By MICHAEL GINGOLD
It’s the latest film to combine bad weather and big fish.
Netflix has announced that it will debut THRASH on April 10. Originally titled SHIVER and BENEATH THE STORM and set for theatrical release by Sony, the movie has now pivoted to streaming and was written and directed by Tommy Wirkola (the DEAD SNOW films, HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS, VIOLENT NIGHT). Phoebe Dynevor, Djimon Hounsou and Whitney Peak star; the synopsis: “When a Category 5 hurricane decimates a coastal town, the storm surge brings devastation, chaos and something far more frightening: hungry sharks.”
“I became obsessed with sharks after JAWS—and JAWS 2, which is an underrated movie,” Wirkola says. “I spent a lot of my childhood obsessing over sharks and whatever movie was made about that subject. Fast forward to a world going off its rails when it comes to global warming and flash floods happening everywhere, and it dawned on me that this could be a great setting-off point for a movie, combining the idea of a disaster movie with a shark thriller.”
“More and more, you’re hearing marine biologists acknowledge that climate is changing where these sharks go,” says Adam McKay, who produced with Kevin Messick and Wirkola. It’s changing how they behave. So, in as much as this is an edge-of-your-seat popcorn film, the science behind it is not implausible.”
