Who knew movie-goers had such a hunger for movies about animals on cocaine-fuelled rampages? In less than two weeks of release, director Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear (read our review HERE) has racked up over $50 million at the box office. In the build-up to the release of that film, a news report about New Zealand police recovering more than three tons of cocaine that was found floating in the Pacific Ocean got people talking about the possibility of a Cocaine Shark movie… and the idea was even passed along to Banks, who said, “Jaws with cocaine, I don’t see how that loses.” But as it turns out, Banks has been beaten to the Cocaine Shark idea by prolific low budget filmmaker Mark Polonia, whose own Cocaine Shark movie is so far along that it has already secured a distribution deal with Wild Eye Releasing, and a trailer is already online! You can check it out in the embed above.
Scripted by Bando Glutz, Polonia’s Cocaine Shark has the following synopsis: A mafia drug lord has unleashed a new, highly addictive stimulant on the streets called HT25, derived from sharks held captive in a secret lab, and which causes monstrous side effects. After an explosion and leak at the lab, an army of mutated, bloodthirsty sharks and other creatures are set loose on the world as a small band of people try to stop the carnage.
The film stars Samantha Coolidge, Ryan Dalton, Natalie Himmelberger, Titus Himmelberger, Jeff Kirkendall, Noyes J. Lawton, Kyle Rappaport, Ken Van Sant, and Polonia himself.
Polonia has nearly 80 directing credits to his name, going back to the 1980s. His most well-known movie may still be 1987’s Splatter Farm. Some of his other credits include Lethal Nightmare, How to Slay a Vampire, Feeders, The House That Screamed, Holla If I Kill You, Peter Rottentail, Preylien: Alien Predators, HalloweeNight, Empire of the Apes, Revolt of the Empire of the Apes, Invasion of the Empire of the Apes, Chainsaw Killer, Sharkenstein, Land Shark, Shark Encounters of the Third Kind, Virus Shark, Jurassic Shark 2: Aquapocalypse, Bigfoot vs. Zombies, Jurassic Prey, Camp Blood: First Slaughter, Ghost of Camp Blood, Camp Blood Kills, Children of Camp Blood, Noah’s Shark, Dune World, Doll Shark, Sharkula, Amityville Death House, Amityville Exorcism, Amityville Island, and Amityville in Space.
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A specific release date for Cocaine Shark has not yet been announced. The Asylum has their own Cocaine Bear mockbuster, Attack of the Meth Gator, that will be released sometime in the summer.
