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Jack Kesy followed in the footsteps of Ron Perlman and David Harbour to play Hellboy in the recently released Hellboy: The Crooked Man, and now a press release has revealed that Kesy is set to follow in the footsteps of Josh Lucas to take on a giant shark in The Black Demon: Atlantis, a sequel to the 2023 shark thriller The Black Demon, which starred Lucas and was directed by Rambo: Last Blood director Adrian Grunberg.

Kesy will be joined in the cast by Julio Cesar Cedillo (returning from The Black Demon) and Kate Del Castillo (The Cleaning Lady).

The Black Demon: Atlantis will be directed by Ben Hernandez Bray, whose credits include episodes of The Lincoln Lawyer and S.W.A.T. Bray is also one of the industry’s top action stunt coordinators, having worked on such films as The Fighter, The Grey, and the Transformers franchise. The script is written by Boise Esquerra,...

From Rambo: Last Blood director Adrian Grünberg, The Black Demon was released in theaters back in 2023, and Variety reports this week that a shark attack sequel is on the way.

The title? The Black Demon: Atlantis. The synopsis? It’s kind of bonkers, sounds like an unofficial The Meg movie, and seemingly aims to be way more fun than the first Black Demon.

Variety details, “The sequel follows undercover DEA agent Jerry Simms (Kesy) who teams up with his cellmate, Chato, in a maximum-security prison stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, to dismantle a massive drug operation run by the notorious crime boss Diego Nunez.

“Their mission quickly becomes one of survival when the legendary creature, The Black Demon, tears through the prison, which sits atop a decaying desalination plant polluting the ocean. In a desperate move to protect his empire, Diego unleashes his own giant sea predators to take down the beast.

Jack Kesy (“Deadpool 2”), Julio Cesar Cedillo (“The Harder They Fall”) and Kate Del Castillo (“Trap House”) are set to star in “The Black Demon: Atlantis,” a shark survival actioner that Highland Film Group is bringing to the EFM.

The sequel follows “The Black Demon” which starred Josh Lucas and was released in theaters in 2023, followed by a launch on Amazon Prime Video where it topped streaming rankings for seven consecutive days.

Ben Hernandez Bray (“The Lincoln Lawyer”), a leading action stunt coordinator who’s worked on David O. Russell’s “The Fighter,””The Grey” and the “Transformers” franchise, is directing “The Black Demon: Atlantis.” The script is written by Aaron Benjamin and Boise Esquerra, who had also penned the first installement.

Highland Film Group is handling worldwide rights “The Black Demon: Atlantis” and also financed and is co-producing the film which starts shooting in May.

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The latest film in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise – a movie simply titled Texas Chainsaw Massacre – was released through the Netflix streaming service back in February of 2022, and it appeared to do well at the time. It was the second most viewed movie on the service during the February 14 to February 20 time period – which only covered its first three days of release. In those three days, Netflix subscribers streamed the film for a total of 29.18 million hours. Texas Chainsaw Massacre also ranked in the top 10 in 94 countries, reaching #1 on the daily lists in the United States, Bolivia, Brazil, Honduras, Oman, Philippines, and Saudi Arabia. We’re still waiting to hear how and when the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise is going to follow up that success – but while we wait to hear what Leatherface is going to do next, the film’s director David Blue Garcia has signed on to direct...

Netflix’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre director David Blue Garcia is set to direct canine creature feature Zeus, per Variety.

The horror movie follows as “a group of friends are terrorized by a Cane Corso mastiff dog during a lakeside holiday celebration.”

Zeus is written by Tate Hanyok (“The Pet-Nup”) and Shane McKenzie (Bingo Hell).

The film is produced by Mucho Mas Media’s Javier Chapa and executive produced by Phillip Braun alongside Robert Muñoz, Morgan Cano-Long, Simon Wise, Vincent Cordero, Bruce Barshop, plus Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier for Highland Film Group.

“The horror genre continues to thrive, ushering in a new era of exciting films,” producer Chapa told Variety. “We couldn’t imagine a better filmmaker than David Blue Garcia to bring ‘Zeus’ to life—a character destined to become an iconic figure in the world of horror.”

“With the undeniable talent of genre aficionado David Blue Garcia at the helm,...

Resident Evil star Milla Jovovich may have moved on from that franchise, but she stays busy. We’ll soon be seeing her face off with Dave Bautista in her husband Paul W.S. Anderson’s fantasy film In the Lost Lands (a George R. R. Martin adaptation), we recently heard she’ll be working with Rosario Dawson and Alexandra Shipp on the action thriller Midnight, she’s gearing up to work with director Brad Anderson on both the sci-fi film World Breaker and the zombie movie Twilight of the Dead, and now The Hollywood Reporter has broken the news that she’s set to star in the Taken-esque action thriller Protector.

