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Sharkula  (2022)
Nomination Year: 2023
SYNOPSIS: 

John and Arthur are a couple of shiftless drifters who decide to take a job as stevedores in a strange New England town. But everything about this town is weird. The boss's representative, Renfield, is an exceedingly bizarre little man who hands down seemingly arbitrary rules, like: The deliveries only come at night. Do not go out after sundown except to work. Do NOT speak to anybody, especially the comely librarian, Mina. And no, the boss will not see you unless he wants to, and only at night.

John breaks the rules and is murdered, and Arthur swears he saw a shark with glowing red eyes in the harbor. Eventually, all is revealed: The boss is actually Dracula! Yes, THE Dracula. But he's not in charge of the town--the shark is.

You see, years ago, Dracula was cornered by the usual mob of townsfolk with pitchforks and torches. Forced off a cliff, the Prince of Vampires plunged into the sea and was chomped on by a huge shark. The Count had no choice but to suck on the shark in turn. But this somehow gave the shark a rudimentary intelligence and complete control over Dracula. Now at the vampire-fish's mercy, Dracula has to sacrifice people to the beast's hunger at regular intervals. And Dracula wants out of this deal.

The Count finally turns to Arthur for help. Along with Mina, they come up with a half-baked plan to kill Sharkula and free Vlad. It goes...badly.

Bryan Cassidy
Smithee Award Nominations
Smithee Award Winner! Stupidest-Looking Monster
Surly Drunk Gets Eaten by Shark Puppet That Turns CGI and Flies Off
A disgruntled bum vents his spleen on the dock. Soon, he's venting everything else as the HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE puppet/CGI SLM Sharkula eats him, then, uh..."flies" off into the, uh, night?
Smithee Award Winner! Worst Acting
Kyle Rappaport as Renfield
How much of this quirky, slurring performance is the character, and how much the actor??
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Worst Picture
"Die, Dracula."
I don't know if there's any other place for this than Worst Picture. The villagers corner Dracula on a, uh, cliff? One says "Die, Dracula." There's a CGI blood splotch. A Witchboard fall. An echoey voiceover. A woman fire-dancing on the beach... It's almost all too much!
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Directors
Director Claim to Fame
Mark Polonia One of Wildeye's premiere directors, he's fast becoming one of the formemost directors of schlock ever, though he's got only about 80 films under his belt so far, including Land Shark, Sister Krampus, and the entire Feeders, Empire of the Apes, and R.I.P Van Winkle franchises. 
Cast
Actor Character Claim to Fame
James Kelly John In several Bad Wildeye releases, and counting: Battle Bots, Return to Splatter Farm, Jurassic Shark 2: Aquapocalypse, and others. 
Tim Hatch Arthur Been in many Bad movies, mainly with Wildeye, including Shark Enounters of the Third Kind, Frozen Sasquatch, and, uh, Camp Blood 666 Part 2: Exorcism of the Clown
Jeff Kirkendall Dracula What can I say about Jeff Kirkendall? Arguably the star in the Wildeye crown, he "graces" over 65 Bad films, including It Kills, Bigfoot vs. Zombies, Ghost of Camp Blood, and R.I.P Van Winkle parts 1, 2, and 3. 
Kyle Rappaport Renfield An long and growing list of Bad Movie credits: Dewy in Bloody Nun 2: The Curse; Terry in It Kills; Gerald in Jurassic Shark 3: Seavenge
Jamie Morgan Mina An impressive (and growing) filmography of roles...all in Bad Movies. Bloody Island, Ghost of Camp Blood, Camp Murder, Sister Krampus...you get the idea. 
Michael Korotitsch Drunk Guy Small parts in about a dozen horrible movies, and counting. 
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