Horror movies with animals.

I'm thinking of horror movies with big cats, wolves, or bears.

Our ancestors lived with cave lions and hyenas.

They made us what we are.

Prey - movie:

In the bush, you're an endangered species.

Backcountry - trailer:

IMDB

grizzly 1976, grizzly rage 2007,into the grizzly maze 2014,prophecy 1979, the breed 2006, cujo 1983, dogs 1976,frozen 2010, the pack 1977, maneater 2007

Started as a book - Pet Cemetery.

Critters!

Started as a book - Cujo.

Still probably one of the greatest movies ever made but seriously dated
That ominous music
"Rarely have six basses, eight celli, four trombones and a tuba held more power over listeners."
Outside of a fin cutting through the water
Horror because it was believable

a reply to: halfoldman





Not like big cats, something more sinister

a reply to: halfoldman

Jaws is still one of my favorites. They do so much by not showing anything, and the acting is wonderful.

a reply to: Necrobile

Great movie.

Anyone reember this one? Corny as hell, with the worst accent of all time. (Tim Curry)
CONGO

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Definitely a great movie. First time I saw it I was at my friends house who owned cats, and while walking through the dark hallway to use the restroom, his cat jumped off a dresser from one of the bedrooms and scared the crap out of me. lol

Congo is another great movie. It's cheesy, but the good kind of cheese.

How can you leave out Tippi Hedron's "Roar"? They actually had to breed all the cats for it and had accidents galore. They made an entire African Village on their property that is now a sanctuary for big cats called Shambala.

"Roar Official Re-Release Trailer #1 (2015) - Tippi Hedren, Noel Marshall, Melanie Griffith HD"


ETA: here's a 2 min Nat Geo short on it. Fun fact (to me) my mom's best friend dated John Marshall and I was at the ranch as a kid a LOT playing with Tiger, Lion and leopard cubs! I could never go into the main compound because the cats got too wound up around kids (prey). Robbie the Lion was shot when he escaped during a huge flood in the 80s I think it was really sad because he was very mellow and sweet.

Then they had a Leopard named Buster who to this day is one of my favorite animals. We used to take him for car rides (Vet etc) and he'd sit in the front passenger seat (no cage he was totally sweet, never hurt anyone in his entire life and only adult cat I could play with) and on the freeway or wherever we'd be and the looks we got were hysterical when people noticed an adult leopard staring at them from the front seat of the van lol.

That movie is considered one of if not THE most dangerous ever made, so many people got hurt it's crazy.

a reply to: halfoldman

I know it's not lions, tigers and bears but water movies have always freaked me out.

Deep star six
Leviathan
Jaws

Land animal movies always just felt lacking to me.
Find a big gun, the end.

Water on the other hand, we are in their neighborhood.

But if I was forced to pick land animals I would still be leaning towards supernatural animals.

American werewolf in London
Troll hunters

But if forced to pick real animals.

The birds
Cujo
Ghost and the darkness

Pirahna (old or new)



Kingdom of the Spiders (with Shatner)



Lake Placid



Zombeavers (yes, that's right)...



Arachnophobia

a reply to: Bluntone22

You need to see the Meg. It's surprisingly pretty good, especially if you're a water creature horror movie fan....like me.

Deep Blue Sea is another good shark horror movie. (and a great concept....smart sharks)....

originally posted by: ketsuko
Jaws is still one of my favorites. They do so much by not showing anything, and the acting is wonderful.

I hate modern movies, just no character development
Jaws, all three main antagonists have a backstory and you feel for them

It's why I think movies like The Meg, and the Pirahna remake succeeded (for what they were intended to be). They both had a pretty plausible backstory for why these creatures existed. In addition, they focused on a few characters, and actually fleshed them out a bit.

Pirahna, you have the single mom LEO, the son who feel trapped with taking care of his sis, the girl who of course disobeys, and gets close to the water, the love interest who is a small town girl who wants to live a little...etc. And of course, Ving Rhames as....well, Ving Rhames.

The Meg did likewise, with the intrepid by reluctant hero, the CEO dad's daughter who is out to make a name for herself, Ruby Rose's beauty and brains character, the requisite little girl who stumbles into trouble.

While a bit formulaic, it's a good formula, and both of these executed it well. Of course, it also has the creature feeding frenzy scenes too, which are fantastic.

For the ones I mentioned, adding trailers (already had Pirahna, above)...