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I saw an early screening of Dangerous Animals without watching a trailer or knowing anything about it. When it started, it felt like it was going to be one of those super low-budget movies that feels so limited and never reaches the heights afforded by bigger budget movies. Luckily I was wrong.

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie for the entire runtime. The horror/thriller elements are done well. You can feel the tension and savor the suspense. Several moments made my jaw drop.

I've been a Jai Courtney hater for a while after his roles in Terminator 5, Die Hard 5 and Suicide Squad. But I LOVE his performance in this movie. Not only is it the best acting I've seen from him, he is legitimately scary as this character.

Overall I had a great time with this movie and would recommend it to any genre fans. And it's more enjoyable the less you know going in.

(1 viewing, early screening 6/3/2025)

Dangerous Animals is a scrappy Australian horror-thriller that's pure fun, proving a tiny budget can deliver big thrills. This indie gem keeps you hooked with raw energy and a cast of unknowns who bring real heart, making you root for them. Clocking in at a tight 90 minutes, it's lean, mean, and never drags.

Smart pacing and a chilling atmosphere pull you right in. It shows what a small, passionate team can do, making Hollywood's bloated blockbusters look foolish.

Compare that to those $200 mill+ Hollywood flops packed with A-listers and CGI, lazy scripts, and overblown visuals that prioritize flash over story (yes, I'm looking at you, Jurassic World: Rebirth).

Dangerous Animals crafts a gripping experience with minimal resources. It's a thrilling reminder that you don't need big budgets to make something truly entertaining.

Australia's known for its deadly wildlife, but Dangerous Animals asks-what if the most dangerous predator was serial killer steve irwin? This sunlit survival horror follows Zephyr, an American surfer abducted by a shark-obsessed madman (a delightfully unhinged Jai Courtney) who feeds tourists to great whites as eco-reparations. It's a wild premise, but the relentless tension, grounded action, and unexpectedly emotional beats make it work. With beautiful real shark footage, clever set-ups and payoffs, and one of the gnarliest self-surgery scenes i've seen in a while, the film manages to be scary, ridiculous, and empowering all at once. A brutal, blood-soaked ride that somehow still finds time for a killer dance scene and a touch of heart.

I was not familiar with any of the 3 leads and found them all to be excellent. Hassie Harrison seems like a young slightly prettier Jennifer Lawrence and that is a huge compliment. Jai Courtney was terrific as the villain He delivered some great speeches and in one scene channeled his inner Buffalo Bill to great success. Josh Heuston was also new to me and he had great charm and elicited tons of empathy in his role. About 15 minutes in I was thinking, "OK, now what are they going to do with this setup." It seemed like it would be claustrophobic and limited with where it could go. Was I ever wrong. Kudos to Sean Byrne for a great script and solid direction that really kept he tension high. Most of you are going to see this when it lands on Shudder. I think it is not going to be as great as on a bigger screen for sure. I would have rated this higher, but an 8 and up film is somewhat exceptional. Comes very close, but I think I will have forgotten the film in a year or two and that kept my score a 7. Try to catch it at your theater if you can.

I saw this film tonight as a mystery movie at Odeon and I gotta say it was better than expected. I saw the trailer before and it peaked my interest but it was more of a I'll wait til it's on demand to watch. I'm glad I did get to see it though. It was tense, Jai Courtney's character was brilliant and the lead I hadn't seen before but she did a great job. It's not the shark horror you'd expect and as someone who likes the original movie "Deep Blue Sea" (still one of the best shark movies) this one is a good little switch off from the real world that may be a little slow but it's still a fun ride.

Couldn't take my eyes off the screen! Drama, action, psychologically thrilling, this movie delivers it all. The pacing was great too, it pulls off the perfect balance for a thriller. It draws you in throughout the entirety of the movie without having too much going on at any given time. I loved the ending too, there's so many twists that you just genuinely aren't expecting to happen. I'll definitely be rewatching after it comes out on streaming services & I can't wait to watch it again. This movie is a definite underdog coming up that deserves to be a blockbuster, absolutely great movie & worth the watch!

Saw this at an unknown screening and when it announced the movie, everybody groaned. But that opening scene blew everyone away and hooked them in, such a good opener for a movie.

Went into this knowing absolutely nothing, and was pleasantly surprised. A really exhilarating film that mixes 10 Cloverfield Lane with Nicholas Cage's The Surfer, and I have to say it was a very fun watch. The main girls acting wasn't amazing but it was definitely believable, even if her character was a bit 1 noted. Where this definitely shines is the kidnapper, he does an amazing and terrifying job.

