Poster art – Shark Bait (2022)

For instant horror, just add sharks!

Also just add sharks for an instant Top 10 Shark Horror Films!

Although to be honest, once you get past my top shark horror film, shark horror tends to be well, schlock.

1 – Jaws (the original and still the best shark horror film, although even the Jaws franchise couldn’t escape shark schlock in the sequels)

After Jaws in the top spot, I rank them alphabetically because there’s not much difference between them.

2 – 47 Meters Down (with at least one sequel – with those mutated cave sharks)

3 – Bait (the one with the tsunami sharks – in Australia!)

4 – Deep Blue Sea (genetically engineered brainy sharks – with a sequel!)

5 – Great White (res ipsa loquitur)

6 – The Meg (megalodon shark horror)

7 – Open Water (based on a true story from Australia – with at least two sequels)

8 – The Reef (another film set in Australia)

9 – The Shallows (a great white so filled with rage against humans that it doesn’t even care about a juicy whale carcass)

10 – Shark Night (where humans are the real villain, wanting to feed other humans to sharks – same shtick as Dangerous Animals in 2025)

SPECIAL MENTION: ALLIGATOR & CROCODILE HORROR – CRAWL & ROGUE

While nowhere near as prolific as shark horror films – which always seem to have a few films breach each year – I have almost as much as soft spot for alligator and crocodile horror films. I’d nominate Crawl as my favorite for the former and Rogue as my favorite for the latter.