Raiders of the Lost Shark (2015) User Reviews

Acting skills not required

[roymcf-332-857173 · 1/10 · 28 June 2015]

Being a lover of bad movies I wasted an hour or so of my life watching this garbage. It's so bad I had to warn other users to save themselves. I can't act either but the bunch of morons in this 'movie' are unbelievably terrible. I'd like to ask them one question.. 'Why?' ..... Did they set out to deliberately make a crap movie ? I honestly could make a better movie with my mates and my phone. Truly awful garbage, it makes Asylums movies look like multi million dollar blockbusters. Ghost Shark and Sharknado are positively genius compared to this 'movie', at least they have people, sometimes even 'stars' who can act a little, yes the scripts are bad but Asylum know it, I'd rather sit through Bermuda Tentacles again (and it was shocking) than have to watch these idiots . You have been warned.

Porn quality acting without the scenes worth watching

[clint-starrett · 1/10 · 6 July 2015]

If you look at the artwork for this movie, you think it sounds bad but might be good for a laugh. If you watch the trailer, you will be convinced that this movie will be terrible but watching the movie itself takes terrible to a new level.

The characters in the movie are not developed and are weak. The storyline is absolutely hopeless. The acting is horrible. There is no horror in this movie even though they claim there is, I couldn't help but laugh about how bad the effects are.

When I started watching it, I thought that maybe it was an amateur 80's porn movie by the quality of the camera work and the bad acting but as I let the movie go on it never got any better, but there were no erotic scenes.

At one point, the story has you "concerned" for the actors in a boat that has gone out to the island, but when they cut to scenes from the boat you can see other boats in the background but there is no concern for their safety as I am pretty sure they weren't supposed to be there or be noticed but I am assuming time is money and they didn't want to wait for the other boats to move for the take.

The movie does have a couple of really bad digs at itself proving that they knew it would be made when they wrote/filmed it.

I wouldn't recommend anyone ever watch this movie. It is truly a waste of time.

Not 'funny bad', just time wasting, very low budget, really bad movie.

[alvima-65780 · 1/10 · 29 June 2015]

First of all, the posters and description are highly deceptive - it is a very low budget movie ($320,000) and they could not afford any helicopters, airplanes or even water surfing. So none of the shots in the poster are there in the movie. All the special effects are created on someone's desktop computer (or possibly public library). The 'underwater' camera shots are taken in only a few feet deep water. Deep water 'shark' video clips have been taken from nature documentaries. Most people become 'victims' of shark when they are standing in shallow water or swimming a few yards from shore or a small boat (the only 'vehicle' or 'equipment' used in the movie). There are flabby, really bad actors in their swim suits. The previous credits of "director" include being a "camera-operator" in one production of the same company (which bears his name).

You will have more fun in a high-school production. This is probably the worse movie I have ever seen.

When you want to stab yourself in the face...

[full_pirate_regalia · 1/10 · 30 October 2016]

I like trash movies. I like shark movies. So, being really spoiled by Asylum, I thought: Aww, come on, for just 5.99€, this can't be bad. Or... Can it? Well... Yes, it can. This is an amateur movie released on DVD. And it's so incredibly DUMB on so many Levels... There's minor things (Why is he leaving his socks on as he wants to join the hottie in the water?) to really, really, REALLY stupid stuff (Whats a scientist doing all alone in the middle of the woods?) and some stuff which will make you just shake your head (no blood in a decapitation scene, but when there's a flesh explosion they just take a bucket of badly done fake blood and throw it into the actors face)... The acting isn't present, I haven't watched it in English, but the German dub, so I can't say anything about the original voices, but the facial expressions are just... Ugh! German sincere is on the Level of "let a bunch of drunk people yell into an iPhone". Not even the music is any good. Uhm, have I mentioned the Shark is just a still picture? It's a PICTURE in front of a moving background. Yes, the thing can fly. For whatever reasons.

Don't buy this. Don't rent this. Don't even STEAL this, it's not even worth that. The only good thing about this movie is: It's only 60-some minutes, and at least the end credits song isn't THAT bad. Still bad, but it's the only light at the end of the tunnel.

Flying Shark...nuff said.

