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Dangerous Animals, directed by Sean Byrne and starring Jai Courtney, is a top-ranked shark movie. With a “Certified Fresh” critic score on Rotten Tomatoes of 87% based on 181 reviews and a high 74% audience rating, it is also one of the best-reviewed shark films since Jaws. And it’s begging for a sequel, but unfortunately, a follow-up movie hasn’t been announced. The film swam onto Hulu’s streaming library on March 28th and is a shark movie blended with a serial killer thriller. The film centers around a surfer abducted by a shark-obsessed, sadistic boat captain who uses his Australian shark-diving business to trap, terrorize, and feed tourists to sharks.
Dangerous Animals Is a Shark Classic in the Making
Dangerous Animals was only released in theaters in June 2025, but the movie is already poised to be a modern classic. The film flips the traditional shark film script with a Wolf Creek meets Jaws plot where humans are more dangerous than sharks, which are tools, not the primary mindless villains. The Boston Hassel’s Alexis den Boggende described the movie as “a memorable, nail-biting horror survival flick that makes you more afraid of man than anything that’s swimming around in the sea,” while Warped Perspective’s Keri O’Shea praised the fact that the sharks are “just sharks.”
