Dangerous Animals (2025)
Directed by Sean Byrne
A savvy and free-spirited surfer is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer. Held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.
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It would be tempting to say that “Dangerous Animals” is “Silence of the Lambs” via “Jaws.”
Dangerous Animals is no Jaws (1975). What films are?
…la icónica «Jaws» (1985)…
…the more entertainingly unpredictable aquatic hunters of shark horrors like The Meg, The Shallows and, of course, Jaws…
Para los que siempre han deseado ver en el chiringuito un "mashup" de 'Tiburón', 'Saw' y 'El silencio de los corderos'…
It’s a gruesomely clever mash-up of Jaws, The Silence of the Lambs, and Ozploitation grit…
…there’s a touch of Duel in the cat-and-mouse tension…
We aren’t buying a ticket to Jurassic Park to see a humbling story about love and loneliness…
Byrne’s film has drawn comparisons to Wolf Creek, but that’s a major disservice to the Tasmanian filmmaker. Greg McLean’s 2005 film is exploitative, misogynist garbage…
A dash of Creep, a sprinkle of Wolf Creek, equal parts The Reef and Deep Blue Sea 3, and a healthy dose of psychological darkness are the ingredients that help Dangerous Animals swim out ahead of the rest of the school.
…especially if you know what the term “Final Girl” means or have seen survival movies like “Wolf Creek” or “The Descent.”
…he owes a fair bit to John Jarrett’s Ivan Milat-inspired monster in the Wolf Creek films…
…more like a merger of Irving Pichel and Ernest B Schoedsack’s The Most Dangerous Game (1932) and Greg McLean’s Wolf Creek (2005)…
…reminiscent of the cool but chilling Mick Taylor in another nasty Australian export, Wolf Creek…
It would be tempting to say that “Dangerous Animals” is “Silence of the Lambs” via “Jaws.”
It’s a gruesomely clever mash-up of Jaws, The Silence of the Lambs, and Ozploitation grit…
It’s a highly memorable, slightly sexy, and vaguely uncomfortable moment that evokes Buffalo Bill’s dance in The Silence of The Lambs…
It feels like Lepard is channeling Dean Koontz’s “Intensity” here, intermingled with Buffalo Bill from “Silence of the Lambs.”
It was not on anyone’s bingo card that Courtney would deliver a performance as memorable as Ted Levine did in “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991) as Jame Gumb or Buffalo Bill.
Jai Courtney’s rugged, bearded, and charismatic killer shares DNA with an array of horror icons like Mick of Wolf Creek (dir. Greg McLean, 2005) and Buffalo Bill of The Silence of the Lambs (dir. Jonathan Demme, 1991)–equally terrifying and entertaining to watch.
«The Shallows» (2016)…
…the more entertainingly unpredictable aquatic hunters of shark horrors like The Meg, The Shallows and, of course, Jaws…
Sharks don’t actually have the petty gene to drive the serial violence seen in Jaws or The Shallows…
…criticising their film The Shallows and its negative, unrealistic depiction of sharks as being simply vicious, opportunistic hunters…
Films like Deep Blue Sea and The Shallows have had fun subverting and participating in the campy tropes that these films offer.
…and 2016’s The Shallows (convincing CGI and a ruthlessly simple premise)…
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But, in its sadistic horror, it’s more like “Saw” at sea than anything else.
Para los que siempre han deseado ver en el chiringuito un "mashup" de 'Tiburón', 'Saw' y 'El silencio de los corderos'…
Ever since the introduction of the “Saw” franchise, I have avoided torture porn.
…waking up handcuffed in a Saw-like room…
Or “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” meets “The Meg.”
…the more entertainingly unpredictable aquatic hunters of shark horrors like The Meg, The Shallows and, of course, Jaws…
Shark movies often fall into the categorisation of dumb-but-fun (like the Meg franchise)…
Films like Deep Blue Sea and The Shallows have had fun subverting and participating in the campy tropes that these films offer.
…with just Deep Blue Sea (1999) — the only other sharksploitation movie to also effectively utilize shark animatronics…
As posited by “The Most Dangerous Game”, no species is harder to hunt than man.
…more like a merger of Irving Pichel and Ernest B Schoedsack’s The Most Dangerous Game (1932) and Greg McLean’s Wolf Creek (2005)…
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A dash of Creep, a sprinkle of Wolf Creek, equal parts The Reef and Deep Blue Sea 3, and a healthy dose of psychological darkness are the ingredients that help Dangerous Animals swim out ahead of the rest of the school.
Like Mark Duplass’ Creep (Tapes) villain, Tucker has a penchant for taping his victims’ final moments so that he can watch them again over breakfast.
Filmmaker Christopher Landon has been singlehandedly dominating this field with “Heart Eyes” (2025) and “Drop” (2025)…
(The song has now shown up twice in a horror movie this year, following Christopher Landon’s Drop, which could be a sign of a burgeoning trend)…