10 Scariest Shark Movies You've Never Seen

3. Bait

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Across the past decade or more, we've had sharks in tornadoes, six-headed sharks, snow sharks, giant robotic sharks, and ghost sharks that can devour you from the comfort of your own toilet. Yes, really. So, if you were to hear "sharks in a supermarket", you'd likely pass this off as just another ridiculous gimmick.

That's actually the basic premise of 2012's Bait, and Bait is thankfully far superior to all of those aforementioned gimmicks.

With The Loved Ones' Xander Samuel taking centre-stage, Bait sees an Australian coastal town struck by a tsunami that floods the local area, including the supermarket. And along with that water, there are some rather hungry great white sharks along for the terror, too.

Rather than being entirely over-the-top, Bait largely plays things straight, with our characters having to take refuge on shelving units and the like, all while trying to establish a plan to escape the two sharks that ominously lurk below - with the result being a claustrophobic, unsettling picture.

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