Rolling Roadshow Returns with Dangerous Animals on the Water

Hassie Harrison and Jai Courtney in Dangerous Animals, the new slasher-meets-sharks horror from Sean Byrne. Austin audiences can catch a very special preview screening on the water at Volente Beach complete with an in-person Q&A with Byrne and Harrison. (Courtesy of Independent Film Company and Shudder.)

Whether it was Us in a haunted house or The Road Warrior at a demolition derby, the Alamo Drafthouse's Rolling Roadshow screenings are the stuff of moviegoing legend. After a couple of years off, the immersive screenings are back with a special aquatic preview of Dangerous Animals, the new horror from the Independent Film Company.

Arriving in theatres on June 6, the latest film from Australian cult director Sean Byrne (The Loved Ones and the Austin-made The Devil's Candy) stars Jai Courtney as a serial killer who develops an unhealthy relationship with sharks. Unhealthy, that is, for the poor unfortunates that he takes into the middle of the ocean and feeds to these finned predators. Now Zephyr (Dallas native Hassie Harrison, Yellowstone, Iron Orchard) has to work out how to survive not only his unhinged plans, but also the perils of the open sea.

But courtesy of Rolling Roadshow, Austin audiences get an early chance to catch the Texas premiere of the highly-anticipated horror at an advance screening on May 31, out on the water at Volente Beach Waterpark. Modeled on the old Jaws on the Water screenings (which, by the way, return for a limited run this summer), admission includes the movie out on the Colorado, access to the water park, no sharks, catering, definitely no sharks, photo ops, fireworks, and a special live Q&A with Byrne and Harrison. And, we're pretty sure, no sharks.

There will, however, be these nifty floats!

Image Courtesy of Alamo Drafthouse/Rolling Roadshow/Fons PR

Image Courtesy of Alamo Drafthouse/Rolling Roadshow/Fons PR

Tickets are available now at eventbrite.com.

And there will definitely not be sharks. (We're pretty sure, since Volente Beach is fresh water and sharks can't survive in fresh water... well, except Asian river sharks, or if a Bull Shark gets very lost, since they can survive outside of the ocean. Look, forget we said anything.) However, there is this trailer, featuring what's being called genre hero Courtney's best performance of his career.