Subgenre Sampler
Animal Amok: 116 Films to Buy & Rent
- Amazing Maurice, The (2022)
- Dir. Toby Genkel, Florian Westermann
Feat. Hugh Laurie, Emilia Clarke, Himesh Patel…
- An adaptation of Terry Pratchett's book that revisits the tale of the pied piper. Maurice is a streetwise, opportunistic tomcat who contrives a…
- Bad Guys, The (2022)
- Dir. Pierre Perifel
- Action comedy from DreamWorks Animation based on Aaron Blabey’s best–selling book series about a crackerjack criminal crew of animal outlaws…
- Clifford The Big Red Dog (2021)
- Dir. Walt Becker
Feat. Jack Whitehall, Darby Camp, Tony Hale…
- Spirited animal caper about a 12–year old girl whose love for a rescue dog causes the animal to grow into a giant ten–foot hound, which…
- Stray (2020)
- Dir. Elizabeth Lo
- A companion piece of sorts to KEDI (2016), the popular film about the stray cats of Istanbul, that this time presents the dog’s eye–view of…
- Crawl (2019)
- Dir. Alexandre Aja
Feat. Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper
- When a category 5 hurricane hits South Florida, a young woman attempts to save her father and finds herself fighting to survive in a flooded house…
- Pet Sematary (2019)
- Dir. Dennis Widmyer, Kevin Kölsch
Feat. Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow
- Nothing if not audacious, this updated screen adaptation of the terrifying Stephen King novel takes liberties with the plot to arguably increase the…
- Meg, The (2018)
- Dir. Jon Turteltaub
Feat. Jason Statham, Bingbing Li, Rainn Wilson…
- Shamelessly cheesy sub–JAWS aquatic entertainment, with Stratham as a deep–sea rescue diver who is going to save a group of scientists…
- Rampage (2018)
- Dir. Brad Peyton
Feat. Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman…
- A fun, big–budget monster movie featuring an extraordinarily intelligent silverback gorilla who mutates into a raging creature of enormous size…
- Kong: Skull Island (2017)
- Feat. Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson…
- When a scientific expedition to an uncharted island awakens titanic forces of nature, a mission of discovery becomes an explosive war between monster…
- 47 Metres Down (2016)
- Dir. Johannes Roberts
Feat. Claire Holt, Mandy Moore
- Survival horror with two sisters on vacation in Mexico who become trapped inside a shark viewing cage 47 metres under the ocean. Fairly predictable…
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
- Dir. David Yates
Feat. Eddie Redmayne, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler…
- This 1920's period fantasy adventure is the first in the HARRY POTTER universe to be adapted for the screen by J. K. Rowling herself. Eddie Redmayne…
- Shallows, The (2016)
- Dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
Feat. Blake Lively
- Nail–biting but certainly shallow thriller with Blake Lively as a lone surfer being stalked by a great white shark off the Mexican coast.…
- Hunt, The (TV Series) (2015)
- From the producers of PLANET EARTH come this spectacular nature documentary narrated by David Attenborough that looks at the contest between predator…
- Jurassic World (2015)
- Dir. Colin Trevorrow
Feat. Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins…
- The monstrous popcorn franchise reboots on the premise of silly humans building a theme park on the original site of Jurassic Park, only to have its…
- Revenant, The (2015)
- Dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson…
- A masterfully intense dramatization of the gruelling experience of frontiersman Hugh Glass and his fight for survival after being mauled by a bear,…
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
- Dir. Matt Reeves
Feat. Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell…
- This exciting sequel to the prequel in the PLANET OF THE APES franchise concerns the conflict between a growing nation of genetically evolved apes…
- Hidden Kingdoms (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. Stephen Fry
- This six part BBC nature series uses camera wizardry to contrive high–stakes animal adventures. While seasoned Attenborough viewers may be put…
- Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014)
- Dir. Anthony C. Ferrante
Feat. Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Vivica A. Fox…
- Jumping the shark is this "slightly better" sequel to the unlikely disaster movie hit. The definition of dumb fun.
