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Satan, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Mephistopheles, the Devil – whatever you call him, there are few recurring representations of evil as powerful or as fear-inducing as the ruler of hell in horror.

The Devil has been a fixture for as long as cinema has existed, offering no shortage of depictions in the genre to induce fights or deliver cautionary tales.

This week’s streaming picks highlight some of the best Devils in horror, from a fork-tongued, cloven-hooved beast to Faustian businessmen masking their inhuman side.

Here’s where you can watch them this week.

For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.

Angel Heart – Hoopla, Kanopy

This twisted psychological horror noir follows Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke), a private investigator whom Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) hires to track down missing musician Johnny Favorite. Harry’s search leads him to New Orleans, where he finds voodoo, murder, love, and a deal with the devil.

Bambi and Pete Davidson are featured in this week’s new horror movies, but unfortunately they’re not sharing the screen in the same movie. They’re joined by the at-home release of one of this year’s best horror movies so far, along with a new Gill Man movie from Shudder.

Here’s all the new horror that released from July 21 – July 27, 2025!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

There’s a monster in the basement in Bait, now available on VOD.

In the new indie monster movie from Uncork’d Entertainment, “On their way to a family get-together, the Herring family are in a bad car accident, waking in a terrifying, dark basement. Something is there with them. And it craves human flesh.”

Bait was directed by Andrea M. Catinella, written by Sam Gurney.

The cast includes Ingrid Evans, Connor Powles, Andrew Rolfe, and Natalie Hughes.

Collider Ladies Night hit a milestone last year at San Diego Comic-Con. We did our very first live edition of the show with Melissa Barrera, Erika Henningsen, and Katy O’Brian in a packed house in one of the biggest rooms of the convention, Ballroom 20. We’re beyond thrilled to announce that Ladies Night is coming back for more in 2025.

In partnership with IFC Entertainment Group, Collider Ladies Night returns to San Diego Comic-Con, but with a spin. This year, we're hosting Collider Ladies Night After Dark and putting the spotlight on the women of the IFC Entertainment Group – encompassing the brands of The Independent Film Company, Shudder and Rlje. Those women? Clown in a Cornfield star Katie Douglas, Hassie Harrison from Dangerous Animals, Whistle headliners Dafne Keen and Sophie Nélisse, and Alexandra Shipp who’ll be promoting both Forbidden Fruits and Violent Ends.

If you’re looking for unparalleled insight into Douglas,...

Here’s the latest episode of The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.

For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro-budget indie films to bigger-budget studio films and everything in between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dom Lenoir, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk about how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their filmmaking experiences from directors, writers, producers and screenwriters, to actors, cinematographers and distributors.

The Filmmaker’s Podcast #456: Jai Courtney and Sean Byrne talk making indie feature Dangerous Animals,...

Dangerous Animals is out now. In it, Jai Courtney plays a maniacal serial killer with a unique method of dispatching his victims: feeding them alive to hungry sharks. Directed by Sean Byrne, the thriller breathes new life into the tired shark subgenre of horror, just in time for Jaws‘ 50th anniversary. I had the chance to speak with Jai Courtney about what it was like getting into the mind of a killer for his role as Tucker in Dangerous Animals.

Check out my review of Dangerous Animals here.

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Stars: Hassie Harrison, Jai Courtney, Josh Heuston, Rob Carlton, Ella Newton, Liam Greinke | Written by Nick Lepard | Directed by Sean Byrne

Acclaimed Australian director Sean Byrne returns with Dangerous Animals, an inspired mash-up of two beloved horror genres, serial killer thrillers and sharksploitation. Delivering handsomely – and nastily – in both elements, it’s one of the most enjoyable genre movies of the year.

Set in present-day Surfers Paradise on Queensland’s Gold Coast, the film introduces its killer immediately, as burly fisherman Tucker (a scarily massive Jai Courtney) cheerfully stabs one of two tourists he has just taken on a Swimming-With-Sharks tour, before pushing him overboard.

Dangerous Animals then joins the film’s heroine, free-spirited American Zephyr, who has escaped a miserable childhood of foster homes in favour of pursuing Australia’s big waves. After a hook-up with nice-guy estate agent Moses (Josh Heuston), Zephyr is abducted by Tucker and wakes...

A tense, darkly comic, cold open to director Sean Byrne’s third feature introduces Bruce Tucker (Jai Courtney), a larger than life Aussie who plies his trade as a pleasure boat captain sailing the shark-infested waters off the coast of Surfer’s Paradise. He wants his clients to get as close to nature’s eating machines as possible and by that I mean really close, as in “pushing said clients overboard into the feeding zone after stabbing them repeatedly” close.

