Thrash Surfaces Sharks After a Category 5 Hurricane

Netflix has announced an April 10th release date for Thrash, the new survivor horror film written and directed by Tommy Wirkola. The film stars Phoebe Dynevor, Whitney Peak, and Djimon Hounsou.

Wirkola is known for such films as Dead Snow (2009), Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013), Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014), and Violent Night (2022). He’s also got Violent Night 2 on the way.

In Thrash, when a Category 5 hurricane decimates a coastal town, the storm surge brings devastation, chaos, and something far more frightening: hungry sharks.

Produced by Adam McKay, Kevin Messick, and Wirkola, the film also stars Matt Nable, Andrew Lees, Alyla Browne, Stacy Clausen, and Dante Ubaldi. D. Scott Lumpkin is the executive producer.

“I became obsessed with sharks after Jaws—and Jaws 2, which is an underrated movie. I spent a lot of my childhood obsessing over sharks and whatever movie was made about that subject,” said Wirkola.

“Fast forward to a world going off its rails when it comes to global warming and flash floods happening everywhere, and it dawned on me that this could be a great setting-off point for a movie, combining the idea of a disaster movie with a shark thriller.”

“More and more, you’re hearing marine biologists acknowledge that climate is changing where these sharks go,” added McKay. “It’s changing how they behave. So, inasmuch as this is an edge-of-your-seat popcorn film, the science behind it is not implausible.”

Announced with the title “Beneath the Storm” in May 2024, the movie began principal photography in Australia in August of that year. It was renamed “Shiver” in March 2025, before the rights were transferred to Netflix in January 2026, where it remained unnamed until recently.