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‘Dangerous Animals’ Exclusive Clip – No One Can Hear the Screams on Captain Tucker’s Boat
The ocean is unleashing a new predator this summer with Dangerous Animals, and our exclusive clip introduces the prey as they wake to the horrifying realization they’ve been kidnapped.
Dangerous Animals is now swimming in theaters as of today, June 6.
In the summer horror movie, “Trapped on a killer’s boat with hungry sharks circling below, a surfer must outwit a predator more dangerous than the ocean itself—will she escape, or become the next offering to the deep? Sean Byrne returns with his third visceral feature.”
Hassie Harrison (“Yellowstone”), Jai Courtney (The Suicide Squad), and Josh Heuston (“Heartbreak High”) lead the cast of Sean Byrne’s shark movie Dangerous Animals.
The clip below introduces Hassie Harrison’s Zephyr as she wakes to discover she’s chained to a bed on Captain Tucker’s boat. Worse, she’s not alone; fellow captive Heather (Ella Newton) is already familiar with Captain Tucker’s routine.
Captain Tucker (Jai Courtney) is a memorable villain. Byrne previously said of Courtney’s performance, “He fully got in the head of all of that psychologically. But to do that and not destroy the fun of it. He’s physically very intimidating as well. In a way, I felt like I was working with Mike Tyson or something. He’s this massive unit. I couldn’t even get my arms around him, but he’s just so strong, too.”
Add this summer horror movie to your watchlists. I wrote in my review, “Byrne manages to walk right up to the line of nihilism without ever losing a sense of humor or humanity, making for a rewarding, triumphant experience that feels earned. It also features a star-making turn from Hassie Harrison, and Jai Courtney’s instantly memorable turn as a villain for the ages, which just seals Byrne’s latest as one of the year’s must-see movies. It all makes for one ferocious subversion of shark horror.”
Nick Lepard wrote the screenplay for Dangerous Animals, which comes courtesy of Brouhaha Entertainment, LD Entertainment, Oddfellows Entertainment, and Range Media Partners.
Stephen Graham Jones is one of those horror literature names you know, even if you’re not that into horror literature.
The author of The Only Good Indians, My Heart is a Chainsaw, and dozens of other entries in the modern horror canon has built a reputation for two things: Chilling fiction and a jaw-droppingly prolific output, and today we can exclusively reveal the next story he’s unleashing on readers.
On March 9, 2027, Jones and Saga Press will release Ears, a new haunted house horror novella about a down-on-his-luck man who finds an unlucky ally in the ghost of a child in footie pajamas, complete with bunny ears on top.
Here’s the official synopsis:
“Mr. Morning Gun, the hapless narrator of this first person novella, is a disgraced history teacher who now is an unhoused person who is largely living within his electric car and the empty homes he looks after for local real estate agencies in a specific way: He flushes the empty houses toilets to keep, primarily, the wax seals on the toilets fresh, and the plumbing flowing. For this he gets a bit of money under table. One day, at “The Messner House” he gets caught by an aggressive realtor having a tryst, and the ghost of the previous owners’ missing child intervenes, killing the couple, and saving the former teacher and he finds himself embroiled into an ever-increasing layer of cover-ups as the girl in the lavender footie pajamas keeps killing folks to keep the house empty, except for him.”
What inspired a story like this? For Jones, it began with something very practical, which quickly morphed into a new expression of horror.
“I was wondering if the chargers for electric cars are universal or not, but didn’t know how to phrase a search to figure that out, so I had to figure it out the only way I know how: with a story—with horror,” Jones told Bloody Disgusting. “With, as it turned out, a haunted house. So, now I know that they probably are universal. And that that leads to… to bad things.”
Bloody Disgusting is pleased to exclusively reveal the haunting cover for Ears, designed by Luisa Dias.
Ears is the latest entry in Jones’ always-busy publishing schedule, which includes a new novel, Off the Reservation, arriving this fall from Saga. Beginning next spring, Saga will also reissue three of Jones’ earlier horror works for a new generation of readers, delivering new editions of Demon Theory, The Last Final Girl, and Growing Up Dead In Texas.
Those reissues don’t have firm release dates yet, but you can expect Ears to arrive on March 9, 2027.
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