Netflix’s new shark thriller Thrash is set in the flooded streets of a South Carolina town, but don’t let the Spanish moss and hurricane chaos fool you – the production never got anywhere near the American South.
Thrash, written and directed by Norwegian filmmaker Tommy Wirkola, follows a group of residents who refuse to evacuate ahead of a Category Five hurricane. When the levees give way and the town goes underwater, they find themselves not just fighting the flood, but the sharks that came with it.
Phoebe Dynevor stars as Lisa, a heavily pregnant woman trapped in a submerged car, while Whitney Peak plays Dakota, an agoraphobic teen who tries to help her. Djimon Hounsou rounds out the cast as Dale, Dakota’s marine biologist uncle. It’s exactly the kind of gloriously absurd, high-concept survival movie Netflix does well.
Where was Thrash filmed?
The movie was shot in Australia during the summer of 2024. Most of the filming took place in Melbourne, Victoria, with Docklands Studios serving as the primary base of operations. That includes both interior sets and specially built water tanks used to recreate the flooding sequences.
Other Melbourne-area locations reportedly used during production include Canterbury and Mount Macedon, with at least one scene shot on location at Mornington Pier in Mornington, Victoria.
Here’s the part that’s genuinely impressive: the flooded town square of fictional Annieville, South Carolina? It’s a parking lot. Specifically, a parking lot at Docklands Studios, surrounded by Melbourne high-rises that were digitally scrubbed from the frame in post.
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“Where all the action takes place, in that Annieville town square, that is a parking lot of Dockland Studios in Melbourne surrounded by high rises,” producer Kevin Messick explained in the film’s official production notes. He added that the visual effects team worked extensively to sell the illusion transforming downtown Melbourne’s skyline into a storm-battered Southern American town.
Shooting in water brought its own set of headaches. Director Wirkola noted that the production worked within a tight 32-day schedule, with nearly every scene slowed down by the sheer logistics of filming in water, plus the added complexity of wind and rain machines running throughout.
For the actors, the cold made some of the most demanding scenes feel all too real. Dynevor noted that in the water-heavy sequences, with the rain and wind bearing down, the physical discomfort wasn’t something she had to manufacture.
Thrash is now streaming on Netflix.
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