Shark Night 3D (2011) poster
2011 · thriller · horror

Shark Night 3D

Directed by David R. Ellis1h 31m2011
ElsewhereIMDb4.128kRT19%Metacritic22
  • sombre
  • kinetic
  • intense
  • cold
Movie DNA

Sombre, breathless, measured thriller / horror, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A weekend at a lake house in the Louisiana Gulf turns into a nightmare for seven vacationers as they are subjected to fresh-water shark attacks.

Our read · Shark Night 3D (2011) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded thriller · horror entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic 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 dumb lake-house shark carnage that starts fast and stays shallow.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips by minute 8attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegorejump scaresanimal harm

Skip it tonightSkip if cheap 3D gore, snuff-adjacent twists, or animal cruelty ruin your night.

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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