Subgenre Sampler
Animal Amok: 119 Films to Buy & Rent
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…