Definitely not a masterpiece but I really enjoyed it.

Excellent indie thriller with jai Courtney giving a fine performance as our truely dangerous animal.

All the thrills and horror on the boat keep you guessing and cringing with terror as this film rolls on.with stunning cinematography and breathtaking violence to hold you till the end.

All the cast did a fine job and the script holds up better than most in these type of movies.

Oh and the sharks do make an appearance and yes truely terrifying beasts of the sea, but the real animal is jai Cortney.

Filmed on the gold coast and qld this local film will not do tourism any favours. But hey I don't think it will stop them neither.

Jai Courtney plays Tucker, a serial killer who enjoys feeding people to sharks as some kind of natural ritual. Saw this as the Regal Mystery Movie on 5/26/25.

Positives!

+Jai Courtney is an imposing figure.

+The boat location was a nice change.

+Moses (Josh Heuston) was hot.

+Interesting motivations, but gets hammy.

Negatives!

-Standard horror tropes (running, tripping, etc).

-Quick cuts away from violence, loses impact.

-Last 20 mins goes TV movie; corny one liners, sharks with a conscious, etc.

-CGI, especially at end, was not good.

-Not enough shark action.

Dangerous Animals started as a typical horror film, but with sharks. But, the tonal shift at the end, threw it into fantasy. Disappointing overall.

-GremlinLord615 4.5/10.

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This is a great option if you have already went to the high budget movies this summer and need a Plan 'B.' You will be nicely surprised though, as this isn't a 'B' movie. I kept waiting for my review meter to drop, but it never happened. I also recommend for couples night, the mixed elements will please both sides.

This film has a classic horror feel with modern touches. Courtney, Harrison, and Heuston all delivered on their parts.

The limited dialogue was just right to keep you engaged. Shark action scenes were well done and didn't go over the top or leave you wanting more. A new couples sexy survival romance was intriguing. Zephyr as the gritty lead character is easy to root for and will continue to surprise. Tucker as the serial killer will keep you on the edge of your seat with his deranged/insane behavior.

Fun, sexy... messy at times.. but who cares because it was all-in-all a good time!

While the attacks seemed short lived and minimal, they were extremely effective. Sharks happen to be a huge fear of mine, so it poked at many of my hard to reach itches for jump scares. While in the moment I believed the moments of terror were short-lived, I understand now that the that particular scene will stick with me for the rest of my life. It was truly horrifying for anyone afraid of sharks(even if they weren't really the true villains of the film)

The story had some cheesy romance we could have done without. And some of the escape routes were a tad over the top.

But this was hands down the most realistic and haunting shark attack films I've seen. ALSO Jai's character Tucker was 10/10. He was born for that role. Summers about to be here, and I don't plan on going into the water any time soon. Thanks Sean Byrne!

Directed by Sean Byrne in his third feature film and written by Nick Lepard, Dangerous Animals takes us on a twisted journey through the lives of a shark-obsessed serial killer.

Its protagonist, Zephyr, played by the beautiful Hassie Harrison, finds herself trapped by the sadistic and unhinged Tucker, played by the fantastic Jai Courtney, who gives us a new villain to remember with a totally unhinged and extravagant performance by the Australian actor.

The film is a horror thriller that holds up quite well in its 93-minute running time. Its director knows how to immerse himself in the story without going too far, so that you, the viewer, are fully immersed in the madness surrounding the villain in question. The setting, featuring the idyllic Australian locations, is accompanied by impeccable photography by Shelley Farthing-Dawe.

The film's cleverness lies in making us care about Tucker's victims. Its script is clever enough to give us, amidst all this madness involving sharks and a serial killer, a sense of humanity within its victim characters, allowing us to connect with both Zephyr and Moses, played by Josh Heuston. This pair's excellent work allows us to care about what happens to them, thereby making the suspense that the film offers so well from all angles even more effective.

Of course, it's a film with its flaws and some more or less questionable decisions, but they don't stop us from having an extraordinary time watching this shark thriller. It's a sickening journey thanks to the brilliance of its villain and memorable scenes that define Tucker's character, but it has the absolute intelligence to not ridicule a character, but rather give us absolute solidity in a completely unhinged character.

For genre fans, this is a good and highly recommended bet. It delivers on its promise, has hilarious moments, and a villain who makes a statement. For those less inclined to gore, this film will be a bit uncomfortable, and for those expecting something a lot crazier, this isn't the case, as the film is quite restrained in what it wants and needs to tell us.

A rewarding film from Australia that is worth a try.

