Chum

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Chum

Jun 2026

1h 27m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Members of a wedding party in Malta encounter a bloodthirsty shark and a sinister fisherman who turns their celebration into a deadly trap. Forced between open water and a relentless human predator, the friends soon find themselves in a desperate fight for survival as secrets come to light and loyalties get tested.

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Leslie Felperin

Guardian

9h

2/5

The daft script, credited to Joe Leone and director Jonathan Zuck, practically draws targets on these supporting characters’ backs, daring the audience to guess which annoying idiot will be thrown overboard first to engage with the toothy foe.

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Niall Browne

Movies in Focus

Aug 5

2/5

Chum has a pretty interesting premise, but it’s very much failed by the execution. The plotting is too contrived, the characters are too thin and a most of the performances are a little off.

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John Daniel Tangalin

Hue Watched It

Jun 26

0.5/5

Sadly, all of this miscommunication represents a large failure in what the movie aims to accomplish, or what it thinks it is accomplishing.

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Nicholas Bell

Fish Jelly Films (YouTube)

Jun 24

.5/5

Chum is another slum level shark thriller which unsuccessfully binds several genre tropes together as a way to distract from shoddy special effects and bland, grating characterizations, while poor Alice Eve seems to be paying a karmic price...

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Jake Tropila

In Review Online

Jun 19

Haphazardly edited, abysmally performed, and featuring some stunningly atrocious visual effects, Chum more than lives up to its title.

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Joe Kucharski

Pop Culture Leftovers

Jun 18

For all its blood in the water, Chum rarely inspires fear.

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Derry W

@RT88943264 1d

Terrible AI footage. Had a good laugh watching this with friends though. Especially the video game sound effects, lmao. Also, random climate change message at the end? When they used AI??

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Chris P

@RT91977379 1d

I smell a razzie nomination

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Tim T

@Movieman422 3d

The movie reminds me of another movie, with the same premise, and the characters are a bunch of weenies, they were way too trusting of their capture. But I watched it anyway, because I like to give each movie a chance to hopefully shock me with some kind of surprise or excitement.

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Heather S

@Heathers0809 6d

I'm only 32 minutes in and can tell if isn't great. I went online and looked at reviews. Not amazing

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Craig W

@CJWolfe27 Aug 4

Man this was bad, acting was horrible, if they treated it like a comedy might have been better. I’d give it negative stars of if I could. It’s basically a poorly made rip off of Dangerous Animals. Dangerous Animals is a great movie this one not so much

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J T

@rebel88 Aug 4

This was TOUGH to get through. It's only an hour and a half but feels longer than The Odyssey. One of the worst shark movies I've ever seen and that's saying a lot. JAWS 3 has NEVER looked so good.

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Members of a wedding party in Malta encounter a bloodthirsty shark and a sinister fisherman who turns their celebration into a deadly trap. Forced between open water and a relentless human predator, the friends soon find themselves in a desperate fight for survival as secrets come to light and loyalties get tested.

Director: Jonathan Zuck
Producer: Ryan R. Johnson, Kurt Fethke, Alice Eve, Eamon O'Rourke, Lucas Jarach, Luke Daniels
Screenwriter: Jonathan Zuck, Joe Leone
Distributor: Independent Film Company
Production Co: Redwire Pictures, KCD Media., Green Light Pictures
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 5, 2026, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 5, 2026
Runtime: 1h 27m

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