- When Animals Dream (2014)
- Dir. Jonas Alexander Arnby
Feat. Sonia Suhl, Lars Mikkelsen, Sonja Richter…
- 16–year old Marie lives on a small island with her seriously ill mother and her father, who takes care of the family. But suddenly mysterious…
- Sharknado (2013)
- Dir. Anthony C. Ferrante
Feat. Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, John Heard
- An irrational internet sensation, this Z–grade disaster movie has gained unlikely cult status on the back of its has–been casting (Tara…
- Piranha 3DD (2012)
- Dir. John Gulager
Feat. Danielle Panabaker, Katrina Bowden, David Koechner…
- This chestier sequel to 2010's Piranha remake goes overboard with gratuitous T&A and wanton violence. Dumb, but if you're in the mood, a lot of fun,…
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
- Dir. Rupert Wyatt
Feat. James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow…
- A thought–provoking prequel to the PLANET OF THE APES legacy, set during the present day where a genetically–enhanced chimpanzee uses its…
- Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010)
- Dir. James Nguyen
Feat. Alan Bagh, Whitney Moore
- Shoe–string trash homage to Hitchcock's THE BIRDS that follows a romantic couple whose small town that is attacked by birds.…
- Cane Toads: The Conquest (2010)
- Dir. Mark Lewis
- Irreverent filmmaker Mark Lewis' second comically horrific take on the environmental devastation left in the wake of the giant toads' unstoppable…
- Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010)
- Dir. Brad Peyton
- Detente is reached in the feline and canine cold war with the former enemies uniting to track down a rogue cat spy with a dangerous Machiavellian…
- Marmaduke (2010)
- Dir. Tom Dey
Feat. Owen Wilson, Emma Stone, George Lopez…
- Breezy family fare with the lovable Great Dane wreaking havoc in a new neighbourhood and plotting a bullying doberman's…
- Piranha (2010)
- Dir. Alexandre Aja
Feat. Elisabeth Shue, Richard Dreyfuss, Jerry O'Connell…
- Stupefyingly gory remake has the man–eating fish dining out on exhibitionist students while Sheriff Shue must do her best to protect the…
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
- Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman…
- Wes Anderson’s quirky, buttoned–up sensibility is a fantastic match for Roald Dahl’s classic tale about a sly, debonair fox (George…
- Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)
- Dir. Raja Gosnell
Feat. Drew Barrymore, Piper Perabo, Andy Garcia…
- Cute, comedic tale of self–discovery follows a spolit socialite pooch lost in Mexico (voiced by Drew Barrymore), desperate to find her way home…
- Black Water (2007)
- Dir. David Nerlich, Andrew Traucki
Feat. Maeve Dermody, Diana Glenn, Andy Rodoreda…
- A fishing tour turns deadly for tourists when their boat is capsized deep in the swamp by a large crocodile in this skillful survival horror.
The…
- Cat Dancers (2007)
- Dir. Harris Fishman
- Strangely compelling portrait of a pre–Siegfried and Roy act, who tragically added wild cats to their routine. Somewhat in the tradition of…
- Primeval (TV Series) (2007)
- Feat. Douglas Henshall, Juliet Aubrey
- Exciting kidult adventure romp posits time slips in modern–day England that unleash various prehistoric creatures onto the world. From the…
- Rogue (2007)
- Dir. Greg McLean
Feat. Radha Mitchell, Michael Vartan, Sam Worthington
- Second terrifying outing from the dir. of WOLF CREEK centers on a 'rogue' giant crocodile in the Australian outback, whose latest prey is a boatful…
- Water Horse, The: Legend of the Deep (2007)
- Dir. Jay Russell
Feat. Alex Etel, Ben Chaplin, Emily Watson…
- NZ–filmed magical adventure inspired by the legend of Loch Ness in which a small boy secretly adopts a baby mythical creature that grows to…
- Black Sheep (2006)
- Dir. Jonathan King
Feat. Nathan Meister, Danielle Mason, Peter Feeney…
- A slick splatter–comedy in the Kiwi tradition of BAD TASTE, about a herd of rabid, flesh–eating sheep run amok in rural New…
- Snakes on a Plane (2006)
- Dir. David R Ellis
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Margulies, Rachel Blanchard…
- Shamelessly egregious B–movie actioner with Samuel L. Jackson playing an FBI agent escorting a federal murder witness (Phillips) on a…
- Cursed (2005)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson, Portia de Rossi…
- Two siblings (Ricci, Eisenberg) are bitten and infected by a werewolf on the loose in their manicured Los Angeles suburb.
