‘Whalefall’ Review: Austin Abrams Gets Swallowed by a Whale in an Unintentionally Preposterous Thriller — a Tale of Human Perseverance and Mammalian Stomach Lining

‘Whalefall’ Review: Austin Abrams Gets Swallowed by a Whale in an Unintentionally Preposterous Thriller — a Tale of Human Perseverance and Mammalian Stomach Lining hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Oct 14, 2026 9:00am PT ‘Whalefall’ Review: Austin Abrams Gets Swallowed by a Whale in an Unintentionally Preposterous Thriller — a Tale of Human Perseverance and Mammalian Stomach Lining It’s based on Daniel Kraus’s bestseller, but something got lost in translation. By Owen Gleiberman Plus Icon Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic @OwenGleiberman Latest ‘Tenzing’ Review: A Remarkable Adventure That Puts the Audience Right Up on Mount Everest, Along with the First Two Men — One a Sherpa, Overlooked by History — to Scale It 4 days ago ‘14th’ Review: Ava DuVernay’s Powerful Sequel to ‘13th’ Turns a Constitutional Amendment into Living History 5 days ago ‘Artificial’ Review: Luca Guadagnino Has Made the Real Sequel to ‘The Social Network’ — a Brain-Spinning Tech-Geek Docudrama, Brilliantly Acted by Andrew Garfield and Yura Borisov 1 week ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments “ Whalefall ” is an undersea thriller that would like to do for whales what “Jaws” did for sharks.

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But it doesn’t work out that way. The movie comes closer to doing for whales what “Howard the Duck” did for barnyard superheroes — it makes you never want to see one of them again.

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Whales, of course, are beautiful creatures, and the one in “Whalefall” is a sperm whale with the boxy shape of a submarine, long and angular, a sleekly gliding beast that rules the ocean. Yet for most of the movie, we’re inside that whale.

The central character, Jay Gardiner ( Austin Abrams ), has gone scuba diving off the coast of Monastery Beach near Monterey, Ca., in search of the body of his father, a gruff seaman who committed suicide. (He had mesothelioma, a form of cancer that meant he couldn’t dive anymore; for him, that meant life was no longer worth living.) Related Stories Lego’s ‘Heartlake the Musical’ Heads to Peacock in the U.S., Tencent in China Amid Global Sales (EXCLUSIVE) Netflix Hires Former Disney Exec Naomi Bulochnikov-Paul as Head of TV Series Communications After submerging himself, Jay gets entangled in the tentacles of a giant squid, and that’s when the whale, who feeds on squid, pulls both Jay and the squid into his oversize gaping mouth.

Moments later, Jay is trapped inside, surrounded by gooey protrusions of undulating flesh. For the rest of the movie, he’ll attempt to survive inside that whale, which means keeping himself from getting sucked out of the creature’s digestive antechamber (which glows phosphorescent blue) and into its inner stomach cavity (which glows a hellish red), where the stomach acid will start to dissolve him.

Popular on Variety For a moment, it occurred to me that Jay might run into his father, à la Jonah or Geppetto. But no, he’s on his own, doing all he can to escape this tight squeeze of whale flesh.

The place Jay finds himself looks like a colonoscopy designed by H.R. The visual effects are…okay.

At times, it’s as if we were locked in some pop-up theme-park ride called Full Cavity Search. At one point, Jay uses a jellyfish the whale has eaten to light his way, and that’s as close as he comes to finding a companion.

“Whalefall” is a fearless tale of human perseverance and mammalian stomach lining. It should have been called “Project Hail Fish Guts.” Watching “Whalefall,” I kept thinking, “Why would anyone want to see this movie?” But the answer is obvious.

“Whalefall” was adapted from Daniel Kraus’s 2023 novel, which in addition

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