Overview

• Jai Courtney plays Tucker, an Australian boat captain who lures victims into the Coral Sea for shark-feeding spectacles while Hassie Harrison’s surfer Zephyr fights to escape in a cat-and-mouse survival ordeal
• Director Sean Byrne builds unrelenting dread through crisp staging and controlled pacing without resorting to exploitative jump scares
• Nick Lepard’s screenplay pays homage to Jaws’ 50th anniversary and nods to Point Break, Hannibal and even “Baby Shark” as it fuses shark horror with serial-killer tropes
• The film premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and opened nationwide on June 6, 2025 via IFC Films with an R rating for strong bloody violence, grisly images, sexuality, language and brief drug use
• Critics praise Harrison’s breakout turn as the resilient protagonist and spotlight the electric dynamic between her and Courtney in the high-stakes sea-bound thriller