[maverickz-33-530388 · 1/10 · 21 June 2015]

Where to begin with this poor excuse for a movie? The acting is some of the worst in any film. These people make David Duchovny seem full of emotion. The dialog sounds like it was written by middle school children. For example three women running fall to the ground, two of them get up, the third one vanishes. One girl says "Where did Janet go?" The other one replies "I think she rolled down that hill, we have to go find that creepy guy" and they run away without their friend who rolled down a non existent hill covered in enough trees to stop anyone from rolling anywhere.

The effects were anything but special. And the shark...oh the shark...they truly jumped the shark on this one...

OK first the shark starts out in a lake, never mind that sharks can't live in fresh water. It can also move the water, jump in and out of it without so much as a ripple. It can dive head first into about 3ft of water with no issues. Then toward the end it can FLY!! Now I don't mean it can jump really high out of the water, I mean it can fly through the forest, attack airplanes, etc. OK a flying shark might be cool. Except this on can fly without moving a muscle. No flapping of the fins, no swishing of the tail, it just floats motionless through the air like it belongs in a Macy's Thanksgiving parade. How they kill the shark (I won't spoil that for you) is equally unbelievable...if you pay attention to what is done. The budget is listed as $350,000. The only way they spent that much is if they spent $340,000 on hookers and drugs while filming this. At least the cinematography was decent.

Bottom line this "movie" will make you appreciate movies by the Asylum film company, I suggest avoiding it at all costs.

Pretty Much What You'd Expect

[Michael_Elliott · 5 October 2016]

Raiders of the Lost Shark (2015)

1/2 (out of 4)

People keep going missing at a local lake and a Professor believes that it might be the long lost Megalodon. A tragic event from her past makes her the perfect fighter to battle the large killer that is stalking the waters.

RAIDERS OF THE LOST SHARK is a really horrible movie but you've at least got to give the filmmakers credit for the title. It's a bit shocking that someone didn't come up with that title before now but there's no other spoof or connection to the Steven Spielberg movie. Not RAIDERS or even JAWS for that matter.

Obviously one shouldn't go into a picture like this expecting the work of Spielberg but there's really not too much on display here. I think there were enough campy moments to where you could get some unintentional laughs from it including some of the acting, which we will just say it's all that professional.

The special effect shark is really awful but I guess that is to be expected. He appears to change shape and form during every scene and the scenes of him flying are beyond silly. The attack sequences are also rather bad since the majority of the time people just go underwater and that's the attack. RAIDERS OF THE LOST SHARK thankfully lasts just under seventy-minutes and there is one good laugh dealing with the aftermath of a tourist seeing his girlfriend eaten.

The worst movie ever

[13Funbags · 1/10 · 12 April 2019]

This movie is about a giant prehistoric shark that lives in 3 feet of water and terrorizes an island you can drive to. After flying out of the water to kill a guy, there's 5 hands on the shore. Was that comedy? I have seen hundreds of bad movies and this is definitely the worst. There is a review that says no nudity in the title but there is nudity.

Would give it a 0 if I could

[m-54750-20366 · 1/10 · 10 December 2023]

So I'm having a 47 bad shark movie marathon and 11 movies in this one pops up, so I turn it on and got an instant feel of dread.

I've seen a few wild eye releasing films and to say they make the worst films is the biggest understatement of the century.

The whole hour and 10 minutes I was contemplating jumping off the roof of the Burj Khalifa, if I wasn't 11 movies in I'd give up on this marathon.

So what is the "movie" about? Unlike the name this product of hell has nothing to do with Indiana Jones but it's about a megalodon that kills people on the most shallow parts of the beach and sometimes it can fly, that's about it, if I would go into the plot I'd have to make stuff up because this thing doesn't have one.

The acting is worse than what you'd expect from a crime like this the effects are worse than birdemic and as I said there's no plot.

I swear I genuinely hope that wild eye releasing goes bankrupt.

Don't waste your time! (Contains Spoilers)

[danielcalveley · 1/10 · 23 January 2018]

I have seen many shark movies recently and this is by far the worst of all of them! Firstly the trailer makes no sense to the story whats so ever. It specifically mentions how its meant to be a "perfect vacation" which isn't really true considering all it is are these teenagers wanting to see this shark (which is already the most unrealistic looking thing ever in recorded cinema).

