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* NothingIsScarier: We don't get to see [[spoiler: the shark mauling the drunk]], but we get to hear the splashes and screams.
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* OhCrap: Nancy has one when her attempt at [[spoiler: burning the shark to death only makes the shark angrier and attack the buoy more ferociously.]]
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* CreativeClosingCredits: The credits are placed over imagery of waves turning blood red.

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* CreativeClosingCredits: The end credits are placed played over imagery of waves turning blood red.
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* CreativeClosingCredits: The credits are placed over imagery of waves turning blood red.


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* PrecisionFStrike: Nancy utters one [[spoiler: right before she sets the whale oil on fire.]]
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* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: Despite the film being rated PG-13, it features quite a bit of blood and bloody wounds, [[spoiler: and a man crawling away from the severed lower half of his body. . .ONSCREEN.]]

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* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: Despite the film being rated PG-13, it features quite a bit of blood and bloody wounds, blood, grievous wounds [[spoiler: and a man crawling away from the severed lower half of his body. . .ONSCREEN.]]
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* CompanionCube: A rare living example in the form of Steven the seagull.
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* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: The shark. First it's shot in the face by a flare, then set on fire, and then finally impales itself on rebar at the bottom of the ocean.]]

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* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: The shark. First First, it's shot in the face by a flare, then set on fire, fire after Nancy ignites whale blubber/oil with a flare, and then finally impales itself on rebar at the bottom of the ocean.]]
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[[caption-width-right:250: Not just another day at the beach.]]

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[[caption-width-right:250: Not just another day at [[caption-width-right:350:What was once in the beach.deep is now in the shallows.]]

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* AssholeVictim: The drunk man who, upon seeing a woman stranded out from shore? Steals her money and things. Not many tears shed when he gets into the water to retrieve her surfboard and the shark takes care of the rest.



* ItCanThink: Nancy seems to realize the shark is not just a dumb animal when she takes refugee on the whale's corpse. The shark drags her further out and begins ramming the body to knock her into the water. It also uses more strategy against Nancy as the film goes on.



* SharkFinOfDoom
* SuperPersistentPredator: The shark seems to have it out for Nancy, and anyone else that attempts to get in the water nearby.
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* SharkFinOfDoom
SharkFinOfDoom: The shark usually announces itself with its fin rising above the surface.
* SuperPersistentPredator: The shark seems to have it out for Nancy, and anyone else that attempts to get in the water nearby.
nearby. It keeps at her for a course of more than a full day, even after eating two other people and presumably a whole lot of whale meat.
* ThreateningSharkThreateningShark: A gigantic great white that really, really wants to eat Nancy. Judging by the wound on the shark's face, it's very clear this shark has been going after humans for some time.
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* KillItWithFire: Nancy [[spoiler: tries to do this to the shark. It just pisses it off more.]]
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* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: The shark. First it's shot in the face by a flare, then set on fire, and then finally impales itself on rebar at the bottom of the ocean.]]
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* ActionSurvivor: Nancy
* EarnYourHappyEnding
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* GoryDiscretionShot: The film focuses in on Nancy's reaction as [[spoiler: the drunk is mauled by the shark.]] We can hear the act, but not see it. However, this is partly averted due to the FamilyUnfriendlyViolence example below.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: Despite the film being rated PG-13, it features quite a bit of blood and bloody wounds, [[spoiler: and a man crawling away from the severed lower half of his body. . .ONSCREEN.]]
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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler: The drunken man.]]
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* [[spoiler: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Nancy manages to trick the shark into impaling itself on some rebar at the bottom of the sea floor.]]
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Nancy tries to get a man in the beach to help her by shouting at him and pointing out where her bag is so he can call for help. Rather than help, he proceeds to steal her things, but as he gets into the water to steal her surfboard, the shark attacks him and bites him in half.]]
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Starring BlakeLively, the film centers around a young pro surfer named Nancy Adams, a full-time student at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, who is surfing at a secluded beach called "Paradise" when she becomes stranded on a giant rock 200 yards away from shore after an enormous great white shark attacks her. Now she has to find a way to get safely back to shore without getting attacked by the shark again, proving the ultimate contest of wills.

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Starring BlakeLively, Creator/BlakeLively, the film centers around a young pro surfer named Nancy Adams, a full-time student at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, who is surfing at a secluded beach called "Paradise" when she becomes stranded on a giant rock 200 yards away from shore after an enormous great white shark attacks her. Now she has to find a way to get safely back to shore without getting attacked by the shark again, proving the ultimate contest of wills.
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Several deaths throughout the film were spoiled by the trailers.

[[index]] SharkNight [[/spoiler]]

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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Several deaths throughout the film were spoiled by the trailers.

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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Several deaths throughout the film were spoiled by the trailers.

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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Several deaths throughout the film were spoiled by the trailers.trailers.

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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Several deaths throughout the film were spoiled by the trailers.


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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Several deaths throughout the film were spoiled by the trailers.


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* FightToSurvive: Nancy finds herself from rock in the middle of the ocean to buoy in the middle of ocean in order to reach shore, all while the shark endlessly attacks and stalks her.

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* FightToSurvive: Nancy finds herself moving from a rock in the middle of the ocean to a buoy in the middle of the ocean in order to reach shore, all while the shark endlessly attacks and stalks her.
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* FightToSurvive: Nancy finds herself from rock in the middle of the ocean to buoy in the middle of ocean in order to reach shore, all while the shark endlessly attacks and stalks her.



* ThreateningShark

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* SuperPersistentPredator

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* SuperPersistentPredator SharkFinOfDoom
* SuperPersistentPredator: The shark seems to have it out for Nancy, and anyone else that attempts to get in the water nearby.
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Starring Blake Lively, the film centers around a young pro surfer named Nancy Adams, a full-time student at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, who is surfing at a secluded beach called "Paradise" when she becomes stranded on a giant rock 200 yards away from shore after an enormous great white shark attacks her. Now she has to find a way to get safely back to shore without getting attacked by the shark again, proving the ultimate contest of wills.

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Starring Blake Lively, BlakeLively, the film centers around a young pro surfer named Nancy Adams, a full-time student at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, who is surfing at a secluded beach called "Paradise" when she becomes stranded on a giant rock 200 yards away from shore after an enormous great white shark attacks her. Now she has to find a way to get safely back to shore without getting attacked by the shark again, proving the ultimate contest of wills.
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''The Shallows'' is a survival-thriller released on June 24. 2016 and directed by Jaume Collet-Serra.

Starring Blake Lively, the film centers around a young pro surfer named Nancy Adams, a full-time student at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, who is surfing at a secluded beach called "Paradise" when she becomes stranded on a giant rock 200 yards away from shore after an enormous great white shark attacks her. Now she has to find a way to get safely back to shore without getting attacked by the shark again, proving the ultimate contest of wills.

!! This film contains the following:

* SuperPersistentPredator
* ThreateningShark

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