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Whelp, I had been interested in the movie. Sharks sharking on people? Great! I knew there had to be some mention of climate doom, like in the really good Under Paris, but, will Thrash go Full Cult?

Netflix’s ‘Thrash’ Cast Had A ‘Rude Awakening’ To Climate Change Fears Because Of Film

Thrash is here to induce your fear of sharks and impending climate change.

The Netflix thriller, written and directed by Tommy Wirkola, takes the Jaws approach in keeping viewers on the edge of their seats, while posing questions about humanity.

“Tommy’s known for these kinds of movies,” Phoebe Dynevor, who stars as Lisa, a newly single, nine-months pregnant woman trapped in her car following a massive Category 5 hurricane that brings hungry sharks into the flooded South Carolina town she resides in, told Blavity’s Shadow and Act.

“There’s the element of gore. There’s an element of comedy, and definitely, you’re on the edge of your seat,” Dynevor continued. “Shark movies really have an audience, and this one, it’s hurricanes and sharks, and there’s some real-world elements to this film. You know that the weather is something that’s causing a lot of damage to our world, and is caused by humans, by our own impact. So, there’s a lot of real-life consequences that are happening in this movie, and the sharks are the fun part, I would say.”

Hurricanes never happened before fossil fueled vehicles, you know. This is starting to sound tedious.

For Djimon Hounsou, bringing authenticity to Dale, Dakota’s marine research uncle, was a no-brainer, given his personal fight to raise awareness of the global impact of climate change.

He mentioned that he had opened a 2009 United Nations summit talking about climate change, global warming and the impact that fossil fuel use is causing such a dramatic change in our weather patterns.

“That was a rude awakening for me to understand how much we’ve contributed to this devastating weather,” Hounsou reflected.

“We’ve”?

(Decider) Netflix’s Thrash movie was filmed in Australia in summer 2024 (which is winter in Australia). The vast majority of Thrash was filmed in Melbourne in Victoria, and much of it was filmed on a set and in water tanks in Melbourne’s Docklands Studios. Other Thrash filming locations—according to the website Kinoafisha—include Canterbury in Melbourne and Mount Macedon, Victoria, Australia. At least one scene was filmed on location at the Mornington Pier, in Mornington, Victoria in Australia.

So, they all took long fossil fueled flights to Australia, along with all the equipment (director Tommy Wirkola is from Norway), instead of filming in, say, South Carolina, where the film is supposed to take place? What’s the carbon footprint for this?

“Pretty much around the world, there are so many countries that are suffering from it today, and so that was very realistic to me, and Tommy was able to capture that and insert that into the story here. Of course, I didn’t think about my ability of not — my lack of swimming at the time, but I also quickly realized I didn’t have to swim, right?” he continued. “I didn’t have to get into the water, which was a huge plus, but I mean it really was my awareness of the damage we’re causing.”

Yeah, I might give it a shot. How long I last depends on how much cult propaganda they push, instead of just rampaging sharks.

More: the reviews are rather brutal, such as

(RogerEbert.com) “Thrash” is an aggressively stupid movie. And I like well-done, aggressively stupid movies. Much to the disappointment of a critic who was actually pretty excited for a movie that combined sharks with a hurricane, this ain’t one. Its worst sin isn’t its stupid characters doing stupid things; it’s that the whole thing feels remarkably lazy, failing to find any tension or even B-movie thrills. You can insult my intelligence within the world of a film, but not in the actual filmmaking, if that makes sense. This movie sure doesn’t.

Once produced by Sony for a loud theatrical release before being dumped off for a quiet Netflix one, this year’s “Under Paris” or “Sharknado” is the truly ridiculous “Thrash,” a “Sharkicane” movie from the director of “Dead Snow.” If you’ve seen the work of Tommy Wirkola, you know what to expect: A lot of tongue-in-cheek, self-aware writing that’s really just the tendons connecting the good, gory stuff. Although it can’t even close that deal. Sure, body parts turn into shark snacks, but it’s mostly just a bunch of flailing in red water, battling unseen enemies. Stunningly, “Thrash” is boring, only finding a couple of interesting visuals to alleviate the ludicrous nature of it all.

Brian Tallerico gies it 1 1/2 stars out of 4. Listen, you can have a movie that is not all that great, but, it’s fun. Zombievers. Jeruzalem. Crawl. The Meg. Bait. Sharknado. Big or small production, sometimes they are very silly, but, you enjoy watching. You make it through. Under Paris was rather a silly premise, but, it worked. I’ve seen it at least twice, even though in French, dubbed to English. Maybe they should have spent more time on making a coherent, fun, bloody movie, instead of this. I’ll still give it a shot, but, will I make it through?