Severin Films today announced a partnership with genre publisher Encyclopocalypse Publications to co-produce original novels, movie novelizations and resurrected horror paperbacks tied to and inspired by Severin’s expansive catalog of genre classics. Their first joint release will be CRUEL JAWS: THE NOVELIZATION by Brad Carter, based on the notorious film by Bruno Mattei called “THE AVENGERS of JAWS knockoffs” (Oh The Horror!), available July 30, 2024.
In 1995, Italian director Mattei stunned the civilized world with CRUEL JAWS, the ultimate sharksploitation saga that liberally borrowed characters, plot and footage from Joe D’Amato’s DEEP BLOOD and Enzo G. Castellari’s THE LAST SHARK. In Brad Carter’s novelization, something sinister has come to the coastal town of Hampton Bay. Something horrifying and colossal that refuses to stop killing until the white sand beaches are blood red. Now, a renegade shark expert and a down on his luck lawman are all that stand between a genetically engineered killing machine and thousands of blissfully unaware tourists, and it’s a race against time, bureaucratic red tape and the mafia to stop a homicidal shark from turning a holiday weekend into a nightmare of carnage.
CRUEL JAWS: THE NOVELIZATION will be available in mass market and trade editions, both priced at $16.99, from all major online book retailers as well as encyclopocalypse.com. Each edition features new cover art and photos from the film, along with an all-new foreword by SHARKSPLOITATION: THE DOCUMENTARY director Stephen Scarlata. In addition, every paperback order sold through encyclopocalypse.com comes with a free digital copy. An audiobook is expected for Spring of 2025.
“We’re beyond thrilled to partner with Severin. Their passion for creating, rescuing and releasing cinematic treasures is evident in every frame of their work,” says Encyclopocalypse Publications President Mark Alan Miller. “We look forward to contributing to that ethos by releasing perfect companion pieces to some of your favorite releases, beginning with CRUEL JAWS. Brad Carter’s adaptation of Bruno Mattei’s sharksploitation classic is a brilliant, fully realized love letter and we’re excited to bring these books to both Severin’s die-hard fan base and genre lovers everywhere.”
“We are entering a new golden age of movie novelizations, with Encyclopocalypse Publications leading the charge,” says Severin Films Co-Founder/President David Gregory. “and Brad Carter, whose outstanding Severin novelizations also include MARDI GRAS MASSACRE and NIGHT OF THE DEMON, as one of the genre’s very best scribes. We look forward to what this new partnership brings to the world of literature.”
CRUEL JAWS: THE NOVELIZATION
Author: Brad Carter
ISBN: 978-1-960721-79-2 (Mass Market) / 976-1-960721-78-5 (Trade)
SRP: $16.99
Page count: 336
Dimensions: 4.12 x 0.84 x 6.75 inches (Mass Market) / 5 x 8 (Trade)
