Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda (Review)
Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda
2014
Written by Matt Yamashita
Directed by Kevin O’Neill
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Mom! Dad! Why are you fighting! ::bursts into tears::
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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.

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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
274 Amazing Japanese B-Movie Posters!
If there is one thing we like, it’s Ziggy comics! Ziggy is awesome. We also like Japanese posters of B-movies like those found on SyFy/SciFi Channel, because those posters are awesome as crap. So TarsTarkas.NET has collected 274 posters for your viewing pleasure, because we take delight in having odd numbers of stuff.
Many of the posters are taken from PosRen, which has hundreds of other posters that are probably just as cool, along with some that aren’t as cool. But these are the coolest, guaranteed. Just check out the overly long gallery below for your favorite flicks: Sharknado, Ghost Shark, Snakes on a Train, Nydenion (Okay, they can’t all be winners!) You can also find out which American franchises have been given unofficial sequels thanks to Japanese distributors renaming films! (Answer: A lot!)
FYI: The term UMA stands for Unidentified Mysterious Animal, it is a cryptozoology term that is much more popular in Japan than the US. I can’t explain why there are so many burnt bat outlines unless they are all Batman references for some reason. Maybe they are…
Now if you excuse me, I have to check out today’s Ziggy comic!
- 2-Headed Shark Attack
- 2Human
- 7 Adventures of Sinbad
- 12 Disasters of Christmas
- 25th Reich
- 40 Days and Nights
- 100 Below Zero
- 100 Million BC
- 500 MPH Storm
- 2010: Moby Dick
- 2012 Supernova
- 2022 Tsunami
- 2033
- 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- Abraham Lincoln vs Zombies
- AE: Apocalypse Earth
- Aftershock
- Age of Dinosaurs
- Air Collision
- Airline Disaster
- Alien Abduction
- Alien Apocalypse
- Alien Armageddon
- Alien Incursion
- Alien Opponent
- Alien Origin
- Alien Showdown: The Day the West Stood Still
- Alien Tornado
- Alien Uprising
- Almighty Thor
- American Warships
- Amundsen the Penguin
- Android Cop
- Android Insurrection
- Annihilation Earth
- Apex Predator
- Arachnia
- Army of the Dead
- Atlantic Rim
- Attack of the Giant Leeches
- Aztec Rex
- Ba’al Storm God
- Backlash
- Baron Against the Demons
- Battledogs
- Battle Earth
- Battle of Los Angeles
- Battle of the Damned
- Battlespace
- Behemoth
- Beyond Loch Ness
- Beyond Sherwood Forest
- Blackout
- Blood Monkey
- Blood of the Templars
- Boa
- Bone Eater
- Carny
- Centipede
- Chrome Angels
- Cloud Chaser
- Cold Fusion
- Collision Course
- Collision Earth
- Copperhead
- Crash Point Berlin
- Creature
- Crimson Force
- Croc
- The Crown and the Dragon
- Cry of the Winged Serpent
- Cryptid
- Dark Island
- Dark Relic
- Dark Rising Summer Strikes Back
- Dark Storm
- Deadly Swarm
- Deadly Water
- Dead Season
- Demon’s Kiss
- Desert of Death
- Despiser
- Dinocroc
- Dinocroc vs. Supergator
- Dinoshark
- Doomsday Prophecy
- Dracano
- Dragon Crusaders
- Dragon Hunter
- Dragonquest
- Dragon Wasps
- Earth Killer
- Earth’s Final Hours
- Eyeborgs
- Factor 8
- Fangs
- The Fear of Speed
- The Final Days of Planet Earth
- Final Engagement
- Fire Serpent
- Fleshwounds
- Forbidden Warrior
- Force of Impact
- Frankenstein
- Frost Giant
- Game of Werewolves
- Gargoyle
- Gemini Rising
- Ghost Boat
- Glass Trap
- Grimms’ Snow White
- Grizzly Park
- Grizzly Rage
- Ground Zero: The Deadly Shift
- Hellbinders
- HG Wells’ War of the Worlds
- HG Wells’ War of the Worlds
- Homo Sapiens
- Hunter Prey
- Hydra
- Hypothermia
- I Am Omega
- Ice Quake
- Ice Queen
- Ice Road Terror
- Ice Twisters
- Independence Day-saster
- Infected
- In the Spider’s Web
- It Waits
- Jurassic Attack
- Jurassic Shark
- Killer Bees
- King of the Lost World
- Lake Placid Final Chapter
- The Land that Time Forgot
- Lava Storm
- Legend of the Sandsquatch
- Lightning Strikes
- Lockjaw: Rise of the Kulev Serpent
- Locusts: The 8th Plague
- Lost Colony
- Lost Future
- Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon
- Magma: Volcanic Disaster
- Mammoth
- Maneater
- Mansquito
- Matrix Hunter
- Megafault
- Mega Piranha
- Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus
- Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark
- Megasnake
- Metal Shifters
- Metal Tornado
- Meteor Apocalypse
- Meteor Storm
- Mongolian Death Worm
- Monster
- Monster Ark
- Monster Island
- Monster Wolf
- Mothman
- Nailbiter
- Nazis at the Center of the Earth
