The Reef: Stalked
In an effort to heal after witnessing her sister’s horrific murder, Nic travels to a tropical resort with her friends for a kayaking and diving adventure. Only hours into their expedition, the women are stalked and then attacked by a great white shark. To survive they will need to band together and Nic will have to overcome her post-traumatic stress, face her fears and slay the monster.
- Released: 2022-01-06
- Runtime: 120 minutes
- Genre: Horror, Thrillers
- Stars: Teressa Liane, Kate Lister, Ann Truong, Saskia Archer
- Director: Andrew Traucki
Comments
- sneakyunderbelly - 12 January 2023
Sisterhood of the Travelling Shark
Seriously?!?!?! Sub-par acting and effects I can deal with, this is a C-Grade Aussie Shark movie after all... BUT ONLY ONE DEATH BY SHARK?!?!?! It's not even the most horrific death!!!! That happens off-screen in the first 10 minutes, by a creep and some bath water.... Technically the shark death happens off-screen too. They didn't even go for some obvious deaths either, which is the very LEAST this "thriller/horror" movie could've done. Instead, one girl gets her life jacket grazed, another gets a dislocated shoulder from falling into water, and a shark the size of a kayak, drags a toddler by the leg, yet only manages a couple of puncture wounds.... YAWN!!!! They don't even think to use one of TWO sharp weapons they were given for defence, until after using a fishing net to try to DROWN it first. All the while the most horrific clips come from flashbacks of extreme closeups of a woman screaming under water... Thrilling. This movie feels like the director/writer wanted to do a moving sisterhood drama, but the studios execs said "yeah but add a shark, just, put a shark in it, somewhere"... Giving it two stars, because unfortunately it's not the WORST "shark" movie out there, but still... SKIP!!! - Leofwine_draca - 1 December 2022
Highly predictable
STALKED is the sequel to THE REEF, an older Aussie shark horror that I really loved thanks to its oodles of suspense and unrelenting tension. Sadly, although the same director returns his skills seem to have evaporated in the interim period, because this is unrecognisable from his earlier film. Now we get three female characters going kayaking (one of whom has a back story, which means we're subjected to repetitive and ridiculous flashbacks) before a shark comes after them. It's interchangeable with other modern shark thrillers, with a lot of uninteresting dialogue interspersed with very few exciting moments. Highly predictable, too.
