I might have seen this movie just for its poster

Actually, Australian director Sean Byrne has good credibility as a horror director from his previous film The Loved Ones (2009), so I was interested in seeing his newest film, Dangerous Animals, on that basis. I'm wondering if his follow-up to that movie, 2015's The Devil's Candy, was a dud, considering that he wasn't able to follow up that film until ten years later.

But it's been a long time since I've drawn your attention to a poster, so that's what I'm doing today.

Just look at this beauty.

The shape of this boat's wake is no mistake. The movie is about a scraggly Australian psychopath, played by Jai Courtney in the continuation of a grand tradition in this country's filmography, who kidnaps tourists and feeds them to sharks from the end of his boat. That shark fin wake -- blood red, almost as if the victims had been ground up in the boat's motor rather than the teeth of sharks -- is a perfect way to depict what the move is about in a single shot.

And as it turns out, there was much greater reason to see this movie than just its poster. This is an intense and clever cat-and-mouse game between Courtney and one particular victim, and if it's a little more conventional in its details than The Loved Ones was, that may have been the price Byrne had to pay in order to get another of his films up. The Loved Ones didn't always sit with me perfectly, even though it was striking, so I think I might actually like this one a bit better.