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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Larded up with too much blubber and not enough bite to justify the tedium, this disappointing survival thriller is beached upon arrival.

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Catherine Bray

Guardian

May 13

2/5

There are a couple of decent plot twists and reveals, but not enough to stop you from checking out until the next bit with the whale comes up.

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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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Tyler Smith

Battleship Pretension

Jun 15

And so Killer Whale takes its place among the lesser of the more recent Jaws imitators, hovering somewhere below Beast of War and above the god-awful The Black Demon.

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David Griffiths

Subculture Entertainment

Jun 8

2/5

Why a film shot in Queensland has to green screen the beach I will never know. The only thing worse than the dodgy CGI and obvious green screen is the woeful screenplay.

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Louisa Moore

Screen Zealots

May 27

A killer whale horror movie should either leave you thrilled or laughing along with the madness, where this one mostly just drifts along before beaching itself completely.

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Mathew S

@MatrixWatchesMovies Aug 23

Killer Whale attempts to do for apex marine mammals what The Shallows and 47 Meters Down did for sharks, but it completely belly-flops under the weight of an absurd screenplay and laughable visual effects. The script feels like it was pieced together from discarded creature-feature tropes and bad soap opera twists. The setup is convoluted beyond belief: a grieving, hearing-impaired cellist is taken to Thailand by her influencer best friend to heal, only for them to drunkenly trespass into a shoddy marine park, witness a captive orca name Ceto kill a worker, and then somehow encounter that exact same whale when the park hastily dumps it into the open ocean. terrible movie. avoid at all costs

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DanTheMan 2

@DanTheMan2150AD Aug 21

Willy really let himself go after the divorce.

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Callie P

@calliewhitw Aug 18

If you've ever seen the shallows with blake lively this movie felt like that just orca version not my favorite and it honestly doesn't make any sense to me so no I don't recommend this movie

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John S

@RT83011313 Jul 30

Total garbage! Laughable CGI for 2026

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Tatiana R

@RT22013868 Jul 27

awful ending. Ceto deserved better and Maddie should have paid for hurting her...

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Pulse Gamers T

@Lightingblade28 Jul 20

Really wanted to love this movie but the movie had terrible cgi blood, terrible acting, terrible dialogue, low budget slop and the orca looked so fake. Don't get me started with the diner scene at the beginning it was the most cringest scene I've seen in 2026. This was a 2026 snooze fest of a film. I would not recommend this to anyone.

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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
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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