Serial Killer and Sharks Combine for Dangerous Animals

A new horror thriller featuring a serial killer and sharks is in the works from director Sean Byrne (The Loved Ones, The Devil’s Candy), according to Variety.

Principal photography is set to begin today on Australia’s Gold Coast and the film will star Hassie Harrison (Yellowstone), Jai Courtney (Terminator: Genisys), and Josh Heuston (Heartbreak High). The script was written by Nick Lepard.

Zephyr (Harrison), described as a savvy and free-spirited surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer (Courtney). Held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below. The only person who realizes she is missing is new love interest Moses (Hueston), who goes looking for Zephyr, only to be caught by the deranged murderer as well.

David Garrett, from production company Mister Smith Entertainment, says Dangerous Animals is “a super-intense and gripping story of survival, in the face of an unimaginably malevolent predator. In a clever melding of the serial killer and shark movie genres, it makes the shark look like the nice guy.”