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Working as composer on the first four Scream movies, Marco Beltrami delivered some iconic horror movie music – but when the franchise was revived with a fifth film back in 2022, Brian Tyler was hired as the composer. Tyler returned for Scream VI, working with Sven Faulconer. If you’ve been wondering who might compose the score for Scream 7, well, we have an answer now, and it comes straight from the source: Beltrami has taken to social media to confirm that he is composing the music for the new sequel! Not only that, but he also shared a sample of some of the music tracks they have been recording. You can...

Spyglass Media and Paramount Pictures once intended to make a Scream 7 that would have starred Scream (2022) and Scream VI leads Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega, with Freaky and Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon at the helm. But then Ortega allegedly asked for a substantial pay raise – and as we saw when Neve Campbell dropped out of Scream VI due to a pay dispute, these pay issues don’t tend to work out. Then Barrera was fired from the project after comments she made about the Israel-Hamas war didn’t go over well with executives at Spyglass. Landon dropped out the of the project soon after. So Scream 7 has been re-developed, Campbell has signed on to return as franchise heroine Sidney Prescott, back in the lead role, while Kevin Williamson, who wrote the screenplay for the original Scream, directs the film from a screenplay by 2022’s Scream...

"The Maltese Falcon," "The Godfather," "Jaws," "Die Hard," and many other film classics are literary adaptations. Clearly, there is a longstanding and fruitful path of turning books into excellent movies -- and sometimes the movies are better than the books they're based on.

But are these wonderful films the exception or the rule? Does something inherently get lost in translation from book to film? Is a successful adaptation purely a case-by-case, filmmaker-by-filmmaker, book-by-book basis? Or is the decision to turn a best-seller into a motion picture just another indication of Hollywood's cynical churning of familiarity into intellectual property?

I don't have the answers. What I have are some stunning examples of what happens when everything in any of these processes goes terribly, startlingly wrong. Some are entertaining in their camp, some are jaw-dropping failures, and all are dreadful adaptations. Here, then, are the 15 worst movies based on books. Push up your reading glasses,...

Spyglass Media and Paramount Pictures once intended to make a Scream 7 that would have starred Scream (2022) and Scream VI leads Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega, with Freaky and Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon at the helm. But then Ortega allegedly asked for a substantial pay raise – and as we saw when Neve Campbell dropped out of Scream VI due to a pay dispute, these pay issues don’t tend to work out. Then Barrera was fired from the project after comments she made about the Israel-Hamas war didn’t go over well with executives at Spyglass. Landon dropped out the of the project soon after. So Scream 7 has been re-developed, Campbell has signed on to return as franchise heroine Sidney Prescott, back in the lead role, while Kevin Williamson, who wrote the screenplay for the original Scream, directs the film from a screenplay by 2022’s Scream...

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,...

Editor’s note: The promise and peril of artificial intelligence has captivated Washington D.C., Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Hollywood. Composer Michael Yezerski has taken a hands-on approach to it: The author of the score of the likes of the Oscar-winning short The Last Thing, Blindspotting (the movie and the series), Sean Byrne’s The Devil’s Candy, this year’s Dangerous Animals and the just released Liam Neeson-starring Ice Road: Vengeance put the tech to the test, as he details in a guest column for Deadline.

The other week at a party, I was asked by a picture editor if I am feeling the threat of AI.

I honestly replied that I am not. But then he told me that he uses AI music generators in his everyday work as a picture editor for commercials and all of a sudden, I felt threatened. I found the conversation sobering,...

Ethan Embry, the actor famous for his roles in 1990s films like Can't Hardly Wait and White Squall, is set to make his debut in the Scream franchise in 2026. Embry will have a supporting role in Scream 7, the Kevin Williamson sequel that will essentially reboot the series created by Wes Craven in 1996. The actor recently revealed that he'd been seeking a part in the beloved horror franchise since its beginning, but after he auditioned for Craven, the feedback was not the best.

Embry told the anecdote in an exclusive video for Bloody Disgusting posted on their Instagram account. The actor showed his gratitude for the opportunity to join the iconic horror series, and recalled his failed audition to join the classic cast in 1996 during the peak of his career. Those looking for Scream 7 spoilers should know that he revealed nothing about the film:

"The one thing that I...

The horror film Alma & the Wolf is set to receive a theatrical and digital release this Friday, June 20th – and to help you decide whether or not you’re going to be watching this movie in a few days, we have the trailer embedded above.

Directed by Michael Patrick Jann from a screenplay written by Abigail Miller, the film has the following synopsis: After a violent animal attack, paranoia spreads through Spiral Creek. But when Deputy Ren Accord gets too close, his son vanishes, and reality begins to fracture. This appears to be somewhat of a werewolf movie, with a whole lot of mind-boggling “what the hell is going on?” trickery mixed in.