Discovering that…
- Isolation (2005)
- Dir. Billy O'Brien
Feat. Essie Davis, Sean Harris, Marcel Lures
- Macabre Irish thriller contained entirely to a farm where a small group of people are pursued by a group of mutated parasites.
Itself a bit of a…
- King Kong: Peter Jackson Production Diaries (2005)
- Presenting a close–to–the–ground account of the forging of Peter Jackson's KING KONG (2005), this shows the filming with all its…
- Locusts - Day of Destruction (2005)
- Dir. David Jackson
Feat. Lucy Lawless, John Heard
- Cheese–dipped thriller set in the good ol' US of A, where a swarm of pissed off bio–engineered locusts run riot across the countryside…
- 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…
- Lake Placid (1999)
- Dir. Steve Miner
Feat. Bridget Fonda, Bill Pullman, Oliver Platt
- Gleefully silly horror contrivance abitrarily plonks a 30ft Asian crocodile down in Black Lake (where did Lake Placid go?) to dine on pigs, chickens…
- An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)
- Dir. Anthony Waller
Feat. Julie Delpy, Tom Everett Scott
- Belated official sequel to the '80s horror–comedy classic takes up with the progeny of the London howler (Julie Delpy), also plagued by…
- Anaconda (1997)
- Dir. Luis Llosa
Feat. Jennifer Lopez, Ice-Cube, Jon Voight…
- Riverboat excursion through the Amazon proves treacherous for a bunch of wholly unsympathetic stock characters. Among giant man–eating snakes,…
- Angry Beavers, The (TV Series) (1997)
- Kids buddy–slacker series from the heyday of Nickelodeon after school TV about two adolescent beaver brothers who set up flat in a forest pack.…
- Edge, The (1997)
- Dir. Lee Tamahori
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Elle MacPherson
- Cool–headed millionaire Anthony Hopkins, playboy hot–head Alec Baldwin, and their pilot get trapped in the Alaskan wilderness, where they…
- Lost World, The (Jurassic Park 2) (1997)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite…
- Spielberg steals a few licks from KING KONG for this perfunctory JURASSIC PARK sequel. Yup, its more of the same, really, so its no surprise that the…
- Mimic (1997)
- Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam
- A mutant strain of humanoid bugs come back to taunt entomologist Mira Sorvino, who enters into a fierce confrontation through the dank, falteringly…
- Ghost and the Darkness, The (1996)
- Dir. Stephen Hopkins
Feat. Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer
- When construction on a railroad in 19th century Uganda is interrupted by two ferocious, crafty lions snacking on the workers, the great white hunter…
- Project Grizzly (1996)
- Dir. Peter Lynch
- Endearing documentary depicting the improbable quest by self–styled inventor Troy Hurtuboise to construct a suit of armour capable of…
- Congo (1995)
- Dir. Frank Marshall
Feat. Dylan Walsh, Ernie Hudson, Tim Curry
- This Jurassic turkey from the usually–golden pen of Michael Crichton follows a mis–matched motley crew into the African jungle to…
- Wolf (1994)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader
- Jack Nicholson moons through this as a timid book editor–turned–lycanthrope. This is an 'adult' reworking of familiar material that can't…
- Jurassic Park (1993)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum…
- All–time world box–office champ will be most remembered for the breakthrough computer effects that bring the Dinos to astonishing life.…
- Pet Sematary (1989)
- Dir. Mary Lambert
Feat. Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby
- A competent scarefest scripted by Stephen King from his own novel about a country doctor's experiences with things that won't stay dead.