Adrian Grunberg, whose credits include Rambo: Last Blood, Get the Gringo, and The Black Demon, will be directing Protector from a screenplay by Bong-Seeb Mun. Filming is expected to take place in New Mexico this winter.

Jovovich will be taking on the role of Nikki,...

The "Sharksploitation" subgenre has struggled to produce dominant hits since 2016's The Shallows. Between examples like The Black Demon and The Requin, fans of fin flicks have been subjected to an overflow of waterlogged atrocities. Joachim Hedn seemed destined to turn the tides with The Last Breath, coming from a filmmaker who'd already astounded us with underwater thrills in Breaking Surface (2020). Submerged cinematography is once again sharp, and the claustrophobia of being trapped inside a shipwreck while diving is real, but chalk another loss for sharky cinema. The Last Breath is competent to a point, without ever exceeding or even achieving baseline aquatic horror standards.

Stars: J.K. Simmons, Isabelle Anaya, Fernanda Urrejola, Allen Leech, Olivia Simmons, Graham Patrick Martin, Andres Velez | Written by Michelle Schumacher, Carolyn Carpenter | Directed by Michelle Schumacher

As You Can’t Run Forever opens, a motorcyclist pulls into a gas station where a large man is yelling at a small dog. Instead of filling his tank, the cyclist walks over, draws a gun and shoots the man. Then he starts shooting anyone else he sees. This is Wade, he’s left several bodies behind him already, and he’s looking to add to his tally.

Miranda (Isabelle Anaya; Donny’s Bar Mitzvah) is a troubled young woman. She’s still resentful over her parent’s divorce and the subsequent suicide of her father. The fact that her mother Jenny and her stepfather Eddie are about to have a child of their own. Eddie’s daughter Emily is one already one sibling too many.

The Requin. The Reef: Stalked. The Black Demon. Now Something in the Water. I’m reaching my breaking point with shark attack movies that are too distracted by other plotlines to deliver on their promise: shark attacks. Hayley Easton Street’s Something in the Water might be the biggest offender listed, taking roughly thirty minutes until the first shark-related incident, then another fifteen(ish) minutes for the first of frustratingly few substantial shark spottings. Cat Clarke’s screenplay tries to establish poignant storytelling about hate crimes, broken relationships, and debilitating traumas, but in doing so, forgets about the massive shark plastered all over the film’s marketing materials. Street and Clarke aim to elevate shark cinema with emotional throughlines, but sink the entire project with an alarmingly imbalanced approach.

The film opens with same-sex couple Meg (Hiftu Quasem) and Kayla (Natalie Mitson) strolling home one night, publicly displaying their love,...

Exclusive: HarbourView Equity Partners, the investment company that bought into Charles D. King’s Macro last year, is putting more money into the film and television business.

The company, which was founded by Sherrese Clarke Soares, has invested in LatinX-focused company Mucho Mas Media.

This comes ahead of the release of Mucho Mas’ film The Long Game, which earned the SXSW Narrative Spotlight Audience Award in 2023.

Clarke Soares has been added as an exec producer of the film, which was directed by Julio Quintana and opens in theaters nationwide on April 12.

Financial details were not disclosed but HarbourView joins Texas-based real estate investment and venture capital firm Barshop Venture and the family office of NBA Hall of Famer David Robinson and Henry Cisneros as investors.

Mucho Mas Media includes two companies: Inclusion Management, a talent management business representing diverse film and TV creators and CHiSPA Comics, producing Latino-focused comic books for global comic book fans.

It’s been four years since The Avenue first launched, and the indie distributor just scored its first top 10 film with William Eubank’s “Land of Bad.”

The action flick starring Liam Hemsworth, Russell Crowe, Luke Hemsworth, Ricky Whittle and Milo Ventimiglia opened on Feb. 16, had the fourth-highest per screen average over the holiday weekend and was the only independent film in the top 10.

While indie films in awards contention can often make a modest box office dent, it’s unusual for an action film like “Land of Bad” to reach such heights: the actioner’s four-day total on opening weekend was $2.1 million from 1,057 screens.

President of domestic marketing and distribution JJ Caruth says the box office success of “Land of Bad” is a strong signal that audiences are hungry for more action-packed movies. “I’m just happy to see an independent film succeed at the box office. It’s...

One year on from its Berlinale Special screening Australian horror Talk To Me has grossed nearly $100m at the global box office and sellers have heeded the call: EFM 2024 is packed with “elevated genre” titles.

