SCI FI Pictures/Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy

Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy
Airdate	June 18, 2005
Written by	teleplay Monty Featherstone, Howard Zenski story Boaz Davidson, Ken Badish
Directed by	Michael Oblowitz
Network	Sci Fi Channel
Style	sci-fi horror
Company	Equity Pictures Medienfonds
Origin	USA

A mad scientist has created a human-shark hybrid. Carnage ensues.

Cast: William Forsythe (Tom), Hunter Tylo (Amelia), Jeffrey Combs (Dr. King), Elise Muller (Jane), Arthur Roberts (Feder), Lydie Denier (Katie Medevenko), G. R. Johnson (Amos), Anton Argirov (Hammerhead), Maria Ignatova (Julie), Velizar Binev (Dr. Krause), Atanas Srebrev (Erik Anderson), Pavel Doichev (Captain Sheldon), Atanas Mihailov (Crewman), Emil Markov (Engineer), Antonia Arra (Female 1), Ionna Bukovska (Female 2), Asia Hristova (Pregnant Woman), Nikolai Iliev (Man), Violeta Sechkova (Woman), Nicki Sotirov (Guard 1), Raicho Vasilev (Guard 2), Alexander Stanoev (Guard 3), Ivo Kehaiov (Guard 4), Dimitur Doichinov (Guard 5), Stanimir Stamatov (Guard 6), Velizar Peev (Guard 7), Stilian Mavrov (Guard 8), Radoslav Parvanov (Guard 9), Georgi Karaulkovski (Guard 10), Krasimir Simeonov (Guard 11)

Trivia

Behind the Scenes

• Location: Shot in Bulgaria.

Allusions and References

• Josef Mengele was a Nazi German SS officer and a physician at the Auschwitz concentration camp where he performed brutal, unethical experiments of doubtful scientific value on the inmates.

Tom: You mean besides Dr. Mengele over there with the three fingers?

• The Tempest: Feder quotes Prospero from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (Act 4, Scene I).

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air.

• The Evil Dead: The scene where Julie is attacked by vines is a nod to the famous tree rape sequence in Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead (1981).

DVD Release

Title	Release Date	#
Made-for-TV Movies
Hammerhead	October 11, 2005	1	purchase

External Sites

• Official Sci Fi Channel website for Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy