12 Days of Terror

12 Days of Terror

DVD release poster
Directed by Jack Sholder
Produced by Dennis Stuart Murphy
Screenplay by Jeffrey Reiner
Tommy Lee Wallace
Based on Twelve Days of Terror 
by Richard Fernicola
Starring Colin Egglesfield
Mark Dexter
Jenna Harrison
Music by J. Peter Robinson
Cinematography Jacques Haitkin
Editing by Michael Schweitzer
Country South Africa
Language English
Original channel Discovery
Fox Television
Release date
  • 2004
Running time 86 minutes

12 Days of Terror is a 2004 television film that premiered on Animal Planet, and later on The Discovery Channel, directed by Jack Sholder and starring Colin Egglesfield, Mark Dexter, Jenna Harrison and John Rhys-Davies.[1]

Plot

Based on true events that occurred 1—12 July 1916 in Central and Southern New Jersey, as recounted in the book of the same name by Richard Fernicola, the film recounts the 12 days during which people along the Jersey coast were subject to attacks by a shark (in the film it is a great white shark). Initially, the authorities hesitated to take action, and the issue of sacrificing the safety of human beings for the sake of business was raised. After the second attack, modest precautions were taken, and scientific experts and civil authorities published assurances that area beaches had been made safe again. On 12 July a shark was sighted swimming into the freshwater canal of Matawan Creek—one expert who had come to capture the animal speculated that this indicated a bull shark. Children and young adults swimming upstream in the creek were attacked. After the shark was finally captured offshore, an autopsy was performed, and it is said that 15 pounds of human flesh with bones were found in its stomach. In the end, four people had been killed and a fifth badly injured. The remains of one young boy were never recovered. Because a propensity for human flesh is unnatural, scientists are still investigating why this shark did what it did.

Cast

See also

References

  1. ↑ "12 Days of Terror". The New York Times.

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