Shark Terror (2025) Review – Hilariously Incompetent, Weirdly Fun

Welcome to Knockout Horror and to our review of the shark themed thriller movie Shark Terror (2025). This popped up in my Prime Video recommendations so, against my better judgement, I decided to check it out. It comes by way of Asylum Movies and actually stands as one of their more competent efforts. Does that mean you should check it out? Of course not, let’s take a look.

Still Searching For a Great Shark Movie

If you have visited this website before, you will know that I am constantly on the look out for a watchable shark movie on Tubi or Prime Video. It’s like an endless pursuit through the briny waters of horror sub-mediocrity.

Now, I’m not talking about the classics like Jaws or The Shallows, here. I’m talking about something that nobody has ever heard of. A title that just popped up on a streaming service one day like a hideous spot that appears the night before a big date.

2026 has, so far, been pretty damn disappointing. Great White Waters was terrible, The Bay was a snooze-fest, and Chum was one of the worst shark themed horror movies I have watched in years. Even the much higher budget The Devil’s Mouth couldn’t break the cycle of shockingly poor, straight-to-streaming shark flicks.

In fact, the only worthwhile shark themed horror this year is Deep Water and that was a pretty big cinema release. I decided I probably needed to head back into 2025 in my pursuit of something watchable and, this time, I managed to drag both my fiancee and a friend into the deep with me.

It’s an Asylum movie so align your expectations

We’ll get this out of the way with straight off the bat, this is an Asylum movie. For those of you who don’t know, Asylum are purveyors of terrible horror films.

They specialise in shockingly poor mock-busters like Transmorphers (2007), Snakes on a Train (2006), and Paranormal Entity (2009), but that’s not all they do. They also have a particular fondness for knocking out terrible shark movies, too.

Sharknado is probably the most well known but there’s a bunch you have likely never heard of. The aforementioned Great White Waters is one, Shark Waters is another, and let’s not forget Blind Waters, too.

Needless to say, if the cover features a scantily clad woman swimming away from a shark and the word “waters” somewhere in the title, Asylum probably had their chapped fingers all over it. Shark Terror is no different, only, this is one of their more competent efforts.

“This is squarely in “so bad it is good” territory.”

Now, I don’t want you to take that the wrong way and think that you are walking into something legitimately well made, here. That’s really not the case. Scripting is laughable, the plot is a complete farce, the acting is very mixed, characters are hilariously over the top, the effects are shocking, and the action is ridiculous.

But you can actually make it all the way through this one and have a relatively good time as long as you know what you are in for. This is squarely in “so bad it is good” territory.

It’s not good but it’s watchable

Enjoyment of Shark Terror is largely dependent on how much you tolerate farce – this movie is ridiculous.

Our main character, Kendall (Carly Medina), is knocked overboard by a corrupt ship worker, Oscar (Joe Maria Fernandez), who is trying to rob her. In an attempt to prevent Kendall taking a spill, Oscar’s brother, Brian (Javier Duran), takes a dip with her.

The pair end up in shark infested waters though, thanks to a quirk of fate, survive long enough to wash up on a small sand bank together. The only problem is Kendall has a broken leg and a very ill-fitting bikini top which means she can’t move and is inadvertently flashing her boobs constantly. Like, seriously, could they not have purchased a better fitting bikini top for this shoot?

Luckily, Kendall’s mother, Molly (Sarah Lieving), happens to be a tremendously capable former Navy officer. She decides to jump on a speed boat and set out to find her daughter, along with Oscar who is now full of guilt and regret over the actions that led to his brother nearly becoming shark chow.

Shark Terror doubles up as a geriatric action movie and a basic survival story as the narrative pivots between Kendall and Brian’s island adventure and Molly’s rescue attempts.

So what makes it enjoyable?

For the most part, this is your usual Asylum fare. Expect to see a lot of dull attempts to splint broken legs and deal with emerging infection, all while a small group of rescuers engage in a cycle of being knocked from their boat, rentering said boat, and progressively being eaten by awful looking CGI sharks.

“Molly is completely un-flustered when the people helping her in this recovery mission are eaten alive.”

There’s nothing new here but it is so farcical that it ends up being quite a lot of fun.

Despite the almost certain death of her daughter, Molly approaches the situation with a type of calm that would make coma patients blush.

She regurgitates meaningless positive rhetoric to the characters around her and is completely un-flustered when the people helping her in this recovery mission are eaten alive. She even warms to Oscar like the son she never had, despite him causing this problem in the first place.

There’s something bizarrely hilarious about how nothing phases her. It makes the movie strangely fun. You also have Michael Paré here continuing his tour of awful horror and adding virtually nothing to the film as he plays the world’s most incompetent cruise ship captain.

Meanwhile, Kendall and Brian attempt to deal with laughably manufactured situations like sharks approaching the shoreline and Brian’s lighter not working, as if it is a life or death situation. Shark Terror takes itself so damn seriously that it is impossible not to find it at least somewhat enjoyable.

Just to reaffirm…

I feel like I need to make this clear one last time before we wrap this up… this movie is not good. Hell, it’s not even competent. I can’t point to 3 things about the film that even really work.

“Go into it ready to laugh your ass off at a film that has no idea how bad it is and you might have a great time.”

If you aren’t in the right kind of mood to enjoy something like this, you will hate every second of it. You might even strike it up as one of the worst films you have watched in years.

Compared to most Asylum shark horror films that are both terrible and boring, however, this one has some weird charm. The mix of 80s action, completely over-the-top characters, and terrible dialogue add up to something that really is so bad it is good.

We watched this movie right after Scary Movie 6 and my friend text me later to remark on how he laughed more watching Shark Terror and enjoyed the film more, too. Go into it ready to laugh your ass off at a film that has no idea how bad it is and you might have a great time.

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