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‘Killer Whale’ Exclusive Clip Strands Survivors With Vengeful Orca
A pizza floatie becomes a life raft in our exclusive new clip from aquatic survival thriller Killer Whale.
Lionsgate’s Killer Whale swims into theaters, Digital, and VOD on January 16, 2026.
In the film, “After a life-shattering tragedy, Trish tries to comfort her best friend, Maddie, by taking her on a spectacular adventure in a private lagoon halfway across the world. Their peaceful retreat soon becomes a terrifying fight to stay alive when the ocean’s most bloodthirsty predator seeks vengeance for a brutal life in captivity.”
The upcoming aquatic horror movie Killer Whale has been rated “R” by the MPAA for “some violent content, bloody/grisly images, language, and brief drug use.”
Jo-Anne Brechin (Designing Christmas With You) directs from a script co-written with Katharine E. McPhee. Producers include Lionel Hicks, Steve Jaggi, and Kylie Pascoe.
Halloween 2018 and Fall actor Virginia Gardner, Mel Jarnson, and Mitchell Hope star.
The clip below appears to set up the survival scenario, in which a day of beachy fun leaves at least two people stranded on a flimsy pool floatie as a vengeful predator circles. In this case, it’s not a CGI shark but one angry orca.
Look for Killer Whale next week.
A gnarly infection threatens to claw its way out of a moving camper in the first trailer for Shudder’s claustrophobic Hellcat.
The feature debut of writer/editor/director Brock Bodell, who previously edited the Fantasia title Ultrasound, makes its debut on Shudder on August 14.
In Hellcat, “Lena wakes up in a moving camper trailer with a horrifying wound. She’s warned by the driver that they have one hour to get to a doctor, or she’ll succumb to an unimaginably awful fate. As the pain sets in and reality begins to fray, who should really be afraid?”
Dakota Gorman (Natural Disasters) leads the cast that also includes Todd Terry (“Breaking Bad”), Liz Atwater (The Other People), Jordan Mullins (The Bikeriders), and James Austin Johnson (“Saturday Night Live”) in a voice role. Bodell also produces alongside Andrew Duensing and Nate Eggert.
Hellcat made its world premiere last summer at Fantasia. I wrote in my review, “Hellcat is a bit of a Trojan horror that defies easy classification, by design. Bodell’s sneaky debut feature is occasionally too sparse in its worldbuilding in its bid to preserve the mystery, but not enough to detract from the thrilling road thriller that transforms into a completely left-field type of horror we don’t get nearly enough of. The stripped-down tribute to a classic horror staple catches you off guard in more ways than one, marking Bodell as one to watch.”
In other words, there’s a lot more than meets the eye to Hellcat‘s simple infection setup, delivering plenty of surprises along its bumpy road of horrors.
Check out the trailer and poster below and add Hellcat to your watchlists asap.
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