I delightedly prepped a huge Planescape adventure back in ‘99 or so. The heroes watched the hook, shrugged, and agreed that there were a lot of adventurers there and probably one of them would solve the problem. Then they went back to what they were doing before!
I’m definitely not still bitter.
Grrrrrrr.
Congratulations!
We’re trying not to monetize our joy. 😀
I ran into someone else who’s making a book that would be similar, though. I’ll see if I can track that down!
Crawl is #9/92 on our non-shark creature feature list! Just under Black Water: Abyss (a good croc movie!), just over Black Sheep.
Pretty close but not quite! I think Under Paris does, and maybe The Shallows and 47 Meters Down. This is a little trashier than “good, actually”, but it’s fun and does a lot of things really well.
See also: the superb alligator movie CRAWL.
The THRASH movie poster: a swimming woman holds a newborn baby as a bull shark circles her on a flooded street.
Netflix's THRASH comes in at #11 out of the 188 crappy shark movies we've seen and rated! When the levees break in a southern hurricane, a meat truck full of blood splits open. Know what that means? SHARKS EVERYWHERE. It had great chomps, one big sharky leap, a good flood/hurricane. Solid fun.
Dru, that sounds like the kind of thing a shark would say. <squints>
I love that the word ‘clue’ comes directly from ‘clew’, the spool of thread that Ariadne gave Theseus to find his way through the minotaur’s Labyrinth.
'Helicopter' is a portmanteau, but the two words it's manteau-ing are "helico" meaning 'spiral' and "pter" meaning 'wing'.
Gail, since the pandemic we’ve watched and ranked 187 crappy shark movies. BEST HOBBY.
Hog Penny, a little something I wrote for Swords of the Serpentine: pelgranepress.com/2026/04/05/h...
To give an example of what I mean about the shore in LONE STAR SHARK, here are two people marooned in open water and being stalked by a shark.
BEST HOBBY.
On Sunday we watch Netflix’s new shark flick THRASH!
And know what? The acting was pretty good! But the plotting was awful, the practical effect shark was really iffy, and a location shift means that their “big lake” was a tiny pond with shore always nearby. I wish they’d changed dialog to reflect this…
This is the first of a trilogy. Stay tuned!
Movie poster for LONE STAR SHARK shows a girl swimming for a boat with a rising shark right behind her. Unlike in the movie, land isn’t nearby and the shark isn’t soggy and waterlogged. Woo!
Crappy Shark movie #187 was LONE STAR SHARK, ranking #151. Our notes: “So bad. Why is it so bad? Mitch, Vida, & hallucinations of Vida's dead sister get stuck in a tiny pond three feet from shore. Soggy paper-mache shark. Useless hacker sub-plot that is never explained. Awful but competently made?”
Oh, I’m excited!! You know it’s going to be the right kind of terrible when a truck full of meat breaks open during a storm surge. 🦈🥩
Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.
Met friends at PAX East to run a game of CHUM, the delightful RPG of crappy shark movies. Voice is hoarse from laughing.
Nah. There’s a splint in there.
You need a second cat named Yeet.
You have EXCELLENT taste in cat names. 😀
It’s gonna be a long three or four weeks of crate rest!
Blue merle border collie in a car, looking disgusted about his fully bandaged front leg.
My border collie Yoink has opinions about his strained tendon. OPINIONS.
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Aw man. Pouring one out.
They were annoyed about substandard shark CGI. Also, they were being summoned to eat our hero and he kept stabbing it instead.
They at least growl.
AND it started a little slowly!
Yeah, my one criticism is that the bad CGI sharks had no personality — but there were multiple summoned sharks, one big enough to eat people whole, so it’s a minor complaint. They did a lot with 77 minutes!