BAR TRASH continues our 14th sensational season — TRASH PLANET 3: APOCALYPSE! — with one of those films that sells itself on the strength of its title alone, SHARKNADO (2013). As the tagline puts it, “Enough said!”.
When a freak tornado swamps Los Angeles, thousands of man-eating sharks are sucked into the swirling vortex, terrorising the water-logged populace and flooding the city with shark-infested seawater. With nature’s deadliest killer ruling sea, land and air, a group of survivors soon realise their best chance to escape the deadly maelstrom is to find a way to destroy it themselves.
Originally streaming to a less-than stellar 1.4million people on the Syfy Channel, SHARKNADO was propelled into cult film superstardom over the next 24hrs through the power of social media. Generating 5,000 tweets a minute at the peak of its Twitter storm, social media A-listers like Wil Wheaton shared their watching experience, adding further hype to the feeding frenzy.
SHARKNADO is exactly the kind of chaos that people expect to see at BAR TRASH, but it is much more than the sum of its PlayStation 2-era CGI body parts. Energetically paced and deeply committed to its own inherent absurdity (energies lost between the title and execution by the similarly hyped SNAKES ON A PLANE), SHARKNADO retains its crown as the ultimate SyFy CGI shark battle and is the perfect film to get drunk to (just take a gulp every time someone yells ‘shark!’).
Polite notice: We are presenting SHARKNADO without subtitles from the best available digital source.
/// BAR TRASH is a celebration of cult and curious cinema, hosted by queer film fanatic Token Homo and friends. Films are served with themed drinks, introductions, intermissions, prize giveaways, and subtitles / captions where possible. Tickets from £3.50 + fees. Adults 18+ only. Follow @tokenhomo or visit tokenhomo.com for all the gory details. ///