Jann’s previous directing credits include Drop Dead Gorgeous, Organ Trail, and episodes of The Spiderwick Chronicles, Daybreak, The Good Doctor, Ghosted, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Atypical, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Last Man on Earth,...

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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Fw: Hey, Jai. It’s Joshua Ryan with FandomWire. How are you?...

Scream 7 started filming at the start of January, aiming for a February 27, 2026 release date, with Kevin Williamson, who wrote the screenplay for the original Scream, directing from a screenplay by 2022’s Scream and Scream VI writer Guy Busick, who crafted the story with his co-writer on the fifth and sixth films, James Vanderbilt. (Vanderbilt is also a producer on the most recent sequels.) You might think this would be a gig Williamson would have dove right into, but it turns out that star Neve Campbell had to do some convincing, and it was her idea to have him direct the movie in the first place!

Spyglass and Paramount once intended to make a Scream 7 that would have starred Scream (2022) and Scream VI leads Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega, with Freaky and Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon at the helm. But then Ortega allegedly asked for a substantial...

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...

Directed by Sean Byrne (The Devil’s Candy) and based on a script by Nick Lepard (Keeper), the latest in a long and rich line of shark-based horror movies has finally hit our screens. Following its debut at the Directors' Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival, the Jai Courtney-led Dangerous Animals made its opening swim into box office waters this past weekend, taking a reported $1.5 million from 1,636 theaters in the US alone.

Considering the strong competition from major blockbusters such as Disney's live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, Dangerous Animals' debut is not too financially disheartening. However, has it managed to capture the positive attention of audiences? Following its impressive debut with critics on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, earning a huge 90% score that has since mellowed to a "certified fresh" 84% a week later, Dangerous Animals' audience rating is proving almost as impressive.

Following its opening weekend,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

After a strong recent career that has seen him appear in the likes of Peter Berg’s historical miniseries, American Primeval, The Suicide Squad, and Buffaloed, the ever-brilliant Aussie actor Jai Courtney is scheduled to return to our screens in a brand-new bloodbath sharksploitation flick, Dangerous Animals. In the film, Courtney plays Tucker, a maniacal serial killer with an unhealthy shark obsession, and is joined in the cast by the likes of Hassie Harrison (Yellowstone), Rob Carlton (Boy Swallows Universe), Josh Heuston (Dune: Prophecy).

Directed by Sean Byrne (The Devil’s Candy) and based on a script by Nick Lepard (Keeper), Dangerous Animals officially made its debut at the Directors' Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival, with a theatrical release in the US arriving on June 6. For those unsure whether to buy a theater ticket and indulge in the bloody madness assembled by Byrne and co, perhaps the film's early...

Scream 7 started filming at the start of January, aiming for a February 27, 2026 release date, with Kevin Williamson, who wrote the screenplay for the original Scream, directing the film from a screenplay by 2022’s Scream and Scream VI writer Guy Busick, who crafted the story with his co-writer on the fifth and sixth films, James Vanderbilt. (Vanderbilt is also a producer on the most recent sequels.) Now, Busick has revealed that Scream 7 picks up “at least two years” after the events of Scream VI.

Spyglass and Paramount once intended to make a Scream 7 that would have starred Scream (2022) and Scream VI leads Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega, with Freaky and Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon at the helm. But then Ortega allegedly asked for a substantial pay raise – and as we saw when Neve Campbell dropped out of Scream VI due to a pay dispute, these pay...

For the first time in the franchise’s history, original Scream writer Kevin Williamson sits in the director’s chair for the upcoming Scream 7, due in theaters on February 27, 2026.

Neve Campbell is back as Sidney Prescott, with the character taking center stage in the upcoming seventh installment. She’ll be joined by a host of returning players including David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Scott Foley and Matthew Lillard, with Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown also set to reprise their roles from the previous two installments.

So what the hell is Scream 7 actually about and how are all these characters going to be brought back into the mix? These are the questions we still don’t have any answers to. But in a new chat with ComicBook.com this week, writer Guy Busick does offer up some mild teasers.

For starters, he reveals that Scream 7 takes place approximately two...

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.

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...

Scream 7 started filming at the start of January, aiming for a February 27, 2026 release date, and we’ve seen some surprising reports about the slasher sequel as it has made its way through production – with the most surprising and strange news being that Matthew Lillard and Scott Foley, who played Ghostface killers who were killed off in Scream (1996) and Scream 3, respectively, and David Arquette, whose beloved character Dewey lost his life in Scream (2022), are all in the cast. But there’s one person on the Scream franchise body count that has been hoping to come back for Scream 7 and hasn’t been contacted yet: Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played ill-fated college student Cici Cooper in Scream 2.

