List of eco-horror films

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This is a list of eco-horror films. Eco-horror is a sub-genre of horror and disaster films which feature animals or insects (real or mutated), and sometimes plants, attacking humans. Films featuring viruses and legendary creatures are not included in this list.

Further information: List of giant monster films and List of disaster films

Contents 1 Amphibians 2 Arachnids 3 Birds 4 Fish, crustaceans, and mollusks 4.1 Sharks 5 Insects 5.1 Ants 5.2 Bees 6 Mammals 6.1 Dogs 6.2 Primates 6.3 Rats 7 Reptiles 7.1 Crocodiles 7.2 Snakes 8 Worms 9 Multiple animals 10 Other animals 11 Plants

[edit] Amphibians

• Frog-g-g! (2004; giant frog)
• Frogs (1972; frogs)

[edit] Arachnids

• Arachnophobia (1990; spiders)
• Earth vs. the Spider (1958; giant spider)
• Eight Legged Freaks (2002; giant spiders)
• The Giant Spider Invasion (1975; giant spiders)
• Horrors of Spider Island (1960; giant spiders)
• Kingdom of the Spiders (1977; tarantulas)
• Mesa of Lost Women (1953; giant spiders)
• Tarantula (1955; giant tarantula)
• Webs (2003; spiders)

[edit] Birds

• The Birds (1963; flocks of vicious seagulls, crows, birds)
  • The Birds II: Land's End (1963)
• KAW (2007; Ravens)

[edit] Fish, crustaceans, and mollusks

• Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957; crabs)
• The Beast (1996; aggressive giant squid)
• Deep Rising (1988; ottoia - deep-sea worms)
• DeepStar Six (1989; reptilian crustacean)
• Frankenfish (2004; mutant snakehead fish)
• It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955; giant octopus)
• Leviathan (1989; various sea creatures)
• Piranha (1978; mutant piranhas)
  • Piranha II: The Spawning (1981)
• Piranha (1995; mutant piranhas)
• Piranha (2008; mutant piranhas)
• Tentacles (1977; giant octopus)

[edit] Sharks

• Deep Blue Sea (1999; genetically engineered longfin mako sharks)
• Great White (1980; great white shark)
• Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy (2005; mutant hammerhead shark)/human hybrid
• Jaws films (abnormally large great white shark)
• Open Water (film) (2003; sharks)
• Red Water (2003; bull shark)
• Shark Attack films (genetically enchanced great white shark)
• Tintorera (1977; giant tiger shark)

[edit] Insects

• Beginning of the End (1957; giant grasshoppers)
• Bug (1975; beetles)
• Bugs (2003)
• Caved In: Prehistoric Terror (2006; prehistoric rhinoceros beetles)
• Creepshow (1982; giant cockroaches)
• The Deadly Mantis (1957; giant praying mantis)
• Deadly Swarm (2003; wasps)
• The Fly 1958 films (mutant fly/human hybrid)
• The Fly 1986 films (mutant fly/human hybrid)
• Mansquito (2005; mutant mosquito/human hybrid)
• Mimic films (Judas Breed, giant humanoid insects)
• Monster from Green Hell (1958; giant wasps)
• Mosquito (1995; mosquitos)
• Phenomena (1985; multiple insects)

[edit] Ants

• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull(2008); army ants.
• Empire of the Ants (1977; giant ants)
• It Happened at Lakewood Manor (1977)
• The Naked Jungle (1954)
• Phase IV (1974; intelligent ants)
• Them! (1954; giant ants)

[edit] Bees

• The Bees (1978)
• The Deadly Bees (1966)
• Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare (1995; killer bees)
• The Savage Bees (1976; African killer bees)
• The Swarm (1978; killer bees)

[edit] Mammals

• Attack of the Sabretooth (2005; cloned sabretooth tiger)
• Bats (1999; genetically altered bats)
• The Edge (1997; bear)
• The Ghost and the Darkness (1996; lion)
• Grizzly (1976; prehistoric grizzly bear)
• The Killer Shrews (1959; giant shrews)
• Night of the Lepus (1972; giant rabbits)
• Nightwing (1979; vampire bats)
• Orca (1977; highly aggressive orca whale)
• Pet Sematary (1989; undead cat)
• Razorback (1984; giant wild hog)
• Sabretooth (2002; genetically created sabretooth tiger)

[edit] Dogs

• The Breed (2006; mutated dogs)
• Cujo (1983; St. Bernard)
• Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978; demonic rottweilers)
• Dogs (1976)
• Dogs of Hell (1982; rottweiler dogs)
• The Pack (1977; mutant dogs)
• Rottweiler (2004; genetically altered rottweiler)

[edit] Primates

• Congo (1995; gray gorillas)
• King Kong films (giant gorilla)
• Link (1986; super-intelligent orangutan)
• Monkey Shines (1988; monkey)

[edit] Rats

• Altered Species (2001; giant rat)
• The Food of the Gods (1976; giant rats)
  • The Food of the Gods II (1989)
• The Rats (2002)
• Willard (1971)
  • Ben (1972)
• Willard (2003)

[edit] Reptiles

• Alligator (1980; mutated giant alligator)
  • Alligator II: The Mutation (1991; mutated giant alligator)
• The Giant Gila Monster (1959; giant gila monster)
• Godzilla films (giant reptile)
• Komodo (1999; aggressive komodo dragons)
• Komodo vs. Cobra (2004; Genetically engineered komodo dragons and cobras)

[edit] Crocodiles

• Blood Surf (2002)
• Crocodile(2000; giant Nile crocodile)
  • Crocodile 2: Death Swamp (2002; giant Saltwater crocodile)
• Lake Placid (1999)
  • Lake Placid 2 (2007)
• Primeval (2007; Gustave crocodile)

[edit] Snakes

• Anaconda (1997; giant anacondas)
  • Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004; giant anacondas)
• Boa (2002)
• Boa vs. Python (2004; genetically enhanced boa constrictor and a mutated python)
• King Cobra (1999; mutant King Cobra/eastern diamond-backed rattlesnake hybrid)
• Python (2000)
  • Python II (2002)
• Rattlers (1975; rattle snakes)
• The Snake King (2005; snake/human hybrid)
• Snakes on a Plane (2006; crates of poisonous snakes)
• Snakes on a Train (2006; crates of poisonous snakes)
• SSSSSSS (1973; humans turned into cobras)

[edit] Worms

• Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959; giant leeches)
• Leeches! (2003; leeches)
• Slugs (1988; Giant Black Slugs)

[edit] Multiple animals

• Prophecy (1979)
• The Day of the Animals (1977)

[edit] Other animals

This list includes cryptids, extinct animals, and mythological creatures.

• Aquanoids (2003)
• The Cave (2005)
• The Cavern (2005)
• C.H.U.D. (1984)
  • C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D. (1989)
• Cloverfield (2008)
• Deep Shock (2003)
• The Descent (2005)
• DinoCroc (2004; Sarcosuchus)
• Gorgo (1961)
• Jurassic Park films (genetically engineered dinosaurs)
• Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep (2006)
• The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1955)
• Reign of Fire (2002; dragons)
• Spawn of the Slithis (1978)
• Tremors films

[edit] Plants

• Trees (2000; killer great white pine tree)
  • Trees 2: The Root of All Evil (2004; mutant killer trees)
• Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965; second story)