Neon snapped up Steven Soderbergh’s Lucy Liu ghost story Presence in Sundance and the international division has kicked off talks in Berlin. Neon International also has Cuckoo, Tilman Singer’s horror that premieres in the Berlinale Special section and stars Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens.

A24 is selling I Saw The TV Glow, Jane Schoenbrun’s take on gender dysphoria and teenage isolation...

Another Russell Crowe and Liam Hemsworth collaboration was not a square on our 2024 pop culture Bingo card, yet it looks like we're about to check it off. Moviegoers are due to see the pair of Aussies team up for the second time in as many years in February's military action thriller "Land of Bad." The pair recently co-starred in the 2022 movie "Poker Face" (no relation to the TV show of the same name), a thriller about a high stakes poker game gone wrong that was directed by Crowe himself.

This time around it's not a card game that goes wrong, but a mission. "Land of Bad" follows a group of military men on an extraction assignment in the Philippines that takes a bloody turn, leaving one young officer at the mercy of the elements and local militia. Fortunately, he's not alone: he's got Russell Crowe's drone pilot droning in his ear,...

The low-budget shark thriller Deep Fear has become a global Netflix hit, despite not streaming in the U.S. Deep Fear climbed to the No. 8 spot on Netflix's most-watched English-language movies list with 4.3 million viewers and 6.1 million viewing hours. The movie's popularity seems to have come mostly from regions in the Americas, such as Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay, with Australia being the only outside region.

The low-budget shark thriller Deep Fear has become a global Netflix hit. The movie follows a young yachter named Naomi (Mãdãlina Ghenea) whose trip to visit her boyfriend (Gossip Girl cast member Ed Westwick) is interrupted when she comes upon a group of drug traffickers and is forced to retrieve a shipment of cocaine from a sunken ship. To make matters worse, the waters around the ship are infested with great white sharks.

Netflix has compiled their Top 10 list of the most-watched English-language...

The newest Star Wars series on Disney+, Ahsoka, delivered a sizable viewing audience during its opening week. Suits continued its summer-long run as the top overall title.

The first two episodes of Ahsoka, starring Rosario Dawson as the title character, had 829 million minutes of viewing in the United States for the week of Aug. 21-27. With a total running time of 100 minutes over the two installments, that translates to about 8.29 million complete showings of the two. (Disney+ said the first episode alone gathered the equivalent of 14 million complete plays worldwide over its first five days.)

Ahsoka’s 829 million minutes of viewing ranks second among Disney+ Star Wars shows for their series premiere weeks, behind the 1.03 billion for Obi-Wan Kenobi in May 2022. It was the No. 2 original series for the week, behind Netflix’s British import Who Is Erin Carter?, which drew 1.04 billion minutes of viewing. New seasons of The Ultimatum...

Actor Josh Lucas, has called his latest sci-fi-thriller film, ‘The Black Demon’ a classic shark adventure, which has the essence of family at its core. Elaborating on this point, the actor said, “’The Black Demon’ is a classic action-adventure shark story. And without a doubt, one of the things I think that makes it special is that it’s got a family, a young family at its core.

“So hopefully, it’s a movie that kids love. It’s a movie that hopefully parents will love. I partly made this movie because I have a nine-year-old boy who loves these kinds of movies.”

The film follows the family of Paul Sturges (Josh Lucas) and his family who get stranded on an oil rig, which harbours the vengeance of a very angry Megalodon. The creature is believed to be a herald of an ancient Aztec god and kills the greedy.

As such,...

"The Black Demon" is a new shark movie directed by Adrian Grünberg and features an ensemble cast including Josh Lucas and Fernanda Urrejola. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie is performing well on Prime Video, surpassing other popular titles like "Red, White, & Royal Blue." Producer Javier Chapa believes part of the movie's success is due to its Latinx representation both in front of and behind the camera, appealing to a hungry Latinx audience. Producers are already discussing a sequel.

A sequel to The Black Demon could be in the cards. The movie, which debuted on Prime Video on August 22, is a brand-new giant shark movie from Rambo: Last Blood director Adrian Grünberg that features an ensemble cast that includes Josh Lucas, Fernanda Urrejola, Julio Cesar Cedillo, and Omar Chaparro. The movie follows a man whose work trip to Baja California turned family vacation is ruined when a ravenous megalodon...

Indie shark movie The Black Demon has become the top streaming film on Prime Video, surpassing major releases, thanks to its low-budget appeal. The Black Demon's success may be attributed to the popularity of the recent Meg franchise, showcasing the continued interest in shark-centered movies. The film fills a niche for monster-like ocean movies and has capitalized on the fear and intrigue surrounding giant sharks, potentially setting the stage for a sequel.

