Revenge Of The Animals

These are movies about killer animals - no Lassie, no Babe, no Flipper. It's also not about monster creatures like Godzilla, King Kong, humongous spiders, Jurassic Park dinosaurs, Gremlins or giant Graboids (the subterranean worm-creatures in the film "Tremors"). These are real animals that exist and the fictitious stories about their menace. Here goes...

1. Lake Placid - Lake Placid is a 1999 American/Canadian monster movie with elements of comedy, horror, romance and the buddy genre. It was written and produced by David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal), directed by Steve Miner and stars Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Brendan Gleeson, Oliver Platt, and Betty White. The plot revolves around two giant, 30-foot-long man-eating crocodiles which terrorize the fictional location of Black Lake, Maine, United States, and also follows the dysfunctional group who attempt to capture or destroy the creatures.

2. Jaws - Jaws is a 1975 American horror/thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. The police chief of Amity Island (Roy Scheider), a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a giant great white shark by closing the beach, only to be overruled by the town council, which wants the beach to remain open to draw a profit from tourists during the summer season. After several attacks, the police chief enlists the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw).

3. The Birds - The Birds (1963) is a suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock based on the 1952 novella The Birds by Daphne du Maurier. It depicts a small town in the San Francisco Bay Area which is, suddenly and for unexplained reasons, the subject of a series of widespread and violent bird attacks over the course of a few days.

4. Arachnophobia - Arachnophobia is a 1990 American horror-comedy film directed by Frank Marshall and starring Jeff Daniels and John Goodman. It is about deadly spiders infesting a small California town, with the title referring to the fear of spiders.

5. Anaconda - Anaconda is a 1997 horror film, directed by Luis Llosa, starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, and Jon Voight. It centers around a film crew for National Geographic who are kidnapped by a hunter who is going after the world's largest giant anaconda, which is discovered in the remote jungle.

6. Willard - Willard is a 2003 horror film loosely based on the novel Ratman's Notebooks by Stephen Gilbert and a remake of the 1971 film of the same name. It stars Crispin Glover as Willard Stiles, an antisocial worker constantly tormented by his boss and his beloved mother. He befriends a colony of rats, especially a white rat named Socrates and a big rat named Ben. When his torment finally makes Willard vengeful, he uses his rats to get revenge, transforming into a sociopath.

7. Bats - Bats is a 1999 horror film, directed by Louis Morneau and starred Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Meyer, Bob Gunton and Leon.People start to die in a small Texas town and the prime suspects are bats. A specialist in bats is called in, and reveals that the bats have been engineered to be become a deadly human-hunting cooperative. The bats' hive must be found and destroyed, before they can spread.

8. Deep Blue Sea - Deep Blue Sea is a 1999 science fiction thriller film that stars Saffron Burrows, Thomas Jane, LL Cool J, and Samuel L. Jackson. Doctors in an underwater laboratory discover a chemical in the brains of sharks capable of reviving human brain cells. Using gene therapy the doctors create sharks with larger brain masses as a way to speed up the production of the life saving antidote. The result is a breed of shark that is bigger, stronger, smarter, faster and more fierce then anything man has seen before. The sharks gain the ability to reason and turn on their masters resulting in an all or nothing fight to the finish between man and the ultimate predator.

9. Orca - Orca is a 1977 horror film directed by Michael Anderson and produced by Dino De Laurentiis and starring Richard Harris, Will Sampson and Charlotte Rampling. The film was one of a long line of marine-related horror-disaster films that followed the success of 1975's Jaws. In this film, the antagonist is a Killer Whale or Orca.

10. Piranha - Piranha is a 1978 comedy horror film about a swarm of killer piranhas. It was directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins) and starred Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn and Dick Miller. Produced by Roger Corman, Piranha is a parody of the 1975 film Jaws, which had been a major success for distributor Universal Studios and director Steven Spielberg, and inspired a series of similarly themed B movies such as Grizzly, Tintorera, Tentacles, Orca, Monster Shark and Great White.

11. The Swarm - The Swarm is a 1978 American disaster film about a killer bee invasion of Texas. It was adapted from a novel of the same name by Arthur Herzog. The director was Irwin Allen, and the cast included Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson, Lee Grant, Patty Duke, Slim Pickens, Bradford Dillman, Fred MacMurray (in his final movie appearance), and Henry Fonda.

12. Congo - Congo is a 1995 film, based on the 1980 novel Congo by Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park. It was directed by Frank Marshall and stars Dylan Walsh, Laura Linney, Tim Curry, Ernie Hudson, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Grant Heslov and Joe Don Baker. Good gorillas meet bad gorillas while human beings search for treasure in this jungle adventure saga. A team of people went searching for lost colleagues until they discovered that the jungle holds a menace that they weren't counting on: a tribe of bloodthirsty gray gorillas.

13. The Ghost and the Darkness - The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 thriller film about the Tsavo maneaters, two lions who attacked the builders of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway in 1898, killing about 135 of them and the subsequent hunt to kill them. The attacks, which took place in Tsavo, Kenya, were recounted by Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Patterson in his book The Man-Eaters of Tsavo. New reasearch says that the lions likely ate about 35 people, although 135 deaths are claimed by Patterson. Directed by Stephen Hopkins, the movie starred Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas.

Additional information from Wikipedia.