What Is Allegorical Sharksploitation And Who Really Cares ?
Allegorical Sharksploitation is a style of movie making that uses actions and situations to examine and satirize the human condition. This is done through drama based on the insistence or the potential reality of a nonexistent shark as core premise. They can be feature- length or short movies. They can be comedic or a serious take on the human condition. I suppose all sharksploitation movies are about the human condition, but the absence of a shark seems to make the allegorical message more poignant. They are certainly not mainstream and most lean heavily toward art pretensions, Subway Shark is a self-proclaimed example of this. They are relatively new as the earliest known example dates from 2019 with The Sharks, a Latin American offering. Although the guru of this form of sharksploitation is Cody Clarke who is responsible for No Shark, Invisible Shark, Subway Shark. Close but probably not pure existential is Nightmare Shark 2018. More mainstream as a supernatural horror than the pure allegorical examples it is a possible progenitor.
I am probably the only one that needs this sub classification in sharksploitation because I have consumed so much of it and will continue too unabated, given the steady outflow of these genre movies .
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