Since ancient times, a person has bypassed the side of wild animals, a meeting with such creatures caused him an unconscious fear. Of course, this feature of the human psyche could not help using the directors of horror films. They masterfully studied all sorts of zoophobia and began to stamp films with frightening stories based on our most common children's horror stories. In this case, especially gifted fell into an angry-gloomy pessimism and at first glance quite harmless reading fiction managed to turn into an ice-cold blood picture. And the viewer, when viewing such a picture, trying to force out an overwhelming sense of fear, eats popcorn with bags and even gets to the covers of the chair.
Classify phobias
Horror about animals have even their classification, with sharks and piranhas leading in it: "Jaws", "The Creatures of Peter Benchley", "Shark-Monster", "Deep Blue Sea", "Piranhas", "River Monsters", etc. . Slightly inferior to wolves, dogs and cats, in this category, of course, is in the lead "Cemetery of pets", followed by "Wolves", "Cudjo", "Flock", "Dogs", "Cat" and others. Rats and other mammals do not give up the position: "Rats", "Night shift", "Rats are the nights of horrors", "Shrew-killers", "Kaban-sekach", "Rabbit's Night", "Black sheep". From the air unfortunate people attack birds: "Birds", "Murder trip", "Crow", "Attack of birds." Crocodiles and snakes do not sleep: Crocodile-killer, Eaten alive, Predatory waters, Fear Lake, Reptilia, Anaconda, Mamba, Viper, Serpent venom, ". They weave the spider's web of spiders: "Tarantula", "Networks", "Horrors of the spider island," followed by flies: "Fly", "The curse of a fly", ants: "They", "Phase 4", "The thief of bones" and cockroaches: "Beetles", "Nest", "Kaleidoscope of Horrors" and others.
For efficiency
Quite often, horrors about animals are a tangle of several kinozhans, horror is added to fantasy. And then the creators have a unique opportunity to embody their faded fantasy, to disregard the laws of physics and biology. And we are not even talking about films about mutant animals, although there are a lot of them: "The bite of death" (jellyfish-mutant), "Leeches", "Tremors", "Thaw", etc. Horror about animals gives the right to the director to give the most ordinary animals just the same magic properties: worms fly, penetrate throughout the water pipe, the crocodile quickly crawls out for another victim from the drain tank, and the innocent spider waits in the komorka (uninhabited pantry). At the end of the film, you can hint that the creature is a victim of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant or genetic experiments of a secret government laboratory for studying or breeding paranormal plankton. That's the way the world's best horror movies about animals.
2013 is no exception
The past year also became very prolific for such movie masterpieces. The most mysterious film should be considered a picture of "Squirrels", its director T. Bekmambetov has managed to turn the kind and tender animals into ruthless mutant killers. "Shark Tornado" will please the viewer with an unusual construction of the story line. Perhaps, after viewing the audience will be somewhat discouraged, and the horrors about the animals that they knew before will seem to them just childish fairy tales. The creators of the film "Downstairs" ruthlessly let the youth company feed unknown fish, and the director of "Death Slope" raised again the theme of the snowman that was popular in the past. What a horror film about animals in 2013 will become popular, and what will fall into the abyss of suspense is not yet clear.