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Dangerous Animals | When a onenight stand Becomes Your Only Lifeline Against A Shark-Obsessed Killer

• CuddleyMacaroon, DigitalBanBan, Ladycassaundra • Season 3 • Episode 2

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What happens when sharks aren't the real monsters? "Dangerous Animals" flips the script on traditional shark horror by introducing us to Tucker, a charismatic Australian serial killer whose obsession with sharks takes a terrifying turn. After surviving a shark attack himself, Tucker develops a god complex that manifests in the most disturbing way possible – capturing women, filming their deaths as sharks devour them, and keeping meticulous VHS records of each victim.

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Speaker 1:

Hey guys, to another Solidarity Danny episode. Today I decided to watch Dangerous Animals. It is a IFC Films and Shudder movie. It just came out June 6th, so about a week ago, so last week and I was actually pretty hyped about this movie. But before I get into that, let me draw down what the movie's about. A shark obsessed serial killer holds zephyr, a rebellious surfer, captive on his boat, racing against time. She must figure out a way to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.

Speaker 1:

And my favorite thing about this movie is the fact that it is not necessarily a shark movie, but it's also necessarily not a uh, just solely a serial killer, uh movie. So Our main antagonist, tucker just another generosity, aussie. He is very charismatic, your perfect serial killer, honestly, because he's able to talk to people. He runs a shark-seeing business, of course, and my favorite thing about this movie is just how different it is. I particularly can't think of any kind of film that might do this with other animals off the top of my head. But I love shark movies, as we know in the past of apartment theater, and I really wish I got Justin to watch it because I just, I really want to know his opinion on this because he hates shark movies and not making the shark the villain is so refreshing because just in any shark movie nowadays it's just sharks being bloodthirsty monsters. And this whole movie is just about the serial killer who is obsessed with filmmaking like he makes a film of the killings sharks eating the people, the girls mostly he does, of course, to just women. I like the titles dangerous animals, because it's really like who is the dangerous animal here? And he uses sharks, I think also therapeutically, because he speaks in the beginning how he was almost killed by a shark and he survived and that gives him this godplex. And that's just in that. Because he's got this new god plex, he has to try to watch other people die. So he runs this business. He gets people and feeds them to a shark. Uh, he cuts off the girl's hair before he kills them and adds them onto a fish hook, which I thought was very cool. And, um, he does this all with a old vha vhs film camera and that plays a role because our main character, zephyr, who falls in love. Well, they quickly fall in love, um, by the end, I'd hope so. So let's backtrack to Zephyr.

Speaker 1:

Zephyr, our very rebellious surfing chick. She, she's all about the surf life and she finds this guy. They have a one-night stand and he becomes thusly obsessed with her and, honestly, his obsession with her is what saved her in this movie. If he was not hell-bent on talking to her again she'd be dead. So you know, hey, why not, I guess? So she has this one-night stand with this guy and then she leaves early before he's able to make her this beautiful breakfast which she sends her a picture of, to go surfing. And that's when Tucker sees her by herself and knocks her out by suffocation and brings her onto the boat.

Speaker 1:

We see the couple in the beginning. We see the first cup. Uh, the couple in the beginning. Uh. We see the girl again uh.

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So you get the taste of him being a serial killer. By killing her, uh, friend. Uh, by stabbing him a bunch of times and throwing him into the water of sharks. Uh, for him to captive her and then pick up Zephyr. That girl dies sadly by being eaten by sharks. It does give actual facts, which I find pretty cool, where sharks are getting fed by boats so much it's creating a dangerous situation where sharks are correlating boats with food. So him doing this is now creating correlation with all of his films that, like he could bring the sharks and sharks. Sharks will eat the people, even though when they normally don't have the taste for human flesh, most of the time it's mistake of prey. That's why you do get your random man-eater of a shark, but most of the time people are just missing limbs and they die from the injuries opposed to the actual animal because the shark bites. They die from the injuries opposed to the actual animal because the shark bites and it's too much for our feeble little bodies and you bleed out or lose a limb. Bleed out, it's never anything else and a lot of times some of the sharks do actually spit up the limb and stuff too. So I just really like this fact. We're going into a serial killer movie with proper shark information and not false information like all of the shark movies that I do love, but they do push.

Speaker 1:

So Zephyr is now with this other girl, uh. She's starting to learn how drastic the situation is and she, when she watches the other girl, uh, get fed alive to the sharks as he records it, and he records it to save. And each vhh tape has, like, the girl's name on the side and whatnot. Because he gets the girl's name somehow, like he creates a, because he gets the girl's name somehow, like he creates a whole ritual out of this. And let me tell you what, though If, like, the girls gave him a fake name, I feel he would be very upset by this fact, because he is now not able to do something repetitively that he needs to get done, but moving forward. He needs to get done, but moving forward. So our obsessed man, who's obsessed with Zephyr in the manner he wants to just be with her, he figures out and starts putting stuff together that she was stolen, opposed to just disappear, like because she lives out of her car. He sees her car getting towed and how, like, well, alright, that's weird, because she told me she lives out of her car. And obviously you get it, you get it. I don't need to explain it too much, you get it. So I'm over explaining it. But whatever, we continue forward. And he gets, he finds out the, the, the, this guy's like business or whatever, and he gets to the boat, he finds her. He gets into a mess with the police. He almost gets in contact with the police. He calls them and you think they would still send somebody out to like the location or something, because on the phone he they hear struggle, help and nothing but uh. This sets place in australia and I don't know how the 911 facility works in Australia. I just know that in the movie they did not send anybody out.