Acting is beyond unbelievable. Its like it was recorded for a school project (even then school kids would make a better movie then this trash). There's only a handful of people in this film, and they really need to go to acting school because watching them act really is well .. awful.

Please do not even look at this film, it really is a disaster! Definitely avoid it!

Words mean nothing.

[dannyc-31683 · 1/10 · 24 January 2018]

Recently i have watched quite a few shark films, this is definitely the worst!

I think its an insult to call this a film. It looks like it was recorded from an IPhone. 0 amount of effort went into making this mess. I watched the trailer before viewing this movie, and its something when the trailer makes absolutely no point, as its absolutely means nothing whatsoever to the whole plot.

In short a military shark has escaped .. a teacher wants revenge for the shark eating her sister .. Teenagers wanting to go to the island to assume look at the shark? In the trailer its mentioning about a perfect vacation, utter rubbish.

The actors are beyond awful. You don't gain any sort of warmth for any of the characters. In some cases, it looked like they actually have forgotten their lines, and it was improvised.

Its a shame, because the only decent thing about this film is the poster advertising it.

Summery: Positives - If you need something to add to the trash, the disc is perfect. - Nice movie poster.

Negatives - This "film" exists. - Appalling acting from every "actor". - The effects for this "flying shark" is the biggest pile of rubbish. This film is 2015, the effects really take the mick with a film this modern.

• Brett Kelly is producer.
• "FLYINGGGGG SHARKKKKKKKKKKK!" .... OK

Really Really Bad.

[travislhendrix · 1/10 · 14 August 2017]

Sound goes up and down depending on if it was filmed indoors or out.

The "flying shark" looks like a paper shark that was pasted onto the film at some point and for sound they used a sound clip of a bear.

the plot is a mash together of two plots one of a prehistoric shark and one of a genetically engendered shark.

It takes a lot for me to hate a show but this did it. Just avoid it.

A worthy sequel to Jurrasic Shark

[timo-28100 · 9/10 · 17 July 2017]

Just like the underrated classic "Jurassic Shark", also by actor and director Brett Kelly, Raiders of the Lost Shark convinced me with fantastic effects, awesome acting and a story line that made the movie totally believable.

Even dialogues in French, will you believe it, are included in this timeless classic.

If ONLY we hadn't run out of beer while watching it, I would've given 10/10, but the remaining bit of sobriety stopped me from fully enjoying this masterpiece.

Jurassic shark with a different name

[snaylor-57391 · 1/10 · 11 January 2019]

If you have seen the above dont watch this as its the same location and story as the other. Equally as unfunny and even for low budget a poor film.

One of the poorest films you'll ever see

[Leofwine_draca · 1/10 · 20 February 2018]

Undoubtedly one of the poorest films you'll ever see in your life, RAIDERS OF THE LOST SHARK would make a good double-bill with the equally awful SHARK EXORCIST. Both films are entirely shot on the shores of a lake. This one sees a parade of non-actors strip down to their underwear or swimwear before venturing into knee-deep water, where they're chomped on by a barely-glimpsed terrible CGI effect. That's as much as you'll get with this movie. It's very much a rock bottom production, so bad it's not even funny.

Raiders of the Lost art of genre filmmaking more like, oh me.

[daniel-mannouch · 2/10 · 16 April 2019]

Canadian one man parody factory Brett Kelly takes a jab at the low budget shark movie and produces a feckless, meandering, painfully unfunny film made watchable only by how poor an example of filmmaking craft it is.

The cinematography is flat, the narrative is ha, ha, ha, ha, there is none and even the welcome shark movie staple of cute girls in bikini's is ruined by how gimpish they're made to look by the screenplay's terrible humour.

There is not much else to say about this film without using specific examples which is not how i like to do things anymore because it's extremely time consuming and looks extremely amateurish when i do it, just like this film. That, and i've also forgotten about 60% of what goes on in this film. Only a lingering sense of cheapness and tedium remains in my mind.

It's impossible to recommend this film to anymore. It's a bad shark movie, it's a terrible comedy and because of it's awareness of itself, it's also difficult to engage it as so bad it's good. It's a bad time any which way you cut it.

