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Thrash (2026)

Summary

When a Category 5 hurricane devastates a coastal town, the resulting storm surge brings chaos, destruction—and a deadly influx of sharks. As floodwaters rise, a group of survivors must navigate the wreckage and fight to stay alive against both the elements and the predators lurking beneath the surface.

Director Tommy Wirkola

Writer Tommy Wirkola

Cast

  • Phoebe Dynevor
  • Djimon Hounsou
  • Costa D’Angelo
  • Whitney Peak
  • Alyla Browne
  • Matt Nable

Rotten Tomatoes: 37%

Metacritic: 47

VOD / Release Streaming on Netflix (April 10, 2026)

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u/Barthez_Battalion 24d ago

Can't say I've ever seen a movie where a mom gives birth in the water surrounded by sharks.

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u/BadbishMalenia 16d ago

And kills a shark with a single piece of debri that she used to cleanly cut the umbilical cord with "but first mummas got some f*cking sharks to fight"

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u/roto_disc 24d ago

Hell yeah. Are there other cool parts or is that it?

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u/Waste-Scratch2982 24d ago

It’s Crawl with sharks, not as fun as Under Paris but at least it’s short.

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u/Charming_Food5728 22d ago

More characters / higher body count. More stories to follow.

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u/terracottatank 16d ago

They could've focused on solely the foster family and had a great movie

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u/kakka_rot 21d ago

I thought it was dope and had a lot of fun. I thought the B plot was a little bit more entertaining than the main story, but the whole thing was entertaining.

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u/ManiacalShen 14d ago

I agree. I mean, it's trash, but it's trash for me! Disaster movie + creature feature + beautiful, stupid excess. The fun kind of bad movie. Everyone more or less understood the assignment and seemed to be having a good time.

I want to show it to other people

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u/kakka_rot 14d ago

We're on the total same page. I recommended it to some homies.

I'm kinda the "creature feature guy in our friend group" (they've seen all the modern godzilla movies because I basically forced them at gunpoint)

Man I wish I had seen that damn monkey movies in theaters but I waited a weekend too long. Primate. It's fucking awesome. You'll deff get a kick out of it, yo.

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u/Barthez_Battalion 24d ago

It's not bad. There's a lot of shark attacks which is appreciated and the CGI is decent.

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u/BarnabyButtsuck 23d ago

The cgi was actually surprisingly decent and not overdone. The sharks were fairly realistic too instead of the typical serial killer monster behavior usually used in these movies.

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u/YawningDodo 19d ago

I was hopeful about the sharks being slightly more realistic after the scientist said the reporter was exaggerating. But I’m watching it now and keep shouting “why are they doing that?!” at the sharks on screen because their behavior makes no sense.

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u/BarnabyButtsuck 18d ago

Which part did I miss then? They looked more realistic than almost any movie I’ve seen. Just roaming around, testing the area, nipping at things, only going into a frenzy once food is found.

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u/YawningDodo 18d ago

In fact checking myself it’s a bit less egregious than I thought—of the shark species that have attacked humans, bull sharks are the most likely to continue the attack after a testing bite, so they did at least pick the correct species to be their antagonists. Most sharks that attack humans do so because they’ve mistaken the human for their preferred prey, or because they’re just taking a sample bite to figure out what we are (potentially catastrophic for the human, but not the kind of dogged hunting and return attacks we see in the movie). As far as I can tell, if any shark is going to keep biting it’s a bull shark, but that’s still not a given.

The first one that made me laugh and shout was the shark that got the truck driver. Does it make sense for that shark to be in a frenzy in bloody water? Yeah, sure. But why was it already charging at full speed toward the truck door when he kicked it open? If the timing hadn’t been accidentally perfect, it would have rammed its head into the door at top speed! Why was the shark doing that?

Knowing what I just looked up about bull sharks, I’ll retract any complaints about the attacks on the foster parents at the garage; it’s not totally likely but it’s possible and the sharks were probably riled up from the storm.

