Too many fans seem to be blown away

Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Oddball loner shark conservationist Sonny Stein (well played with tremendous gusto by Richard Jaeckel) has a special psychic link with and a strong abiding affinity for sharks. Stein declares war on no-count shark poachers and anyone else who's cruel to animals.Director William Grefe, working from a compelling script by Robert Morgan, relates the enjoyable story at a steady pace, maintains a likable sincere tone throughout, and stages the shark attack set pieces with flair. While Jaeckel dominates the proceedings with his delightfully vibrant and unbridled go-for-it enthusiasm, he nonetheless receives sturdy support from Jennifer Bishop as bitchy exotic dancer Karen (Bishop fills out a sparkly silver bikini quite nicely, too), John Davis Chandler as the slimy Charlie, Harold Sakata as Charlie's equally scuzzy pal Pete, Buffy Dee as fat slob bar owner Barney, and Ben Kronen as smarmy marine biologist Whitney. The shark sequences possess a genuinely harrowing sense of real danger. Julio C. Chavez's bright cinematography provides an attractive sunny look. The funky syncopated score by William Loose and Paul Ruthland hits the get-down groovy spot. A fun flick.

Well, I discovered JAWS OF DEATH in the late 70's, at the Brady cinema in Paris, a little theatre specialized in horror movies, cheap ones. A cinema every movie lover in Paris knew at this time. I really enjoyed it. I did not really know Richard Jaeckel at this moment and I was surprised by this B feature. I don't understand that many IMDb users talk about Jaws - Spielberg one, I mean...Nothing to do with it.Last week, so many years after the first viewing of JAWS OF DEATH, I watched STANLEY, directed by the same William Grefe. For me it's no more no less than a transposition - or I should say a first scheme of JAWS OF DEATH...but with snakes instead of sharks. A WILLARD like movie where a man prefers the company of animals, wild, dangerous or disgusting beasts, to the human beings associates. And, after all, he is probably right...And no IMDb user seems to have noticed that, the similarity between the two films.That's strange, isn't it?

The story is about a guy who received a shark amulet from an old man from Mindanao, Philippines in w/c later he's protecting all of his friends ( the sharks ) and he afters those people who hunts or use sharks for business. Then later, he feels tired, killed those shark hunters and users, when he drops the amulet, his friends ( sharks ) killed him. Very very basic yet enjoyable enough, easy to understand film in w/c the focus is a semi-revenge, semi-friend loving revenge films, an average one, but worth the watch. Recommended for peeps who likes shark movies and underwater and fishing lovers too. The amulet makes it a semi-fantasy film.

I just purchased a DVD copy of this film, having subsisted on an ancient VHS tape for a few years. Alas, the DVD appears to have been mastered from either very poor stock, or from a VHS tape. The opening sequence is almost unwatchable. Even the credits appear blurry. The picture is dark and seems out of focus. I don't remember it being this way when I saw it in the theaters. Then again, I was six, so what did I know? I still like the psychic/psychotic connection Jaeckel has with the sharks, although I could definitely lose the hokey "shark medallion" sequence, which accomplished nothing. I've ordered a new DVD edition put out by a different company. Both versions sell very cheaply on Ebay. We'll see how it goes.