Since ancient times, people have bypassed the wildanimals, meeting with such creatures caused him unconscious fear. Of course, this feature of the human psyche could not help using the directors of horror films. They masterfully studied all kinds 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 evil-gloomypessimism and at first glance quite harmless reading fiction managed to turn into a chilling 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 shells 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 thiscategory, of course, the "Cemetery of domestic animals" is leading, followed by "Wolves", "Cudjo", "Pack", "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 unhappy 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, Snake venom, Python ". They weave the spider web of the spider: Tarantula, Networks, Horrors of the Spider Island, behind them flies: Fly, Fly Curse, Ants: They, Phase 4, "Beetles", "Nest", "Kaleidoscope of Horrors" and others.
For efficiency
Quite often horrors about animals area wreath of several kinograin, add horror to the science fiction. And then the creators have a unique opportunity to translate 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: "Bite of death" (jellyfish-mutant), "Leeches", "Tremors", "Thaw", etc. The horrors of animals give the director the right to bestow the most ordinary animals with just magical properties: worms fly through the water pipe, the crocodile quickly creeps out after the next victim from the overflow tank, and a spider waits for a carefree layman in a 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 has also become very prolificsuch 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 watching 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. Which horror film about the animals of 2013 will become popular, and what will fall into the abyss of uncertainty, is not yet clear.