Red Water

Red Water is a 2003 made for television horror film starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Kristy Swanson and Coolio.

The film originally aired on the Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) in August 2003, and became one of the highest-rated movies in the station's history. Directed by Charles Robert Carner and produced by Michael G. Larkin and Mitch Engel, the film tells the story of a bull shark which wreaks havoc as it makes its way up a river in Louisiana.

The production built three different sharks to depict the single bull shark in the movie. One of those became the first free-swimming animatronic shark ever used in a motion picture.

In an homage, the film uses the same Louisiana license plate Hooper pulls from a shark's stomach in Jaws (1975).

An oil rig hits it big and former oiler John Sanders (who quit when a blowout occurred on a rig he was the boss of and four men died) and his friend Emery are hired to take his ex-wife Kelly and her boss to the location. Nearby, some thugs do diving for stolen goods that were dumped nearby. Unfortunately, at the same time, a bull shark enters the river and starts terrorizing and killing people. Emery's people, a local tribe, believe that the shark is a spirit that supposedly protects the area where the well is manifested in physical form as vengeance for the oil rig. Several people are killed by it and an attempt by locals to kill it drives it right back up the river, towards the oil rig. As a result of all the deaths, a $10,000 reward is posted for the shark's death. Unfortunately John, Emery, Kelly and her boss are captured by the goons and the boss is shot in the leg and ultimately bleeds to death. The oil rig has a blowout and two men are killed and the shark shows up. John and Kelly are forced to dive for the loot and recover it, but one of the bad guys kills another one in order to keep the money between himself and the other one. John manages to escape from the goons and after helping Kelly and Emery escape, blows up his boat, killing one of the goons. The other one is killed by the shark attempting to retrieve the money. John manages to lure the shark under the oil rig and Emery activates the dril and drils it into the shark's mouth, finally killing it. John, Kelly and Emery have a tooth from the shark as proof of their kill (the shark bit John in the foot and a tooth broke off that he retrieved) and debate whether or not to collect the reward, but Emery, still believing the shark is a spirit in physical form, suggests that now that its dead they should just let it rest in peace and John tosses the tooth into the river. Minutes later they're found by the local sherrif who shows up in a helicopter to check on them.
Cast

* Lou Diamond Phillips as John Sanders
* Kristy Swanson as Dr. Kelli Raymond
* Coolio as Ice
* Jaimz Woolvett as Jerry Collins
* Rob Boltin as Emery Brousard
* Langley Kirkwood as Brett van Ryan
* Dennis Haskins as Captain Dale Landry
* Gideon Emery as Gene Bradley
* Charles Dumas as Hank Ellis
* Clive Scott as Grandpa Gautreau
* Nicholas Andrews as André Gautreau
* Hilton Myburgh as Vidrine
* Garth Collins as Lacombe, Oil Rig Worker
* Tumisho Masha as Rick (as Tumisho K. Masha)
* Shirley Davidson as Tricia
* Lord Jason Scott as Sgt. S. Davies Deputy