Warning: puns abundant (^_^) For a B horror, 90 minutes is a safe bet so I dived in. Also, the film is in regular format, no bells and whistles, non-sense 3D up-charge version, no pesky glasses.

Time is well spent on dialogues and interactions enough to engage sympathy, kudos to the cast. Fantasy and horror films, often underrated by critics' circles, require good actors who can compel audience to suspend belief and buy into the lore / situation. Formidable villains raise the stakes, and Jai Courtney delivers. Instead of a leading man role, being a vicious, obsessive killer with superficial charm gives more opportunities to Courtney to widen his dramatic range. Other characters also pulled off compelling performances that make audience root for their struggles.

Gore-horror scale: graphically high. I turned away since I'm not a torture porn fan. I'm more of an escape plot-twist fan. Either camp won't be disappointed. The story keeps an even pace, actions not too frantic to follow, and not poetically slow.

I especially was impressed that within such tight runtime, the story managed to portray sharks as both a terrifying force of nature and an endangered species that must survive the disruptive human activities (leisure or business wise) in their habitat.

After the hilarious mashup Shark-nado, this killer-nature slasher genre is a welcoming addition to the cinema goers. You can't watch a great white jumping on a 50" home TV screen after all.

I rarely leave reviews, but I had to for Dangerous Animals. The acting by Jai Courtney was absolutely superb and haunting. I found myself thinking being totally creeped out days later. The way he was charming and convincing one moment and completely deranged the next showed some excellent range alike to James McAvoy in Speak No Evil.

During the movie I found myself having to look away at some of the more gruesome scenes. Again, a rare occurrence for a horror lover.

I liked that the sharks were not the villains since we all know by now what after the releases of Jaws.

As for some negatives: yes, there were some opportunities for the heroine to get away, but I guess they could be explained by sheer fear and adrenaline, I also did find the cat-and-mouse chase got a tad bit repetitive towards the end.

Overall, for a movie that was 1.5 hours it felt long, but in a great way! It was just long enough to keep me on the edge of my seat. I can't wait to watch it again on a streaming service and have the opportunity to analyze Jai Courtney's, sadistic Tucker, in more detail.

Horror fans don't miss Dangerous Animals!

Sean Byrne's return to filmmaking is a stripped-back serial-killer thriller focused on a shark-obsessed boatman who kidnaps women and uses them as bait so that he can see "the greatest show on Earth" over and over again. Yes, 'Dangerous Animals (2025)' essentially the 'SpongeBob SquarePants (1999-)' episode, 'Clams (2002)', except Jai Courtney isn't a giant crab and he isn't only interested in getting back a dollar. Oh, and it's also mean and menacing and, in a general sense, scary. With crisp cinematography both above and beneath the waves, the feature carves its own unique place within the genre by having its killer make use of a very distinct - and very much alive - weapon. While its premise is inherently a little goofy, it handles it with enough sincerity that you buy it completely and are able to meet the narrative on its own terms. What ought to be silly instead becomes (mildly) scary, and the picture's tone remains pretty much perfect for its duration. The same is true of its pacing, which threatens to drag on occasion due to the plot's purposeful 'reeling in a fish' pacing but never actually does so. It's relatively compelling and features a number of suitably gnarly set-pieces, even if there's the sense that it's a tiny bit too tame overall (some of the shark attacks, in particular, are a little underwhelming, if potentially rather realistic). It's a little less insular than I initially expected, but it still relies on only a handful of performances and the isolation of its premise is enhanced because of it. The actors all do a really good job with the material. For instance, Courtney is capable of initially seemingly slightly creepy but not so creepy that you wouldn't get on a boat with him, then revealing himself to be an altogether different breed of creepy when his true desires and capacity for violence reveal themselves. Although the central romance is a little underdeveloped and overrelied on, Hassie Harrison and Josh Heuston sell their connection enough that you want to see it - and them - survive the stresses of the story. Harrison, in particular, is a strong final (and, almost, only) girl whose tenacity is potent enough that you believe she'd be able to overcome what she inevitably must overcome. Her final confrontation with her kidnapper is slightly disappointing due to its brisk duration and weak pre-kill quip, but it's fun to see her try to come out on top and get the best of the unhinged antagonist. This is just a really solid horror/ thriller with some exciting and suspenseful sequences, confident direction, compelling performances and gorgeously simple cinematography. It isn't particularly deep or complex, but it scratches a primal itch and it scratches it well. It's a solid slice of seaworthy pulp that should keep you entertained from beginning to end.

