Movie: The Reef

If it’s Easter Sunday it must be shark night …errr

This Sunday night ABC2 screens an unnerving, Aussie feature The Reef in which a group of tourists are terrorised by a shark after their boat capsizes.

This stars Damian Walshe-Howling, Gyton Grantley, Adrienne Pickering, Zoe Naylor, Kieran Darcy-Smith and Mark Simpson.

While it would be easy to presume this is a low-budget schlock film, it’s actually rather good, albeit closer to Open Water than Jaws.

Sharks are certainly in flavour on Sunday with GO! replaying Sharknado at 9:30pm.

Drowning is suddenly not the only problem for the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef. Four backpackers have set out for a week cruising the beautiful Great Barrier Reef on their own yacht. But when the boat capsizes, leaving them stranded on the overturned hull, they must make a simple choice… stay with the damaged ship, likely to sink at any moment or try and swim for dry land?

Taking to the water the group starts to close in on land. But when a giant fin breaks the surface they are hit with the realisation they are being stalked by a deadly fourteen foot Great White shark. Will any of them make it to dry land or will the sea just take what it wants?

Hailed by critics as ‘the scariest shark thriller since Jaws’, this is the ultimate true story of survival set on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

9:30pm Sunday, 20 April ABC2