We start the tale by following our fruit-loop, Tucker, as he invites a pair of naive young adults out on a chartered 'diving with sharks' experience. It's a short excerpt where we see the grizzly end of the chap - and are left to guess what becomes of the girl! Cut to another couple who bump into each other by chance and end up hanging out, then sleeping together, then she, independent woman, skips off in the morning before he (Moses) can cook the bacon!
She (Zephyr) goes off to do some early morning surfing and couldn't have picked a worse time - as Tucker, who happens to be lurking around, kidnaps her. She wakes up in a holding room in his boat, below the waterline, and we then realise that the green girl from the first excerpt is still alive, the pair of them now chained to fixed iron beds.
We then find out a bit more of what Tucker is up to as he drugs the two girls, chains Zephyr to a fishing seat to watch the show - that being the other girl, Heather, being winched and dipped into the dark waters after he's thrown blood and gore in - so that he can video-tape it for his Snuff collection! This is no spoiler really as much of what has been said so far is in the trailer!
Zephyr presents as a loner, living out of her van, no base, escaped the unhappy family home while Moses is a rich-boy with a very different outlook. When she skips off in the early morning he's really upset and wants to find her and have more time to see what might come of their liaison, other than a hot night of sex! So he heads off in pursuit, not really knowing where to start, or even her last name, with no help from the authorities for what is clearly a missing 'drifter' who he'd only known for 24 hours!
Tucker is clearly a shark-obsessed loon, who gives speeches now and then for dramatic impact about how they are the ultimate purifiers of the universe! So, with rich-boy on the case, spunky, resourceful Zephyr not giving up lightly (ironically impressing Tucker) and a bunch of hungry sharks in the drink, it's shaping up nicely into a half-decent serial-killer-thriller. And it kind of delivers. It's not bad at all. The acting is generally pretty good from the main leads - Hassie Harrison, Josh Heuston, Ella Newton and Jai Courtney - the script isn't too bad, sound is good with plenty of background tracks and the set all feels, well, a bit Jaws'y!
Survival is the key and we follow along suspensefully at times towards a climax and grand finale which I won't spoil for you here! There are a few gory special effects which are done well-enough, but actually the best of them is nothing to do with the sharks and lingers in the mind more by suggestion and imagination than actually seeing it - watch out for that one! So in Jaws, the 'monster' was always the shark whereas here, it's much more about Tucker fulfilling the brief - Dangerous Animals! Well worth a look and it's just now started arriving on streaming.
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