Animal Horror Movies

[Shin Mefilas]

While I've liked a wide range of horror movies animal horror is my personal favorite, like all horror it has its a mixed bag good, average, bad and total crap but it seems now days that most of these movies fall into the 4th catagory. The utter crap thats being shipped out year after year is shocking and for some reason it all gets a pass because they were made to be so bad it good.

I know I maybe coming of as a dick here but movies like Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus and the literal legion of films like it just piss me off. Now yes these types of movies have always been around and have been bad but now days their so cheap and effertless that I just hate them. So bad its good only works as far as I'm concered if they tried and failed or if it was in the hands of one of the few people that could acctualy pull it off. Not only that but just how its always zombies and vampires why is it always sharks, crocs and snakes? Befor CGI became so cheap animal horror even when bad was better because some effert had to go in to making it work. For example I would rather watch Alligator II The Mutation, Bats or King Cobra (movies I hold in rather low reguard) then the likes of Sharktopus (which sounds like an alternet title to another crap movie Teeth), Dinoshark (dino in latin means terrable so Sharksaurus would have been a beter fit), Crocosaurus (once again latin saurus = lizard, croclizard just sounds silly dosent it), Sharknado (piss of and watch Tokyo Fish Attack or better yet read its manga Gyo) or Ghost Shark (has the bare really sunk that low).

Heres my Animal Horror collection with my personal rateing

Good - I liked all of it, Average - I liked some of it, Bad - Disliked most of it but was intresting in places, Total Crap - The only reason its not in the f**king bin is because I payed for dame thing.

Primates - also includes homanid and fictional species

Monkey Shines - Good

In the Shadow of Kilmanjaro - Good

Shakma - Good

Sands of the Kalahari - Good

Primal Force - Average

Link - Average

Phantom of the Rue Morgue - Average

Blood Monkey - Bad

Congo - Average

The Descent - Good

The Descent Part 2 - Average

The Lost Tribe - Bad

Humains - Average

Bigfoot Terror Collection - Bad

Sasquatch Horror Collection - Bad

The Legend of Boggy Creek - Average

Boggy Creek 2 - Total Crap

Boggy Creek Remake - Total Crap

Creature from Black Lake - Bad

Clawed - Average

Night of the Demon - Bad

Primal - Bad

Savage - Average

Assault of the Sasquatch - Average

Bigfoot - Bad

The Bigfoot Tapes - Total Crap

The Lost Coast Tapes - Bad

Sasquatch - Good

Sasquatch Hunters - Bad

Sasquatch Mountain - Bad

Legend of the Sandsquatch - Bad

Yeti - Bad

Snow Beast Remake - Total Crap

Abominable - Average

The Abominable Snowman - Good

Pigs

Prey 2010 - Good

Pig Hunt - Bad

Razorback - Good

Chaw - Good

Bears

Bear - Bad

Grizzly Rage - Average

Grizzly Park - Average

Grizzly - Good

Prophecy - Average

Big Cats

Night Creature - Bad

Prey 2007 - Average

The Ghost and The Darkness - Good

Kaal - Bad

Maneater - Good

Burning Bright - Good

Attack of the Sabertooth - Bad

Sabertooth - Good

Reptiles

Komodo - Average

Alligator - Good

Alligator 2: The Mutation - Bad

Crocodile (Japan) - Bad

Rogue - Good

Black Water - Good

Primeval - Average

Eaten Alive - Average

Dinocroc - Bad

Dinocroc vs Supergator - Total Crap

Python - Bad

Boa vs Python - Bad

Dinosaurs

Carnosaur - Average

Carnosaur 2 - Average

Carnosaur 3 - Average

Raptor - Total Crap

Raptor Island - Bad

100 Million BC - Total Crap

Eden Formula - Bad

Jurassic Attack - Total Crap

Dinosaur Project - Bad

Age of Diosaurs - Bad

Raptor Ranch - Bad

Tape 407 - Bad

Posedon Rex - Total Crap

Cephalopods

The Beast - Good

Deadly Water - Average

Eye of the Beast - Average

Octopus - Bad

Octopus 2 - Total Crap

Tentacles - Bad

Sharks

Jaws - Good

Jaws 2 - Average

Jaws 3 - Total Crap

Jaws 4 - Total Crap

The Last Jaws - Total Crap

Creature - Good

Deep Blue Sea - Average

Shark Night - Bad

Bait - Average

Other

Piranha 1978 - Good

Barracuda - Average

Orca: The Killer Whale - Good

The White Buffalo - Good

Minotaure - Average

Mammoth - Average

Tremours - Good

Tremours 2 - Good

Tremours 3 - Good

Tremours 4 - Good

Mongollan Death Worm - Total Crap

They Nest - Average

Bug - Average

Phase IV - Good

Ticks - Bad

Loch Ness Horror - Bad

The Evil Beneath Loch Ness - Bad

Loch Ness Terror - Average

The Crater Lake Monster - Average

Pterodactyl - Bad

Q - The Winged Serpent - Average

Reign of Fire - Good

Edited April 27, 2014 by Waferdanos

[Guest Jupiter]

Wow, this had to take some time. You've got a lot of movies. I see what you mean, alot of horror films suck now a days. I think its just because of copyright and all that. They're out of fresh ideas. So they make stupid knock offs from classics or terrible sequels. But now a days I check the ratings on the internet before I watch a movie or rent it. Most of the new releases are a waste of time and money. I've thrown away, took the movie back to Wal-Mart for a refund ( wal mart doesn't take previous bought films and give your money back), or sold terrible movies to used game stores for credit or whatever. But I feel for you, being stuck with something that you don't like that you bought.