However, the quick kills are mostly reserved for the males in Tucker’s vicinity. His main sideline is kidnapping various young women and imprisoning them on his ship for a short time before dangling them into the water to let his beloved shark “mates” do their thing while he videos the bloody action. Next up on the menu would appear to be free-spirited Zephyr (Hassie Harrison), a resourceful and independent...

Vampires are all the rage this week, with Ryan Coogler’s Sinners now available at home. It’s joined by a bloody indie bloodsucker movie and even a Vietnamese vamp movie both sinking their fangs into VOD. But that’s just the start of this week’s Ten new horror releases, which also include the return of the Predator franchise with the saga’s first ever animated movie.

Here’s all the new horror that released from June 2 – June 6, 2025!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

From Magnificent Films and Silent D Pictures, Sean Cronin’s indie vampire movie Bogieville sank its teeth into all major VOD outlets beginning this past Tuesday, June 3.

In the film, “A young couple on the run come across an American trailer park and are convinced to stay by the sinister caretaker Crawford. But they soon learn that he is...

Sean Byrne never does anything halfway. The visionary director excels at creating visceral nightmares that twist audience expectations through familiar terrain. His 2009 debut The Loved Ones is a sadistic exploration of the teen slasher film while 2015’s The Devil’s Candy is a metal-tinged deconstruction of satanic possession. Byrne’s latest feature, Dangerous Animals, tackles the shark horror genre by suggesting that there may be more sinister killers floating on the ocean’s surface. Bruce Tucker (Jai Courtney) is a surfer and shark diver who uses his ocean tourism business as a front to lure victims into his own deadly jaws. Byrne’s stories may have little in common, but each of his three feature films center iconic villains who command the screen with evil intent while horrifying us with their extreme acts of violence delivered through a gory explosion of color and sound.

The Loved Ones follows Lola Stone (Robin McLeavy...

Just when 2012’s Bait (a.k.a. Bait 3D) was swimming the way of other killer shark movies made in Jaws’ wake, its story eventually changed direction. Director Kimble Rendall didn’t follow that set pattern of bringing humans to the water. Quite the opposite; Bait brought the water, along with man-eating great whites, to them. And the end result is one example of “sharksploitation” that’s only become more unique as time goes by.

If not for Teen Wolf, Bait would have been helmed by another Aussie who knew his way around deadly creatures. Scheduling issues, however, led to Russell Mulcahy handing the project over to Kimble Rendall. Even so, Mulcahy’s idea remained intact, albeit now revised by a whole team of writers. Whatever was changed in the process of switching out directors, though, didn’t include altering the movie’s setting of a supermarket. The thrill of...

Lionsgate’s Ballerina leads the new films at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, opening in 571 cinemas.

Marketed as From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, the film is the fifth instalment in the John Wick franchise, and takes place between the events of Chapter 3 – Parabellum and Chapter 4.

It sees ballerina-assassin Eve Macarro – played by Ana de Armas – train in the traditions of the Ruska Roma, to exact revenge for her father’s death.

Anjelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne, the late Lance Reddick, Norman Reedus and Ian McShane are on the cast, alongside Keanu Reeves reprising his role as Wick.

The...

When you think of iconic movie villains on land or sea, there are certainly some characters that (pardon the phrase) jump out at you. Michael Myers stands shoulder-to-shoulder fin with Jaws. So when director Sean Byrne (The Loved Ones) embarked on the journey creating Dangerous Animals from Nick Lepard’s nautical thriller script, safe to say he didn’t envision it screening at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this May.

“It’s the first shark film that’s ever been officially selected for Cannes,” he says, still reeling from the screening’s standing ovation. “[The audience] is just so film savvy in terms of reading a film at Cannes, and I was worried about it, because it's the first time that an audience had seen the finished film. But they absolutely loved just how fun it was. And I think also, there's so many serious dramas, they were just ready to unleash...

Dangerous Animals marks director Sean Byrne’s third film, following his cult classic The Loved Ones and The Devil’s Candy. The film was so highly anticipated that it made its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival (check out our review Here), and we were also lucky enough to chat with Byrne, and stars Jai Courtenay, Josh Heuston and Hassie Harrison (check out the interviews Here). To help celebrate the release on June 6th, Shudder and IFC invited a select group of journalists and influencers to a shark dive at the Long Island Aquarium in Riverhead, New York. With Courtney himself in attendance, each person was required to slip themselves into a wetsuit, adorn themselves with weights and step into a shark cage with a licensed diver. Then, for twenty very special minutes, you’re in the water with several sharks and various vibrant fish. While the sharks have no interest...

Maybe it’s a bad sign when you can predict the exact moment a title card is going to drop. So is the case with Dangerous Animals, a new thriller-horror hybrid from the talented Australian director Sean Byrne. The Aussie first caught the attention of global genre fans with his clever teen horror film The Loved Ones on the festival circuit back in 2009; one hoped he’d live up to its promise and become one of our next B-movie greats. Yet even with a steady hand at the helm, his new film plays surprisingly generic. Frankly, watching it, I began to wonder if I was starting to age into my parents, looking down at these kinds of films and no longer entertained by just hitting the beats of a violent serial-killer movie.

