The changing tide of shark horror: Sous La Seine (2024) and the ending we deserve’

Kaja Franck

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The changing tide of shark horror: Sous La Seine (2024) and the ending we deserve’

Kaja Franck

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This article explores Sous La Seine (2024) as an ecohorror film that reconfigures the shark horror genre through satirical critique and intertextual engagement with Jaws (1975). Set against the Paris 2024 Olympics and featuring a preternaturally oversized Mako shark, the film juxtaposes nationalist spectacle with ecological collapse, foregrounding human complicity in environmental destruction. Drawing on theories of the Anthropocene and posthumanism, it examines how Sous La Seine subverts the ‘killer shark’ trope to interrogate capitalist, political and media-driven narratives. In doing so, the film illustrates how genre can expose the violence underpinning capitalist and environmental exploitation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	191-205
Journal	Horror Studies
Volume	16
Issue number	2
Early online date	31 Oct 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1386/host_00100_1
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 31 Oct 2025

Keywords

shark
ecohorror
Film Studies
environmentalism
Jaws

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