Baconator Lord

The horror film I chose doubled as a sci-fi film, blurring the lines between the two genres, really giving it the liberty to explore truly complex topics. Of course, the film I'm referring to is The Last Sharknado: It's About Time (2018). it is a sequel to the other Sharknado films with a cosmically beautiful twist. Shortly after the previous films, the Earth has been utterly devasted by the Sharknado's. Fin and Gil decide they must travel time to put a stop to this. They see shreds of their time traveling past actions, including Gil riding a dinosaur inside a Sharknado. The absolutely gripping film explores the consequences of meddling with time. The two heroes realize that by traveling through time, they inadvertently unleashed Sharknado's throughout time. Gil and April (April is Gil's companion and ends up being turned into a robot head that can shoot lasers) then have a brief falling out before coming back to good terms just in time to escape another Sharknado. The group then time travels to the revolutionary war, where they encounter Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. They use the revolution's cannon to defeat another incoming Sharknado before going off to yet another point in time. Finally, the group ends up in the wild west. We see the Camera style, the actions shots, the high noon classic angles come into play. A moment of technical genius from the director Anthony C. Ferrante demonstrates and executes his unparalleled skills to perfection. In the Wild West, Billy the Kid escapes jail, and a huge showdown happens. April's robot head comes into use as the lasers blast away the sharks. But both April and robot April are lost. Gil and Fin jump back to the future only to discover they've gone too far and see that robot April's head has taken over the world. A huge fight goes down, and April reappears magically. After Fin gets tortured, the fight creates a timenado, notable historical figures including, but not limited to, Cleopatra and Hitler get sucked in. That reality is destroyed but creates a new one identical to the one before but without any Sharknado's. This cinematic masterpiece concludes a truly epic and generation-defining series. Challenging the norms of what horror is, breaking the boundaries between action, adventure, and the truly horrifying idea of a shark tornado coming flying at you. In the Wild West scene, in particular, you can see the chaos of the Sharknado's and get a true grasp on why they are so terrifying. You get the satisfaction of watching Robot Amy using laser eyes to blow sharks out of the air. It is truly a moment that blurs so many different genres together, and it's absolute ambrosia for the eyes. No other movie series has been so successful as Sharknado, nor so poetically put together a movie that is not only historically accurate but also tackles such an intense idea. It's not just a serial killer. It's not just a guy to gets on all fours and gets hairy at a full moon. It's Sharknado's taking over the world! The movie does move too far away from the source material? Yes and no, as the time-traveling element really brought something new to a timeless classic but still revolved around the idea of a Shark Tornado.