Dangerous Animals doesn’t have a bad set-up––a Peeping Tom riff with a serial killer who likes...

Sharks and serial killers are two of the most enduringly popular themes in horror cinema, so it’s quite remarkable that – despite a few half-hearted attempts – nobody has really brought them together before. Dangerous Animals does so with gusto. It’s the energy and confidence in Nick Lepard’s script that enables it to get away with this. There was never going to be a way to do it that made logical sense, but as long as it makes sense to the serial killer character, and as long as the actor playing him can believe in it, the other elements fall into place.

They are very much in place in a film that sticks closely to formula, but it’s well played. Director Sean Byrne made a splash back in 2009 with his feature début, The Loved Ones, and brings a real sense of style to what could easily have been delivered.

Indie stunner Sean Byrne returns to theatres this week with his newest nightmare Dangerous Animals, where sharks aren’t the only apex predators hunting prey off the Australian coastline. Written by Nick Leperd (who also penned Osgood Perkins’ forthcoming Keeper) this slick ‘n’ sinister thriller stars Jai Courtney (Suicide Squad) as a hulking serial killer named Tucker with a serious shark obsession. Tucker is 300 lbs of mean-spirited muscle, a shark of the city streets (har har) whose personal philosophy of life and death is viewed through the razor-sharp teeth of the world’s most ruthless killing machine, and his watery weapon of choice.

Dangerous Animals also stars Hassie Harrison (Yellowstone) as Zephyr, a self-sufficient and headstrong American surfer bumming around the beaches in her camper van, living the surfer dream. But when she wakes up chained to a bed in the bowels of Tucker’s boat, the nightmare begins, and...

This past Saturday, Rolling Roadshow brought the Jaws on the Water experience to IFC Films and Shudder’s Dangerous Animals, the shark horror meets serial killer thriller from The Loved Ones director Sean Byrne, and we lived to tell the tale.

Dangerous Animals swims into theaters on June 6 and follows a rebellious surfer caught by a serial killer who feeds his victims to sharks.

It’s a perfect plot, considering that Dangerous Animals’ Texas premiere had attendees watching the film while floating in themed inner tubes on Lake Travis at Volente Beach Waterpark.

While Lake Travis may not have actual sharks, those brave enough to venture into the water were vulnerable to divers moving under the water to deliver the perfect scare throughout the intense film. Quiet moments were often punctuated by an unexpected yelp from those grabbed by divers, ahead of collective cheers and gasps at some of Dangerous Animals’ more brutal surprises.

Dangerous Animals Photo: courtesy of Independent Film Company and Shudder. An Independent Film Company and Shudder Release.

Ten years after the haunted house and possession horror The Devil's Candy (2015), Tasmanian director Sean Byrne returns with Dangerous Animals (2025). The story follows Zephyr (Hassie Harrison), a surfer who lives to ride the waves. She refuses to trust anyone enough to be vulnerable and never stays put in one place for too long — as rejected one-night stand Moses Markley (Josh Heuston) learns. When she is abducted by tugboat captain Tucker (Jai Courtney), she must escape the ritualistic fate of being fed to the sharks and confront her demons.

The theme of abduction is a thread that runs through Byrne's feature début The Loved Ones (2009) and Dangerous Animals, despite the latter being a script written by Nick Lepard. Instead of a maniacal sailor who likes feeding tourists to the sharks, Byrne's earlier film...

June arrives this weekend, which means a new slate of library additions is set to arrive on your favorite streaming services. Hulu, HBO Max, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount+, Shudder, and Tubi have announced their June 2025 lineup, so we’re compiling them all into a handy horror guide for your watchlists.

Of note, Hulu is embracing the Aliens and Predator franchises in a big way, especially with the arrival of the animated anthology Predator: Killer of Killers. Peacock goes all in on the Jurassic World franchise just ahead of Jurassic World Rebirth, which will be released in theaters in July. The streamer also celebrates the 50th anniversary of Jaws with a film collection dedicated to the franchise.

Check out the June 2025 horror streaming lineup below.

Hulu

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Director Sean Byrne is making a splash with his upcoming shark tale. The Devil's Candy and The Loved Ones director took a risk with his upcoming film, Dangerous Animals, which is already paying off. Some movie buffs might believe that the world doesn't need more shark horror films, which is understandable when there's a classic like Jaws around. However, it seems like Bryne has been able to fill a wide gap in the shark thriller genre with his film led bySuicide Squadstar Jai Courtney.

