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Maddie (Virginia Gardner) has never been quite since her boyfriend (Isaac Crawley) has been shot dead in a robbery right before her very eyes - and one can't really blame her. So a year or so later her best friend Trish (Mel Jarnson) decides to invite her to a trip to an island paradise to see some orcas. Maddie is thrilled as they're her favourite creatures. But once there she's less than thrilled to learn that Trish meant watching them in captivity. So instead of watching a show, she, Trish and Trish's local crush Josh (Mitchell Hope) try to break into the seaquarium one after a night of drinking - but fail to make it past the security guard (Ron Smyck). Next day, the three of them are making a trip to some remote beach, but are ultimately attacked by a killer whale who kills Josh, sinks the jet-ski they're on, and the girls only just manage to save themselves onto a rock. in open water And the orca's circling the rock, waiting to kill them as well. This is so out of character with orcas in their natural habitat as orcas are only known to kill humans in captivity - so the girls figure this must be one of the killer whales they tried to save that must have been rescued by someone else, but the orca still thinks its in captivity and the girls are its handlers. Now that's bad enough already, made only worse by Trish shattering their unity by confessing something to Maddie about her dead boyfriend ...

This film actually manages to achieve the almost impossible as it is an animal horror flick that delivers an animal advocacy message. And this works so well because the film puts narration over message and tells a trhilling and, considering it's mostly located on a single rock with only two actresses, surprisingly multi-layered story that goesway beyond just being straightforward horror. And that the main actresses have just the right chemistry for this and are first rate only helps making this a rather brilliant genre ride.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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