Tintorera delves more into the sexual mores of the era with the random one night stands and the threesome relationship (with the nudity handled equitably between the males and females in the film), and there are a couple of very gory shark attacks thrown in for good measure (and honestly, if you’re a gore hound, the shark attacks are gruesome with blood and entrails all over the place).
I’m going to be blunt - Tintorera is not really the movie it advertises itself to be with the artwork of a giant shark with a bikini-clad woman in its jaws. But who wins in the end, Steven or Tintorera? REVIEW
Gabriella is then horrified to learn her two lovers are shark hunters … actually she’s just horrified that they put themselves in danger and, of course, tragedy occurs, setting Steven on a course for revenge against the killer shark … after he screws a few more women. But Steve and Mike form a friendship and bet on who can sleep with the next woman first, who happens to be Gabriella (Susan George) … and they end up as a throuple with one rule set by Gabriella - no one falls in love and no one gets jealous. The woman, Patricia (Fiona Lewis), eventually runs off and is promptly devoured by the titular shark … and no one even notices she’s gone missing. Steven apparently just wants to get laid but he manages to piss off his first love interest by not being able to tell her if he loves her or not (these people move very fast with their emotions), so she runs off and hooks up with another guy, Migeul or Michael (Andrés Garcia), depending on the time of day, leading to an altercation on the beach between the men. The film is set at a Mexican resort where an ‘American’ named ‘Steven’ (the clearly not American Hugo Stiglitz) is taking a much needed vacation on a boat anchored just off the shore (it’s never clear if it’s his boat or someone else’s because it seems to be explained both ways). In the wake of Jaws, director René Cardona Jr., who went on to direct The Bermuda Triangle and Cyclone in 1978, tried his hand at the killer shark genre with Tintorera, aka Tiger Shark. Grizzly released just a year later has its fans, but it seems that movies about sharks have managed to endure to this day. You’d probably be hard-pressed to come up with one really memorable film from that era. The summer of 1975 gave us what the film that is widely considered to be the first true summer blockbuster: Jaws, and in the years following that milestone in cinematic history, studio both large and small, domestic and international, attempted to cash in on that film’s success with one ‘animal on the rampage’ film after another.