Subgenre Sampler
Animal Amok: 116 Films to Buy & Rent
- Wallace and Gromit - The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
- Dir. Nick Park
Feat. Peter Sallis, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes
- Triumphant big–screen leap for the amiably English claymation heroes – Wallace and Gromit – with this effort finding them running…
- Land Before Time 11: Invasion of the Tinysauruses (2004)
- Good Boy! (2003)
- Dir. John Robert Hoffman
- Family comedy has a canine agent is sent to Earth (from the Dogstar) to find out why the planned invasion by dogs has gone awry.
Here he finds the…
- Bark! (2002)
- Dir. Kasia Adamik
Feat. Lisa Kudrow, Hank Azaria, Vincent D'Onofrio
- A man becomes troubled when his wife starts acting like a dog – barking at strangers, nuzzling family members – and calls on…
- Crocodile Hunter, The (Collision Course) (2002)
- Dir. John Stainton
Feat. Steve Irwin, David Wenham
- Surprisingly winning fictional bigscreen outing for its instantly recognisable titular ‘character’ Steve Irwin.
When a valuable piece…
- Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
- Dir. Ellory Elkayem
Feat. David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scarlett Johansson
- Every decade produces at least one eight–legged monster movie, and this one for the CGI generation comes courtesy of Kiwi ‘bug…
- Willard (2002)
- Dir. Glen Morgan
Feat. Crispin Glover, Jackie Burroughs, R. Lee Ermey…
- Stylistic update of the 70s mini–classic of the same name, with cult actor Crispin Glover as the meek office clerk who befriends and trains a…
- Jurassic Park 3 (2001)
- Dir. Joe Johnston
Feat. Sam Neill, Laura Dern, William H. Macy…
- Sam Neill is the only original cast member to return (save a cameo from Laura Dern) for more run–around with the dinosaurs. Without…
- Ginger Snaps (2000)
- Dir. John Fawcett
Feat. Emily Perkins, Katherine Isabelle, Mimi Rogers
- Canadian variation on the teen–horror model mixes the gene pool of adolescent angst with the werewolf genre, adopting lycanthropy as a metaphor…
- Deep Blue Sea (1999)
- Dir. Renny Harlin
Feat. Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, LL Cool J
- Jaws in an underwater science lab. Actionmeister dir. Renny Harlin (CLIFFHANGER) dispenses with all the important plot–details early, in order…