie. She was very nice and we had a good conversation about horror as both of us were fans. I asked if she was willing to work with Brett Kelly again and she said that he is one of her favourite directors to work with and says that he lets the actors do things their way instead of him telling them how to play their character the way he wanted them to.
Ever since our conversation, my opinion of this movie that I was laughing at many times completely changed. I did not look at this movie as a cheap way to make quick cash, I looked at it as a project which had a director who worked extremely well with his cast and sat back and let them act freely and I felt like most of them were having a great time filming it regardless of how poor their acting skills were. If it wasn't for Jessica Huether's words, I would've kept on bashing this movie to pieces for it's terrible overall quality. But I will still keep my low score because of that.
One story about this movie: Whilst watching, I posted a clip of recordings I took of Carly saying "Damn it, Janet!" (which by the way became a favourite joke of mine as I would always mock it). One of the first likes on that post was actually from Jessica Huether who plays May. I was very surprised by this and messaged her (confirming that it was indeed her). She was very aware that the movie had pretty bad reception and that it was her first proper movie. She was very nice and we had a good conversation about horror as both of us were fans. I asked if she was willing to work with Brett Kelly again and she said that he is one of her favourite directors to work with and says that he lets the actors do things their way instead of him telling them how to play their character the way he wanted them to.
Ever since our conversation, my opinion of this movie that I was laughing at many times completely changed. I did not look at this movie as a cheap way to make quick cash, I looked at it as a project which had a director who worked extremely well with his cast and sat back and let them act freely and I felt like most of them were having a great time filming it regardless of how poor their acting skills were. If it wasn't for Jessica Huether's words, I would've kept on bashing this movie to pieces for it's terrible overall quality. But I will still keep my low score because of that.