12 Days of Terror

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12 Days of Terror
Directed by Jack Sholder
Produced by Dennis Stuart Murphy
Written by Richard Fernicola (book)
Jeffrey Reiner (teleplay)
Tommy Lee Wallace (teleplay)
Starring Colin Egglesfield
Mark Dexter
Jenna Harrison
Music by J. Peter Robinson
Cinematography Jacques Haitkin
Editing by Michael Schweitzer
Distributed by Discovery
Fox Television
Release date(s) 2004
Running time 86 min.
Country South Africa
Language English
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12 Days of Terror is a 2004 docudrama made for The Discovery Channel, directed by Jack Sholder and starring Colin Egglesfield, Mark Dexter, Jenna Harrison, Jamie Bartlett and John Rhys-Davies.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Based on reportedly true events that occurred in July, 1916 in Central and Southern New Jersey, as recounted in the book by Richard Fernicola of the same name, the film recounts 12 days during which people along the Jersey coast were subject to attacks by a shark. Four people were killed and a fifth badly injured. After the shark was captured, an autopsy was performed, and it is said that 15 pounds of human flesh were found in its stomach. Because a propensity for human flesh is unnatural, scientists are still investigating why this shark did what it did.

These real events were actually the events that inspired Peter Benchley to write the best selling novel Jaws, which later became a movie.

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