India, October 16, 2026: ‘Whalefall’ movie review: Austin Abrams is a fiercely modern Jonah in this whale of a tale. The Hindu reported the development.

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Austin Abrams as Jay Gardiner in 'Whalefall’ | Photo Credit: 20th Century Studios The biblical tale of Jonah and the whale is the stuff of endless Sunday school entertainment, where living in a huge fish for three days before being safely vomited out seemed like good fun.

There was also the kilometre-long shark-like creature in Pinocchio called Terrible Dogfish, who swallows Geppetto.

Pinocchio finds Geppetto living fairly comfortably in the fish’s belly (scavenging furniture and other useful things), and the two escape because the fish sleeps with its mouth open, as it is asthmatic.

Brian Duffield’s Whalefall , based on Daniel Kraus’ 2023 novel — while being almost uncomfortably realistic — straddles the space between the real and the surreal, especially with the close-ups of the whale’s eye which is at once implacable and childlike.

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