- Never Cry Werewolf
- Nydenion
- Out For Blood
- Perfect Creature
- Phantom Racer
- Piñata: Survival Island
- Poseidon Rex
- Prey
- Quantum Apocalypse
- Raptor Ranch
- Rapture
- Reign of the Gargoyles
- Reptisaurus
- Resonnances
- Rise of the Gargoyles Japanese Poster
- River World
- Road Kill
- Rock Climber
- Rock Monster
- Sabretooth
- Saint
- Sand Sharks
- Savage Planet
- Scorched
- Seattle Superstorm
- Shadows in Paradise
- Shark Alarm
- Shira Vampire Samurai
- Shockwave
- Showdown at Area 51
- Silent Venom
- Snake Man
- Snakes on a Train
- Snow Sharks
- Something Beneath
- Souls Midnight
- Spear of Destiny
- SS Doomtrooper
- Stinger
- Stonados
- Stonehenge Apocalypse
- Storm Gates
- Super Comet
- Supercroc
- Super Cyclone
- Super Eruption
- Super Shark
- Super Storm
- Super Tanker
- Swamp Devil
- Swamp Shark
- Swarmed
- The Bleeding
- The Crows
- The Dread
- The Guardians
- The Mark
- The Other Side
- The Storm
- The Terror Beneath
- The Vortex
- They Crawl
- Time Warrior
- Titanic II
- Tornado Valley
- Total Blackout
- Toxic Skies
- Transmorphers: Fall of Man
- Trespassers
- Triassic Attack
- Triple Hit
- Unearthed
- Vampire Bats
- Vegas Skyline
- Voodoo Moon
- Vortex
- Warbirds
- Werewolf: The Devil’s Hound
Categories: Gallery, Movie News Tags: Asylum, SciFi Channel, Sharknado, Sharktopus, SyFy
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
Pteracuda likes to slap!
The promo reels from Shartopus vs. Pteracuda are going live on Roger Corman’s Youtube channel, and now you can watch the two titans take each other on, in brief clip form! August 2nd will be a banner day on SyFy!
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).
Categories: Movie News Tags: Roger Corman, SciFi Channel, Sharktopus, SyFy
Sharktopus vs Pteracuda promo art!
Straight from Roger Corman himself! 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).
Part of SyFy’s Sharknado Week!
Categories: Movie News Tags: Roger Corman, SciFi Channel, Sharktopus, SyFy
Sharknado Week on SyFy!
As summer begins to heat up (puns like this are why they pay me the big bucks!), SyFy is breaking out the original films again, now accompanied by lots of marketing gimmicks for maximum saturation of targeted audience age ranges. On that note, the Sharknado rocket blasts off again with the announced Sharknado Week, which will feature not only Sharknado 2, but the first of the new Sharktopus sequels, and the SyFy premiere of Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark! The full PR release is below, complete with all the information you need to make Sharknado Week on SyFy the best Sharknado Week ever! Don’t forget that the RiffTrax crew are doing their special event on Sharknado on July 10th!
HIGHLIGHTS OF SYFY’S SHARKNADO WEEK (ALL TIMES ET/PT)
Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark – Saturday, July 26 at 9PM – When the U.S. government creates an exact robotic copy of the original mega shark, this new mecha shark runs wild – with only the original mega shark standing in the way of global destruction. A production of The Asylum, the movie stars Christopher Judge (Stargate SG1) and Elisabeth Rohm (American Hustle). TV movie.
Sharkmania: The Top 15 Biggest Baddest Bloodiest Bites – Premieres Sunday, July 27 at 9PM – This original documentary special takes a light-hearted look back at the 15 best shark movie bites of all time. Comedians, actors and celebrities including Ian Ziering, Brooke Hogan, Richard Moll, Downtown Julie Brown and Mark McGrath discuss their favorite scenes – fun, ridiculous and frightening – from classic shark movies such as Jaws to the outrageous Sharktopus and Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus. A production of Associated Television International. Executive producer: Jim Romanovich. Producers: Dan Goldman, David Stephan. Consulting producer: Robert Corsini.
Sharknado 2: The Second One – Wednesday, July 30 at 9PM – In Sharknado 2: The Second One, the sequel to last summer’s global pop culture sensation, a freak weather system turns its deadly fury on New York City, unleashing a Sharknado on the population and its most cherished iconic sites – and only Fin (Ian Ziering) and April (Tara Reid) can save the Big Apple. The movie, directed by Anthony C. Ferrante from a screenplay by Thunder Levin, also stars Mark McGrath, Kari Wuhrer, Vivica A. Fox and Judah Friedlander, with cameo appearances including Kelly Osbourne, Judd Hirsch, Perez Hilton, Matt Lauer, Al Roker, Andy Dick, Robert Klein, Sandra “Pepa” Denton, Biz Markie, Downtown Julie Brown, Richard Kind and Kurt Angle, among others. Sharknado 2: The Second One is a production of The Asylum.
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).
Via Deadline