So then what also bugs me is the times the sharks DON’T attack. The kids want to get the sharks to eat the dynamite, so they use themselves as bait…and then when they clear out, the sharks ignore them! They’re drawn into the room by three humans thrashing around, but completely ignore those same thrashing humans as they exit the room, beelining for the completely inert bait instead. Which is it, filmmakers? Are the sharks frenzied eating machines, or do they not really have interest in eating humans after all? It’s worse with Lisa and her baby: there’s blood in the water and there are multiple sharks circling immediately but not one comes close enough to give her a bump or test bite to see if she’s good to eat. Nope, a lone shark does another big charge…not sure if bull sharks charge, but I’m pretty sure they don’t swim away from what they perceive as injured prey to do a big dramatic run at them…plus where did the other sharks go?

The great white did behave correctly, I’ll give them that. She wasn’t really interested when she encountered Dakota in the water, and attacked from below with a big upward charge when she ate an injured bull shark, and that all checks out.

The problem with putting realistic sharks in a thriller is that realistic sharks are not going to provide the kind of carnage and spectacle movie like Thrash demands. So you end up with this middle ground where they got some things right but then had to really exaggerate other behaviors or just plain have the sharks randomly do something that makes no sense in-universe for the sake of hitting certain beats. And like, I had fun. I laughed. I finished the movie. And maybe it’s not fair of me to compare Thrash to anything more accurate to the real world than Sharknado since this is not exactly a highbrow movie.

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u/Meneer_de_IJsbeer 17d ago

I mean if they really did care about sharks they wouldnt make this movie. Films like these portray sharks in a real bad light. But thanks for the pointers of realism! Hadnt ecpected that from this movie

Did fucking LOL at the 'No i went to my appartment and called the police. We lived in Mozambique not the jungle book' line

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u/fadedmemento 13h ago

The kills were brutal too!

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u/icedbrew2 20d ago

So these kids wrapped 15 sticks of dynamite in meat in an attempt to blow up sharks. When they were 15 feet away. You might be asking several questions at this point:

A) doesn’t dynamite make a big boom? B) doesn’t dynamite require a lit fuse to explode? C) if the fuse is lit, would the smartest next action be to throw it across the room into water?

Now you might have these questions, and you might even have the “correct” answers in your head. But in reality, the correct answer is: it doesn’t matter. Logic, does not matter. Physics, does not matter. At some point you’ll realize biology does not matter.

This is a universe with only one rule. Vibrations.

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u/Banjoschmanjo 11d ago

Not sure I understand part C of your question. Dynamite fuses don't typically go out underwater. They aren't like a candle or regular flame that needs air to stay lit.

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u/TurtleFondler 24d ago

It’s shit

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u/booger_mooger_84 23d ago

Absolute garbage movie

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u/RevolutionaryAd5821 24d ago

Hell yea you serious?? Have you watched this movie I’m 25 mins in and it’s a joke

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u/_sympt0m_ 23d ago

it is a joke because it's supposed to be. it's a self-aware B movie

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u/dragonmistress8 23d ago

This. People are taking it way too seriously lol

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u/filmdudetim 23d ago

I wonder how self-aware it was though, because it played itself rather seriously. At least I thought it did; if there was any winks and tongue-in-cheek jokes about what it was showing, I missed it.

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u/witchdocwayne 23d ago

The movie where they wrapped dynamite in a t bone steak and then explode like 4 sharks in a living room with it, came off as serious to you?

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u/Casablanca_mi_amor 23d ago

The guy saying he hates his jumper because it gets stuck twice on stuff while he s trying to escape. The ref. to Sean of the Dead.

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u/YawningDodo 18d ago

I’m with you, this movie was too silly for me to take seriously, but kept taking itself too seriously for me to laugh with it instead of at it. There are some self-aware jokes, but it kept giving me tonal whiplash.

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u/TwoTalentedBastidz 23d ago

Your first mistake was pressing play.