Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda (Review)
Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda
2014
Written by Matt Yamashita
Directed by Kevin O’Neill
![]() |
Mom! Dad! Why are you fighting! ::bursts into tears::
|
Sharktopus was one of the better performing SyFy original movies and helped lead the charge into the fray of combination animals running amok on an unsuspecting populace. As it’s also a Roger Corman production, you know that every last dime is going to get squeezed out of the film. Hence two sequels! Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda is the first of these, essentially the Empire Strikes Back of the trilogy.
But Sharktopus is dead, how can there be another Sharktopus movie? Easy! Thanks to a handy recap of prior events, we learn that Sharktopus was preggers! A shark egg sack is among the pieces of Sharktopus that float out to sea and are quickly caught in a net for a boat being chartered by a Latin America amusement park that has sent it out to find cool stuff in the ocean, and Lorena Christmas discovers the baby Sharktopus 2.0, which she begins to raise.
On the polar opposite side we have another genetically engineered creature built as a weapon with Pteracuda, which has the flight powers of a pterodactyl and the underwater strength of a barracuda. While talk mentions that the US military is probably going to settle on its drone program over these genetically manipulated monstrosities, Dr. Rico Symes is convinced that he can create a creature that is more destructive in air and at sea that can outclass the drones. Things look well, until Pteracuda is almost immediately hijacked and goes berserk.

|
Read more…
Categories: Movie Reviews, Ugly Tags: Akari Endo, Conan O'Brien, Katie Savoy, Kevin O’Neill, Matt Yamashita, Rib Hillis, Robert Carradine, Roger Corman, SciFi Channel, shark attack mania!, Sharktopus, SyFy, Tony Evangelista
Sharktopus vs Pteracuda poster!
See Sharktopus vs Pteracuda on August 2nd on SyFy! The second film in the Sharktopus trilogy, to be followed by Sharktopus vs. Mermantula
Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda – Sunday, August 2 at 9PM – In this new Roger Corman movie, the child of Sharktopus goes toe-to-toe with the latest science experiment “Pteracuda” – half Pteradactyl, half Barracuda – in a battle for monster supremacy. A production of New Horizons Pictures, the movie stars Robert Carradine (Django Unchained) and Katie Savoy (Living with Models).
And, yes, Conan O’Brien is in it!
via IGN
Categories: Movie News Tags: Conan O'Brien, Roger Corman, SciFi Channel, Sharktopus, SyFy