If you end up hopelessly scrolling by the streaming apps this week, think about Prime Video’s newest. The streamer is providing you the possibility to observe the man from “The Summer season I Turned Fairly” and the gal from the “To All of the Boys” movies get menaced by a large bull shark. “The Satan’s Mouth” is a survival thriller that stars Gavin Casalegno and Lana Condor as school college students who, together with their different school mates, discover themselves trapped in an underground cave system with a hungry shark. It would not have one of the best evaluations, however Prime Video subscribers seem like having fun with it.
Shark motion pictures are having a second. On the identical time “The Satan’s Mouth” debuted on Prime Video, horror motion thriller “Above & Beneath” hit digital companies. What’s extra, each movies come within the wake of “The Bay,” which adopted “Deep Blue Sea” director Renny Harlin’s return to shark motion pictures with “Deep Water.” In the meantime, earlier this 12 months, Netflix delivered a shark catastrophe flick that was every little thing we needed it to be with “Thrash,” and now we now have “The Satan’s Mouth.”
The movie is directed by Jeff Wadlow, who beforehand helmed 2013’s “Kick-Ass 2” and Blumhouse’s horror getaway reboot “Fantasy Island.” The latter did not go over too properly with critics, and Wadlow’s newest is not faring significantly better, having earned a 38% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The viewers rating for “The Satan’s Mouth” ain’t nice both at 21%. Nonetheless, a couple of critics truly preferred it, and Prime Video customers appear to be having an excellent time with it, having despatched this particular shark film to the highest of the service’s worldwide streaming charts.
The Satan’s Mouth is a world hit on Prime Video
“The Satan’s Mouth” follows 5 school mates (performed by Kathryn Newton, Lana Condor, Gavin Casalegno, Nico Hiraga, and Tommi Rose). Throughout a trip in Thailand, the gang join a guided swim by the titular underwater cave system. Issues begin out properly sufficient, with the group having fun with their yacht journey previous to diving into the caves. However it seems a storm the week prior crammed the caves with sea creatures, and whereas virtually all of them perished, one decided bull shark survived. In all probability not one of the best time to get trapped within the caves, then. However that is precisely what occurs.
The shark is not the one menace to the group. Longstanding resentments and a few poisonous personalities imply the crew battle to work collectively to flee the apex predator searching them. Issues solely worsen because the ordeal goes on, with the group fracturing below the stress.
Is “The Satan’s Mouth” certainly one of one of the best shark motion pictures of all time? No. Has it received over the streaming crowds? Sure. The film hit Prime Video on July 29, 2026, and, per FlixPatrol, instantly hit the streamer’s video charts in 50 nations around the globe. On the time of writing, “The Satan’s Mouth” ranks at quantity three on the film chart and quantity 5 on the general chart, which is not a nasty debut. However it’s additionally proved standard worldwide, hitting primary on the films chart in Finland, The Netherlands, The Philippines, and Spain. One way or the other, it is even primary on the general chart in Belgium, The Philippines, and Poland.
The Satan’s Mouth may simply be higher than the evaluations recommend
Clearly, “The Satan’s Mouth” has one thing to it, even when that 38% RT rating dwells like a ticked off bull shark slightly below the floor. All the identical, a few the “high critics” on RT apparently loved it. Benjamin Lee of The Guardian, for example, gave it three stars and maintained that the toxicity of the buddies within the movie added “extra than simply physique components to the water.” The Los Angeles Occasions‘ Mary McNamara was equally complimentary, calling the film “nice enjoyable to observe” and writing, “At a time when cataloging journey woes have develop into such a giant a part of the cultural dialog, it affords the last word escape.”
Nonetheless, the unhealthy evaluations are fairly scathing. Jacob Oller of the AV Membership criticized the “grating dialogue and doggy-paddle tempo,” and The Age‘s Jared Richards known as it a “bland horror” that is “ugly in all of the incorrect methods.” That stated, these few constructive evaluations and the movie’s streaming success suggests “The Satan’s Mouth” may be destined to develop into an underrated shark film. On the very least, these nonetheless upset with the worst issues Jeremiah Fisher (Gavin Casalegno) did on “The Summer season I Turned Fairly” may take pleasure in seeing the man pursued by a ruthless killing machine. In any other case, the one strategy to know for certain whether or not you will aspect with the unfavorable or constructive evaluations is to observe the film for your self on Prime Video. Alternatively, it isn’t like there is a scarcity of shark motion pictures in 2026.
