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Bite Club
It’s a game of cat, mouse and shark in Sean Byrne’s horror thriller Dangerous Animals
WORDS: ROBBIE DUNLOP
AFTER MAKING A name for himself with The Loved Ones and The Devil’s Candy, Sean Byrne all but vanished from horror. Now the Australian director returns – though he’s adamant he never truly left.
“I’ve been writing constantly and had a handful of scripts optioned,” he tells Red Alert. “But the unfortunate truth is, if you’re drawn to R-rated material about humans hunting humans with rich, disturbing characterisation, it’s not easy to get those films off the ground – Hollywood’s so dominated by IP [intellectual property] now.”
Like his earlier films, Dangerous Animals taps into Byrne’s ongoing fascination with the darker side of human nature. This time, the killer is Tucker (Jai Courtney), a shark-dive operator who abducts victims, holds them captive aboard his boat and feeds them to the sharks he’s baited below. “The sharks are basically his weapon,”