Since ancient times, man avoided wild animals; meeting with such creatures caused him unconscious fear. Of course, horror movie directors could not but take advantage of this feature of the human psyche. They masterfully studied all kinds of bestial phobias and began to stamp films with frightening stories based on our most common children's horror stories.
At the same time, the especially gifted fell into viciously gloomy pessimism and, at first glance, rather innocuous readings managed to turn the picture into a chilling blood. And the viewer, when viewing such a picture, trying to squeeze out an irresistible sense of fear, eats popcorn in bags and even gets to the chair covers.
We classify phobias
Horror about animals even has its own classification, with sharks and piranhas leading in it: Jaws, Peter Benchley's Beast, Monster Shark, Deep Blue Sea, Piranhas, River Monsters, etc. .
Wolves, dogs and cats are slightly inferior, in this category, of course, the “Pet Cemetery” leads, followed by “Wolves”, “Kujo”, “Flock”, “Dogs”, “Cat” and others. Rats and other mammals do not give up their positions: “Rats”, “Night shift”, “Rats - horror nights”, “Killer shrews”, “Wild boar cleaver”, “Rabbit night”, “Black sheep”. Birds attack birds from the air of unfortunate people: “Birds”, “Killing trip”, “Crow”, “Bird attack”. Crocodiles and snakes do not sleep: “Killer Crocodile”, “Eaten alive”, “Predatory waters”, “Lake of fear”, “Reptile”, “Anaconda”, “Mamba”, “Vipers”, “Snake venom”, “Python ". Spiders weave a deadly web: “Tarantula”, “Networks”, “Horror of the spider island”, followed by flies: “Fly”, “Curse of the fly”, ants: “They”, “Phase 4”, “Bone thief” and cockroaches: "Beetles", "Nest", "Kaleidoscope of horrors" and others.
For showiness
Quite often, horrors about animals are a plexus of several movie genres, and fantasy is added to the horror. And then the creators have a unique opportunity to realize their unbridled imagination, to neglect the laws of physics and biology. And we are not even talking about films about animal mutants, although there are a lot of them: “Death Bite” (jellyfish mutant), “Leeches”, “Earth quake”, “Thaw”, etc. Horrors about animals give the director the right to endow the most ordinary animals with magical properties: worms fly, penetrate throughout the water supply system, a crocodile quickly crawls out for the next victim from the drain tank, and in the closet (uninhabited pantry) the spider does not wait for a careless inhabitant. At the same time, at the end of the film, you can gently hint that the creature is a victim of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant or genetic experiments of a secret government laboratory for the study or breeding of paranormal plankton. This is how the best
horror films about animals appear to the world.
2013 is no exception
The past year has also become very prolific for such movie masterpieces. The film “Squirrels” should be considered the most mysterious film, its director T. Bekmambetov managed to turn kind and gentle animals into ruthless mutant killers. “Shark tornado” will delight the viewer with an extraordinary plot line construction. Perhaps after watching the audience will be somewhat discouraged, and the horrors about the animals that they knew before, seem to them just children's fairy tales. The creators of the film “Below” mercilessly launched a youth company to feed unknown fish, and the director of “Death Descent” raised again the topic of the snowman, once again popular in the past. What horror movie about animals in 2013 will become popular, and which will sink into the abyss of obscurity, is not yet clear.