Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda
Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda is the sequel to the 2010 SyFy original monster film Sharktopus and premiered on August 2, 2014. The film was produced by Roger Corman, who directed the Conan O'Brien cameo, and stars Robert Carradine, Katie Savoy, and Rib Hillis. O'Brien makes his acting debut in a scene described as "truly violent, patently disgusting and darkly humorous". It is the second film in the Sharktopus franchise. Plot Sometime after the events of the first film, marine biologist Lorena Christmas (Katie Savoy) discovers an egg sac containing a baby Sharktopus in the ocean, left behind by the destruction of the original Sharktopus. Sometime later, Dr. Rico Symes (Robert Carradine), CEO of Symodyne (the company that originally created Sharktopus), releases a barracuda-pterodactyl hybrid creature known as Pteracuda, intended for military use, above the desert against the advice of head of security Hamilton (Rib Hillis). The Pteracuda, controlled with a computer chip in its brain, is secretly hacked by a scientist at Symodyne named Vladimir Futon to terrorize populated areas. The Pteracuda is directed towards the Symodyne lab, and kills a worker before Hamilton scares it off. Futon flees the scene and continues to control the Pteracuda from his car. Hamilton and his team of military commandos engage in battle with the Pteracuda in a helicopter. Symes discovers that Pteracuda's computer chip has been hacked, and reports this information to Hamilton. The Pteracuda then causes the helicopter to crash in the ocean, killing everybody except Hamilton. Futon – while driving his car – loses the Pteracuda's signal after spilling a beverage on his computer keyboard and then crashing his car, leaving Pteracuda on his own command. Meanwhile, Lorena is working at a water park/aquarium owned by her uncle, greedy business mogul Munoz, and is currently training the now fully grown Sharktopus. After two customers threaten to give Munoz a one star review, he shows them the Sharktopus only for the couple to almost get killed by the creature. The Sharktopus makes news headlines as Symes realizes that the original Sharktopus did reproduce. Symes and Hamilton force Munoz to give Sharktopus to them so they can use it to kill Pteracuda, much to Lorena's anger. Symes and Hamilton proceed to release Sharktopus into the ocean so it can fight Pteracuda. Sharktopus and Pteracuda kill a few shipwreck divers before they begin to fight. Meanwhile, Munoz locks Lorena in a closet to keep her quiet. She manages to break out and calls her lifeguard boyfriend, Rick Hoffman, telling him to evacuate the beach. However, the Sharktopus and Pteracuda arrive and kill a few people, including Conan O'Brien. In the meantime, Symes and Hamilton discover that Futon hacked into Pteracuda's system. At a nearby hotel, Futon regains control of Pteracuda. The Pteracuda crashes a plane and kills everybody onboard, including the couple that Munoz showed the Sharktopus to earlier. Having been paid a huge amount of money by Symes to keep quiet about Sharktopus, Munoz closes the park for good. The Sharktopus and Pteracuda