sharksploitation

sharksploitation

English

Etymology

shark +‎ -sploitation

Noun

sharksploitation (uncountable)

1. (film) A genre of exploitation films focusing on sharks and shark attacks.
   • 2011, Howard Hughes, Cinema Italiano: The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult, I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd (2011), →ISBN, page 282:

     Hunky James Caan look-alike Andrés Garcia – the nominal hero who is apparently sponsored by Adidas – became a pin-up of these adventures, appearing in the sharksploitation movie Tintorera! (1977), Tonino Ricci's Cave of the Sharks and in The Bermuda Triangle (1978), with John Huston and Claudine Auger.

   • 2011, David Edwards, "New Releases; DVDs", The Mirror (UK), 21 January 2011:

     After their yacht runs aground in Australian waters, four of them decide to swim for land but are soon stalked by a huge great white shark. While the story stutters and starts, sharksploitation fans will lap it up.

   • 2014, Gene Helfman & George H. Burgess, Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide, Johns Hopkins University Press (2014), →ISBN, page 210:

     Spoofing the sharksploitation genre is Ghost Shark 2: Urban Jaws (“And for God's sake, stay out of the water!”).