Horror has defined the short but striking career of Australian director Sean Byrne. Dangerous Animals (2025) is his third feature film, and once again, he walks the path of scares. In this new project, Byrne blends the serial killer formula with the kind of horror found in monster movies—specifically the shark attack subgenre.
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Long before superheroes took over the screens. There were flesh-and-blood action heroes before Marvel and DC sought the niche of action cinema with their characters. Nostalgia always gets the better of me and I can’t resist returning to those action movies and characters from the 80s and 90s that paved my way to the movies. Stallone, Van Damme, Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Steven Seagal, Bruce Lee… these legends and many others dominated the big screen with their epic adventures from which they always emerged victorious.
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Before making Blood on the Moon (1948), Robert Wise had already established himself as a prestigious director in the Hollywood industry. What few know is that it was Orson Welles who gave him the opportunity that would change his life. Wise began working in RKO’s accounting department but soon ended up working as an assistant director. When Welles embarked on producing his legendary Citizen Kane (1941), he sought Wise to edit the film. After the impressive work editing Welles’ masterful work, Wise’s career took off.
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The Cairnes brothers’ Australian horror film, Late Night With The Devil (2023) began its festival circuit early in 2023 and took the best screenplay award at the Sitges festival. This Australian production is the third feature film by the pair of brothers who also created the script and worked on the editing. From the hand of IFC Films, the film hit theaters in a limited way in March 2024 and in its first three days in theaters in the United States it raised 2.8 million dollars to become the best premiere for IFC. It exceeded 12 million dollars worldwide, a more than respectable figure for an independent film.
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