Killer Whale

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Killer Whale

R

Jan 2026

1h 29m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Hold your breath as you witness revenge rise from the deep. After a life-shattering tragedy, Trish tries to comfort her best friend, Maddie, by taking her on a spectacular adventure in a private lagoon halfway across the world. Their peaceful retreat soon becomes a terrifying fight to stay alive when the ocean's most bloodthirsty predator seeks vengeance for a brutal life in captivity. Virginia Garner and Mel Jarnson star in a thrill ride of a movie that will leave you breathless.

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Meagan Navarro

Bloody Disgusting

Jan 15

1.5/5

If you’ve seen 47 Meters Down or Lionsgate’s Fall, which also stars Virginia Gardner, this straightforward aquatic thriller adheres to the exact same formula with very little in the way of deviation.

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William Bibbiani

TheWrap

Jan 14

Almost nothing [Brechin] could do would spin this everyday hay into gold, but she can remind us why we keep hay around in the first place.

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Joel Copling

Spectrum Culture

3d

The incompetence on display in Killer Whale, an alleged thriller about surviving a potential orca attack, is occasionally breathtaking.

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Josh Bell

Crooked Marquee

4d

C-

The actual attacks are brief, and the effects are unconvincing, but Brechin spends far more time on the maudlin reconciliation between the former besties.

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

6d

2/5

Budget limitations and a few too many shortcuts keep this well-intentioned feature from delivering on its ambition.

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Matt Donato

Daily Dead

Jan 16

1.5/5

Killer Whale is a Titanic failure of the aquatic-horror subgenre.

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Andrew T.

@ZilchFlickwatcher 47m

I went into this movie thinking it would be similar to The Shallows. I was wrong, this is a movie about two chicks stuck on a rock self-reflecting and turns into a snooze fest. Once in a blue moon a poorly created CGI whale makes an appearance. One and a half star because Gardner is eye candy.

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tomC4SSIDY

@dopaminedamsel 2h

Horrific. Poorly written. Poorly acted. Sorry but no.

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Robert p

@Robert778 8h

I enjoy it the movie

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Aidy H

@Thevicar 1d

This most be one of the worst films about I’ve seen some terrible films 47 meters down etc. I turned it off after 35mins embarrassing film making

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Stephen C

@bob25009 4d

Success in 1 hour and 29 minutes.

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Caitlin O

@Cnoc104 4d

Pretty unwatchable lol. Might be the worst CGI/green screen editing I’ve ever seen.

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Synopsis

Hold your breath as you witness revenge rise from the deep. After a life-shattering tragedy, Trish tries to comfort her best friend, Maddie, by taking her on a spectacular adventure in a private lagoon halfway across the world. Their peaceful retreat soon becomes a terrifying fight to stay alive when the ocean's most bloodthirsty predator seeks vengeance for a brutal life in captivity. Virginia Garner and Mel Jarnson star in a thrill ride of a movie that will leave you breathless.

Director: Jo-Anne Brechin
Producer: Steve Jaggi, Kylie Pascoe, Lionel Hicks
Screenwriter: Katharine E. McPhee, Jo-Anne Brechin
Distributor: Lionsgate
Production Co: Jaggi Entertainment
Rating: R
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Australian English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 16, 2026, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 16, 2026
Runtime: 1h 29m

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