Dangerous Animals is sitting at an 89% on Rotten Tomatoes and reviewers are singing its praises. The IFC film stars Courtney as a sick serial killer who likes to play with his victims. The official synopsis reads: "When Zephyr, a rebellious surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer and held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a...

The serial killer thriller Dangerous Animals has gotten its debut Rotten Tomatoes score with its early reviews from critics. It's good news for the film heading up to its wide release on June 6.

Currently, Dangerous Animals is holding an approval rating of 89% on Rotten Tomatoes. The score is likely to fluctuate as more reviews are added, and it remains to be seen what the audience score will be after the film is widely released. As it stands, the critics are appreciating how Dangerous Animals has found an interesting way to blend the horror of sharks and serial killers into one story. High praise has also been given to the film's lead actors, including Dceu star Jai Courtney (The Suicide Squad).

"Dangerous Animals blends slasher tension with creature-feature horror as Jai Courtney gives one of the most exciting unmasked villain performances in years," Josh Korngut of Dread Central said of the film.

Prom night is supposed to be unforgettable… but in horror movies, it’s usually for all the wrong reasons. If you just finished Fear Street: Prom Queen and still can’t shake off those masked killers, high school secrets, and blood-soaked corsages, you’re not alone. Whether it’s a creepy dance floor showdown or a deadly game of popularity, there’s something about horror in a high school setting that just works. The good news? There’s a whole world of movies that mix teen drama with slasher chaos — and we’ve lined up 6 killer picks that will totally scratch that Fear Street: Prom Queen itch. So grab your popcorn, dim the lights, and get ready for another round of homecoming horror and scream-worthy suspense.

Tragedy Girls (2017)

Okay, if you’re into high school slasher chaos but also love a bit of twisted humor, you have to check out Tragedy Girls.

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If you are a horror fan, then there is a big chance that you might have heard about the horror streaming service Shudder, and if you have its subscription, you might be wondering what’s in store for you in June 2025. Don’t worry. There is a host of new and old horror movies and TV shows coming to the service in the upcoming month, and we have listed the eight best movies and TV shows coming to Shudder in June 2025.

Dead Silence (June 1) Credit – Universal Pictures

Dead Silence is a supernatural horror film directed by James Wan from a screenplay by Leigh Whannell. The 2007 film follows Jamie Ashen, a young man whose wife is mysteriously murdered. Upon further investigation, he discovers that the answers he is searching for are hidden in his hometown. Dead Silence stars Ryan Kwanten,...

I said in my review of Into the Deep earlier this year that shark horror is among my favorite subgenres. Admittedly, they aren’t very good in most cases. Into the Deep was a particularly weak entry. But the Jai Courtney-starring Dangerous Animals felt a step above the rest from the first moment its trailer was released. From Australian director Sean Byrne comes a carnivorous thriller that grabs the shark by the tail and elevates the tired and wet subgenre to something new.

Dangerous Animals plot

Zephyr is an American traveling through Australia. She’s a loner who’d rather spend her days in solitude, living out of her van and surfing the early morning waves. That changes when she meets Moses. The two spend an amazing night together, but before they can explore their relationship further, Zephyr falls victim to the most dangerous animal in Australia: Tucker. The...

One of the most anticipated horror films this year is Dangerous Animals, the latest splash from Australian filmmaker Sean Byrne (The Loved Ones,The Devil’s Candy). Although the Jai Courtney-led thriller doesn’t chomp into theaters until June 6th, Bloody Disgusting has the early ticket for those willing to wade in the film’s shark-infested waters.

On Thursday, May 29th, we’re presenting special sneak screenings across the US. With the exception of Dallas and Houston, all screenings start at 7 Pm local. Do you see your local theater listed? RSVP below and see what Meagan Navarro called in her 4.5 skull review: “one ferocious subversion of shark horror” and “one of the year’s must-see movies.”

Atlanta – AMC Colonial

Austin – AMC Barton Creek Square 14

Boston – AMC Boston Commons

Chicago – AMC Newcity

Dallas – Alamo Lake Highlands

Houston – Regal Edwards MarqE

Nashville – Regal Green Hills

Philadelphia – AMC Cherry Hill

Phoenix – Harkins Arizona...

Fear Street: Prom Queen hits the dancefloor with a killer playlist and retro glam, but under all that shimmer lies a whole lot of shrug. While it nails the 80s look and hits the right notes in a few key moments, the film ultimately stumbles due to a weak plot, delivering a prom-night slasher that looks the part but never brings anything real to the party.

” a prom-night slasher that looks the part but never brings anything real to the party.”

Based on Rl Stine’s tweenage Fear Street book series, directed by Matt Palmer and co-written with Donald McLeary, Prom Queen transports us back to 1988 Shadyside High, where the hairspray is high and the stakes are higher… I guess. Prom season is underway, and the school’s resident clique of alpha girls is locked in a crown-clawing competition. Enter Lori Granger (India Fowler), an underdog outsider with undercooked prom...

