Red Water (2003) (TV)

Director:

Charles Robert Carner

Writers (WGA):

J.D. Feigelson (written by) and
Chris Mack (written by)

Release Date:

17 August 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Fear Strikes Where You Least Expect It.

Plot:

A freshwater shark wreaks havoc as it heads up a Louisiana river.

Plot Keywords:

Shark | Ex Wife | Oil Rig | Fisherman | Bayou

Cast

Lou Diamond Phillips	...	John Sanders
Kristy Swanson	...	Dr. Kelli Raymond
Coolio	...	Ice
Jaimz Woolvett	...	Jerry Collins
Rob Boltin	...	Emery Brousard
Langley Kirkwood	...	Brett van Ryan
Dennis Haskins	...	Captain Dale Landry
Gideon Emery	...	Gene Bradley
Charles Dumas	...	Hank Ellis
Clive Scott	...	Grandpa Gautreau
Nicholas Andrews	...	André Gautreau
Hilton Myburgh	...	Vidrine
Garth Collins	...	Lacombe, Oil Rig Worker
Tumisho Masha	...	Rick (as Tumisho K. Masha)
Shirley Davidson	...	Tricia

MPAA:

Rated R for some violence.

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Finland:K-15 (self applied) | Netherlands:16 | Argentina:13 | Germany:16 | New Zealand:R13 | South Korea:15 | UK:12 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

South Africa

Company:

Sony Pictures Television

Trivia:

The license plate on the sunken car is Louisiana 007 o 981 - the same one that Hooper pulled out of the shark in Jaws (1975)

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Emery says that there is only one type of shark that can swim in both saltwater and freshwater he is wrong. There are in fact two types of sharks that are known to do this: the Ganges Shark and the Bull Shark.

Quotes:

Dr. Kelli Raymond: [about a gash on his head] Nasty.
Brett van Ryan: You have no idea.

Movie Connections:

References Deliverance (1972)

Yep,it's as bad as you can possibly fathom

My partner and i enjoy our regular DVD night's as the video shop we use has the biggest archive of hard to find movie's in Tauranga,but as my missus is usually in a hurry,she just grab's random movie's cause the cover look's good without reading the blurb on the back of the cover,hence we end up viewing the odd abomination such as this film.Some of my mate's came round that fateful night and viewed this jaw's invading the waterway's of a small hick town/criminal's searching for submerged loot sub plot, we could not help but giggle,make snide remark's and pick hole's in the sub porn wooden acting and the 'menacing' bull shark.Lot's of the ridicule was directed at coolio, washed up rapper/actor who seem's to think he's in a L.A gangsta flick and not in a small backwater community being terrorized by a vengeful, rubbery shark.Lou diamond phillip's career has taken a turn for the worst over the year's,yet he was in some fairly good movie's like La bamba,Young guns and The first power(i liked it anyway).Well worth a look to poke fun at but seriously do not see this thinking your gonna get a top notch thriller.