20 Great 'When Animals Attack' Movies
The threat in horror movies can come from many places, but there's something about the natural world that is particularly frightening. Sure, there are many highly effective zombie, ghost, vampire, and werewolf movies. But it's easy to take comfort in the fact these are all supernatural creatures, and we're not likely to meet them in real life. But this isn't the case with animal attack movies, and for decades, filmmakers have used familiar animals to evoke fear in audiences. Sometimes these creatures are dangerous predators that we'd normally steer clear of at all costs, such as sharks, tigers, and bears. Other times, they are seemingly "innocent" animals that we see every day--dogs, cats, and birds--that for some reason want to kill us. Sure, these beasts might be rabid, genetically mutated, or interbred (these are horror movies after all), but ultimately they're all animals that very much exist in the real world.
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