Dinoshark is Syfy Channel Original Movie. Produced by Roger Corman, it first aired in March 2010. It is reportedly a remake of the 1979 movie Up From The Depths, though also inspired by the Dinocroc movies Corman also made recently for SyFy.
In the film, a prehistoric creature resembling a shark with a tyrannosaurus head that had somehow gotten frozen alive in a glacier, is released when it melts. Three years later, it starts attacking people and boats off the popular tourist town of Puerto Vallarta, in Mexico. The protagonist, an American named Trace, tries to convince the locals of the monster's existence.
Tropes:
- Artistic License – Biology: The Dinoshark is supposed to be a Pliosauroid of some kind, but the Rule of Cool is clearly in effect (such as with the armor skin).
- Fanservice: Lots of attractive girls and guys in beachwear.
- Gorn: It's pretty gory for a TV movie.
- Harmless Freezing: As with several other shark monsters from similar movies, the Dinoshark lives through the millennia in suspended animation inside an iceberg, and once it's released it's at full killing capacity.
- Sequel Hook: As expected for a movie of this kind, another dinoshark is seen escaping from the glacier in the end.
