Best Geeky Finds – Out of the Ocean and Into the Trailer

As of this coming week, Sharknados will have stricken six times around the world. One swoop of wind and hurricanes and tornadoes and the friendly sea creatures that easily destroy their enemies in one bite is right at our back door. What happens when human stupidity is the cause of it  instead though? 

Trailer Park Shark is the redneck version of this. Now, when I say “redneck,” I am not demeaning anybody who lives in a trailer park. The treatment of characters in this film is simply displayed as such— 8 am beer guzzling, baby mama mud fighting, deadbeat girlfriend beater hicks. It both mocks hillbillies as well as makes everybody the most relatable person they can be so that, by the end of the movie, the audience will cheer for the protagonists trying to reclaim their land.

When business mogul Decconard, played by none other than Dennis Haskins, Mr. Belding himself, tries to buy the land Soggy Meadows trailer park is located on, its residents try to fight back to keep their homes. Decconard has his own plan to kick them off out though. After sending goons to destroy the dam wall near the park at the same time as the oncoming tropical storm, everything is flooded and a new resident is introduced—an electrically charged shark. That’s right, a shark that can electrocute everything around it, including the metal trailers people are using to stay above water.

All in all, the movie has a pretty obvious conclusion, everybody evil having been murdered by the shark, while the shark is tied up and destroyed. The very fact that this one is destroyed in only 90 minutes makes the existence of six Sharknados, nearly all containing some of the same sharks, ridiculous. Even better is the casting of Tara Reid, the back-and-forth from dying character of the Sharknado series, as finders-keepers collector throughout the park. As a lover of her movies, I found this shark film a perfect choice.

You can check out the trailer on YouTube.