Up next from Sting and Wyrmwood writer/director Kiah Roache-Turner is a shark attack survival movie set during WWII titled Beast of War, and the official trailer is unleashing intense shark survival thrills this afternoon.
The period WWII film is loosely based on real-life events, pitting soldiers against a great white shark, and will be released in theaters and on VOD from Well Go USA on October 10.
Beast of War “follows a warship carrying hundreds of Australian soldiers across the Timor Sea to the frontline of WWII. Suddenly, Japanese fighter jets scream out of the sky, and within minutes the ocean becomes a hell of steel, fire, oil, and blood. While a handful of soldiers build a makeshift raft from floating debris as they cling to their lives, their biggest battle is yet to come. In the dark below, the ultimate apex predator — a great white shark — hunts in the wreckage and is drawn to the smell of fresh blood in the water.”
The horror movie stars Mark Coles Smith (We Bury the Dead), Joel Nankervis, Sam Delich, Lee Tiger Halley, Sam Parsonson, Maximillian Johnson, Tristan McKinnon, and Aswan Reid.
Beast of War is rated “R” for “bloody violent content, gore and language” and the trailer below whets your appetite for intense shark carnage. Even better is that the shark is practical.
Formation Effects handled the movie’s shark effects, utilizing a mix of classic old school animatronics and puppeteering, with that practical work aided by cutting edge visual effects.
The team previewed in an official press release sent out this month, “The shark, an epic scale that hasn’t been done in Australia before, was a multidisciplinary approach across prosthetics, animatronics, puppeteering and CG animation, all led by the Formation team.”
The survival horror movie is produced by Bronte Pictures’ Blake Northfield (Streamline, Wyrmwood: Apocalypse) and Pictures in Paradise’s Chris Brown (Sting, Daybreakers).
Expect to hear more about Beast of War when Fantastic Fest kicks off in Austin next month. Stay tuned.
