Meanings
- uncountablebroadcastingA genre of exploitation films focusing on sharks and shark attacks.
Spoofing the sharksploitation genre is Ghost Shark 2: Urban Jaws (“And for God's sake, stay out of the water!”).
2014, Gene Helfman, George H. Burgess, Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 2102 more examples
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, Howard Hughes, Cinema Italiano: The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult, I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd, →ISBN, page 282After 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.
2011 January 21, David Edwards, “New Releases; DVDs”, in The Mirror, UK
Origin
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