Dangerous Animals

Name: Dangerous Animals
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Released: June 6, 2025
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 65

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IFC Films | Release Date: June 6, 2025 | R

Summary: 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.

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 93 min

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Jim Vorel

Jun 6, 2025

It’s fascinating and enlivening to watch how the fusion of two intensely familiar subgenres–serial killer thriller and shark-starring B-movie–can result in a work that is somehow brimming with life and verve. Read full review

Matt Donato

Jun 5, 2025

It’s more than a creature feature, but never in a way that undercuts the main event: Some truly startling above-and-underwater sequences. Read full review

Barry Hertz

Jun 3, 2025

Dangerous Animals is like a bowl of shark-fin soup laced with a dollop of vegemite: not exactly good for either you, your taste buds or the environment, but strangely compelling nonetheless. Read full review

Tara Brady

Jun 4, 2025

Sean Byrne’s third feature is neither as gripping as The Loved Ones, his prom-night horror, nor as intriguing as The Devil’s Candy, his supernatural heavy-metal thriller, but it rattles along as effective B-movie gore. Read full review

Odie Henderson

Jun 5, 2025

Though Courtney and Harrison give their all, this is a slick-looking yet routine exercise that wastes an ideal premise. Read full review

Chase Hutchinson

May 21, 2025

That there is a genuinely clever current running through it about the cinematic history of sharks and the fear they hold in our imagination is just a little added bonus that offers a bit more to chew on. Read full review

Nikki Baughan

May 18, 2025

Sean Byrne’s third feature is a messy mash-up of creature feature and serial killer movie whose psychological posturing and gory effects can’t hide the fact that it’s propped up by tired horror tropes. Read full review

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