Bait a new twist on the killer shark horror movie

Jaws the 1975 horror movie put the label of bad guy purposely square on the man eating great white shark’s dorsal fin, while the new film Bait hopes for something more sinister, the shark is only the weapon being used to kill people. Insiders say the plot focuses on a man who begins to resent the wealthy people around him at the upscale resort where he works. He ends up flirting with a woman and afterwards gets humiliated and beaten up by the woman’s boyfriend.

The incident puts him beyond his limit and he decides he wants revenge and begins to plot his vengeance by planning to hijack a boat that is loaded with kids of the rich guests at the resort. His plan is to dispose of the kids one at a time by throwing them to a pack of sharks frenzied by blood in the water.

If not for the writer, this film you may expect to see on your Sci-Fi network, but Bret Easton Ellis (Rules of Attraction and American Psycho) is excellent in bringing to life the upper class mental madman. The director is Paul Schrader who wrote the screenplays for Raging Bull and Taxi Driver.

The movie is not in any way to be mistaken for Bait 3D the Australian film that could make Ellis consider changing the film’s title. Near release the 3D film features tsunami survivors that get trapped in a supermarket that coincidentally is the new home of man-eating tiger sharks that have lost their way.

The director of the 3D horror film said that everyone is afraid of tsunamis and of course everyone looks out for sharks, but combining the two in the setting of your local supermarket has never been done previously. Going to buy milk will never be the same.