The 21 Best Killer-Animal Movies of All Time

Sharks get the headlines, but bears, bugs, dogs and oversized reptiles have all cleared a beach or two. Crowd-pleasing classics sit beside drive-in cheapies that found a cult.

1. 1
   Black Water

   A 2007 Australian film with three travelers stuck in mangrove trees above a hunting saltwater crocodile.
   1000pts
2. 2
   The Meg

   A 2018 action film with Jason Statham battling a 75-foot prehistoric megalodon shark.
   681pts
3. 3
   Piranha

   Joe Dante's 1978 cult film about weaponized piranhas released into a river above a summer camp.
   622pts
4. 4
   Rogue

   A 2007 Australian thriller where a saltwater crocodile strands tourists on a shrinking tidal island.
   622pts
5. 5
   Jaws

   Spielberg's 1975 great white shark thriller that terrorized Amity Island and invented the summer blockbuster.
   551pts
6. 6
   Arachnophobia

   A 1990 horror comedy in which a deadly Venezuelan spider breeds an army in a small California town.
   551pts
7. 7
   Razorback

   A 1984 Australian cult film about a giant wild boar rampaging through the outback.
   466pts
8. 8
   Grizzly

   A 1976 drive-in hit about an 18-foot grizzly bear slaughtering campers in a national park.
   466pts
9. 9
   Deep Blue Sea

   A 1999 thriller where genetically enhanced mako sharks turn on scientists in a flooding sea lab.
   466pts
10. 10
    Anaconda

    A 1997 creature feature with a giant Amazon anaconda hunting a documentary crew led by Jennifer Lopez and Jon Voight.
    363pts
11. 11
    Backcountry

    A 2014 Canadian survival horror where a camping couple is stalked by a black bear.
    363pts
12. 12
    Open Water

    A 2003 low-budget drama about two divers abandoned at sea as sharks circle.
    363pts
13. 13
    Cujo

    A 1983 Stephen King adaptation about a rabid St. Bernard dog laying siege to a mother and son in a stalled car.
    362pts
14. 14
    The Birds

    Hitchcock's 1963 classic where flocks of birds launch inexplicable attacks on a coastal town.
    362pts
15. 15
    The Shallows

    A 2016 thriller with Blake Lively stranded on a rock 200 yards from shore by a great white shark.
    362pts
16. 16
    Them!

    A 1954 sci-fi classic where atomic tests spawn giant ants in the New Mexico desert.
    362pts
17. 17
    Orca

    A 1977 thriller in which a killer whale hunts the fisherman who killed its mate.
    0pts
18. 18
    Crawl

    A 2019 survival horror where a father and daughter are trapped in a flooding crawlspace with hungry alligators during a hurricane.
    0pts
19. 19
    Lake Placid

    A 1999 horror comedy about a 30-foot crocodile devouring locals in a Maine lake.
    0pts
20. 20
    Alligator

    A 1980 cult horror where a sewer-dwelling alligator grows to monstrous size beneath Chicago.
    0pts
21. 21
    The Edge

    A 1997 wilderness thriller with Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin hunted by a Kodiak bear after a plane crash.
    0pts

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