Gellar told Entertainment Tonight (with thanks to Coming Soon for the transcription), “I’m not in [Scream 7]. I tried to get in [Scream 7], nobody wanted me. They were bringing everybody back.

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 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.

As if your garden variety serial killer weren’t scary enough, Australia-set terror show “Dangerous Animals” features a sicko whose weapon of choice is … sharks. In some ways, the notion’s scarier than the razor-toothed creatures themselves, in that most people can avoid being chomped to death simply by steering clear of any body of water where sharks have been known to hunt. Now imagine minding your business at the beach, only to be knocked out, tied up and hauled out to sea, where some sadist dangles you over water thick with fins, while he records everything on VHS for his personal snuff film library.

We have screenwriter Nick Lepard to thank for these vivid new nightmares, presented with such conviction by “The Devil’s Candy” director Sean Byrne that the efficient and highly effective thriller scarcely allows a calm moment in which to question how deranged its premise truly is.

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,...

Tendrá su estreno mundial en Cannes. © IFC Films

Se ha publicado un nuevo tráiler de la película Dangerous Animals, una imaginativa, extravagante y despiadada película de terror extrema, que tendrá su première mundial en la Quincena de Realizadores de Cannes.

Dangerous Animals sigue a Zephyr, una surfista inteligente y de espíritu libre secuestrada por un asesino en serie que capitanea un viejo barco pesquero donde organiza tours de aventura para turistas inocentes interesados en bajar a una jaula para observar peligrosos tiburones. Raptada en el barco, Zephyr debe averiguar cómo escapar en pleno mar abierto antes de que el obsesionado asesino lleve a cabo su sádico ritual de alimentación de tiburones.

Este thriller de terror está dirigido por Sean Byrne (The Devil’s Candy) a partir de un guion firmado por Nick Lepard y protagonizado por Jai Courtney (Escuadrón suicida), Hassie Harrison (Yellowstone) y Josh Heuston (Dune: La profecía).

En una entrevista para 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...

This article is part of ScreenRant's Exclusive 2025 Summer Movie Preview. Keep an eye out for the full feature next week!

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,...

In a crowded sea of horror this summer season, Dangerous Animals stands apart. Not just for its originality but for the way it upends a summer genre staple: shark horror.

Dangerous Animals swims into theaters on June 6, 2025, and stars Hassie Harrison (“Yellowstone”), Josh Heuston (“Heartbreak High”), and Jai Courtney (The Suicide Squad) as the unsettling killer featured in our exclusive image (above).

The Loved Ones and The Devil’s Candy director Sean Byrne and screenwriter Nick Lepard blend the shark movie with serial killer thriller to exhilarating results, with Byrne injecting his style of intense horror to keep audiences on the edge of their seats. Nerve-fraying horror aside, it’s the type of bold reinvention that’s long overdue in this particularly crowded subgenre.

It’s man who’s the most dangerous one here. Dangerous Animals may feature cinema’s favorite aquatic predator, but they’re merely animals being used as...

Scream 7 started filming at the start of January, and we’ve seen some surprising reports about the slasher sequel as it has made its way through production – with the most surprising and strange news being that Matthew Lillard and Scott Foley, who played Ghostface killers who were killed off in Scream (1996) and Scream 3, respectively, and David Arquette, whose beloved character Dewey lost his life in Scream (2022), are all in the cast. Speaking with Coming Soon, Lillard took a moment to talk about his Scream 7 return, saying that he thinks “people are gonna love it.” Of course, he didn’t reveal any details about what he / his character Stu will be doing in the new movie.

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Spyglass and Paramount once intended to make a Scream 7 that would have starred Scream (2022) and Scream VI leads Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega, with Freaky and Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon at the helm. But then Ortega allegedly asked...

Although the Australian native Jai Courtney has certainly had his turn as the protagonist, it’s his dastardly work in projects like The Suicide Squad and Buffaloed — where he can use his million-dollar smarmy grin — that seems to lock in audiences the most. But, in his latest role, that smug charisma has been all but replaced by an unsettling gut feeling that tells you to run the other way. Today, Collider is thrilled to unveil an exclusive image of Courtney’s newest monstrous personality as a maniacal serial killer with an obsession for sharks in Dangerous Animals.

Bulky, bleeding, and brutal are just a few words we’d use to describe Courtney’s appearance in the photo that sees him standing on top of a ship’s deck, looking down into the water through beady little shark-like eyes. One hand is bleeding and wrapped, while the other holds a video camera,...