Bait 3D is a 2012 3D disaster horror film directed by Kimble Rendall based on the screenplay by John Kim and Russell Mulcahy. It featured Sharni Vinson, Phoebe Tonkin, Xavier Samuel, Julian McMahon, Cariba Heine, Alex Russell, Lincoln Lewis, Alice Parkinson, and Dan Wyllie. The film centers around a group of people who try to escape a grocery store, submerged as a result of a freak tsunami, while being hunted by bloodthirsty great white sharks. The film was released on 20 September 2012 in Australia.

The movie opens with a hungover lifeguard, Josh, being woken up by friend and fellow lifeguard Rory. Rory asks Josh if he regrets proposing to his sister, Tina, then offers to set a buoy for Josh. Josh visits Tina, who discusses their upcoming move to Singapore. As Rory boards into the ocean to set a buoy, a great white shark appears and kills a man in the water. Alerted to the danger, Josh quickly takes a jet ski and goes to get Rory, but is too late. Rory is pulled into the water, and Josh is unable to save him before he is devoured.

A year later, Josh now works for a supermarket in Coolangatta. While stocking shelves with Naomi (Alice Parkinson), he sees Tina with her new boyfriend, Steven returning from Singapore. At the same time two teenagers, Kyle and Heather, are parked for a make-out session accompanied by Heather's dog, Bully. In the supermarket, a young woman, Jaime is caught shoplifting and temporarily evades the security guard, by meeting up with her boyfriend. Ryan, who also works at the store. The store manager, Jessup, catches up with her, fires Ryan, and calls the police. The arresting officer, Todd, arrives and is revealed to be Jaime's father. After this, Jessup is held at gunpoint, by a robber, Doyle. The tense situation eventually escalates, and Doyle's partner appears and shoots assistant manager Julie.

At the height of the commotion, a tsunami wave descends on the city and floods the supermarket. Doyle's partner is killed by the flood, and the survivors are forced to take shelter on top of the shelving units in the store. As the survivors try to find a way out, security guard Colins is dragged underwater and killed. It becomes apparent that a 12 ft (3.7 m) great white shark has been washed. into the store by the tsunami. Also, a broken wire threatens to electrocute them all. Steven volunteers to shut off the power and the others dress him in crude armor made of shopping carts and shelves to protect him from the shark. He succeeds, but loses his oxygen tube and drowns. Despite their previous conflicts, the survivors work together to get Jessup, into a ventilation shaft to go for help. A flood of crabs slides out of the vent, startling Jessup and causing him to fall back. He manages to grab hold of the vent, but the shark jumps out of the water and bites Jessup in half.

In the parking garage, Kyle, Heather and Ryan have been cut off from the others, surviving the flooding of the car park as their cars were sealed when the water hit, and they thus escaped the initial water damage. Ryan helps the couple escape from their drowned car, but a second great white shark is revealed. Kyle ditches Bully at the last second, and they manage to get to temporary safety. After several unsuccessful attempts at luring the shark away, Ryan decides to join them on top of his flipped van, but the shark gives chase. Ryan successfully gets onto the flipped van, but Kyle falls and is devoured.

Inside the supermarket, the remaining group makes a plan to catch their shark so they can swim to safety. Jaime manages to swim to the butcher section and grab a hook with meat to use as bait. The shark does not go for the bait, so fellow survivor Kirby grabs a hook and puts it through Naomi's shirt, using her as bait. Kirby is revealed to be Doyle's partner, who changed out of his clothes and mask so the others wouldn't know he was the murderer. Doyle stabs Kirby with a makeshift harpoon and throws him into the water with the hook. Naomi is pulled from the water as the shark devours Kirby, catching its jaw on the hook and ensnaring itself in the trap. Josh apologizes to Tina, feeling guilty over her brother's death, but Tina reassures him and kisses him.

Below, Bully is found alive. Heather's new-found hope inspires Ryan to start banging on the pipes, calling for help. Jaime hears Ryan's call and with Josh goes to rescue him. Below, they are alerted to the second shark's presence. Josh and Jaime find her dad's car, which has a shotgun and taser in it. Josh kills the shark with the shotgun, and the four of them get back into the supermarket. A tremor strikes as they are all swimming to the entrance, breaking the first shark loose. Josh kills the shark with the taser as Doyle wires a truck jammed in the entrance to explode, breaking a hole in the debris and freeing them. The survivors leave the supermarket, reaching the severely damaged city, and Tina asks Josh what to do now. At sea, a seagull swoops low over the water, and a shark jumps out and devours it.

Initially, Russell Mulcahy was going to direct the film; however, his involvement with the television series Teen Wolf made this impractical, and so he hired Kimble Rendall to direct instead. The film began shooting on 29 November 2011. Three animatronic sharks were used for filming. Although Rendall wanted to entirely avoid using computer-generated imagery, the budget necessitated that some scenes required its use.