10 Scariest Shark Movies!

Few, if any, shark movies are quite as grim and depressing as Open Water.

Another 'based on true events' picture, Chris Kentis' 2003 film took a loved-up couple, dropped them in the middle of the ocean, and then let the audience watch their descent into depression, anger, trauma, sickness, and ultimately death unravel for the best part of an hour.

Open Water isn't a film based on a rampaging shark offing swimmers with alarming regularity. Open Water isn't a gimmicky film designed to grab the attention with its outlandish premise. Open Water isn't a cash-grab that was designed to be the launching pad for a franchise. No, Open Water was just a gut-punching and glum movie whose terror was in the scarce reality of what it would really be like to experience being left to die in the middle of the ocean.

This all comes about after a scuba dive trip goes array when couple Susan and Daniel resurface to find their boat gone. And from there on out, these lovers are left to battle the elements in the hope that a rescue may come - all while more and more sharks begin to arrive on the scene to see what's on the menu.

Despite not being designed to be a franchise, mind, Lionsgate would later co-opt 2006's Adrift and 2017's Cage Dive to technically spin them into Open Water 2 and Open Water 3.