Dangerous Animals

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Cast: Jai Courtney, Hassie Harrison, Josh Heuston, Ella Newton, Liam Greinke & Rob Carlton

Directed by: Sean Bryne

Rating - *** (3/5)

Some films announce themselves with restraint, hiding the villain until the last possible moment. Dangerous Animals is not one of them. Sean Byrne opens his latest with a flourish of menace, immediately plunging the audience into waters that are red in both tooth and claw.

The premise sounds absurd on paper. A serial killer who feeds victims to sharks? It should collapse under its own camp. Instead, Byrne shapes it into something brutal, strange, and even darkly funny.

This is Byrne’s first feature in years after the cult acclaim of The Loved Ones and The Devil’s Candy. Expectations were high, and what

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