A surprising shark movie, The Black Demon, has taken over the Number 1 streaming spot for Prime Video, besting the platform's major releases. The indie sci-fi thriller follows oilman Paul Sturges (Josh Lucas) on a family vacation that gets interrupted by a Megalodon attack. The film received a 31% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, but found favorable reviews with its audience score of 80%.

Now, The Hollywood Reporter reveals that The Black Demon has surpassed multiple Prime Video releases to...

Despite facing stiff competition from major studio movies such as Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and Cocaine Bear, one low-budget shark movie has reigned above them all. The Black Demon held the number-one spot on Amazon’s streaming rankings for seven days, which has prompted discussion of a sequel.

The Black Demon is a shark thriller with a supernatural edge that follows a family stranded on a crumbling oil rig in Baja facing off against a vengeful megalodon shark. Produced for just under $10 million, The Black Demon may not have received the best reviews upon release, but it’s clear that there’s an audience for the movie.

“No one has ever seen a genre shark movie with a Latino bent,” Black Demon producer Javier Chapa told THR. “That’s where we saw the opportunity, given our company’s ethos is all about really supporting people of color on...

Call it Montezuma’s revenge. Or more precisely in this case, Tlaloc’s revenge.

Amid the hype for the second season of the The Summer I Turned Pretty or feature Red, White & Royal Blue, another Amazon title has quietly been reigning over the streaming service’s top 10.

The Black Demon, a shark movie with a supernatural and Latino bent, has claimed in the number one spot on Amazon’s streaming rankings for seven consecutive days since its debut Aug. 22, beating out not just those Amazon sensations, but also major studio fare such as Universal’s Cocaine Bear and Paramount’s Dungeons & Dragons, which also sit in the streamer’s daily top 10 ranking of most-watched entries in the U.S.

It’s an impressive feat, given that the film, made for under $10 million, had just a small marketing spend, though without actual viewing numbers, it’s hard to judge the...

How many shark movies are too many shark movies? And how many ways are there for them to showcase something that hasn’t already been done to death? Directed by Adrian Grunberg and written by Carlos Cisco and Boise Esquerra, The Black Demon borrows the same trope as Jaws and the Meg series—exploring the theme of an enormous monster living in the oceans, preying on humans because of their consistent greed in wanting to take over nature. Here, the real, iniquitous behemoth is not the beast in the waters but the fictional oil conglomerate. Sadly, none of the events in the movie amount to anything substantial, and the ideas all seem half-baked before just boiling down to a dispassionate family drama. The least you would expect is for the movie to have a decent amount of jump scares and high-tension moments that leave you on the edge of your seat,...

The inclusion of Tlaloc's history in "The Black Demon" adds depth and interest to the film, turning it into something more than just a simple monster movie. The shark in the film is seen as a vengeance-seeking predator sent by Tlaloc to punish humans for their greed and mistreatment of the environment. The religious theme of the film makes the humans, particularly the oil company, the villains rather than the shark, highlighting the destructive consequences of human avarice and emphasizing the importance of acknowledging and rectifying these actions.

Tlaloc is referenced in The Black Demon as an Aztec god whose real-life backstory lends credibility to Chato's belief that the deity sent the shark. Directed by Adrian Grunberg, The Black Demon focuses on Nixon Oil inspector Paul Sturges (Josh Lucas) trying to turn a routine rig inspection in Baja, California into a peaceful family vacation when a giant megalodon shark...

The Black Demon, a sci-fi thriller about a family encountering a dangerous shark, was filmed in the Dominican Republic, not in Mexico, where the story takes place. The production used various locations in the country. Some scenes of the movie had to be filmed in a studio due to the involvement of a fictional Megalodon. Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios provided a large water tank for filming intense ocean sequences. The water tank at Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios has been used for other movies like The Lost City, Old, and 47 Meters Down. It offers a practical alternative to filming in the open ocean.

The Black Demon jumps on the Megalodon hype train and depicts the story of a family encountering one of the gigantic dangerous sharks while visiting an oil rig in Baja California, a state in Mexico. However, the 2023 science fiction thriller movie was not filmed in the same location where it took place.

The idea must have sounded great on paper. Cull from popular Buzzfeed videos dubbed Puppyhood — cute yet manipulative — and make a film about an unlikely couple whom fate has drawn together. Make that two dogs. Let the tail-wagging begin. Thing is, in Amazon Freevee’s new doggy rom-com, Puppy Love, there’s not much to wag about. You want there to be, but alas, this dog has already been put to pasture 15 minutes in. The premise — one that has been used before countless times — could have worked if the story offered more than just a quirky meet cute that becomes incredibly predictable.

Still, if you’re craving something sweet (to the point of inducing cavities) that feels plucked out of the 1990s rom-com cellar, then take this pup for a walk. In the meantime, let’s see what went wrong (and the few things this film got right).

