Meg (2017)

Meg is a 2017 American creature horror film written by Eli Roth & Evan Gorski and directed by Eli Roth starring Morena Baccarin, Wagner Moura, Bruno Campos, Rodrigo Santoro, Katie Stevens, Douglas Booth, Suki Waterhouse, Avan Jogia, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Shay Mitchell, Darren Criss and Tyler James Williams. The film serves as the fourth and final instalment of Roth's unrelated Travel & Punishment quadrilogy, that oversees naive groups enter a different cultural environment and be set upon murderous locals and a primary antagonistic danger. The first of Roth's unrelated Travel & Punishment series his 2002 directorial debut Cabin Fever centrally inspired by Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead (1981) & John Boorman's Deliverance (1972), his Hostel films (counted as one feature) based off of Juan López Moctezuma's House of Madness (1973) &  Alain Robbe-Grillet's L'éden et après (Eden & After 1970) and the previous 2013 The Green Inferno based primarily on Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust (1980) & Umberto Lenzi's Cannibal Ferox (aka Make Them Die Slowly 1981).

Meg itself is based on René Cardona Jr's Tintorera... Bloody Waters (1977) and Antonio Margheriti's O Peixe Assassino (Killer Fish 1979) both shark and piranha related foreign horror pictures that followed in the wake of the global success of Steven Spielberg's classic Jaws of 1975, which Roth himself in terms of direction pays reference to. The film was shot in São Paulo and its' Favelas (Slums) in Brazil and on a studio lot at Warner Bros. studio in Burbank, California main headquarters.

The film was also distributed by Blumhouse and produced by Jason Blum making it their second collaboration with Eli Roth following Blumhouse Tilt acquiring international distribution rights to Roth's previous 2013 film The Green Inferno, to which Jason Blum served as an acting executive producer.

Meg was released theatrically on October 8th, 2017 and in select IMAX theatres on October 11th, 2017 marking the first Blumhouse horror and Eli Roth feature to be released in this high definition format. The film itself like his previous unrelated in story Travel & Punishment horror series films is portrays extreme violence and gore with social commentary. The film was a box office success and was met with mixed reviews, some positive reception from critics praising its' commentary on the eco-system, poaching, exploitation of youth, double crossing plot vices and the impressive rendering of the colossal prehistoric shark. Negative reception arose in terms of the excessive amounts of ultraviolence depicted and the supporting antagonistic piranhas plaguing the protagonist characters.