The Sci-Fi Cast

While the Discovery Channel celebrates Shark Week, we’re having our own toothy fun with Sci-Fi Shark Week! Each day this week we’ll profile one ominous eating machine from the world of science fiction. Today’s selection is Sharks in Venice, an over-the-top monster movie from the SyFy Network.

How could we not include this stinker from SyFy? Actors Stephen Baldwin (playing David) and Vanessa Johansson (playing Laura) venture to Venice, Italy to search for David’s father, who disappeared unexpectedly. While floating through the canals on a boat, David sees a large dorsal fin. Of course, he and an Italian man named Rossi (which must be Italian for “Red shirt”) enter the canals in wet suits. The shark re-appears, bites David and devours his doomed Italian companion.

From there, the plot borrows heavily from several Indiana Jones movies. David escape to a cave, evades traps and finds treasure. He then makes his way to a hospital but is then sent back to the cave for more looting.

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While the Discovery Channel celebrates Shark Week, we’re having our own toothy fun with Sci-Fi Shark Week! Each day this week we’ll profile one ominous eating machine from the world of science fiction. The expedition kicks off today with Bro’os, the loan shark demon from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

It’s not easy to do a live-action shark character. Animated, sure. Look at Finding Nemo’s Bruce, for example. Huge, threatening and all teeth. Put Bruce in a Brooks Brothers suit and have him walk upright, however, and you’ve got trouble.

Bro’os, whose nickname is “Teeth” (what else), suffers from this misfortune. He first appeared in the eighth episode of Buffy’s sixth season, Tabula Rasa, and holds the distinction of being one of the very few characters to be considered an enemy by both the Scooby Gang and the Angel Investigations Team.

Plus, he looks goofy. Heck, even that shark in 12 oz. Mouse was more imposing.

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