This is a rundown list of my all time 6 favourite animal attack movies.
There are a few others that I did enjoy, that I'll list after my favorites.
There are also a lot of really bad ones I have come across, I'll list them at the bottom so you know which to avoid!
Favourites
6. Anaconda (1997)
A film crew go to the Amazon river, to film a documentary about a long-lost Indian tribe. On their journey, the director Terri (Jennifer Lopez) and her crew come across a stranded man called Paul Serone (Jon Voight) who is a snake hunter, and Serone tricks the crew into believing he can find the lost tribe they are searching for. As the story goes on, Serone is later in some sort of charge of the group, and force them to help him find and capture a huge Green Anaconda he had been hunting. The anaconda then starts to kill the crew one by one. Will they be able to get rid of Serone, or will the snake catch up with them first?
I rate this film a 7/10, good acting performances, decent effects and a good story line.
If you weren't afraid of giant killer snakes before, you will be after this!
5. Planet of the Apes (2001)
Even though this film is a remake of the 1968 classic, it is one of my all time favourite movies.
The film is about an astronaut named Leo (Mark Wahlberg) who crash lands on a strange planet, after pursuing one of his monkey's (that are trained for space missions) during an electrical storm. Leo enters the storm and crashes onto the planet Ashlar in the year 5021.
It isn't very long before he discovers that the planet is habited and ruled by apes, who can speak human lanuage and hate humans, of whom they treat as slaves and pets.
However, there is one chimpanzee, named Ari (Helena Bonham Carter) who protests for human rights, and is against treating them as slaves.
Ari helps Leo and the other slave humans escape, so Leo can find his pod and return home, but there is trouble when General Thade - who despises all humans and wants to see them dead - is not far behind on there trial and will do anything to stop them.
This is a great film, with some fantastic effects, brilliant war/fight scenes and some scary ideas.
I rate this film a 8/10.
4. Black Water (2007)
This film is inspired by the true story of a crocodile attack in Australia's Northern Territory in December 2003.
The film focuses on 3 people; Grace (Diana Glenn), her younger sister Lee (Maeve Dermody) and husband Adam (Andy Rodoreda).
The 3 people go on a trip in Australia, and decide to go fishing in the Mangroves, on the Blackwater Barry tour, where they meet their tour guide Jim (Ben Oxenbould). After no luck catching any fish on the normal boat route, Jim decides to ride down deeper into the swamp to find more, and bigger fish, which is a far way from the course they should have taken.
Suddenly the boat has been struck by something unseen and the group are thrown into the water.
The group soon learns that there is a saltwater crocodile in the swamp below them, and are forced to stay in a tree.
Will the terrifying crocodile manage to get them, or will anyone of them survive?
A fantastic movie, the absence of CGI effects really make this movie more terrifying as only real crocodiles were used - which makes it more realistic and more scary!
I rate this movie a 8/10
3. Deep Blue Sea (1999)
A team of scientists, in an underwater laboratory facility named Aquatica, are trying to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease.
To find a cure, scientist Dr. Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows) genetically engineers three Mako sharks, increasing their brain capacity making them smarter, faster and much more deadly. The co-operation that funds Aquatica is concerned about the violation of code of ethics that Dr. Susan in doing, and send an executive named Russel Franklin (Samuel L. Jackson) to keep an eye on the team, after one of their sharks has escaped.
Whilst examining one of the sharks, researcher Jim is attacked by the Mako and has his arm bitten clean off. The team send for a helicopter to take Jim to a hospital, but the shark that previously escaped, has other ideas. As Jim is being air-lifted the shark bites onto Jims' bed pulling the helicopter down, and then throws Jim at the glas making it smash the glass and flood Auqatica.
All of the sharks are now swimming free in Aquatica on the hunt for everyone inside. Will the team get to safety, or have they engineered the animals to be smarter than they are?
I rate this movie a 8/10. Thoroughly enjoyable, some decent CGI effects, and some great scenes (specially one where Samuel L. Jackson is giving a speech with a surprise in the middle!).
2. Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
This film is about giant spiders that attack the small town or Prosperity, Arizona, and is a comedy/horror, so don't take it too seriously!
Sam Stroud (Kari Wührer) is the Sheriff of Prosperity, with two children; Mike and Ashley.
Mike is really into spiders, and usually visits his older friend Joshua who owns a spider farm.
The trouble begins when a road accident causes a barrel of toxic waste to be dumped into the lake that Joshua uses to find crickets to feed his spiders. Due to eating these crickets the spiders increase is size, and escape from their tanks and are loose on the streets.
When Mike goes to warn Joshua about the lake, Joshua is nowhere to be found, and Mike stumbles upon a a huge web with a large spider leg in it.
He shows the leg to people, but no-one believes that it's a spider, until spiders as big as cars begin to attack the town, and it's up to Sam, Mike and Chris (David Arquette) to save the day and the town.
I rate this movie a 8/10, very funny film with some great scenes and decent effects.
1. The Birds (1963)
The Birds is a Hitchcock classic, and if you haven't seen it I strongly suggest you should.
Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) meets a man called Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) in a bird shop in California, who infuriates Miss Daniels. Melanie then drives down to Bodega Bay, where Mitch is staying, to get her own back on him. When she arrives, the birds of Bodega Bay are acting strangely, and soon begin to randomly attack the townspeople, trying to kill them.
Melanie and Mitch are held up at Mitch's home with his mother Lydia (Jessica Tandy) and younger sister Cathy (Veronica Cartwright), while the birds are attacking and trying to get into the house.
I rate this movie a 8/10, a fantastic film by Hitchcock, and truly a frightening tale!
Best of the Rest
- Lake Pacid (1999) Rating 9/10
- Jaws (1975) Rating 10/10
- Alligator (1980) Rating: 6/10
- Jaws 2 (1978) Rating 6/10
- Jaws 3-D (1983) Rating 7/10
- Jaws: The Revenge (1987) Rating 7/10
- Bait (2012) Rating 7/10
- Snakes on a Plane (2006) Rating: 6/10 (Only a decent-ish movie 'cause of Samuel L. Jackson!)
- Black Sheep (2006) Rating 7/10
- Komodo (1999) Rating 6/10
- Cujo (1983) Rating 7/10
Ones to Avoid
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