Tintorera:Tiger Shark 25th Anniverary

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Summary: A great underwater researcher.
Review: First, this is based on a novel by Ramon Bravo, mexico's greatest underwater researcher. and hence can't be a Jaws spinoff. the movie does include a lot of Bravo's underwater filming, but the effects are very good, and it does a good work of translating the novel to movie.

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Summary: Tintorera, please come to DVD!
Review: God how I love this movie! Yes, it IS a Mexican-made Jaws ripoff crossed with soft porn and that's exactly what makes it an all-time undiscovered kitsch hall-of-famer. Imagine a romantic one-nighter on a boat between a Mexican lethario and one of Charlie's Angels, heavy on the sex. The next morning she wakes up and SWIMS HOME only to have her leg bitten off by a tiger shark. Now that's entertainment! Hilarious, scary, full of great underwater photography and T&A, and so groovy in that lava lamp, polyester '70s kinda way that you can't help but love it. And you will! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE COME OUT ON DVD TINTORERA TIGER SHARK. We love YOU!

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Summary: Tin Tor Arne
Review: Hear me now, believe me later!

This is definetely the scariest movie of all time. In the blue water outside the Mexican Gulf, there is a monsterous shark swimming around looking for karbiser and vegetables. The shark's name is Tintorera - or Tin Tor Arne among good friends.

Tin Tor Arne has two identities; Tin Tor Arne and Trond Nuggyboy Nagy. When Tin Tor Arne is not in the water looking for karbiser and vegetables, he is walking around as a sykeplayer hunting defenceless nurses and little chicks.

Tin Tor Arne has only one great fear in life; that Bølla and Knut shall invite him to a threesome. Despite this, this film has a lot of sexy scenes. But I would not call it a pornographic movie. It's not like TV 1000 is showing it on the little picture, or anything, but I must admit that it is quite nasty.

Tin Tor Arne can be seen in a cinema at Kjølen Hotel, a cosy little cabin way up in the mountains in Trysil, Norway. The infamous shark can also be seen in a bathtub in a little village called Hauge in Groruddalen, Oslo, Norway.

Tin Tor Arne deserves four stars up in your star.

Undoubtable!

Chris

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Summary: PornoJaws!
Review: How can you improve on the "Jaws" franchise? Definitely not by mixing it with soft porn. But, that is what they attempted with Tintorera. In fact, it is more porn than shark flick. A Ménage-à-trois relationship is the story focus over the mean ole shark threat. It's more fun to be attacked by a Tiger Shark than to watch this cinematic seizure. I can't go to far into the film quality. I mean, if you are looking at this, you know what you are getting.

BEWARE! This film has had many different VHS releases but it seems they are recoded in an extended play format, sometimes known as EP. There is also a version of TINTORERA that is labeled EP only referring to the length of the film, not the recording process. I believe they are all recorded extended play.

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Summary: PornoJaws!
Review: How can you improve on the "Jaws" franchise? Definitely not by mixing it with soft porn. But, that is what they attempted with Tintorera. In fact, it is more porn than shark flick. A Ménage-à-trois relationship is the story focus over the mean ole shark threat. It's more fun to be attacked by a Tiger Shark than to watch this cinematic seizure. I can't go to far into the film quality. I mean, if you are looking at this, you know what you are getting.

BEWARE! This film has had many different VHS releases but it seems they are recoded in an extended play format, sometimes known as EP. There is also a version of TINTORERA that is labeled EP only referring to the length of the film, not the recording process. I believe they are all recorded extended play.

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Summary: Something Appart from a Rip Off
Review: I had seen this movie many years ago before buying the DVD. It's not so much about a killer fish who's got something personal against the protagonist of this movie as it is about his sexual quest in Cancún, México. It's cheesy and I wont justify it given its bad reputation, but there's some elements that really set this one appart from the rest of the Rip Offs: The homosexual undertones between Andres García ans Hugo Stiglitz, the sex trianlge concept, the excellent underwater photography. The only thing that bothers me a bit about this movie is a lot of the partying, which makes you wonder at a certain point if the whole intention was just to get an excuse to party with this film, or to attract foreign tourists, and a couple of narrative inconsistencies ( He just went to the beach to realief himself from the stress of the city, and before you know he had been there for months, without giving at any point his two week notice). The lines between Hugo Stiglitz and Andres García are pretty cool. Susan George could've made a classic character if she wasn't so unenthusiastic as she seemed about this project. I noticed she was reluctant to strip bare, which could've added as well.

One thing about this version: Even though it seemingly runs pretty long compared to whatever versions were out there before, Its still missing a PRETTY CONSIDERABLE CHUNK of the ending. The ending was pretty similar to "NIGHTMARE CITY", another one in which Hugo Stiglitz was in. I was very dissapointed because of that.

Whoever put this movie out there in DVD, PLEASE PLEASE release some more of Cardona's titles: I would suggest HOSTAGES!, THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE, CYCLONE, THE TREASURE OF THE AMAZON and I'm very curious about a rape revenge flick that he made called LOS PLACERES OCULTOS.

Thanks!!!

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Summary: Worst film ever?
Review: I'm a huge fan of shark films but Tintorera:Tiger Shark is the worst shark movie of them all and quite possibly the worst film ever made. I expected it to be somewhat B Grade but what I didn't expect was half a dozen or so real live sharks killed for the camera. More sharks were killed than human characters. It was quite disturbing to see these poor creatures being shot with a spear gun for some kind of weird cinematic purpose. The film maker should be ashamed of himself.

