A few days ago Myself, Jamie Shaw and Sam Wilder sat down to watch a few of the "Exploitation Films" broadcast on the Syfy Network. We watched Sharknado, Piranhaconda and Sharktopus. Although each of them had terrible story and shoddy special effects there were surprisingly a lot of differences. Here are the notes that I made when watching them
Sharknado (2013, Estimated Budget: $1,000,000): With Sharknado I found that the acting was absolutely over the top and shark effects looked very poor, however because the story was so ridiculous it kept you hooked and most of the characters had very interesting (though sometimes stupid) backstories. The constant gore and shark deaths also kept the film very entertaining.
Piranhaconda (2012, Estimated Budget: $1,000,000): With Piranhaconda I found that there was a more serious and underlying story, regardless of the ridiculous monster. Compared to Sharknado the special effects for the monsters were surprisingly good however, I found that the story did not have the desired over the top comedy effect that I felt needed to be included with our film "Cthulhu. It had a serious story but poor acting, decent effects and no real comedy.
Sharktopus (2010, Budget: Unknown): Sharktopus did bring the over the top comedy effect that was absent from Piranhaconda, which made it very similar to Sharknado, however when compared to Sharknado I found that the serious story was not as good. Some plots seemed pointless and didn't seem to go anywhere. If the movie had more of a serious underlying story I feel that it could have been as good as Sharknado.
After looking at all of these movies I decided to look at some similarities. I came upon the decision that these movies are all aimed at men. All of actresses that are featured in these films are fairly young and attractive, and all showed alot of cleavage. These actresses (regardless of their acting skills) are mainly there to attract a male audience, with the addition of all the blood, gore and death, this brought me to the conclusion that these "exploitation films" are generally aimed at men.
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