Premiering out of competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, Dangerous Animals marks the splashy and brutal return of Australian horror master Sean Byrne, the madman filmmaker behind cult classic The Loved Ones. And nearly a decade after the hardcore seriousness of his sophomore effort The Devil’s Candy, Byrne resurfaces with his most mainstream and viscerally entertaining film yet. This time he’s serving fish by way of a nasty, sun-drenched thriller that weaponizes genre familiarity with feral confidence. It may not rack up the highest body count, but what it lacks in volume, it more than makes up for in tension, originality, and one of the most exciting villain performances horror has seen in a long time.

The story centers on Zephyr (Hassie Harrison), a loner American surfer living out of her van in Australia while quietly avoiding the world. Meanwhile, something sinister is happening to unfortunate female tourists who...

After a decade of making short films, Sean Byrne made his feature directorial debut with the captivating and disturbing 2009 horror film The Loved Ones. We had to wait several years for his second movie, but it was worth the wait: The Devil’s Candy, which had its festival premiere in 2015 but didn’t get a wide release until 2017, was another great horror film. Now, Byrne has finally made his third feature, a shark thriller called Dangerous Animals, and IFC Films is gearing up to give it a theatrical release on June 6th. During an interview with SFX magazine, Byrne said he aimed to bring back classic edge-of-your-seat- suspense with this film, which he described as “Wolf Creek on water.”

After the theatrical run, Dangerous Animals will be making its way over to the Shudder streaming service.

Byrne wrote both The Loved Ones and The Devil’s Candy, but for Dangerous Animals he...

Suicide Squad and Dceu star Jai Courtney has expressed interest in a potential return as the fan-favorite supervillain Captain Boomerang in James Gunn’s rebooted Dcu. While he’s not sure if it will ever really happen, Courtney declared in an exclusive interview with MovieWeb’s own George Edelman that “of course” he would “be there.”

Following the deeply divisive Dceu, for which the equally divisive Zack Snyder was the figurehead, the world of DC is all set to be rebooted by Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn, beginning with this year’s Superman. Jai Courtney was introduced as the villainous Captain Boomerang in 2016’s Suicide Squad, directed by David Ayer, and quickly stole the show as the sleazy thief who uses deadly boomerangs to cut through his enemies.

Courtney later returned to the role in James Gunn’s own The Suicide Squad in 2021, and while Boomerang was killed in the sequel,...

In Dangerous Animals, you’re safer in the water.

The Australian serial killer/shark horror hybrid opens in theaters June 6 from IFC and Shudder. Tickets go on sale this Wednesday, May 21.

Sean Byrne (The Loved Ones) directs from a script by Nick Lepard (Keeper).

Hassie Harrison (“Yellowstone”), Josh Heuston (“Dune: Prophecy”), and Jai Courtney (Terminator Genisys) star with Rob Carlton (“The White Lotus”), Ella Newton (“Harrow”), and Liam Greinke (“Deadloch”).

When Zephyr (Harrison), a rebellious surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer (Courtney) and held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.

The film premiered as part of the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival over the weekend, receiving a 10-minute standing ovation.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her 4.5-skull review, “Byrne manages to walk right up to the line of nihilism without ever...

High school is hell, and navigating it is terrifying in and of itself, so it’s no surprise that it’s a frequent setting in horror. Even less surprising is how it transforms major milestones of the high school experience, like school dances, into a lethal horror nightmare.

This week brings the arrival of Netflix’s Fear Street: Prom Night, a standalone installment that aims to slaughter the competition of hopeful prom queen candidates. It’s far from the only horror movie to explore the social pressures and teen angst that come with formal events; how many adaptations of Carrie are there now?

While spring tends to be peak prom season, this week’s streaming picks are dedicated to high school dance set horror movies that transform the setting into slaying grounds.

As usual, here’s where you can stream them this week.

For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks,...

A seemingly innocuous shark-tour spirals into something far darker when Tucker, a gregarious Aussie skipper, reveals his true vocation: luring women into the jaws of great whites for his personal snuff‐film library.

Set against the sun-bleached Gold Coast—where turquoise beauty masks latent horror—Sean Byrne’s latest collaboration with writer Nick Lepard toggles between claustrophobic serial-killer suspense and splinter-furious creature feature. The rusting hull of Tucker’s boat becomes both stage and cell: an ironic microcosm of civilization’s thin veneer.

Byrne, whose résumé includes the brutal intimacy of The Loved Ones and the fevered aesthetic of Devil’s Candy, orchestrates this narrative with a clinical eye. Lepard’s screenplay (equal parts pop-psychology and shark-mythos) imbues Tucker’s pathology with just enough oblique backstory—a childhood brush with a finned titan—to spur endless debate on whether he worships or envies his piscine counterparts.

