12 Days of Terror

12 Days of Terror is a 2004 television film directed by Jack Sholder and starring Colin Egglesfield, Mark Dexter, Jenna Harrison and John Rhys-Davies. Based on a true story, it revolves around the 1916 Jersey shark attacks, in which a great white shark begins a series of attacks that takes place of the course of 12 days in New Jersey. It premiered on Animal Planet, and later on The Discovery Channel.[1]

12 Days of Terror
DVD release poster
Based onTwelve Days of Terror
by Richard Fernicola
Screenplay byJeffrey Reiner
Tommy Lee Wallace
Directed byJack Sholder
StarringColin Egglesfield
Mark Dexter
Jenna Harrison
Theme music composerJ. Peter Robinson
Country of originSouth Africa
Original language(s)English
Production
Producer(s)Dennis Stuart Murphy
CinematographyJacques Haitkin
Editor(s)Michael Schweitzer
Running time86 minutes
Release
Original networkAnimal Planet
Discovery
Fox Television
Original release
  • May 1, 2004 (2004-05-01)

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 juvenile 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 in sharks, scientists are still investigating why this shark did what it did.

Cast

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


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