Sean Byrne, director of cult horror gems The Devil’s Candy and The Loved Ones, is back with an unusual spin on the slasher movie titled Dangerous Animals.
Dangerous Animals Sees Jai Courtney as a Shark-Obsessed Killer
Dangerous Animals features Yellowstone’s Hassie Harrison, Jai Courtney (Suicide Squad), and Josh Heuston (Thor: Love and Thunder). Byrne looks to continue with a playful attitude to horror tropes by giving us a serial killer movie with a twist.
Variety exclusively revealed the news.
Written by Nick Lepard, Dangerous Animals exhibits the same play with genre tropes of The Devil’s Candy, a classic horror thrill ride that unspools to the sounds of heavy metal. In Dangerous Animals, 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.
With a penchant for memorable villains, Byrne could get the best out of Jai Courtney, who has shown his edge as Captain Boomerang in the Suicide Squad movies.
It’s been nine years since Byrne directed The Devil’s Candy, (and seven since it gained a full release) in which a struggling painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas.