What distinguishes Dangerous Animals...

In an increasingly overcrowded sea of shark horror movies, leave it to the director of The Loved Ones and The Devil’s Candy, Sean Byrne, to give the well-trodden subgenre a welcome shakeup with a potentially game-changing entry. Dangerous Animals features cinema’s favorite ocean predator and terrifying feeding frenzies, but they’re merely the modus operandi of one sadistic and charismatic serial killer. It’s a smart approach that yields no shortage of breathless thrills and nerve-fraying chills in an adrenaline rush of a summer horror film that never sacrifices on character.

Jai Courtney delivers an electric, career-defining performance as Captain Tucker, a disarming and gregarious behemoth of a man who lives in and operates a shark diving tour boat. For Tucker, it’s less about a source of income and more about luring prey for his true passion: feeding his tortured prey to the sharks he attracts with buckets of chum.

AMC Networks’ Shudder has announced the titles that will be available on the streaming service next month. The Shudder June 2025 slate includes horror, thriller, and supernatural titles.

The June schedule includes the films Ash and Best Wishes to All, the series Hell Motel and The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs, and more.

Shudder’s expanding library of films, TV series, and original content is available on most streaming devices in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.

Hell Motel Shudder June 2025 Highlights

Films

Dead Silence – Streaming on Shudder June 1 (Available in US)

After his wife meets a grisly end, Jamie Ashen returns to his haunted hometown of Ravens Fair to find answers. His investigation leads him to the ghost of a ventriloquist named Mary Shaw, who seems to have ties to his entire family tree. Directed by James Wan.

Insidious – Streaming on Shudder June 1 (Available in...

Wanna find something fun to do while on vacation? Take an adventurous swim with sharks courtesy of Tucker’s Shark Experience! An “in-world” website has been released for the tourist attraction of Jai Courtney‘s character in Dangerous Animals. While the trailer is played fairly straight, Courtney looks to be chewing more scenery than the sharks, and the website is just as tongue-in-cheek, with the review section showcasing concerned customers.

Take a gander at the fun Here.

Sean Byrne has finally made his third feature with this film, and IFC Films is gearing up to give it a theatrical release on June 6. After the theatrical run, Dangerous Animals will be making its way over to the Shudder streaming service.

Byrne wrote both The Loved Ones and The Devil’s Candy, but for Dangerous Animals he was working from a script by Nick Lepard. Here’s the synopsis: When Zephyr, a rebellious surfer,...

Get ready to meet a different kind of ocean predator this summer in Dangerous Animals, the latest from filmmaker Sean Byrne (The Loved Ones, The Devil’s Candy). A new in-world site has surfaced, daring you to book a shark diving tour with the charismatic but deadly Captain Tucker.

Jai Courtney (The Suicide Squad) stars as Captain Tucker in the new movie swimming into theaters on June 6, 2025.

In Dangerous Animals, “Trapped on a killer’s boat with hungry sharks circling below, a surfer must outwit a predator more dangerous than the ocean itself—will she escape, or become the next offering to the deep? Sean Byrne returns with his third visceral feature.”

Just how charismatic and unsettling is Captain Tucker? Head to Tucker’s Experience and dial the number to book your shark diving tour now, and be prepared to have”Baby Shark” stuck in your head.

As Byrne previously teased to Bloody Disgusting,...

Sharks and serial killers are probably pretty high up on many people's list of worst fears, and this new survival thriller from The Loved Ones and The Devil’s Candy director Sean Byrne and screenwriter Nick Lepard combines them for one seriously messed-up premise.

Dangerous Animals stars Aussie actor Jai Courtney (Captain Boomerang in The Suicide Squad) as a deranged killer who takes tourists out on his fishing boat, before brutally murdering them and using the ocean's array of sharks to dispose of the bodies.

Oh yeah, he also just straight up ritually sacrifices people to the ravenous fish when the mood takes him.

“The shark isn’t the indiscriminate killer," Byrne tells Bloody Disgusting. "I think, in a way, as incredible as Jaws is, it kind of did a disservice to the shark. Ever since that film, everyone thinks that they’re just going to attack you, which isn’t true at all.

The first trailer has surfaced for Dangerous Animals, the latest feature from Australian horror director Sean Byrne, which sees Jai Courtney play a shark-obsessed serial killer hunting surfers off the coast. Blending creature-feature elements with survival horror, the film is set to premiere at Cannes 2025 as part of the Directors’ Fortnight line-up before hitting US cinemas on 12 June.

