Half a century after Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” stirred fear and fascination by painting sharks as bloodthirsty monsters of the sea, the tongue-in-cheek horror thriller “Dangerous Animals” gets its kicks watching a predator in cargo shorts and flip-flops – not one with a dorsal fin and sharp teeth – toying with his prey.

In a sharksploitation subgenre teeming with ridiculous premises (see: “Ouija Shark,” “Cocaine Shark,” etc.) and plenty of atrocious CGI, this vicious little Australian import is a breath of fresh oxygen. Lean, mean and bloody, director Sean Byrne’s latest (he made “The Devil’s Candy”) finds a fresh way into the annals of survival horror by pitting surfer vs. serial killer on the open seas, and as a corrective of sorts to the “Jaws effect.” Here, it’s not the carnivorous fi

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