Australian horror The Reef set for a UK release this January

After a successful premiere at the Film4 FrightFest All-Nighter this past Halloween (where it was favourably compared to Steven Spielberg's classic monster movie Jaws), Australian survival-horror The Reef hits UK shores this coming January.

Written and directed by Andrew Traucki (Black Water), The Reef sees four friends heading to the Great Barrier Reef for the holiday of a lifetime only to see it turn into a nightmare as their vessel capsizes and plunges its human cargo into the depths of the ocean. With the nearest land 10 miles away the friends are faced with a life or death decision: should they stay put and pray for rescue or should they take their life into their own hands and make a desperate break for safety? However, they soon realise that's just the beginning of their problems with the realisation that they are being stalked by a deadly great white shark.


The Reef stars Damien Walshe-Howling (Ned Kelly), Zoe Naylor (McLeod's Daughters), Gyton Grantley (Beneath Hill 60), Adrienne Pickering (Knowing) and Kieran Darcy-Smith (The Cave), and arrives DVD on January 24th, 2011.