10/10 would NOT recommend

[Forcekin · 1/10 · 26 June 2021]

The acting is so bad, every scene could be the intro to a low budget adult movie. Which in the beginning might be quite amusing, but turns stale very, very fast.

Wouldn't even recommend to watch this highly intoxicated. No value in this movie, except a lot of wasted time.

Two stars for the title

[BandSAboutMovies · 2/10 · 15 July 2021]

Look, the title of this movie is incredible. It has no Raiders of the Lost Ark moments in it to pay off the name, but that's totally a Jerry Gross-level title there.

This one's a Brett Kelly movie and he's the guy who made Ouija Shark and Jurassic Shark, so when it comes to shark movies with great titles that never really pay off, Brett is kind of your man. Here, he's made the story of a prehistoric shark that gets into the waters of a small lake. It's all fracking's fault and the local swimmers must pay the price.

This may be the first Canada-set shark movie I've seen, so there's that. I mean, it's a shark that can fly and barks. If that sounds like something that you want for your own shark week, then by all means...

Flying Shark!

[jesskincaid-19038 · 2/10 · 29 July 2017]

This movie was a disaster from the beginning. I knew it would be horrible from the title alone, but when I saw the PowerPoint style intro, I know it would be a special kind of bad movie. The actors were dull, the cinematography was bad, and the special effects were atrocious. To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the shark scenes were ripped from Jurassic Shark; they were both so terrible and pointless. However, I did have fun laughing at the stupidity of this movie, and I enjoyed pointing out everything that was wrong with this film. I would not recommend this for anyone, especially younger kids, because of the needlessly drawn-out scene with the topless lady and the few gory scenes involving the obviously fake shark attacks. If you're looking for a dumb shark movie, keep looking. Trust me.

Wholly underwhelming and rather unimpressive shark effort

[kannibalcorpsegrinder · 3/10 · 14 August 2020]

Following a series of accidents in the area, a college professor is tasked with joining a military operation out to control a monster killer shark loose in the area, but when they realize the true nature behind the shark's appearance and behavior set out to stop the massive shark.

On the whole, this was somewhat underwhelming if still somewhat watchable effort. Among its good qualities is the fact that there's a decent-sized body count that comes across through a lot of shark encounters. The idea of this thing floating around in the lake undetected and attacking everyone who comes into the waters gives this one quite a lot of genuine attacks and encounters with the shark and sets up a somewhat engaging running time based on always having something happening. With the cheesiness involved in how they finally manage to stop the shark with the monster fish taking to the skies and forcing some rather fun action that's also quite silly and goofy, this manages enough to be at the least watchable. There are a couple of issues with this one. One of the main problems is the utterly underwhelming series of shortcuts here that showcase what a low-end budget the film has. From the hamfisted idea of bringing back the sister from the first film to make a tenuous connection between the films, the scenes in the hallway which are supposed to be a high-end college or the single manned computer desk that represents the security system all just come across as cheap and lazy. The incompetent sheriff who just wants to nap in the middle of actual police work, infuriating scenes that are dragged out far longer than necessary just to bump up the running time and constantly changing camera skills are all extra examples of how cheap this one is. The other problem here is the way this one treats the main shark, which is quite problematic. How this one continues to conjure up lame reasons for people to get into the lake, from wanting to cool off to needing to investigate a strange object in the water while in the middle of a missing-persons' search and having a tourist couple visit the area looking for a good time which all comes off as lame and simply unrealistic. Even the attacks themselves are somewhat of a miss with the lack of blood and gore involved and the hilarity of the CGI creation which is barely placed in the correct aspect, is far too pixelated to look believable and just all-together leaves this as a mess. Together, these are where the film is held back.

Rated Unrated/R: Violence, Graphic Language and Brief Nudity.

YOU THINK THAT IS THE FLYING SHARK EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT?

[nogodnomasters · 5/10 · 25 October 2018]

The film is a low budget campy spoof of shark films that are pretty much a spoof on their own. People visit an island/peninsula and get eaten. A professor is able to monitor everything from a computer. Creates a few good characters.