To call this is a shark movie is kind of a joke because there were only 3 attack scenes and very sub standard attacks I might add. In addition to the paper thin plot, there was a bizarre sub plot which involved a creepy three-some between two fisherman (shark hunters) and a blonde woman. (Susan George). I really had trouble following what the hell was going on here as this sub plot took centre stage to the main plot. All I can say is "Mondo Bizarro Dude!"

I'm kind of annoyed I wasted my money on this tripe. Even the DVD cover couldn't get it right. It has a photo of large Great White instead of a Tiger Shark. What the?...

I could go on about this piece of crap but I won't. If you are thinking about buying Tintorera:Tiger Shark.....Don't!

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Summary: An epic length softcore porn movie with a killer shark...
Review: Jaws (1975) is one of my favorite films, and not just because of the fantastic and terrifying effects involving the shark, but because it's one of the most well crafted movies ever produced...the acting, the plot, script, direction, musical score, casting, the character development, attention to detail...everything came together so well...too well, as it turns out because soon afterwards, nearly everyone was churning out lame films featuring any kind of beastie you could imagine in an attempt to try and feed off the success of Spielberg's popular film, incorporating very little, if anything, that made Jaws so good, including this Mexican production entitled Tintorera (1977) aka The Silent Death aka Bloody Waters aka Tiger Shark.

Directed by the prolific René Cardona Jr., whose specialty seems to be low budget schlocky Mexican films, the film features English actress Susan George (Straw Dogs), Hugo Stiglitz (Incubo sulla città contaminata aka City of the Walking Dead), Andrés García (The Bermuda Triangle), and Fiona Lewis, who some may remember as the evil Dr. Margaret Canker from the film Innerspace (1987). As the film begins, we are presented with two men in Steven (Stiglitz) and Miguel (Garcia). Steven, who first appears as a patient in a hospital, has had some sort of stress related breakdown from working too hard, and is ordered by his doctor to take a long vacation. He ends up renting a boat off the pacific coast, near a popular Mexican resort, one where Miguel, who also appears to be on vacation, seems to be staying. Miguel is apparently a gigolo by profession, and seems to be continuing his ways at the resort, so I guess his is a working vacation. Anyway, both men end up sharing a relationship with Patricia (Lewis), but she soon gets gobbled up by a shark (in about two feet of water), and, since no one witnessed the attack, the men assume she left, and their once acrimonious relationship turns friendly, sharing the bond of both being stilted by the same woman. Miguel soon takes residence on Steven's large rented boat, and the men begin drinking, carousing with various women, and take up shark hunting. They also, in my opinion, begin developing a homoerotic relationship that's never actually shown, but certainly seemed implied. After awhile, the meet Gabriella (George), and the three develop a creepy ménage a trois...yuck...oh yeah, there's a few more shark attacks, but that's about it...

Now mind you, I wasn't expecting anything great here, but this is just a really terrible film. I will say there are some nicely shot underwater scenes, but that's about it...even those scenes will probably end up putting off some viewers, as many real sharks were harmed in the production of this film. They really seemed to have no problem in killing off all sorts of sea life in the progression of the story. I have no love of sharks, but seeing them senselessly slaughtered again and again kinda turned my stomach. And wait until you get to the part when they gut a defenseless sea turtle...yuck...I guess fake sharks were more expensive than real sharks. The direction is really bad, as the Cardona has no concept of transitioning from one scene to another. One minute you're watching a particular scene, and then POOF!, you're watching another, completely unrelated scene, and you're left trying to figure out what the heck is going on...after awhile, I did manage to put some of the pieces together, but ultimately the jarring effect only served to take me out of the film. There was absolutely no tension throughout, even when I knew a shark attack was imminent. The film has the look of a pornographic movie from the 70's, one where they took out the hardcore sex scenes and tried, unsuccessfully, to incorporate the element of the shark. The acting was on par of what you'd expect to see in a Mexican soap opera (I'm sure Mexicans put out some wonderful shows, but their soap operas are even more atrocious than those in the US), and the dialogue is even worse. The characters spew out the most inane lines, but this does provide some unintentional humor. There is a good amount of nudity, both of the male and female kind, but it was all gratuitous as it served no purpose other than to offer weak titillation to very bored viewers. The plot is incredibly lame, and plods along at a snails pace, as this particular version has an excruciatingly long run time of just over two hours (I do believe there are a few versions out there, with shorter running times, but lucky me, this seems to be the original, uncut version). And then there's the odd and less than appropriate, completely annoying musical score...disco music and killer sharks just do not mix.

Being the 25th Anniversary Edition, one might expect something special with this release. Well, you'll probably disappointed...the full screen print used here looks probably about as good as what you'd see on a used VHS copy. The picture has visible flaws throughout, most involving damage due to age and deterioration. It's not terrible, but certainly noticeable. The dialog is mostly in Spanish, with a lesser mix of English. There are English subtitles available, but when you have that feature turned on, you also get Spanish subtitles when the characters are speaking English. What is the point of that? I suppose if you are watching the film with a group of people, some only speaking English and some who only speak Spanish, it is useful, but if not, it just seems moronic. As far as special features, there are brief biographies and selected filmographies (no listing of this film in there, oddly enough) of the director and some of the talent, along with a few trailers for films I've never heard of, as I believe they're all low budget Mexican productions.

Cookieman108


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Summary: Teeth of Terror!
Review: Two guys are on a get away vacation on a boat and they go crusing around this island for women and sex. Soon, they find this woman whom they both have to share between the two of them or she will leave them both. One night they all go for a swim in the warm waters and suddenly a tiger shark swims up and devours their girl friend alive. I can't remember how the rest of it goes, but watch the movie. Despite the lack of special effects and all, it is probably good for one peek-a-book at.