As if your garden variety serial killer weren’t scary enough, Australia-set terror show “Dangerous Animals” features a sicko whose weapon of choice is … sharks. In some ways, the notion’s scarier than the razor-toothed creatures themselves, in that most people can avoid being chomped to death simply by steering clear of any body of water where sharks have been known to hunt. Now imagine minding your business, only to be knocked out, tied up and hauled out to sea, where some sadist dangles you over water thick with fins, while he records everything on VHS for his personal snuff film library.

We have screenwriter Nick Lepard to thank for these vivid new nightmares, presented with such conviction by “The Devil’s Candy” director Sean Byrne that the efficient and highly effective thriller scarcely allows a calm moment in which to question how deranged its premise truly is. Instead of hiding the psycho,...

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