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Nightmare Fuel / Jaws 3-D

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  • Just the thought of having a man eating shark at a local theme park is pretty unsettling.
  • Fitzroyce being swallowed whole by the shark.
    • This deserves some elaboration, for in a movie regarded as being so awful, it is genuinely one of the most unsettling moments in the whole series, topped only by Quint's death in the original; Fitzroyce isn't even bitten, he's actually crushed by the force of the shark's jaws moving up and down, all the while trying desperately to pull the pin on his grenade, to no avail. His gargling screams only make the scene harder to watch.
  • The corpse of one of the victims drifting in one of the fish tanks. In addition to the scene where somebody pulls the sheet off a rotting corpse with a disgusting close up of the damage done. We get plenty of time to look into the staring, terrified eyes of the decomposing Overman. The art department went as far as to place real live wrigging, leech-like marine creatures onto the prop, including one that slithers out of his mouth during the close-up.
  • Bad effects aside, a mammoth shark ramming into the control center would be very terrifying.
  • The Special Effect Failure actually renders this film even creepier than it was intended. As the 3D effects don't translate well over to 2D formats, this gives the effects-heavy scenes a surreal, dreamlike quality like something out of an Avant-Garde film.

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