The acting and special effects are bad by design and budget. Think "Sharknado" with only one shark and no "nado"

Guide: Nudity (Faith Rayah)

Corny, campy and stupidly fun

[DOGSLEDDER54 · 10/10 · 10 December 2020]

This film has it all, if you are looking for a LOW- very low- budget flick with a fakey-looking flying shark with a big appetite, teenagers and young adults to be eaten, and not much story to get in the way. Even young children will not be scared, and they could watch it, although one girl is shown topless for a few seconds. Obviously, not everyone who reviewed this movie liked it, but I loved it. It was corny and campy and stupid- just my kind of film to take my mind off of the year 2020 (or 2021).

Is that the same flying shark everyone's been talking about???

[one9eighty · 2/10 · 9 August 2015]

I did my research on this film before watching it, I read lots of reviews across the internet and most of the ratings I have found give this film a generous 1/10. Most agree that this is a really really bad film and also agree that this film will rob you of your time which could have been used better on something else. Let's be clear this film is not a Hollywood epic or even a underground cult gem, it is not charming and it is not sexy.

I have to be honest, I disagree with a lot of the reviews I've read, okay the film was pretty bad but it was not the worst film I have ever seen. I think other reviewers have missed the fact that this film doesn't take itself seriously at all, even the credits demonstrate this with the "only joking" statement after saying it's based on a real event. The film is supposed to be bad and at that it actually succeeds. Sure the acting was (very) bad, the direction and production could have been better, even the shark was embarrassing (not to mention the comical shark attacks) BUT it was supposed to be bad. As an ex-film studies student this is similar to a lot of the films produced by people in my class; harmless and cheap, a movie they made to pass the time and do something rather than sit around bored. In fact, as the film unfolded I found myself thinking if I was given a challenge to make a shark based film on the cheap and all I had was a small video camera and a laptop this would be seen as a good result.

The line of the film for me which had me laughing out loud came towards the end when the 'sheriff' asked his assistant; "I wonder if that's the same flying shark that everyone is talking about?!"

Take this film with a huge huge huuuge pinch of salt and you may also find yourself laughing out loud at randomly bad shark attacks and dire acting/narrative, much like I did.

This film is NOT on par with films like "Sharknado" or £3 Headed Shark Attack" but it's also not to be taken seriously and is far from the worst film you will ever watch. Give it a go but remember that huge pinch of salt, leave expectations at the door, and just give it a go.

An Unexpected Treat

[Doctor_Blade · 4/10 · 1 May 2016]

Watched this the other night, and I have to say this DOES fall into my personal 'So Bad It's Good' territory, and a keeper, unlike some of the reviewer's views so far. SO much to savor. Where to start? I love that the DVD cover, as good as it is, has virtually NO images relating to the film.... apart from water and a shark. I love that nearly every shark-killing in the 'movie' is met by matter-of-factness as opposed to abject horror and sympathy. The indoor scenes have bad sound but you can hear the air conditioning excellently. The acting is earnest but eclectic, particularly from the boat's captain and the Police Marshall, and the dialogue is ripe and over-wrought, but there are genuine attempts at humour scattered amongst the plethora of unintentionally funny moments. I think we need to search no longer for a modern day Edward D.Wood jnr.

If home movies made as a project for college, with a touch of honest eagerness and 'not –classically' attractive ladies cavorting and getting their kit off for a swim before being devoured by a dodgy, digital shark is your bag....look no further. I personally found this more enjoyable than the 3 dvds i saw recently put together. (A Good Day To Die Hard, Super and Horrible Bosses.)

Stupid as hell, horrible acting, yet somehow fun

[gjeindl-1 · 2/10 · 18 July 2015]

This film is incredibly stupid, poorly acted and plain horrible, however I really enjoyed this one. It reminds me of the films we did ourselves, a fun project that never was supposed to be more than that. As this is a stupid movie with sharks I'll have to make the obvious comparison to Sharknado. The effects are pretty much as bad as Sharknado, but the film just has more heart, you can see how the 'actors' actually try to make this work, so I would consider this film to actually be better. I'm not really sure what most of the people who saw this actually expected, but if you ever tried to make a movie yourself this is pretty much how it will turn out, which makes this actually enjoyable.

My Favourite Bad Shark Movie

[MoviesFromTheClergy · 4/10 · 2 July 2017]

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.