Tintorera is a pulp fantasy straight out of those early sixties men's adventure magazines that featured point of impact painted covers. It's not grindhouse junk cashing in on the Jaws phenomenon despite its reputation and reviews. The photography is excellent, far beyond what the viewer would expect. Mexican movie stars Hugo and Andres work well as an acting team in a story that blends wild R-rated tourist-sex with tiger shark hunting at a Mexican resort town. The scenes of British actress Susan George having a threesome with Hugo and Andres are still eye-opening 40 years later. In the beginning, Hugo feels sorry when he sees shark hunters hauling the sharks on board and clubbing them to death. He changes his opinion when the big killer shark turns tourists in gore and teams up with Andres to get the monster. Like a lot of films about wild life killing humans, people do dumb things (in this film because they've been drinking) and get horribly killed. If the sight of gore and sharks being bashed in the head is offensive to you, skip this movie.
Review of Tintorera: Killer Shark
