10 Scariest Shark Movies!
2. The Reef
That one moment shown in the accompanying GIF is enough to instantly send a shiver down your spine.
While the shark subgenre had spent years more often than not serving up subpar effort after subpar effort, that changed in 2010 when Andrew Traucki gave audiences The Reef. Loosely based on real events, The Reef centres on a group of Australians on a trip to deliver a yacht to Indonesia. After just two days, their vessel hits some coral reef and capsizes - leaving the group of friends ominously floating in the ocean.
Opting to try and swim to a nearby island, it soon becomes apparent that the group is being stalked by a great white shark.
For anyone whose stomach gets slightly turned at the thought of watching a shark movie, The Reef is true nightmare fuel - with pretty much 75 minutes of the film's 94-minute run time focussed on the terrified group stranded in the ocean, at the mercy of the sea and the predators within in.
When looking at the pantheon of shark movies seen over the decades, it's with no sense of hyperbole to say that The Reef really is in the upper echelon of the very best films within the subgenre - with the constant sense of uncertainty, anxiety, and dread ticking a whole lot of the right boxes.