[Shin Mefilas]

Wow, this had to take some time. You've got a lot of movies. I see what you mean, alot of horror films suck now a days. I think its just because of copyright and all that. They're out of fresh ideas. So they make stupid knock offs from classics or terrible sequels. But now a days I check the ratings on the internet before I watch a movie or rent it. Most of the new releases are a waste of time and money. I've thrown away, took the movie back to Wal-Mart for a refund ( wal mart doesn't take previous bought films and give your money back), or sold terrible movies to used game stores for credit or whatever. But I feel for you, being stuck with something that you don't like that you bought.

Its my own fault really, I try not to be so sceptical because every now and then one of these movies is somewhat intresting but most of the time I end up with total crap like Posedon Rex. However while I hate them they act as a warning, DO NOT PAY FOR CRAP.

Edited April 25, 2014 by Waferdanos

[Guest Jupiter]

Worst movie I ever saw was.....Legend of Hercules, hands down, worst movie ever.... and thats only because I didn't check the ratings before going to see it and my poor wife suffered so much because I picked out the sh*ttiest movie at the theater. We didn't last 30 minutes.

[Shin Mefilas]

The worst movie I've seen is House of the Dead I fast forwarded throught he whole movie just looking for one, JUST ONE good thing, thank god I only rented it. I took it back the same day! Then again there have been movies that have suprised me, I saw Bait at the theater and during the first few minutes up till the title sequence I honestly thought I had wasted my money. The CGI was awful and the acting felt wooden I thought that I had payed to watch something like Sharknado at a theater. But once the movie started proper I really enjoyed it, about as good as Jaws 2 and a hell of a lot better then most shark movies these days.

Edited April 25, 2014 by Waferdanos

[Guest Jupiter]

Movies are getting worse these days....way worse. Its because they hire idiots right out of film school who have no imagination and have them write the story and script. Hollywood is getting too many people who aren't special and thus there aren't really any good movies anymore. Everyone wants to do CGI...and a lot of CGI looks like crap still, whatever happened to actual artists? beast costumes made by animal experts and it looks real on the big picture. What ever happened to people like the guys who did the suits and costume art in Predator or T-2 or, Aliens? Why do all monsters or giant crocs have to be made out of just CGI? CGI has no texture and doesn't look real, and it takes away from the movie.

[Shin Mefilas]

Movies are getting worse these days....way worse. Its because they hire idiots right out of film school who have no imagination and have them write the story and script. Hollywood is getting too many people who aren't special and thus there aren't really any good movies anymore. Everyone wants to do CGI...and a lot of CGI looks like crap still, whatever happened to actual artists? beast costumes made by animal experts and it looks real on the big picture. What ever happened to people like the guys who did the suits and costume art in Predator or T-2 or, Aliens? Why do all monsters or giant crocs have to be made out of just CGI? CGI has no texture and doesn't look real, and it takes away from the movie.

I know the last good SGI croc I saw as in Rouge, it looked really good unlike the CGI cut outs in Lake Placid 2 - 4.

I find it rather shocking when I watch Jurassic Park and see how good the CGI dinos looked in that film, its been 21 years since then yet most movies now days use CGI as a way to cut corners rather then to enhance the movie.

Good CGI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rhxY6N5EMw

Bad CGI

Then

Now

I'll take this animatronic raptor .....

Over these CGI ones any day of the week

Edited April 25, 2014 by Waferdanos

[Guest Jupiter]

Ya, its been ages since I last laid eyes on jurassic park. That movie came out when I was 7.But for a 90's flick it had excellent cgi. I think the guy who wrote the books recently passed away. I'm not sure.

[*YoungGuyver]

I'm surprised Pet Cemetery isn't on this list

[Guest Jupiter]

you guys ever heard of Rumpelstiltskin? Its a 1996 horror flick that got horrible ratings, horribly made, and it only made $306,494 dollars, with its widest release being 54 theaters.    It was a total box office flop. No one liked it and even the cassette tape version was made as a limited release and eventually dismissed. Its back out on dvd for 30 dollars, total waste of money. If the cassette tape was dismissed, than why make a dvd version? Makes no sense to me. Its utter crap.

[Shin Mefilas]

I'm surprised Pet Cemetery isn't on this list

 

Its a good movie but I  didnt get it because I it wasent a strickly animal horror movie and I didnt think there where that my movies about killer cats (which I have descovered I was very wrong about)

Also when I started my collection I was going for movies that you woundnt think of or dont see often f, I was so sick of shark, croc and snake movies I just wanted somthing different, which is why I started with primates. Out side of Sasquatch there arent that many and most of them I'd recomend but the funny thing is that only one of them is about chimps and even then they play second fiddil to a orangutan.

 

 

you guys ever heard of Rumpelstiltskin? Its a 1996 horror flick that got horrible ratings, horribly made, and it only made $306,494 dollars, with its widest release being 54 theaters.    It was a total box office flop. No one liked it and even the cassette tape version was made as a limited release and eventually dismissed. Its back out on dvd for 30 dollars, total waste of money. If the cassette tape was dismissed, than why make a dvd version? Makes no sense to me. Its utter crap.

 

No but I'll have to look it up now, it sound like its 7 kinds of grade A crap.

[Shin Mefilas]

 

yep that looks really, really bad

[Guest Jupiter]

Yeah, it was terrible.  If they'd taken their time and gotten a better script, and based it on something else, than they would have had a real movie with a bigger audience. Sadly that didn't happen and it ended in failure. I wonder if half those people behind the production of that movie got fired?