Welcome to The Reef Movie Website
I have always wanted to make a movie in Australia about sharks. There is something quite compelling about the concept.
Sharks and shark attacks are a huge part of Australian culture and how the rest of the world perceives us. It’s not uncommon to hear of friends or relatives that arrive from overseas but are too scared to enter the ocean because they believe they’ll be taken by a shark. Mention sharks at a party and everyone will have a story or a take on them.
The animal is synonymous with this country and yet we’ve never made a feature film about them. The American’s took one of our true stories and turned it into a very successful film called Open Water. For Jaws they came to Australia to get their shark footage but here in Australia we’ve never made a feature film about one of our most notorious cultural ambassadors. Like most films in this genre, The Reef is designed to frighten and scare to cause dread and alarm, to invoke our worst hidden fears, in this case a fear heavily imprinted in our genes, the fear of being eaten alive by a vicious, unreasoning predator.
I hope you come with us on the journey and keep in touch by coming back to my blog as often as you like.
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