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If the past three years have been any indication, there is currently a wave of renewed interest in shark movies. Not even counting the numerous low-budget productions, recent theatrically released shark movies include The Requin, The Reef: Stalked, The Black Demon, and Meg 2: The Trench, the latter likely being the most widely known. Swimming alongside these new screen sharks is Shudder’s recent documentary exploration of shark horror, Sharksploitation.

August is here, and a bounty of noteworthy new movies and TV shows are coming to Amazon Prime Video this month. If it’s new release films you’re looking for, Paramount’s excellent (and very funny) “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” arrives on the streaming service on Aug. 25 after first streaming on Paramount+, while the Elizabeth Banks-directed action-comedy “Cocaine Bear” will be streaming on Aug. 15.

There’s also a Prime Video original film hitting this month in the form of “Red, White & Royal Blue” on Aug. 11, based on the book of the same name by author Casey McQuiston. The LGBTQ romantic comedy stars Taylor Zakhar Perez and Nicholas Galitzine in the story of a prince who falls in love with the son of the president of the United States.

And Thursday Night Football comes to Prime Video starting Aug. 24.

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With its list of new releases for August 2023, Prime Video is relying on a heaping dose of fun library movies.

The first of the month brings a big influx of worthwhile flicks, including Galaxy Quest, Saw, F9: The Fast Saga, and Jurassic Park (the last two via Amazon’s Freevee free streaming option). Then some other recents hits arrive later on like the appropriately titled Cocaine Bear on Aug. 15 and the Chris Pine-starring Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves on Aug. 25.

August also sees the arrival of a major Amazon Original movie in the form of Red, White & Royal Blue. Based on a New York Times bestselling book, this LGBTQ romance follows a U.S. president’s son and a British prince. Over on the TV side of things, Prime Video subscribers can check out the Sigourney Weaver project The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart on Aug. 4 and Harlan Coben’s Shelter on Aug.

"Suddenly society developed this massive fear of sharks!" Now available to watch - Shudder has debuted their official trailer for a documentary film titled Sharksploitation, a geeky cinematic examination of the Hollywood obsession with shark movies. Of course, it all began with Jaws, but that's only the start. The last decade has seen a ton of shark movies being made & released. In 2023 alone, we have: Meg 2: The Trench, Big Shark, The Black Demon, and Ninja vs Shark. The documentary explores the subgenre of shark horror films and humanity’s continued interest in the wild cinematic legacy of sharks. Featuring interviews with Roger Corman, Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Johannes Roberts, Mario Van Pebbles, and many others. Are you getting tired of shark movies? Are they still as good as they have been before, or are they getting worse? Do all these evil sharks make you afraid of swimming in the sea?...

Shudder is celebrating the shark horror movie this summer with brand new Shudder Original Documentary Sharksploitation, which is swimming our way July 21, 2023.

The doc will be available in the United States, Canada, UK, and Australia/New Zealand.

Exclusively watch the official trailer for Sharksploitation below!

In the wake of blockbuster classic Jaws, a new subgenre was born. This new documentary explores the weird, wild cinematic legacy of sharks on film and the world’s undying fascination.

Steven Spielberg’s horror classic Jaws celebrates its 48th anniversary this summer, the film credited for not only launching a wave of shark attack imitators that still continues to this day but also creating the modern day summer blockbuster as we know it. Hardly a year has gone by since 1975 where there wasn’t a new shark attack horror movie to consume, and this year is no exception. The Black Demon was just unleashed...

On the VOD charts, action rules. A recent price drop to $5.99 has propelled “John Wick: Chapter 4” (Lionsgate) to continued #1 positions at iTunes and Google Play, while revenue-ranking Vudu kept “Fast X” (Universal) in the top position. “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” (Universal), price now reduced to $19.99 (including download) placed #2 at all three sites.

New entry “The Machine” (Sony), an action comedy starring Bert Kreischer, here adapting his semi-biographical stand-up routine, is #3 at Vudu at $19.99 while placing on a three charts. It hit home viewing after its fourth weekend in theaters, where it managed only $10 million in gross.

After a recent spate of theatrical releases dominating Netflix’s top ten movie chart, their home-grown titles took six of the slots this week. “Extraction 2” repeats at #1, with their usual eclectic mix taking other slots.

“Fast X” joined “John Wick,” “Super Mario,” and “The Machine” on all three charts, as well as...

In addition to the survival thriller Quicksand, premiering on July 14, Shudder has just announced another new Shudder Original offering for July 2023: Sharksploitation!

Sharksploitation is a brand new Shudder Original Documentary, and it’ll begin streaming on Shudder on July 21 in the United States, Canada, UK, and Australia/New Zealand.

