Review of Blades

Blades (1988)
7/10
Easily One of the Best Jaws Knockoffs
7 February 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Of the numerous films that tried to cash-in on the success of Jaws, this easily up in the top 5. It doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is, a shameless knockoff of Jaws. Yet it goes beyond that and actually does a near shot-for-shot remake approach. Take Jaws and change the setting to a golf course and this is what you get. Brody, Quint, and Hooper, the quickly paced music, checking to see if they really got the monster, even the chase scene from the end perfectly recreates the end of Jaws but in a van.

Granted that while most of the knockoffs take themselves seriously, the filmmakers knew that this couldn't be taken seriously at all and simply had fun with it. It got a few chuckles out of me so I'd say give it a watch if you can.
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