The Absolute Best Shark Movies Of All Time

When it comes to cinematic terror in the water, we've got sharks in the Pacific, we've got sharks in the Atlantic, and we've even got sharks in the streets of Los Angeles. Here are the shark movies you have to see before you die.

Bait 3D is a 2012 Australian-Singaporean movie about people who survive a freak tidal wave only to be trapped in a partially submerged grocery store and hunted by a pack of bloodthirsty great whites. It sounds like a special breed of made-for-TV stupidity, but it's actually a surprisingly tense ride. The stranded crew must deal with robberies, sparks from split wires, being trapped on store shelves without an obvious way out, and of course plenty of close calls with carnivorous monster fish.

Bait's initial critical reception was lukewarm. It currently holds a 47% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but if you're the type of moviegoer who thrills at creature feature genre fare, you should find plenty to love here. A sequel called Deep Water, about a plane crashing in the Pacific Ocean, was planned for a 2014 release, but it was yanked from the schedule after it was decided that the plot was too similar to the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disaster. Still, the first one holds up well enough for a night in with a full bowl of popcorn.

Technically, The Meg isn't really about a shark at all. But it's close enough that we absolutely had to include it. Based on Steve Alten's 1997 book, Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror, this goofy 2018 sci-fi thriller stars Jason Statham as the leader of a rescue mission that heads to the floor of the Pacific Ocean. That's where the characters run smack into a monstrous, 75-foot Megalodon, a prehistoric titan that makes great whites look like goldfish. It was thought to be extinct, but it turns out it is very much alive, and very hungry.

To give you an idea of how seriously to take this movie, there's a scene in which the characters watch the beast devour a humpback whale in a single chomp right outside their underwater research station. And there's another moment when they immobilize it by ramming into its midsection with a submarine. A swarm of smaller, more modern sharks that are attracted to its blood then set upon it like piranhas and eat it alive. The Meg is certainly no masterpiece, but it's more than enough fun to justify a watch. As Forbes critic Scott Mendelson put it,

"The Meg is fun, plain and simple...It's a polished B movie that delivers the goods (if not the greats), and it's worth whatever your local theater charges for a weekend matinee."

Is there anything more we can ask of a big-budget creature feature? Chomp away! Keep watching the video to see the absolute best shark movies of all time!

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Bait 3D | 0:00
The Meg | 1:05
47 Meters Down | 2:17
Sharknado | 3:06
Deep Blue Sea | 4:21
Jaws 2 | 5:35
The Reef | 6:36
Open Water | 7:23
The Shallows | 8:24
Jaws | 9:04

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