Dangerous Animals

Interview: Liam Greinke on navigating the on-screen horror of Dangerous Animals; “It was kind of like paying for the art.”

This interview contains SPOILERS. As a Brisbane boy in the early stages of his career, Liam Greinke is all too aware how lucky he is to be able to share the screen with Jai Courtney in the serial killer-cum-shark attack thriller Dangerous Animals – even if he doesn’t make it to the final frame! Talking…

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Interview: Sean Byrne on finding the “dark side of Steve Irwin” in killer shark romp Dangerous Animals

It’s been a whole decade since Australian genre director Sean Byrne graced the screens with his unique brand of horror with The Devil’s Candy.  But proving the wait has been worth it, he has unleashed a series of Dangerous Animals into theatres with his latest outing – a relentless, edge-of-your-seat survival horror starring Hassie Harrison,…

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Film Review: Dangerous Animals is a pulpy thriller aware of its own madness

Given that it’s merging two proven cinematic killers – one serial, the other a shark – it makes sense that Sean Byrne‘s horror-adjacent thriller is suitably tense and highly aware of its own madness. No stranger to executing unbearable tension and providing an antagonist that we can’t help but be utterly absorbed by (see The…

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Interview: Jai Courtney on finding the humanity within a shark-obsessed serial killer in Dangerous Animals; “It was really about a character that had a lot of colour to them.”

From his imposing turn in Jack Reacher to the Suicide Squad, Jai Courtney is no stranger to playing villains and anti-heroes on screen.  But his latest role in cult filmmaker Sean Byrne’s Dangerous Animals, the actor may be embodying his most unhinged yet, as Tucker, a shark-obsessed serial killer with a penchant for showing tourists the…

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