![]() Killer Crocodile is available for free with ads on Tubi, Plex, and Vudu. Eaten Alive is available on Peacock, AMC+, and Shudder, or for free with ads on Tubi, Plex, and Vudu. Alligator is available to watch on Shudder and AMC+. Rogue (2007) is available to watch for free with ads on Tubi, Vudu, and Plex. They’re always a good time, and unlike the shark, they haven’t worn out their welcome enough. Meanwhile, Betty White raised quite a few of them in 1999’s unofficial Best Picture winner Lake Placid). You can use one (the underrated Black Water is restrained and unnerving, and the 1989 Italian film Killer Crocodile overcomes its lack of budget with loads of blood) or many ( Piranha 3D’s director, Alexandre Aja, would later make Crawl, a tense, exciting, and alligator-filled flick about what can be assumed is just an average day in Florida. They also function as simply the surprise (Tobe Hooper’s Eaten Alive forces the pet gator to play second fiddle to a deranged Neville Brand, and Ti West’s X has an alligator eat someone in the swamp probably because the movie was more fun that way). And remember John Sayles, the acclaimed indie screenwriter who also happened to write Piranha? A bit later he did the incredible Alligator, where a toilet-flushed gator returns from the sewers to menace Chicago. They work as leading monster: Greg McLean’s follow-up to Wolf Creek was the 2007 saltwater crocodile thriller Rogue. No animals give you more ferocious bang for your buck than the alligator and the crocodile. Tarantula and Arachnophobia are available for digital rental or purchase on VOD platforms. Kingdom of the Spiders is available on ScreenPix through The Roku Channel. the Spider is available for free with ads on Tubi, Plex, and Pluto TV. They’re harmless in real life, but it’s the movies, so naturally they get a supernaturally powerful venom and a “general” leader that has the leg span of a basketball.Įarth vs. The gold medal goes to Arachnophobia, which not only has an all-star cast (Jeff Daniels, John Goodman, Peter Edward Ostling, and Harley Jane Kozak,) but the benefit of hundreds of actual Australian Avondale spiders. the Spider, and fans that went to repeat viewings of Star Wars in 1977 were making a boneheaded move when they could’ve been enjoying Kingdom of the Spiders or Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo on TV. The ’50s would grant us giant spider classics like Tarantula and Earth vs. Keeping the spiders and arachnids separate from the insects isn’t just for biological distinction the horror genre typically treats spiders as much more of an alpha predator, given a semblance of intelligence that makes their threats different from a mindless insect horde. Coming out a year after the friendly Saint Bernard film Beethoven, Cujo finds Stephen King at the height of his “small town falls prey to some shitty stuff” powers, only instead of vampires or a big dome, it’s a rabid dog. Criterion Collection devotees should certainly add Samuel Fuller’s chilling treatise on racism, White Dog, to their shelves. Liam Neeson’s survivor thriller The Grey was better than anyone expected, and the pack of wolves that show up to munch on the stranded ski slope victims in Frozen (not to be confused with Disney’s Frozen, which multiple rewatches confirm has absolutely no extended wolf maulings) were a delightful addition to the hopeless flick. Leaping from the Baskerville estate to the annals of pop culture, they’ve gone for the jugular in both starring and supporting roles. ![]() Man’s best friend turning out to be not so chill is Horror 101, and it’s not a far leap to find wolves similarly threatening. Image: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment ![]() Honorable mentions go to rats ( Willard is utterly fantastic, with Crispin Glover’s best and most unhinged performance,) ticks (please enjoy Clint Howard screaming “I’m infested!” with his face full of them,) wild boars ( Razorback is an Australian treasure), and orcas (mainly due to the film Orca, which is better than any horror film called “Orca” has any right to be.) 10. However, just within the scope of the horror film, which animal has been given the best treatment and the most nightmarish vibes? Which one is the top of the food chain, repeatedly dominating humankind in a confident and gnarly fashion? With decades of films to choose from, here are the top 10 animals that horror has decided just aren’t worth messing with. Horror films have often not been terribly interested in representing the natural world, but if you leave a horror movie thinking, Maybe I should respect wild animals a little more and give them their space, more power to them. There are a ton of animals in the world, many of which have an overload of teeth and legs and claws, and our lousy fleshy bits just can’t quite stand up to them. It’s not hard to see the appeal of the “animal attack” subgenre of horror.
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