heels Jaws, THROW IN A BIT OF Saw, Add some PRICE and The Silence of the Lambs, a Little Point Break, plus a touch of Gidget, and voila! You have the recipe for Dangerous Animals, A Deviously Demaned Combination of Shark and Serial Killer Genre Movies That Had It World Premiere Tonnes as Part of this Directors’ Fortnight Lineup.
Actually this australian-Made thriller is not the Kind of at all you are expecting to see in a more arty cannes compattition, but times it sisses before hitting theatrical waves in theater 6 through ifc and shudder. IT JUST GOES TO SHOW FESTIVALS CAN DIG EXPLOITATION MOVIES TOO.
This one from director Sean Byrne (Devil’s Candy) and Writer Nick Lepard is Tailor-Made for Summer Moviegoing. Dangerous Animals centers on zephyr (Yellowstone’s Hassie Harrison), an emotionally distant surfer guy who was well bent to cuddle up on a 30-Foot wave raver than with a man for any length of time. Before we meet her, howver, the film opens with a sequence in the ocean where Tour Tour Tucker (Jai Courtney) is Welcoming a good-looking Young Couple on His Ragged Boat for A Little Adventure where he was on a secure line aboves of shocks. Heather (Ella Newton) is nervous, but her boyfriend goes for it. Bad Move as just tell Tucker’s real motivation is revealed: this is a setp for his snuff film, cueing the sharks and feeding Him to say as he tapes the thing on his video camera. Can you say “Ick”?
Back to zephyr, who is involved in a hot one-nighter with Moses (Josh Houston). But before it can get more serial series and leaves his time for her woody and drivers to a remote location for a little night surfing. This is where-uh-oh-she encounters tucker, and before you know it, she has ben abducted and awakens in a bassent-style on his boat, tied to a bed opposite the aphoronomy. What kind of fate awaits say bot? Don’t kash. This is just the beginning of the real horror as tucker tours out to be a serial killer hannibal lecture be proud of. HIS GROSS GAME OF DANGLING HIS VICTIMS OUT ON THE OPEN SEA AND INTO the HUNGRY MOUTHS OF GREATS IS AS INTERSE AS IT GETS, AND COURTNEY ES VILLAINUS ROLLS AND LOTS OF BLOOD. But he has metch in zephyr, who has a fight for life he doesn’t offen encounter. Meanwhile Back on Land, Moses is Increasingly World and Starts A Search for Her. It doesn’t go well.
You know the rest, tears of twists and tourns as zephyr and tucker go at it, both unique King of loners who get their kicks in the water, only in wildly different Ways. Courtney, The Fine Australian Actor, Gets a Juicy Lead Role and Runs with it, About As it can get. He is one sick pup. Harrison is Perfect Casting, A Scrappy Surfer Girl With More Moxie Than 10 Guys on Boards. The Great Barrier Reef Scenery is to die for, and that seems to be what the plan is for these characters. Cinematographer Shelly Farsing-Dee Captures it all in style.
Producers are Troy River, Andrew Mason, Pete Shilaimon, Chris Ferguson, Brian Kavanough-Jones and Mickey Liddell.
Title: Dangerous Animals
Festival: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight)
Distributor: IFC/Shudder
Release Date: June 6, 2025
Director: Sean Byrne
Screenwriter: Nick lepard
Cast: Jai Courtney, Hassie Harrison, Josh Heuston, Rob Carlton, Ella Newton, Liam Greinke
Rating: R
TIME RUNNING: 1 hr 37 min
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