I am both fascinated and horrified by the idea of being transformed into an animal. This is likely because I have seen numerous films and TV shows, such as the following, that depict human characters ...

I’m a big shark movie fan. So much so that I made an entire podcast series about aquatic creature horror, Fin Flicks. This is all to say that I’m well-versed in the realm of this particular subgenre ...

The first great drive-in movie of the summer arrived this past weekend in the form of Dangerous Animals, which adds some clever and terrifying twists to the killer shark genre. The movie stars Hassie ...

The Australian director Sean Byrne combines the serial killer and shark movie subgenres into a trashy good time. By Jason Zinoman When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through ...

Sean Byrne knows how to show an audience a bad time. Sixteen years ago, the Australian filmmaker launched onto the scene with “The Loved Ones,” his proudly grisly debut about a misfit teenager who ...

Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...

There are quite a few killer shark movies worth watching after Dangerous Animals. The 2025 thriller, which was directed by Sean Byrne (The Loved Ones) is set in Queensland, Australia, and follows an ...

The prestigious Cannes Film Festival is where Oscar winners are born (such as Anora and Parasite), where beloved auteurs debut their latest works (such as Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest this year) and ...

In “Dangerous Animals,” we don’t have to see this devil kill dozens of girls to get the picture — and it’s much scarier to let our imaginations extrapolate from limited clues. Rest assured, someone’s ...