Film Review – Dangerous Animals

Moviegoers are routinely confronted with offerings of Shark Attack Cinema, as producers are still finding profit in the dangers of the deep sea. “Dangerous Animals” also deals with an aquatic threat involving massive predators, but screenwriter Nick Lepard hopes to subvert expectations for the usual in oceanic panic by creating a different kind of serial killer tale, following the exploits of a madman using sharks to help feed his obsession with taking innocent lives. Director Sean Byrne doesn’t work often (previously helming 2009’s “The Loved Ones” and 2015’s “The Devil’s Candy”), but he’s prepared to deliver something quite strange and semi-disturbing in “Dangerous Animals,” which aims to unsettle viewers with prolonged scenes of suffering and grisly kills. Byrne gets a little carried away when trying to shock his audience, but he generates a compelling nightmare, adding an interesting intimidation factor to an odd study of perversion and death. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com