The movie Dangerous Animals (2025) opens with tourists Greg and Heather arriving at Tucker’s Experience, a shark cage diving attraction run by the eccentric boat captain Tucker. As they head out into the ocean, Tucker shares that he survived a shark attack as a child, which deeply scarred him and altered his perception of sharks. After Greg and Heather participate in the cage dive, Tucker suddenly kills Greg and abducts Heather, taking her captive on his boat.

Meanwhile, at the Gold Coast, an American drifter named Zephyr reluctantly helps a real estate agent, Moses, start his car. They bond over their shared love of surfing and end up having a one-night stand. Moses hopes for a romantic relationship, but Zephyr leaves that night to go surfing alone. At the surfing spot, she encounters Tucker, who abducts her as well. The next morning, Moses arrives at the spot but finds no sign of Zephyr.

Zephyr wakes up chained to a bed in a locked room on Tucker’s boat, where Heather is also being held captive. Upstairs, it is revealed that Tucker is holding multiple women captive on his boat. Zephyr discovers that Tucker has done this to other women before. She tries unsuccessfully to pick the lock on her cuffs.

That night, Tucker drugs both Zephyr and Heather. They awaken on the boat’s deck, where Zephyr is strapped to a chair. She watches helplessly as Heather is hoisted into the air by a harness and lowered over the water, which is filled with sharks attracted by chum. Tucker sets up an old VHS camera to record the event as Heather is lowered into the water and devoured by sharks. This reveals Tucker’s modus operandi as a serial killer who uses sharks to kill his victims while filming the gruesome acts.

The following day, Zephyr’s van is towed away, which raises Moses’s suspicions about her disappearance. He begins searching for her. Zephyr manages to escape the room and attempts to flee on the boat’s deck. During the chase, she throws Tucker’s camera overboard but is recaptured. Tucker, furious, returns to land, docks his boat, and goes out to buy a new camera.

Later, Moses tracks down Tucker’s boat and boards it, only to be subdued and handcuffed to a bed alongside Zephyr. Tucker intends to feed both of them to the sharks. The film culminates in a tense confrontation between Zephyr, Moses, and Tucker, with both Zephyr and Moses sustaining serious injuries. The story ends with their fates uncertain but implies a struggle for survival against Tucker and the sharks.

In summary, the main characters Greg and Heather die early, with Heather killed by sharks on Tucker’s boat. Zephyr and Moses are abducted and held captive, with both suffering serious injuries by the film’s end. Tucker remains the antagonist, a shark-obsessed serial killer who uses his boat and sharks to murder tourists while recording the acts.

Tucker is a shark-obsessed serial killer who abducts tourists and feeds them to sharks as part of a ritualistic killing. His motivation stems from a traumatic childhood shark attack that scarred him and changed his view of sharks, leading him to carry out these ritualistic murders on his boat.

Zephyr, a free-spirited surfer, encounters Tucker at a surfing spot after she drives away from Moses, a real estate agent she briefly connects with. Tucker abducts her from this location and holds her captive on his boat along with another captive, Heather.

Zephyr and Moses meet when Moses needs help starting his car, and they bond over their love of surfing. They have a one-night stand, and Moses hopes for a romantic relationship, but Zephyr leaves abruptly. Moses later becomes suspicious and starts searching for Zephyr after she is abducted.

Heather is hoisted into the air by a harness and lowered into shark-infested waters as Tucker records the event on an old VHS camera. She is devoured by the sharks as part of Tucker's ritualistic killings, witnessed helplessly by Zephyr who is strapped to a chair.

Zephyr tries to lockpick her cuffs but fails initially. Later, she manages to escape the room and is chased on the deck, during which she throws Tucker's camera overboard before being recaptured. Her escape attempts show her resourcefulness and determination to survive.

The movie Dangerous Animals (2025) is not family friendly; it is rated R for strong bloody violent content, grisly images, sexuality, strong language, and brief drug use.

Potentially objectionable or upsetting aspects for children or sensitive viewers include:

• Graphic violence and gore, including people being used as bait for shark attacks, thrashing, screaming, and bloody remains shown.
• Scenes of people being stabbed, struck with fishing hooks, and shot with a spear gun.
• A man with a disturbing sexual fetish involving feeding people to sharks.
• Sexual content with partial nudity and flirting.
• Frequent strong language, including at least 30 uses of the F-word.
• Some brief drug use.
• Intense psychological horror and suspense, with scenes described as "pure torture to watch" and very frightening.

These elements make the film unsuitable for children and potentially upsetting for sensitive viewers. The movie’s tone is dark and intense, focusing on captivity, torture, and survival against a sadistic killer.