Zephyr (Hassie Harrison) is a vanlifer living on Australia's Gold Coast who avoids people and only focuses on finding her next meal or catching her next wave. After being reluctantly dragged into helping a young man named Moses (Josh Heuston) with car issues, the two hit it off after discovering their shared passion for surfing. Following an evening with Moses, Zephyr goes away in the early morning hours to catch waves at the beach where's she's abducted by boat captain Tucker (Jai Courtney) and wakes up chained to a cot in his ship alongside another girl Heather (Ella Newton). With the two trapped in a hopeless situation, they must now figure a way out before Tucker feeds the two of them to sharks.

Dangerous Animals comes to us from Aussie director Sean Bryne who directs from a script by Nick Lepard. In many ways Byrne tackles the horror staple of the shark thriller with Dangerous Animals in a manner not too dissimilar to how he tackled demonic possession/satanic horror films with his prior film The Devil's Candy. While Dangerous Animals is built on familiar tropes, it's also an exhibit in how the familiarity of those tropes don't have to be a hinderance so long as you find fun and inventive ways to use them.

Hassie Harrison and Josh Heuston make for appealing leads in the film's opening act as it almost structures itself like a mini rom-com in how they initially are abrasive towards one another until they develop chemistry once they get past their seemingly abrasive exteriors. The opening act is fantastic character setup that makes the audience extremely invested in the stakes of the second and third acts which is where we have a scene stealing (and possibly movie stealing) performance by Jai Courtney's tucker. Playing with equal parts unhinged menace and pitch perfect comic timing (for the film's dark as black sense of humor) it's great to see Courtney's really come into his own with roles like this and Captain Boomerang from Suicide Squad where he gets to be more fun and energized in his performances after Hollywood tried to sell him as a stone faced action hero in things like Terminator: Genisys or A Good Day to Die Hard and he is having the time of his life playing this gleefully sick individual who delights in feeding his victims to sharks. In many ways I was reminded of an overlooked Aussie creature feature from years back with 1984's Razorback directed by a pre-Highlander Russell Mulcahy where it mixed a Down Under take on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with its own spin on the Jaws formula involving a giant rogue boar. In many ways you can see Dangerous Animals as having DNA in films such as Wolf Creek by way of Jaws, but with a healthy does of humor that adds its own spin to the material and gives it its own identity.

I really enjoyed Dangerous Animals as pure bloody genre fun of the finest calibre. Led by two compelling leads and an effortlessly engaging villain turn by Jai Courtney, Dangerous Animals is a welcome treat for anyone who loves horror, shark movies, thrillers, or just an all around good time.

It could have been a great film, that's the saddest thing. It starts off well and suddenly becomes the queen of clichés and Deus ex machina. It's obnoxious when a film thinks the audience are fools and takes a script that is supposed to be believable to the ridiculousness of coincidence. The villain blurs by the minute and the protagonist becomes so unbelievably implausible that she falls flat. It's not lousy, the saddest thing is that it's expendable. Good performances and production for such a weak and lazy script. I recommend that you don't spend your money on something that you've already seen several times better made. Maybe when I release it on a free streaming platform and they want to not think on a Sunday afternoon.

Let me start off this review by saying that I am grateful for every addition to the shark subgenre that is not complete trash. I really enjoy movies featuring shark attacks, but sadly most of them are filled with bad effects and poor writing, with only a few exceptions. Of course, Jaws remains at the top of the hill. Every now and then, a decently enjoyable shark movie gets released, and Dangerous Animals is one of those films, even though the sharks are not the main antagonists.

Instead, Jai Courtney plays a serial killer who disposes of his victims by feeding them to sharks in the middle of the ocean. It is an interesting and slightly bonkers idea, but the movie fully embraces that tone. Director Sean Byrne, who previously brought us two solid horror films (The Loved Ones and The Devil's Candy), once again delivers something entertaining with this one.

The setting on a boat in the middle of the ocean is refreshing and gives the movie a claustrophobic feeling that adds to the suspense. Jai Courtney's performance as the villain is excellent. He stands out and creates a memorable character.

In my opinion, the film could have benefited from more gore and shock value. Some scenes felt a little tame because of quick cutaways from violence, which reduced their impact. Some of the CGI near the end also looked noticeably weak, although the sharks appeared fairly realistic in most other scenes. I would have liked to see more shark-related moments, but they are not the central threat in this story, which the title cleverly hints at.

The film also features a few tired genre tropes that audiences have seen many times, but those can be overlooked. Overall, this is a decently enjoyable movie that includes a serial killer, a few sharks, an interesting location, and a memorable villain. [6.0/10]