Ice Sharks (2016) poster
2016 · tv-movie · adventure · action · sci-fi

Ice Sharks

Directed by Emile Edwin Smith1h 25m2016
ElsewhereIMDb3.02k
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  • cold
Movie DNA

Neutral, breathless, measured tv-movie / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A new breed of aggressive, ravenous sharks cracks the frozen ocean floor of an Arctic research station, devouring all who fall through. As the station sinks into frigid waters, those alive must fashion makeshift weapons or suffer the same fate.

Our read · Ice Sharks (2016) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive tv-movie · adventure · action entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want mutant sharks attacking an isolated arctic research station for cheap thrills.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips by minute 4attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegorejump scares

Skip it tonightSkip if you need good acting, logic or production values in creature features.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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