10 Insane Movie Moments You Couldn't Believe Directors Actually Went There

Granted, the six-movie Sharknado franchise is famed for taking things to insane new levels of unbelievability, but there was a time when the title Sharknado was synonymous with 'merely' sharks in tornadoes.

At the time of Anthony C. Ferrante's first film, that concept itself sounded nuts enough, but in hindsight that now feels relatively tame when compared to the direction the series ended up going in - not least in how the franchise would head up into space and back through time.

So, with plenty of sharks being in plenty of tornadoes in the original Sharknado back in 2013, it came as a legitimate forehead-slapping shock to see how that first picture handled the she's-not-really-dead rescue of Cassie Scerbo's Nova.

With Nova in a helicopter, she'd fall out of said chopper and land right in the mouth of a shark. And that was it, Nova was one of the many deaths of the movie, right? Nah, instead she'd be miraculously saved by Fin (Ian Ziering) a solid 15 minutes later.

As the sharks are defeated, one last airborne shark plummets towards the ground. Ever the hero, Fin dives into the shark's mouth with his trusty chainsaw to hand. Wouldn't you know it, as Ziering's character cuts his way out of the carcass of this apex predator, he emerges with the totally-unscathed Nova in his arms.

With that, Sharknado totally went there, and the stage was set for further insanity to follow in the franchise.