Hold Your Horses

It comes to something when a rummage around the internet for release schedule news throws up one solitary tidbit. 'Throw up' is probably quite accurate too. Anchor Bay are announcing that on April 26th, the kind of film that Blu-ray was invented for will be released. Yes, that's right, how did you know it was more fodder from the abysmal ScyFy Channel's movie production wing? Anyway, the film is 'Dinoshark' and I can say with no small amount of shame that I have watched that epic from end to end in one of those ill-judged "It'll be so bad it'll be hilarious" moments. Admittedly there were moments of hysterically funny action, but on the whole it was mind numbingly tedious, and prompted me to wonder when exploitation cinema got so boring. I know it's from a mainstream production company really, but it's crass and cheap enough to be considered exploitation, except with none of the vicarious thrills that previous decades have taught us should come with a feature such as this. The film couldn't even be bothered to suggest that atomic power had created the shark, but on the flip side, a couple who had been 'making-out' got eaten. They just weren't smoking pot, or in the back seat of a convertible.

Try and contain your excitement until April.