The idea was born during a film festival when director Ron Bonk and friend Jonathan Straiton were joking about a sleeping acquaintance. Bonk later refined the concept after hearing ice cracking on his roof during a Syracuse winter, which inspired the thought: "Shark in a house". This led to a script about a man named Frank who discovers a mutated, land-dwelling shark—a "House Shark"—terrorizing his home.
: The "House Shark" itself is described as a mutated creature originating from the Chernobyl disaster, adapted to navigate through walls and pipes. House Shark
" House Shark " is a 2017 horror-comedy film directed by that serves as an absurd, low-budget homage to Steven Spielberg's Jaws . The film's "development piece" story is rooted in a joke between friends that eventually "ballooned" into a full-length feature funded largely through Indiegogo campaigns . Origin and Concept The idea was born during a film festival