'FROM BELOW' IS NEW UK TITLE FOR SHARK MOVIE STARRING ALICIA SILVERSTONE

If you were looking forward to the release of new shark thriller The Requin in the UK, you can still watch it, but it will now be known under a new name, From Below.

Everything else will still stay the same. In The Req...we mean From Below finds a couple, played by Alicia Silverstone (Clueless, Batman and Robin) and James Tupper (Big Little Lies), stranded at sea off the coast of Vietnam.

A tropical storm has washed away their holiday villa, but they aren't the only ones in the water. Can the couple survive the elements and a Great White shark tracking their every move?

From Below swims onto digital platforms from February 7 and dives on to DVD from February 21, 2022.

It is still being released in the US as its original title, The Requin, and emerges there on limited release on January 28.

So, why the name change for The Requin? Requin means shark in English, and it isn't a commonly used word in the UK, so it was likely felt that it wouldn't travel very well and From Below sounds more mysterious and sharky.

From Below also rather aptly describes the poster artwork, which owes more than a passing nod to the classic Jaws poster by Roger Kastel: NEW SHARK MOVIE PROMO ECHOES CLASSIC JAWS POSTER

It's not exactly a new or uncommon practice to rename films in different countries, after all even Jaws was known by a very different name in France, Les Dents De La Mer, which translates as The Teeth of the Sea.

And even films in the UK have been renamed for an audience in Blighty. So instead of Joyride we got Roadkill, instead of Adventures in Babysitting we got A Night on the Town, instead of The Avengers we got Avengers Assemble and instead of Harry and the Hendersons we got Bigfoot and the Hendersons.

Words by Dean Newman

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