10 Films That Probably Started As A Drunken Bet

10. Sharknado

You have to admire the audacity of a production company that makes a movie about leaping, flying sharks that can use rope ladders, mounts it on a budget of $1.98 and casts Tara Reid as the female lead. The Asylum’s office parties must be epic.

For good measure, they throw in the kind of action scenes you’d expect to see in a movie like San Andreas: a Ferris wheel crashes into a skyscraper, the Hollywood sign is destroyed, sharks fly into power lines etc. The cheap digital effects means it all looks about as convincing as one of Nicolas Cage’s wigs, but that only adds to the fun.

As any meteorologist will confirm, the only way to combat a Sharknado is to fly explosives into the eye of the storm, causing it to rain sharks that can then be picked off by a sharpshooter. Should one swallow your girlfriend, it’s no biggie, just feed yourself to the shark while carrying your trusty chainsaw. It worked for Ishmael in that Melville story.