the success of Jaws in 1975, 
a host of imitators flooded the market from around the globe. Some good (Piranha), some absurd (Tentacles), and some legally ill-fated (Great White), these rampaging sea monster epics found an eager audience for a few years before slasher films eventually overtook the marketplace. Even in context, it's hard to imagine what demographic René Cardona, Jr. was aiming for with Tintorera, a wholly ridiculous fusion of shark footage, softcore frolicking, and reams of eye-rolling dialogue. Already familiar with nature gone amuck thanks to his infamous The Night of a Thousand Cats, Cardona knew a good thing when he saw it and reeled off a few more exploitation gems like The Bermuda Triangle, Cyclone, Beaks,, and the genuinely stupefying Guyana: Cult of the Damned before settling back into standard Mexican movie fare.
Gabriella (George), with whom they all shack up on a boat faster than you can say ménage-à-trois. The trio agrees that love and jealousy have no place in their 
relationship, so they spend their days and evenings cavorting, dancing, and playing pranks on each other. Oh, and every now and then the shark pops up again to eat a few tourists, including a naked, pre-Three's Company Priscilla Barnes (credited on some prints as "Priscilla Barner"). When the fish finally chomps too close to home, our heroes decide to take some time out from their carnal fun and do a little shark-hunting.
news: Tintorera is finally restored on DVD, and it runs well over two hours. Some sources list 134 minutes as the original running 
time per the Mexican pressbook, though that seems hard to imagine.
The full frame transfer appears to be open matte and frames pretty well when zoomed in to 1.78:1 on widescreen monitors. Image quality is quite nice and certainly beats the awful, murky transfer first released by Media and recycled by a few other labels in the following years. More problematic is the sole audio track, which contains English dialogue for all of the scenes present in the initial U.S. release version and Spanish dialogue for the restored scenes. However, in one of the more head-scratching decisions from a DVD company in recent memory, the optional subtitle track contains Spanish subs for the English scenes and English subs for the Spanish footage - which means the viewer must constantly toggle the subtitles on and off throughout the film whenever the characters suddenly switch tongues, often in mid-conversation. Very frustrating. Extras for this "25th Anniversary Edition" are pretty minimal - five few cast/crew filmographies and trailers for other Desert Mountain titles: Cilantro y Perejil, Terror and Black Lace, The Magic Hour, and Poison for the Fairies. 
floating around, too. The original production flaws are still here including some erratic second unit photography, but all things considered, it looks quite nice and 
serves as an accurate representation of the film as seen when it opened. The DTS-HD MA English 2.0 mono track is also as good as the original mix will permit, with optional English SDH subtitles provided. 