After murdering a guard at an outpost somewhere in the Pacific, a man by the name of "Lee Johnston" (Don Durant) and his innocent brother, "Chris Johnston" (Bill Cord) make the decision to escape by boat to another location where they can hide out. Along the way, a hurricane hits and their boat sinks. As luck would have it they are rescued by some female pearl divers and brought ashore to a nearby island. While there they are treated hospitably and told that a police boat will come by to pick them up in about 10 days. Needless to say, they don't like the sound of that and make plans to leave before it arrives. At any rate, for a low-budget production the director (Roger Corman) did a pretty good job of taking advantage of the scant resources at his disposal. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to pull this movie into average territory. For example, the tropical scenery was beautiful but the black and white film failed to do it justice. Likewise, some of the scenes involving the sharks looked like they came from a National Geographic film which were simply reused for special effects. In any case, the movie ended up being somewhat sluggish and for that reason I rate it as below average.
Review of She Gods of Shark Reef
