Austin Abrams Faces Ultimate Digestive Peril in the Survival Thriller Whalefall

By M.V. Moorhead This much, at least, can be said for Whalefall : It isn’t a cheat. Early on, the movie gives us what it promises, a fairly convincing depiction of a scuba diver being eaten alive by a sperm whale. For the 90 minutes or so that follows this harrowing scene, the movie, directed by Brian Duffield ( Spontaneous ) from a novel by Daniel Kraus, shows us this kid’s struggles to escape the whale’s gut. At the same time, he’s locked in a spiritual struggle to come to terms with his late