Set almost entirely at sea, Dangerous Animals follows rebellious surfer Zephyr, played by Hassie Harrison, who finds herself kidnapped by a man whose fascination with apex predators has tipped into homicidal ritualism. Held captive on his boat and surrounded by real circling sharks, Zephyr is forced to battle not only the ocean but the man who intends to feed her to it.

Courtney, best known for action-heavy roles in Suicide Squad and The Terminal List, appears here in a darker and more psychologically driven part as Tucker, a predator whose obsession with...

Serial killers and sharks are two cinematic staples that horror fans can’t seem to get enough of. But they’ve never been mashed together. Until now, that is. Director Sean Byrne’s new film, Dangerous Animals, features both. It’s surprising that it’s taken this long for someone to pair the two. If one is good, both are almost certainly even better, right? And judging by the newly released trailer, this juxtaposition of menacing creatures may be one we’ll be talking about for a while. At the very least, Dangerous Animals is likely to serve up a grisly good time for anyone who fancies the idea of a shark-obsessed serial killer.

The Plot Crunch for Dangerous Animals Goes Like This:

When Zephyr, a rebellious surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer and held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he...

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A new image from Dangerous Animals showcases Jai Courtney's terrifying character in the 2025 shark thriller. The upcoming Australian movie features the Suicide Squad star as Tucker, a serial killer who kidnaps young surfer Zephyr (Yellowstone's Hassie Harrison) with designs on feeding her to sharks. It was directed by Sean Byrne from a screenplay by Nick Lepard (Keeper) and also stars Josh Heuston and Ella Newton.

ScreenRant can now share an exclusive first-look image from Dangerous Animals ahead of its United States theatrical release date on June 6. The image shows Tucker wearing nothing but red underwear and an open robe that exposes his torso, which bears a scar from what appears to be a shark bite. He is also holding a bottle of wine and appears to be dancing...

With so many thrilling horror films hitting theaters this summer, like The Ritual, Dangerous Animals, 28 Years Later, M3GAN 2.0, I Know What You Did Last Summer and Weapons, it's hard to choose what to watch. But there's one film you absolutely can't miss if you're a fan of survival horror. It's Dangerous Animals, and IFC Films just released its intense and action-filled trailer that will surely grab your attention!

Sean Byrne, who is known for writing and directing the horror films The Loved Ones and The Devil's Candy, is behind Dangerous Animals. He helmed the movie while Nick Lepard (Keeper) penned the script. In addition, IFC Films and Shudder are the film's distributors for the U.S. It is set to make its world premiere at the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, with a theatrical release in the U.S. scheduled for June 6, 2025

From the movie's title,...

"Tell me that ain't the greatest show on Earth." IFC Films has revealed the official trailer for Dangerous Animals, an unsettling horror thriller by filmmaker Sean Byrne - best known for his other two horror films The Loved Ones and The Devil's Candy. This is his first feature since 2015, and it's premiering at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival this month. When Zephyr, a savvy & free-spirited surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer and held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below. Starring Jai Courtney as the killer, Hassie Harrison as the surfer, along with Josh Heuston and Ella Newton. Trapped on a killer's boat with hungry sharks circling below, a surfer must outwit and escape from a predator more dangerous than the ocean itself – will she successfully escape, or become the next offering? Sean Byrne...

After a decade of making short films, Sean Byrne made his feature directorial debut with the captivating and disturbing 2009 horror film The Loved Ones. We had to wait several years for his second movie, but it was worth the wait: The Devil’s Candy, which had its festival premiere in 2015 but didn’t get a wide release until 2017, was another great horror film. Now, Byrne has finally made his third feature, a shark thriller called Dangerous Animals, and IFC Films is gearing up to give it a theatrical release on June 6th. With that date drawing near (and 2 months after we saw a teaser trailer), a full trailer has arrived online and can be seen in the embed above.

After the theatrical run, Dangerous Animals will be making its way over to the Shudder streaming service.

Byrne wrote both The Loved Ones and The Devil’s Candy, but for Dangerous Animals he...

Australian horror director Sean Byrne questions who is really the prey or predator in his third feature, “Dangerous Animals.” A mix of the serial killer and “sharks-ploitation” tropes, the film centers on a murderer (Jai Courtney) who stalks a surfer on the open water…all with sharks circling his boat.

The official synopsis reads: “When Zephyr (Hassie Harrison), a rebellious surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer and held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below. She must outwit a predator more dangerous than the ocean itself — will she escape, or become the next offering to the deep?” Josh Heuston co-stars, while Nick Lepard wrote the script.

Byrne told Bloody Disgusting that real sharks were used onscreen for the underwater sequences. “The majority of the time, we’re actually using 4K footage of the...

After crafting a pair of impressive horror features with 2009’s The Loved Ones and 2015’s The Devil’s Candy, Australian filmmaker Sean Byrne is finally returning a decade later with a new film. Dangerous Animals, starring Jai Courtney, Hassie Harrison, and Josh Heuston, is a cross between shark thriller and serial killer horror feature. Ahead of its June 6 release, the first trailer and poster have now arrived from IFC Films and Shudder.