- Monkey Shines (1988)
- Dir. George Romero
Feat. Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil
- A first–rate thriller about an invalid who loses control over his pet monkey that has been subjected to cerebral experiments. Intelligent…
- King Kong Lives (1986)
- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Linda Hamilton, Brian Kerwin, John Ashton
- A truly blasphemous sequel to the already inessential 1976 remake, has the big ape somehow survive the fall from the World Trade Centre but needing a…
- Howling II, The (Your Sister Is A Werewolf) (1985)
- Dir. Phillipe Mora
Feat. Christopher Lee, Annie McEnroe, Sybil Danning
- A young girl whose sister was murdered by werewolves helps an investigator track down a gang of the beasts. This film has the dubious honour of being…
- Silver Bullet (1985)
- Dir. Daniel Attias
Feat. Gary Busey, Corey Haim, Everett McGill…
- Gary Busey livens Stephen King small town werewolf déjà vu.
- Teen Wolf / Teen Wolf Too (1985-1986)
- Dir. Rod Daniel, Christopher Leitch
Feat. Michael J. Fox, Jason Bateman
- In TEEN WOLF, Fox plays a high–school student who discovers he has lycanthropic tendencies. The sequel TEEN WOLF TOO continues the story in…
- Company of Wolves (1984)
- Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Angela Lansbury, Stephen Rea
- This modest, dream–like horror fantasy was liked so much by author Anne Rice, it led to the Irish director calling the shots on INTERVIEW WITH…
- Cujo (1983)
- Dir. Lewis Teague
Feat. Dee Wallace-Stone, Danny Pintauro, Daniel Hugh Kelly
- Of a higher quality than the usual Stephen King adaption, the scariness of this tale of a rabid St Bernard dog will generally depend on your own…
- Of Unknown Origin (1983)
- Dir. George Pan Cosmatos
Feat. Peter Weller, Shannon Tweed
- A mostly inspired horror, this suburban myth plays like an extended episode of 'The Twilight Zone', with claws. Peter Weller is a happily married…
- Razorback (1983)
- Dir. Russell Mulcahy
Feat. Gregory Harrison, Arkie Whitely, Bill Kerr
- The expat–Oz director exercises his burgeoning talent with this local debut about a giant wild pig that terrorises a small country town.
- An American Werewolf in London (1981)
- Dir. John Landis
Feat. Griffin Dunne, David Naughton, Jenny Agutter
- Screamingly funny resuscitatation of the werewolf genre is great fun for the whole family, replete with Oscar–winning effects and many a great…
- Full Moon High (1981)
- Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. Adam Arkin, Ed McMahon, Elizabeth Hartman…
- Wry horror–comedy with Adam Arkin as a jocular teen whose good time in Transylvannia is marred by his transformation into a werewolf. Change of…
- Howling, The (1981)
- Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Dee Wallace Stone, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan
- A well–regarded werewolf movie that gets funnier and scarier as it progresses. Rob Bottin's bone–crunching werewolf transformation scenes…
- Piranha 2 - The Spawning (1981)
- Dir. James Cameron
Feat. Lance Henriksen
- Mediocre but bearable sequel to the fun 1978 horror about the ravenous, maneating fishies.
This sacrifices the campy fun of the original for a…
- Wolfen (1981)
- Dir. Michael Wadleigh
Feat. Albert Finney, Edward James Olmos, Gregory Hines…
- Well–made werewolf yarn based around detective Albert Finney's investigation into a series of flesh–shredding killings in…
- Alligator (1980)
- Dir. Lewis Teague
Feat. Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo
- Post–Jaws monster thriller, with giant alligator lurking in Chicago sewers. John Sayles script.
