'Sharknado 3': What to Expect From the New TV Movie

The franchise's third installment airs tonight.

ByABC News
July 22, 2015, 4:13 PM
Tara Reid as April Wexler, left, and Bo Derek as May, right, are pictured in a still from "Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!"
Tara Reid as April Wexler, left, and Bo Derek as May, right, are pictured in a still from "Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!"
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— -- The Syfy phenomenon that is "Sharknado" is back.

In "Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!" Ian Ziering and Tara Reid contend with killer sharks sinking their teeth into the Eastern Seaboard and causing mass destruction.

Reid said it's a funny experience to act in the films and react to non-existent sharks that are added later on through the magic of CGI.

"[W]hen you see the movie, we're just as curious, like, is it going to be a big shark, is it going to be that kind of shark, and for us it's just as exciting and crazy and weird as ... it is for everyone else," she told ABC News.

Mark McGrath, the Sugar Ray singer who appeared last year in "Sharknado 2: The Second One," returned to the cast, too. He told ABC News Radio that "it takes a village" to make a "Sharknado" movie, though he also noted, "The bigger it gets, the less money they spend on these things, and they really get them done quickly.”

If the response to the previous two films is any indication, "Sharknado 3" could be the talk of social media starting tonight.

Will there be more sequels in the future?

"I think this movie has got legs for many summer events to come. Playing an action hero in a science-fiction movie is a dream come true to me," Ziering said. "I'm just hoping to never get eaten!"

"Sharknado 3" also stars David Hasselhoff, Bo Derek and wrestler/rock star Chris Jericho.