Megalodon: The Frenzy

Most people who know me might believe they know the things i am very passionate about. All of them know i love movies in a lot of different categories, but there is one detail that not many of them know. Wherever i travel in this world there is especially one thing i always have to carry with me outside of my travel bag. The most precious thing i own out of everything that i ever bought and that is my Beverly Hills 90210 lunch box. It is the most beautiful lunch box ever made in the history of mankind, where you see actors Jason Priestly, Iam Ziering, Luke Perry, Shannon Doherty an many more cast members on the front of the luch box. If i have a really good day i dance outside on the street with my Bevery Hills 90210 lunch box thinking about the theme song of the TV series, because no other theme song is cooler than that. Do i have all seasons of Bevery Hills 90210 on DVD? Of course i have and i plan to get myself a towel with the whole cast on as well, you know to look amazing on the beach. Speaking of the beach i do appreciate to watch shark movies whenever i get a chance. I have seen a lot of shark movies since the 90´s and especially low budget shark films. If you just look at the numbers of how many low budget shark movies have been released in the last 10 years i can tell you they are quite high. One of the films that comes to my mind speaking of low budget shark movies is the 2018 film Megalodon from director James Thomas. A film that actually had better acting than i expected but way too little scenes of the shark megalodon attacking. If you are going to make a shark film fun you better have some shark attacks. Legendary actor Michael Madsen is in this film and i wish he could have had more screen time. The film is terrible in several ways but not a disaster at least. Then in 2021 a sequel called Megalodon Rising was released which i have seen. Similar to the first film but with more action scenes and more megalodon attacks . So here we are in 2023 with a third film in the Megalodon franchise called Megalodon: The Frenzy this time with legendary actor Eric Roberts. Is it possible this third film is actually more fun then i expected or is this another horrible shark B movie you will never remember once you have experienced it?

The USS King survived the megalodon´s attack, but Captain Lynch ( Wynter Eddins ) was killed. Lieutenant Commander Sharp ( Eric Roberts ) is now in charge of the badly damaged ship. However, when an underneath water passage is opened during an operation run by Dr. Rylie Clark ( Caroline Williams ). What they don´t know is that this new opening will make it possible for even more megalodons to attack anything that comes in their way.

If you are expecting a lot of surprises or even a very solid story in Megalodon: The Frenzy i can tell you right now you will most likely leave this film. This is the kind of The Asylum film made for B movie shark fans who don´t care about a plot and who just want to see sharks attack and Eric Roberts look serious. So if we compare the previous Megalodon films are there any differences in this sequel? Yes, especially two details that are actually very important. The shark design in this third film have definetely improved and some of the shark attack scenes are more fun than in the previous films. This is definetely what this sequel needed because i do believe that B movies with sharks should include fun shark attack scenes. I have to mention that this film is actually connected to the past from an early start, so if you want to understand what happened you do get a small introduction before the real film kicks in. As you might expect since this is a film produced by The Asylum the acting is not perfect in any way, and i am completely fine with that part because all i want to be is entertained with a film such as this. So what´s my biggest issue with Megalodon: The Frenzy? One of the issues i have had so far in the Megalodon franchise is that the characters in these films are not very interesting at all. There are no character that really stands out or feel like a lead character, it feels like most of them are just defending themselves against megalodons and that´s pretty much it. You don´t have to act great in a film like this but you can at least make your character fun or entertaining to watch. Ok so i can accept Eric Roberts as Lt. Sharp simply because he have always had a charming screen presence no matter what kind of film he does. Legendary actress Caroline Williams ( yes the one from the cult classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 ) is of course nice to see here as Dr. Rylie Clark, but they should have made her character even more tough than what we get. We should have seen Dr. Rylie killing megalodons all over the place with a grenade launcher, that´s how you make a great megalodon film. Overall there isn´t much more to say about this film that´s positive since the best scenes end too soon. Director Brendan Petrizzo ( director of the 2020 low budget horror film Monster Hunters ) have at least improved the shark attacking scenes in this sequel compared to the other Megalodon films and that´s about it. Megalodon: The Frenzy will not be remembered as The Asylum classics such as Planet Of The Sharks. Only watch this film if you are a Eric Roberts or Caroline Williams fan, otherwise you might as well skip this one.

Rating: DD