Whalefall review: Worth watching for the bits inside a sperm whale
Based on Daniel Kraus’s novel, this film about a diver swallowed by a sperm whale is terrifically gruesome – and far too sentimental, says Bethan Ackerley
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I’ll cut to the chase: Whalefall , a film about a diver who gets swallowed by a sperm whale and has only an hour to escape, is fantastic when it focuses on that very scenario. But every scene not set in a cetacean – and there are a surprising number – is an utter chore to sit through.
It’s hard to argue with the power of the premise, taken from the novel of the same name by Daniel Kraus, who co-wrote the film with director Brian Duffield. The singularly nightmarish predicament sits just on the right side of plausible for things not to feel too ridiculous, and to warrant plenty of post-viewing…