- Any Which Way You Can (1980)
- Dir. Buddy Van Horn
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis…
- Clint Eastwood returns with his ill–tempered pet orangutan 'Clyde', as a truckie fist–fighting his way through the troubles of life. A…
- Every Which Way But Loose (1978)
- Dir. James Fargo
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Beverly D'Angelo…
- Rambling, but loosely enjoyable road–movie, has truckie Eastwood 'befriending' a rowdy orangoutan and following a country singer (Locke) across…
- Piranha (1978)
- Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy
- A gag–filled spoof of JAWS and B–Movies from the 1950s. Premium schlock from the pen of John Sayles.
- Swarm, The (1978)
- Dir. Irwin Allen
Feat. Michael Caine, Katherine Ross, Henry Fonda…
- The 70s Disaster Movie rarely got this far–out, with Michael Caine trying to swat a cloud of killer bumble–bees. Many other…
- Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)
- Dir. John Bud Cardos
Feat. William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling
- Insecticides poison the food supply of the local tarantula population, setting them off on a hysterical man–hunt in the Arizona desert.…
- Zoltan, Hound of Dracula (1977)
- Dir. Albert Band
Feat. Michael Pataki, Jose Ferrer
- Strange and not a little camp entry in the 'Dracula' series, has a canine incarnation unleash his fangs on Los Angeles while searching for family…
- Squirm (1976)
- Dir. Jeff Lieberman
Feat. Don Scardino, Patricia Pearcy
- A storm–toppled powerline drives large (and vicious) sandworms out the surrounding swamp–waters, terrifying the local populace in this…
- Beast, The (La Bete) (1975)
- Dir. Walerian Borowczyk
Feat. Lucy Broadhurst
- This unsexy, frequently hilarious art–porn parable from the easily aroused dir. of IMMORAL TALES consists of a hairy sasquatch in heat chasing…
- Boy and His Dog, A (1975)
- Dir. L.Q. Jones
Feat. Don Johnson
- Intriguingly subversive film about a youth and his telepathic canine friend who scour the post–holocaust landscape in search of civilisation.…
- Jaws (1975)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw
- Brilliantly executed, famously scary Spielberg pic about a killer fish. Spawned three forgettable sequels (also available!) and dozens of imitations.
- Chosen Survivors (1974)
- Dir. Sutton Roley
Feat. Jackie Cooper, Alex Cord, Richard Jaeckel…
- Sci–fi horror about a group of people who have been flown to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert, after being chosen at random to survive…
- Land That Time Forgot, The (1974)
- Dir. Kevin Conner
Feat. Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon
- After ending up on a German submarine in WWI several Americans stumble across an undiscovered South American island, which holds adventure in the…
- Phase IV (Phase 4) (1974)
- Strange structures are appearing in the desert. Scientists are shocked to find that they are the work of super intelligent ants with sinister motives.
- Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Severn Darden
- Tired final film in the saga is a chronological prequel to the original that also tries to patch up loose ends of the other chapters. Still…
- Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Roddy McDowall
- The fourth in the series prefaces the original as enslaved Apes revolt against the humans. Worthwhile for those wishing to fill in the gaps of the…
- Frogs (1972)
- Dir. George McCowan
Feat. Ray Milland, Sam Elliott, Joan Van Ark
- Swamp critters exact revenge on wildlife predator Ray Milland in this enjoyable schlockfest. Bonus film with PREMATURE BURIAL.
- Legend of Boggy Creek, The (1972)
- Dir. Charles B. Pierce
Feat. Vern Stierman
- Giggle inducing 'documentary' examines the mysterious happenings in lil' ol' Fouke Arkansas where some big ape creature has been stirrin' up folk…
- Night of the Lepus (1972)
- Dir. William Claxton
Feat. Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun
- One of the most incredibly lame (and strange and entertaining) horror films of all time, in which giant mutant rabbits terrorize a small community in…
- Blue Water, White Death (1971)
- Dir. Peter Gimbel
Feat. Tom Chapin, Phil Clarkson, Valerie Taylor…
- Groundbreaking and slightly campy doco featuring two shark experts Valerie and Ron Taylor as they attempt to 'de–mystify' the Great White…
- Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
- Dir. Don Taylor
Feat. Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter
- Second sequel brings the Apes back in time to contemporary LA, where the dominant human race exploit the simians.
