Mako: The Jaws Of Death

I saw this back in the 70s on regular tv.. So entertaining . Real sharks were used in the making of this movie..classic

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The Florida-based director William Grefe has brought many swamp-tinged bits of exploitation goodness — or badness — to the screen, such as Alligator Alley, The Wild Rebels, The Hooked Generation and so many more. As one of the first films made to take advantage of the shark craze in the way of Spielberg’s success, this film’s sympathetic view of sharks as victims is a pretty unique take on the genre.Marine salvager Sonny Stein (Richard Jaeckel, who pretty much had a one-man war against nature with him battling bats in Chosen Survivors, bears in Grizzly and, well, any and all beasts with a chip on their shoulder in Day of the Animals) is given a medallion that allows him to communicate with sharks. He becomes increasingly disconnected from humanity — easy to do, everyone in this movie is scum — and uses his sharks to take out those who go against his beliefs.One of those people is an incredibly chubby club owner who is using high-frequency sound to train his sharks, as well as kind of pimping out his wife Karen (Jennifer Bishop, Bigfoot) to get Sonny on their side. Have you ever seen a movie where strippers have been trained to swim with sharks? Who would want to see that? This movie provides the what, if not the why.Another is a shady shark researcher that murders a shark and her pups. You will stare unbelieving at the screen while Jaeckel overly emotes as he clutches a dead baby shark in his mitts. Oh yeah — Harold “Oddjob” Sakata is also in this.The stunt footage is pretty amazing and even gets a mention before the movie even begins. Other than the weird premise and a few good scenes, you can nap through most of this and not feel bad.

Fun to watch if you love typical 70s Movies, especially involving Sharks and its filmed in Florida...It was actually made before JAWS but it was unreleased and then left in storage. When JAWS finally came out and shark movies were all the rage they finally released it getting the European premiere of the movie before jaws was released in Europe.

I remember this movie being good when I was younger not so much any more that I'm older

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Did you love Jaws? How about Willard? Okay, what about Aquaman? Do you like Aquaman? Okay, so, how about Rolling Thunder? Walking Tall? Death Wish? Now: imagine all of those movies rolled into one, produced for the cost of a season pass to Sea World, with some of the most stunning shark action sequences this side of the zombie underwater wrestling scene in Zombi, all filmed without the use of cages or protective equipment... This, in a nutshell, is Mako: Jaws Of Death! In the late 70's, it seemed like every b-movie company in the world got into the business of trying to make their own micro budget knockoff of Jaws. Some were genuinely entertaining-- most were terrible. But Mako took that premise one... no, make that twenty steps further... and told the story of a disturbed Vietnam Vet with a telepathic link to the Florida shark population, who uses his powers to hunt and kill every sport fisherman unwise enough to stray into his waters. If you love sharks, psychos, underwater go-go dancers, countless victims being hacked up and turned into fish-food, do yourself a favor and buy this DVD. It has EVERYTHING.