Tintorera (1977)

Directed by

René Cardona Jr.

Genre

horror film, adventure film, thriller film

Country

Mexico

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

R

Rating

3.9 of 10 from 45 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of people on an island encounter a large tiger shark. The film follows their attempts to deal with the dangerous predator.

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What happens

Tintorera is a 1977 Mexican-British horror film directed by René Cardona Jr. and starring Susan George, Hugo Stiglitz, Fiona Lewis, and Andrés García. It is based on the novel of the same name by oceanographer Ramón Bravo, who studied the species of shark known as 'tintorera' (a 19-foot (5.8 m) shark) and discovered the sleeping sharks of Isla Mujeres. The film, along with many monster movies of the 1970s and 1980s, is very similar to Jaws. It is also known by the alternative title Tintorera: Killer Shark. Quentin Tarantino paid tribute to this movie at the eighth Morelia International Film Festival, showing a copy from his private collection. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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