Here’s the brief synopsis: “When Zephyr, a rebellious surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer and held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.”

Update: See the trailer below ahead of a Cannes premiere.

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The ocean is unleashing a new predator this summer with Dangerous Animals, the new horror movie from Australian filmmaker Sean Byrne (The Loved Ones,The Devil’s Candy). A killer new trailer has arrived this morning. Watch it down below.

Dangerous Animals swims into theaters on June 6, 2025.

In the summer horror movie, “Trapped on a killer’s boat with hungry sharks circling below, a surfer must outwit a predator more dangerous than the ocean itself—will she escape, or become the next offering to the deep? Sean Byrne returns with his third visceral feature.”

Hassie Harrison (“Yellowstone”), Jai Courtney (The Suicide Squad) and Josh Heuston (“Heartbreak High”) lead the cast of Sean Byrne’s shark movie Dangerous Animals.

Watch the trailer below that gives a closer look at Jai Courtney’s Tucker, a serial killer with a rather unique modus operandi. Filmmaker Sean Byrne recently previewed his upcoming feature in Bloody Disgusting’s Summer Preview,...

Ahead of its theatrical release, Dangerous Animals will screen on the water at Volente Beach Resort & Waterpark in Austin, TX on May 31 as part of Alamo Drafthouse’s Rolling Roadshow.

Intrepid guests will watch the film while floating on a raft in the (presumably) shark-free waters of Lake Travis followed by a Q&a with director Sean Byrne (The Loved Ones) and star Hassie Harrison (“Yellowstone”).

Tickets are on sale now for $65.

If you can’t make it to the event, Dangerous Animals swims into theaters on June 6 from IFC Films and Shudder.

Trapped on a killer’s boat with hungry sharks circling below, a surfer must outwit a predator more dangerous than the ocean itself. Will she escape, or become the next offering to the deep?

Written by Nick Lepard (Keeper), the Australian horror-thriller also stars Jai Courtney (Terminator Genisys) and Josh Heuston (“Dune: Prophecy”).

Dangerous Animals is rated...

One of our most anticipated horror releases this summer is Dangerous Animals from Australian filmmaker Sean Byrne (The Loved Ones, The Devil’s Candy). The film’s new MPA rating has us even more excited for the aquatic carnage ahead.

Dangerous Animals swims into theaters on June 6, 2025, and has been rated “R” for “strong bloody violent content/grisly images, sexuality, language and brief drug use.”

In the upcoming serial killer/shark thriller, “Trapped on a killer’s boat with hungry sharks circling below, a surfer must outwit a predator more dangerous than the ocean itself—will she escape, or become the next offering to the deep? Sean Byrne returns with his third visceral feature.”

That the premise centers on a vicious serial killer who feeds his victims to sharks does suggest a gnarly horror movie ahead. It also sounds like the sharks will be downright friendly compared to the human threat.

The first official teaser trailer for the upcoming horror-thriller Dangerous Animals showcases Jai Courtney of Suicide Squad as a disturbed shark-obsessed serial killer.

Director Sean Bryne's latest horror-thriller project, Dangerous Animals, is coming to theaters on June 6th, 2025. This will be Byrne's third feature film, preceded by The Devil's Candy (2015) and The Loved Ones (2009). Both films were very well received with Rotten Tomatoes critics scores of 93% and 98% respectively.Alongside Courtney, the film will additionally feature performances by Hassie Harrison (Yellowstone) and Josh Heuston (Dune: Prophecy).

The short teaser doesn't show much but does create a terrifying atmosphere. It shows Courtney as the killer who's trapped Harrison's character, Zephyr. Ominously, a woman's scream can be heard throughout the trailer.

Dangerous Animals Plot Details

With films like the Jawsfranchise, sharks are no stranger to the horror genre. Dangerous Animals, however, seems to be emphasizing its human villain. The synopsis...

After a decade of making short films, Sean Byrne made his feature directorial debut with the captivating and disturbing 2009 horror film The Loved Ones. We had to wait several years for his second movie, but it was worth the wait: The Devil’s Candy, which had its festival premiere in 2015 but didn’t get a wide release until 2017, was another great horror film. Now, Byrne has finally made his third feature, a shark thriller called Dangerous Animals, and IFC Films is gearing up to give it a theatrical release on June 6th. With that date drawing near, a teaser trailer has arrived online and can be seen in the embed above.

After the theatrical run, Dangerous Animals will be making its way over to the Shudder streaming service.

Byrne wrote both The Loved Ones and The Devil’s Candy, but for Dangerous Animals he was working from a script by Nick Lepard.