What Is This Netflix Movie With Sharks (again)?

Shark movies seem to have absolutely no limits. After attacks on the open sea, in the Seine and even tornadoes filled with sharks, sharks are now invading homes. Thrashthe new feature film from director Tommy Wirkola, has just revealed its first trailer before its planned release on Netflix next April 10.

The film features a coastal town hit by an ultra-violent hurricane. The floods become so bad that sharks from the ocean invade the streets and even enter people’s homes. A totally improbable idea (and once again absolutely impossible) but which fits perfectly into a very particular genre of disaster cinema.

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A crazy concept

In Thrashthe story follows several residents trying to survive a natural disaster that turns their town into a death trap. The cast includes Phoebe Dynevor (The Bridgerton Chronicles), Whitney Peak (Gossip Girl reboot) and Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond, Gladiator, Without a Sound).

The film immediately recalls other productions of the same genre, notably Crawl by Alexandre Aja, where alligators invade a house after a hurricane. But Thrash pushes the concept even further, by using an element that has become cult in disaster cinema: sharks.

For several years, films featuring giant sharks or sharks with improbable behavior have met with astonishing success. Productions like In troubled waters or its sequel showed that there was a real audience for these over-the-top films.

We don’t know if this is really the goal, but these feature films offer a cinematic experience where realism takes a back seat, in favor of spectacle and pure entertainment. They often play on a balance between tension, unintentional humor and high-voltage action scenes. This is also what explains why some spectators affectionately refer to them as “nanars”. They are often excessive, but that is precisely what makes them entertaining.

The previous success of French sharks

In this register, France has recently proven that this type of film can also work internationally. Under the Seine had caused a lot of talk when it was released on Netflix in 2024. The film, which featured a giant shark in the Seine in Paris, had attracted much criticism in France for its unrealistic side. However, internationally, he had achieved impressive success on the platform.

This success has also pushed Netflix to order a sequel, currently in preparation, even if little information has yet been revealed on its storyline or its release date. If improbable shark films continue to work, it is also because they respond to the simple desire to have fun without taking themselves too seriously, the famous “putting your brain down”.

With ThrashNetflix seems to want to reproduce this formula. It remains to be seen whether the film will succeed in finding the right balance between tension and second degree when the sharks arrive in subscribers’ living rooms.