In the wake of blockbuster classic Jaws, a new subgenre was born. This new documentary explores the weird, wild cinematic legacy of sharks on film and the world’s undying fascination.

Steven Spielberg’s horror classic Jaws celebrates its 48th anniversary this summer, the film credited for not only launching a wave of shark attack imitators that still continues to this day but also creating the modern day summer blockbuster as we know it. Hardly a year has gone by since 1975 where there wasn’t a new shark attack horror movie to consume, and this year is no exception. The Black Demon...

Sincere performances and lively banter turn hokey into entertaining as Josh Lucas’s engineer and his family do battle with a megalodon

It would seem that megalodons are the menace of the moment. These ginormous sharks, thought to be extinct for millions of years, have been retro-spawned for entertainment purposes by the audiovisual-industrial complex – specifically in the Meg franchise but also on the Discovery Channel – because great white sharks, veterans of the Jaws movies, just don’t cut it any more. Still, in thematic terms there’s a throughline that connects most shark movies: one way or another, they’re all about the return of the repressed, with the sharks manifesting the oceanic subconsciousness’ raging, violent id that has been enraged by the human superego effort at mastery over nature. In the original Jaws, it’s not so much Bruce the shark that’s the big bad as it is the township’s greedy mayor,...

Stars: Josh Lucas, Fernanda Urrejola, Venus Ariel, Carlos Solorzan, Julio Cesar Cedillo, Jorge A. Jimenez | Written by Carlos Cisco, Boise Esquerra | Directed by Adrian Grunberg

After the trainwreck that was Cocaine Shark and with the spectre of Jurassic Shark 3: Seavenge looming over me, The Black Demon, or any other shark film for that matter, may not have been an obvious choice. But this one caught my attention when it was announced and the idea of a finned fear film with enough of a budget to give it some bite was hard to say no to.

Paul Sturges is the safety officer for Nixon Oil, a corporate name that does not exactly inspire confidence. He has been sent to Baja to inspect one of the company’s rigs and has brought his family along. He may have to work but his wife Ines, daughter, Audrey, and son Tommy can have a vacation.

Movies based on mythologies and told legends are usually an excellent source of entertainment because, unlike pure fiction, we believe those creatures used to exist/are still living somewhere in the world. Movies like Jaws, The Meg, and Troll depict these notions accurately by displaying these creatures' terrifying capabilities. The Black Demon, an upcoming film, offers a similar scenario about a Mexican legend.

The plot of The Black Demon revolves around Paul Sturges (Omar Chaparro), who combines work with a family vacation by taking his family to an oil rig off the coast of Mexico. However, upon his arrival, he discovers that the town has changed and is now filled with a dark atmosphere reminiscent of a ghost town. Despite warnings from locals about the "black demon shark," Paul takes his family to the oil rig only to become stuck there with no way out. Paramount Movies have released the...

The giant shark known as the Megalodon has seen quite the resurgence thanks to films like 2018’s The Meg. Usually destined to the SyFy channel, we’ve been lucky enough to see some of these silly aquatic thrillers make their way to cinemas. The Black Demon may just be the silliest of the lot, featuring a Megalodon out to take out an oil rig that’s poisoning the water. And the only person that can stop this prehistoric beast is someone I had the fortune of chatting with recently. Josh Lucas stars as Paul Sturges and he had plenty of interesting things to say about both The Black Demon, as well why the Marvel films have disappointed him lately. All this and more in the video embedded above!

Our own Cody Hamman reviewed the film here and seemed to have a fun time, despite its mediocrity. It certainly doesn’t...

“The Black Demon” is a new ‘killer shark’ movie, directed by Adrian Grunberg, starring Josh Lucas opening in theaters April 28, 2023:

“…oilman ‘Paul Sturges’ (Lucas) takes his family on vacation to Bahia Azul. The coastal town he and his wife once knew had mysteriously crumbled with locals nowhere to be found. Paul starts off his day with a routine visit to inspect his nearby oil rig, but before he knows it, his entire family has landed with him on a rotting metal tower.

“From the depths of the ocean rises a massive megalodon known only by its name: the ‘Black Demon’.

“Under constant threat from this primeval species of shark, Paul must find a way to get his family back to shore alive…’

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Plot: When a leaky oil rig awakens a vengeful god in the form of a megalodon shark, an oil man is trapped on the rig with his family and the surviving workers.

Review: There are a whole lot of shark thrillers out there, but not many of them have a supernatural edge. That makes director Adrian Grunberg’s The Black Demon stand out from the pack a bit, because while the shark in this thriller is described as being a megalodon, like the sharks in The Meg and Shark Attack 3 and probably plenty of others, this isn’t just a megalodon that has resurfaced from the prehistoric age. This movie, which has marketing material that informs that it’s “based on the Mexican legend”, presents us with a giant shark that is actually a vengeful god, awakened by the pollution that has been spilled in its waters, and is able...

