An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any food or clean water. With no place to turn, the boat survivors resort to cannibalism to stay alive...that is ..until the rescue planes come to pick them up and the man eating sharks decide its time to eat as well.
Practical Effects
Real sharks in a tank, real actors risking limbs, zero CGI.
Acting
Arthur Kennedy's priest suffers gloriously through every indignity.
Production
Shot on location in open ocean with genuine animal chaos.
Director
René Cardona Jr.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
René Cardona Jr. reused the same shark footage in his 1981 film 'Night of a Thousand Cats' because apparently one shark attack movie wasn't enough.
Part of Mexico's 1970s 'cine de ficheras' exploitation boom, this rode the coattails of 'Jaws' while adding starvation horror that Hollywood wouldn't touch.
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