Speaker 1:

The murderer, tucker, focuses on foreigners and I'm assuming that's just because it's easier to get rid of foreigners. People will stop looking when they're foreigners, opposed to local. And that is the one point that Zephyr tries to point out to him. When he goes to kill Tucker, after beating him up to create a matinee, which I thought was a very clever line, when he tries to feed to the sharks in the daytime and he was like time for a matinee I was like that's a pretty clever line, I like that line. But yeah, so all kinds of bumblefuck happens and he doesn't get Ian. He ends up back on the ship because things are flying around or helicopters are flying around, and so then he stabs him a couple times.

Speaker 1:

So now for the rest of the movie. Moses, I think, was his name. Pretty sure it was Moses. Yeah, it's Moses, it's just bleeding out. So I give him credit that he doesn't die from bleeding out. But hey, on the first night of this too they also see a party boat and they live in their best life. We'll circle back around to the party boat because the party boat is important Unironically. So the rest of the movie is just struggle.

Speaker 1:

She gets away, gets captured, gets away, gets captured. There's actually, uh, the second time she gets away, um, and he is tugged like tucked, chugging back to his boat with her because she jumped over the edge, just swum to like the and got to land or whatever. But he um got her and at this point, uh, she bit off her own thumb to get her hand out of handcuffs and stuff. So she's kind of like a little lacking on like blood too and strength. So she ain't doing too hot.

Speaker 1:

But if they ended it on that clip of him going back to the boat, I probably this movie would be in the 90 percent. Like there there's a lot of people giving this really high ratings and really like digging the idea of this movie, but I think that would have like just gone so exceptional. Unfortunately, it would leave it open and for them to make sequels and serial killer movies. I just it's really difficult to make a sequel of them, honestly, without them being shitty, but I just it. It would add so much if they just ended it there, because I think there's like 15 minutes left of the movie anyways. Uh, so it wouldn't have cut too much time, honestly, but that's just me. So we get her back on the boat and now she's hanging and moses is in where she was and a huge Great White like um, like we're talking Jaws kind of level Great White Like this is a monstrous Great White. That would be like baby. Uh, wow, I can't think of the stupid Megalodon. There we go. Shit, that name just like soared in my brain. Could not think of that.

Speaker 1:

And your typical twist, for the matter Tucker does get eaten by the shark, you know, and he reaches for help because she's totally going to help him after everything that he's done. But he gets eaten by the shark and at some point in the movie it shows that the boat was on E anyway. So I was kind of making a little bit of a joke. Wouldn't it be horrible that they get rid of the guy? But now they have no gas to get to land and they're just floating there and they just die because they're stuck out at sea. But at this point it's nighttime because he likes to make his movies at nighttime and the party boat's back. She sets off a flare and the party boat sees it and they come back and save the day and she says her reasoning to be on land again is Moses and they fall in love. Yay, actually it's a romance movie, it's not a horror flick. All in all, it's a pretty good movie. It's got a different twist to it for once. It's just for once. It's just for once.

Speaker 1:

It's interesting to watch. It is predictable so, but it's entertaining at the same time, but very predictable. The acting is good, like I think all the actors did a great job. The film angles were all good. I did watch mine not in the theater, so not the best of qualities. So I can guarantee it probably has better quality in the actual theater, but I definitely suggest it.

Speaker 1:

That's not really all I got to say. I straight up just told you the plot line and everything that happened in it. So sorry, not sorry, go watch it. Anyways, it's decent. Maybe I can get Justin back on for a double take and get him to watch it, because we all know if you've been hanging around the apartment theater for a double take and get him to watch it, because we all know.

Speaker 1:

If you've been hanging around the apartment theater for a while for the past three years, you'd know how much Justin hates shark movies. Not because, like, he's scared of sharks or anything, just because how fucking stupid he thinks they are, and it's just like that's the appeal of them. They're dumb, like obviously this shit's never gonna happen, so the shark has to be like bloodthirsty or whatever for it to actually theoretically work properly. But that's yeah, that's everything I got to say about it. It's good. I told you word for word. I didn't there's like details I missed, but that's for the best, I guess, because now you can go watch and be like oh, she didn't mention that and maybe that was my whole plan.

Speaker 1:

Not really, because I kind of just talk. I don't plan out what I say before I talk. I, as you probably can assume, I don't plan out what I say before I talk, as you probably can assume. That's how you know I mean what I say. Yeah, anyways, all right, now I'm just rambling. So, on that note, go watch the movie I'm trying to get Justin in cast to see. See, let Her Go, I believe, is the actual title. Maybe it's Bring Her Back. Bring Her Back Whatever. I hear great things about that, so hopefully we could get an episode out about that soon. Me and Justin still stream daily on our own channels and we try to stream every Friday at least on the Apartment Theater's YouTube channel to just some horror games and have some fun. So we're still around. Catch Justin over at Digital Bon Bon on YouTube and then myself Cuddly Macaroon across Twitch, youtube, tiktok and uh, get the fuck out, bye.