The legend of El Demonio Negro, or The Black Demon, brings a mythical, almost supernatural, quality to this latest shark attack horror feature. Director Adrian Grünberg (Rambo: The Last Blood), working from a script by Boise Esquerra and Carlos Cisco, dials in on the folkloric aspect of The Black Demon to wield the horror as a cautionary entry in eco-horror rather than a conventional shark attack feature. Fresh mythology struggles to keep these shark infested waters afloat, however.

Corporate oilman Paul Sturges (Josh Lucas) brings his wife Ines (Fernanda Urrejola) and kids Audrey (Venus Ariel) and Tommy (Carlos Solórzano) with him on a visit to Baja. The family trip to explore Ines’ roots doubles as work for Paul, who hopes to boat out to his company’s rig off the Baja coast for an inspection before rejoining his family on vacation. Paul arrives at the crumbling rig to find it leaking oil,...

The horror movie to go see in theaters right now is Evil Dead Rise, but a brand new horror movie is being unleashed in theaters this week to give the franchise a little genre competition.

And it’s one of Seven new horror movies releasing this week…

Here’s all the new horror releasing April 25 – April 30, 2023!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

After scaring up $168 million worldwide, Scream VI just arrived for purchase on Digital Today, and Bloody Disgusting has also learned this week that Scream VI will be unleashed on 4K Ultra HD SteelBook, on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on July 11, 2023.

Meagan wrote in her review of Scream VI, “This slasher sequel lets a ruthless Ghostface loose in the city, slicing up an intense, flawless entry that continues the streak of insightful introspection while escalating the thrills, kills, humor, and heart to a breathless degree.

A cursed megalodon shark is no laughing matter, as seen in an exclusive The Black Demon clip. Helmed by Rambo: Last Blood's Adrian Grunberg, the horror-thriller centers on an oilman who takes his family on a vacation to visit a rig in Baja, only to discover it's currently under constant attack from a ferocious megalodon shark. Yellowstone's Josh Lucas leads the cast of The Black Demon alongside Fernanda Urrejola, Julio Cesar Cedillo, Venus Ariel, and Héctor Jiménez.

Oilman Paul Sturges' (Lucas) idyllic family vacation turns into a nightmare when they encounter a ferocious megalodon shark that will stop at nothing to protect its territory. Stranded and under constant attack, Paul and his family must somehow find a way to get his family back to shore alive before it strikes again in this epic battle between humans and nature.

Ahead of the film's theatrical release, Screen Rant is proud...

Summer is right around the corner. The most significant indicator of this for horror fans isn’t in the increasingly warmer weather and longer days but in the arrival of new shark horror.

This week brings megalodon terror in The Black Demon, kicking off a summer of aquatic terror that also includes Meg 2: The Trench and The Last Voyage of the Demeter. The latter of which proves that aquatic horror doesn’t solely belong to sharks.

This week’s streaming picks highlight the various terrors that lurk in various bodies of water, from ghosts to Lovecraftian nightmares. Here’s where you can stream them this week.

For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.

Dagon – Plex, Tubi, Vudu

Loosely based on H.P. Lovecraft’s stories “Dagon” and “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” this Stuart Gordon film induces ichthyophobia. While on a boating trip, Paul Marsh (Ezra Godden) and his...

Josh Lucas plays a younger version of Yellowstone's John Dutton on the hit Paramount series, but here's a guide to his many other film and television credits. Lucas is the son of an ER doctor and a midwife. Instead of following his parents into medicine, the young Lucas decided to become an actor. Amid rumors of Kevin Costner leaving Yellowstone, there's been heavy speculation regarding the future of Lucas' role as the young version of Costner's character.

Indeed, though Lucas has had a long career prior to the Taylor Sheridan flagship show, he is mostly known today as the actor who plays young John Dutton. Apart from his resemblance to the Hollywood legend, Josh Lucas' performance in Yellowstone cements him as the only other actor who can actually do justice to playing the iconic rancher. While it remains unclear whether Costner is leaving Yellowstone or not, no such rumors have hounded Lucas,...

Back in 2018, Steve Alten’s The Meg finally came to the big screen, but not in the form that we had originally been promised. The big screen Megalodon horror movie was released with a PG-13 rating – much to the chagrin of star Jason Statham – leaving fans hungry for a shark attack movie with a bit more bite. And it looks like we’re getting one this year.

