Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Chum drops a newlywed couple and their friends into a Mediterranean yacht trip that goes wrong from two directions at once — a shark circling below deck and a psychopathic killer somewhere among the guests. The double threat is what gives the film its shape: neither danger can be escaped by solving the other, and the sun-drenched setting makes both feel more exposed. It's survival horror where the sea and the social circle are equally untrustworthy.
Chum is a 2026 American horror thriller film directed by Jonathan Zuck and starring Alice Eve, Eric Michael Cole, Elle Haymond, Sarah Siadat, and Jim Klock. The film is scheduled to be released simultaneously in theaters and on digital platforms by IFC Films on June 5, 2026.
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Series
Zig and Sharko
A shark is the comic menace rather than the killer here — lighter, but the obsessive predator-prey dynamic is recognisable.
Series
Operation "SharkHunt"
A crime drama following an inspector whose romantic entanglements collide with a dangerous investigation.
Series
Fanboy and Chum Chum
The title echoes *Chum* and the show shares its appetite for absurd peril, even if the tone is purely comedic.
Series
River Monsters
A hunter tracking flesh-eating fish in extreme conditions captures the same sense of nature as active, deliberate threat.
Series
The Swordsman
Betrayal, hidden enemies, and survival against violent adversaries echo *Chum*'s theme of danger concealed within your own circle.
Series
Shark Tank
Entrepreneurs face ruthless scrutiny from predators called Sharks — a metaphorical riff on the same pressure-cooker dynamic.
Book
Shark Bait
Two young people swept into open water must fight to survive before sharks reach them — compact, direct aquatic survival.
Book
Meg
A deep-ocean dive brings a scientist face-to-face with the largest predator in the history of the animal kingdom.
Book
Ghost night
A remote island film set becomes a slaughterhouse with a killer hiding in plain sight — the human-predator half of *Chum*'s premise.
Book
Shark Life
Decades of real diving encounters reframe sharks as complex animals rather than monsters — the factual counterweight to *Chum*'s horror.
Book
Goosebumps - Deep Trouble
Kids on a Caribbean island ignore a warning and face danger exploring the waters around a tiny island.
Book
Meg
A scientist insists a prehistoric mega-predator still lurks in the Pacific's deepest canyon — the existential dread beneath *Chum*'s surface threat, novelised.
Film
Huge Shark
A sea party turns deadly when Dr. Shen Xin and three friends are attacked by bloodthirsty sharks.
Film
The Black Demon
A family vacation becomes a siege when a ferocious megalodon attacks relentlessly, stranding them with nowhere to run.
Film
Deep Fear
A lone woman on a yacht faces both violent criminals and shark-infested waters simultaneously — the same dual-threat structure as *Chum*.
Film
Swim
A shark invades a flooded vacation home, trapping a family inside — containment horror where the sanctuary itself becomes the kill zone.
Film
The Requin
A couple's romantic getaway unravels as a tropical storm sweeps away their villa and sharks circle below.
Film
Thrash
A Category 5 hurricane devastates a coastal town and drives hungry sharks onto shore with the storm surge.
For more nautical survival horror with a double threat, try Deep Fear (2023), where a solo yacht trip becomes a nightmare involving both drug traffickers and sharks, or The Requin (2022), which traps a couple adrift at sea with sharks circling below.
Ghost Night blends isolated-island slasher horror with a mystery plot, while Meg throws a lone survivor into a cover-up surrounding the ocean's deadliest predator — both capture that mix of human menace and sea-creature dread.
It delivers a rare double-threat premise — a psychopathic killer and a predatory shark — set against the sun-drenched claustrophobia of a Mediterranean yacht, making the tension feel both grounded and relentlessly escalating.