Antonio Sabatto Jr. stars as Spencer Northcut, who as a young boy saw his family devoured by a huge great white shark. Forever scarred by the event, Spencer will dedicate his life to finding out about the enormous shark. Spencer soon learns that the shark is actually a megalodon, a prehistoric shark that is 20 times as large as a current great white. Spencer grows up to be a marine biologist/paleontologist/submarine maker, talk about an over achiever. Armed with his vast knowledge and desire to prove he was not crazy when he saw the megalodon, Spencer searches the oceans for proof of the great fish.

Shark Hunter is an incredible film. Shot on a budget of twenty-five bucks, the director and producers give you all they could. Shot in scenic locations like my neighbor’s backyard pool and my basement, Shark Hunter is a whirlwind of total shit.

The opening sequence, which included the above mentioned pool, a block of dry ice for atmosphere and a giant rubber fin for a prop is pathetic. That scene is nowhere near as bad as the scene shot at the end that is supposed to take place inside a state-of-the-art mini-sub. The mini-sub set is a guy sitting in front of a cement wall with a couple of old computers around him and a steering wheel from an old arcade game. When I was eight I built a better army tank out of an old refrigerator box, a can of green spray paint and one of my mom's old dildos. You figure it out.

Aside from the sets the shark was made by a junior high school computer class as after school credit. At times it looks like a shark, other times a slow moving turd, or as a huge misshapen grey penis. (NO, NO, Grandpa, take Mr. Wrinkles away I don't want to play with him no more!) Damn I hate those repressed memories.

There is great scene of the shark approaching the mini-sub that had me rolling on the floor. The scene shows the shark munching on the sub in all it's CGI glory then cuts to the basement set of the inside of the sub, Sabato's acting is as bad as the rest of this shitfest.

All that being said, there will some day be an excellent film made on the subject of the megalodon, there has to be. The idea of a shark as big as a skyscraper is fascinating. But this movie sure as hell wasn’t it. All of the movies budget went into the cover art for the DVD and VHS boxes, the remaining $1.00 was Sabato's salary I guess. A truly horrible movie.

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