From Rambo: Last Blood director Adrian Grünberg, The Black Demon will be released in theaters on April 28, and we’ve learned today that it’s Rated “R” for “Some grisly images.”

Music to our ears. Stay tuned for our review, coming soon!

In The Black Demon…

“When oilman Paul Sturges takes his family to Bahia Negra, the crown jewel of Baja and the site of Paul’s best-performing rig, the vibrant Mexican coastal town he once knew has mysteriously crumbled. In the decrepit ghost town,...

The month of April is offering a bevy of horror films for movie-goers. The Pope’S Exorcist, Evil Dead Rise, Renfield and The Black Demon.

Josh Lucas stars in this edge-of-your-seat action thriller from the director of Rambo: Last Blood. Oilman Paul Sturges’ (Lucas) idyllic family vacation turns into a nightmare when they encounter a ferocious megalodon shark that will stop at nothing to protect its territory. Stranded and under constant attack, Paul and his family must somehow find a way to get his family back to shore alive before it strikes again in this epic battle between humans and nature.

Directed By Adrian Grünberg, The Black Demon opens in theaters on April 28.

Starring: Josh Lucas, Fernanda Urrejola, Julio Cesar Cedillo Directed By: Adrian Grünberg Written By: Boise Esquerra (written by), Carlos Cisco (story by) Josh Lucas stars in this edge-of-your-seat action thriller from the director of Rambo: Last Blood. Oilman Paul Sturges’ (Lucas) idyllic family vacation turns into a nightmare when they encounter …

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“The Black Demon” is a new ‘killer shark’ movie, directed by Adrian Grunberg, starring Josh Lucas opening in theaters April 28, 2023:

“…oilman ‘Paul Sturges’ (Lucas) takes his family on vacation to Bahia Azul. The coastal town he and his wife once knew had mysteriously crumbled with locals nowhere to be found. Paul starts off his day with a routine visit to inspect his nearby oil rig, but before he knows it, his entire family has landed with him on a rotting metal tower.

“From the depths of the ocean rises a massive megalodon known only by its name: the ‘Black Demon’.

“Under constant threat from this primeval species of shark, Paul must find a way to get his family back to shore alive…’

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"You can run... You can hide... But that won't save you." Tommy Wiseau, famed director of The Room, is back!! I guess...? Maybe? A new trailer has debuted for his next feature film titled Big Shark. The second trailer for a shark movie out this week after The Black Demon, too. It's also Wiseau's only feature since The Room in 2003. The trailer launched on Variety along with a poster and info about a roadshow tour Wiseau is going on, playing the film in different cinemas around the country throughout 2023. So it will indeed be the return of Mr. Wiseau. The only simple synopsis available is: Three firefighters must save New Orleans from a shark attack. Because of course they do. It's no surprise to say that this looks like a parody film. Also a warning - the trailer ends halfway and suddenly turns into an ad for Wiesau's underwear brand - yes,...

2023 releases have started the monster trend again, this time with nature as the villain. Following the Elizabeth Banks-directed black comedy film Cocaine Bear, as well as the lackluster slasher film Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey—whose villains can be considered animals at some level—another man-eating creature will be splashing its way to theaters with the upcoming release of The Black Demon, which promises to deliver a fresh perspective on a widely used genre. Just after the recent trailer release, a poster has also been unveiled, showing danger emerging on the surface as an enormous shark based on a Mexican legend begins to spread terror, biting everyone who attempts to get closer.

The Black Demon, the upcoming shark film that is likely on the watch list of every megalodon film lover now has a trailer, and it is as jawsome as can be. The action thriller stars Josh Lucas (Yellowstone) as an oilman named Paul Sturges. The film will follow Paul on vacation with his family at a familiar coastal location that they soon find has transformed into a ghost town and harbors a rampaging shark in its nearby waters. The trailer teases a suspenseful, spine-chilling spectacle that is sure to leave audiences on the edge of their seats.

From Rambo: Last Blood director Adrian Grünberg, The Black Demon is based on the Mexican legend of a massive Megalodon shark, and Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive first look at the action-horror movie’s official art and images this morning.

The Black Demon will release in theaters on April 28, 2023, and you can also watch the trailer here. In the film, Josh Lucas (The Forever Purge) battles a giant man-eating shark.

“Oilman Paul Sturges’ (Lucas) idyllic family vacation turns into a nightmare when they encounter a ferocious megalodon shark that will stop at nothing to protect its territory.

“Stranded and under constant attack, Paul and his family must somehow find a way to get his family back to shore alive before it strikes again in this epic battle between humans and nature.”

Josh Lucas stars alongside Fernanda Urrejola (Cry Macho) and Julio Cesar Cedillo (Sicario). Boise Esquerra wrote the script, from a story by Carlos Cisco.