{"id":28755,"date":"2018-08-16T15:55:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T19:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=28755"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:55:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T19:55:13","slug":"santa-jaws-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/16\/santa-jaws-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Jaws (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If you think \u201cSanta Jaws\u201d sounds bat shit nuts and bonkers, then you\u2019d be correct. I don\u2019t typically check out Syfy original movies anymore but what with \u201cSanta Jaws\u201d I had to give it a fighting chance. It\u2019s not often we get a Christmas themed killer shark movie, that\u2019s also a movie about reclaiming the Christmas spirit. No seriously, that\u2019s what \u201cSanta Jaws\u201d is about. \u201cSanta Jaws\u201d has its large tongue firmly planted in its cheek and at no point considers itself a serious horror movie in the vein of \u201cJaws\u201d or even \u201cPiranha.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cody is an imaginative comic book nerd and aspiring artist who draws his top secret comic book \u201cSanta Jaws.\u201d After being forced to attend a family reunion for the holidays, he endures insufferable relatives which include a senile grandfather, and an uncle who is dating an annoying internet model (Haviland Stilwell is a scene stealer). After Cody is grounded he is sent to his room and accidentally finds a magical pen that he begins scribbling his comic with. The pen brings to life the deadly Santa Jaws, a predator who begins stalking and eating Cody\u2019s extended family. Meanwhile Cody is trying to prove the shark is around, and is on the hunt for his original comic.<\/p>\n

The whole premise is silly and ridiculous, but it\u2019s at least kind of fun. Especially when you consider that the movie seems to be filmed during the summer, and Cody and his family are all walking around in Christmas sweaters and\u2026 that\u2019s about it. Considering the budget, the special effects from Composite Effects is respectable at best, in spite of the attacks being launched off screen. The shark itself is distinguished by its Santa hat on its fin, lights around its body, and its jingle bell sounds that almost make him sound like the croc from \u201cPeter Pan.\u201d The film doesn\u2019t stop there, as there\u2019s a ton of Christmas themed plot devices and elements, from a drunken sailor dressed as an elf, to a showdown with the shark set to Christmas Muzak.<\/p>\n

\u201cSanta Jaws\u201d is as fun as you\u2019re willing to allow it to be, and I went in to it with rock bottom expectations. In the end, I got a fairly decent horror comedy with a hilarious sense of humor about itself. Now let\u2019s see a sequel \u201cSanta Jaws vs. the Hallowhale\u201d!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you think \u201cSanta Jaws\u201d sounds bat shit nuts and bonkers, then you\u2019d be correct. I don\u2019t typically check out Syfy original movies anymore but what with \u201cSanta Jaws\u201d I had to give it a fighting chance. It\u2019s not often we get a Christmas themed killer shark movie, that\u2019s also a movie about reclaiming the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[58,71,200,219,349,477,2063],"class_list":["post-28755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","category-tv-tomb","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-christmas","tag-comedy","tag-fantasy","tag-horror","tag-killer-shark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28757,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28755\/revisions\/28757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}