The gimmick makes it hard to…
- Willard (1971)
- Dir. Daniel Mann
Feat. Bruce Davison, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Borgnine
- Superb persecuted–teen–gets–revenge picture about a young nerd who identifies more with rodents than people. The sequel, BEN, is…
- Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
- Dir. Ted Post
Feat. James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans
- First and arguably the best of the sequels continues the set up of the original with James Franciscus burrowing underground to discover a mutant…
- Planet of the Apes (1968)
- Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall
- Classic sci–fi is a perfect blend of high entertainment and thought–provoking allegory.
Charlton Heston and his band of…
- Blood Beast Terror, The (1967)
- Dir. Vernon Sewell
Feat. Peter Cushing
- In Victorian rural England, Peter Cushing's murder enquiries uncovers a beastly weremoth and the gruesome experiments of a crazed entymologist.
- Birds, The (1963)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy…
- Hitch's masterful rendering of Daphne Du Maurier's novella contains some of his most memorable set pieces, as the population of a seaside resort come…
- Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1959)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Andre Morell…
- Quite possibly the best Sherlock Holmes adaptation, with Cushing in the lead, investigating the horrors of the Baskerville killings. The 'Hammer'…
- I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
- Dir. Gene Fowler Jnr.
Feat. Michael Landon
- A cool Michael Landon scored a big hit in his film debut – a hilarious mishmash of horror and juvenile delinquency dramas.
- Tarantula! (1955)
- Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll…
- One of the best B–movie directors of the 1950s crafts an effective tale of a manic scientist (Carroll) whose experiments unleash a gigantic and…
- Naked Jungle (1954)
- Dir. Byron Haskin
Feat. Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker, Abraham Sofaer…
- Charlton Heston battles the Marabunta soldier ants that threaten to take over his South American jungle plantation. Eleanor Parker provides some…
- Them! (1954)
- Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn
- Mutated giant ants run amok after a nuclear test in the New Mexico desert. Atomic parable is a major studio '50s creature feature that benefits from…
- Track of the Cat (1954)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Tab Hunter…
- Claustrophobic allegorical western finds a feuding family snowbound and under siege from a less than benevolent panther.
Certainly something of a…
- Thing, The (The Thing From Another World) (1951)
- Dir. Christian Nyby
Feat. Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite
- Howard Hawksian macho men in leather tussle it out with men in cardies over how to protect themselves from the abomidable alien outside in the snow.…
- Mighty Joe Young (1949)
- Dir. Ernest B. Schoedsack
Feat. Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong…
- Worthy successor to KING KONG, reunites many of the cast and crew, with a compellingly different slant on the 'Giant Ape' premise.
Here, Armstrong…
- Curse of the Cat People (1944)
- Dir. Gunther V Fritsch, Robert Wise
Feat. Simone Simon
- Sequel of worth to the original Val Lewton psychological chiller, again with the feline Simone Simon, here haunting the imagination of a small girl…
- Leopard Man, The (1943)
- Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Dennis O'Keefe
- The final Val Lewton–Tourneur horror collaboration concerns an escaped leopard (apparently) running amok in a small New Mexico town. A slim…
- Cat People (1942)
- Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Simone Simon, Jack Holt, Kent Smith…
- Producer Val Lewton's most celebrated low–budget horror evokes a disturbing atmosphere of repression and menace with shadows, music and the…
- Wolf Man, The (Wolfman) (1941)
- Dir. George Waggner
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Bela Lugosi, Claude Rains
- Universal horror classic has Lon Chaney Jnr. bitten by werewolf Bela Lugosi among the foggy glades of Alpine–set English villages.
- King Kong (1933)
- Dir. Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Feat. Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong
- An iconic classic of cinema that literally smashed new ground in terms of special effects, and must have had unwitting audiences of the day…