List of natural horror films

This is a list of natural horror films. Natural horror is a subgenre of horror films "featuring nature running amok in the form of mutated beasts, carnivorous insects, and normally harmless animals or plants turned into cold-blooded killers."^[1]

Amphibians

• Frog-g-g!
• Frogs
• Hell Comes to Frogtown

Arachnids

• Arachnid (2001; spiders)
• Arachnophobia (1990; spiders)
• Big Ass Spider! (2013; spiders)
• The Black Scorpion (1950s; giant scorpions, spider and worm creature)
• Camel Spiders (2011; Solifugae)
• Earth vs. the Spider (1958; giant spider)
• Eight Legged Freaks (2002; giant spiders)
• The Giant Spider Invasion (1975; giant spiders)
• Have Rocket, Will Travel (1959; giant flame throwing tarantula)
• Horrors of Spider Island (1960; giant spiders)
• Ice Spiders (2007; giant spiders)
• Kingdom of the Spiders (1977; tarantulas)
• Mesa of Lost Women (1953; giant spiders)
• Spiders (film) (2000; spiders)
  • Spiders II: Breeding Ground (2001; giant spiders)
• Spiders 3D (2013; giant mutant spiders)
• Tail Sting (2001; genetically enhanced scorpions)
• Tarantula (1955; giant tarantula)
• Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (1977)
• Ticks (also titled Infested) (1993; mutated ticks)
• Webs (2003; spiders)

Bacteria and viruses

• Det okända (2000; prehistoric parasite)
• Outbreak (1995; killer virus)
• The Thaw (2009; prehistoric parasites)

Birds

• The Birds (1963; flocks of vicious seagulls, crows and other birds)
  • The Birds II: Land's End (1994)
• Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2008; eagles)
• Birdemic 2: The Resurrection (2013; eagles and vultures)
• Flu Bird Horror (2008; birds)
• KAW (2007; ravens)
• Roadkill (2011)

Crustaceans

• Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957; abnormally large crabs)
• The Bay (2012; tongue-eatingisopods)
• Island Claws (1980; mutant crabs)

Fish

• Deep Shock (2003; giant intelligent electric eels)
• Frankenfish (2004; mutant snakehead)
• Killer Fish (1978; piranhas)
• Mega Piranha (2010; overgrown mutant piranhas)
• Piranha (1978; genetically enhanced piranhas)
  • Piranha II: The Spawning (1981; genetically altered flying piranhas)
  • Piranha (1995; mutant piranhas, remake of 1978 same name film)
  • Piranha 3D (2010; prehistoric piranhas, remake of 1978 same name film)
  • Piranha 3DD (2012; sequel to Piranha 3D)
• Razortooth (2006; giant eels)
• Snakehead Terror (2004; aggressive walking fish)

Sharks

• 2-Headed Shark Attack (2012; two-headed shark)
• 12 Days of Terror (2004; great white shark, based on true story Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916)
• Aatank (1996; abnormally large shark)
• Bait 3D (2012; large great white shark in a supermarket)
• Blue Water White Death (1971; great white shark)
• Cruel Jaws (1995; great white shark)
• Dark Tide (2012; great white shark)
• Deep Blood (1989; shark)
• Deep Blue Sea (1999; genetically engineered shortfin mako sharks)
• Dinoshark (2010; prehistoric dinosaur-shark hybrid)
• Ghost Shark (2013; undead great white)
• Great White (1980; great white shark)
• Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy (2005; mutant hammerhead shark/human hybrid)
• Jaws (1975; great white shark)
  • Jaws 2 (1978; great white shark)
  • Jaws 3-D (1983; great white shark)
  • Jaws: The Revenge (1987; great white shark)
• Jaws in Japan (2012; giant shark)
• Jersey Shore Shark Attack (2012; killer albino deep-water sharks)
• Jurassic Shark (2012; megalodon)
• Mako: The Jaws of Death (1976; mako sharks)
• Malibu Shark Attack (2009; Prehistoric goblin sharks)
• Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus (2009; Abnormally large Megalodon and Octopus)
  • Mega Shark Versus Crocosaurus (2010; Abnormally large Megalodon and Crocodile)
  • Mega Shark Versus Mecha Shark (2014; megalodon and machine shark)
• Megalodon (2002; megalodon)
• Monster Shark (1984; mutant tentacled shark)
• Night of the Sharks (1988; sharks)
• Open Water (2003; Oceanic White Tip Sharks)
• Open Water 2 (2006; Oceanic White Tip Sharks)
• Raging Sharks (2005; Highly aggressive sharks)
• Red Water (2003; bull shark)
• Sand Sharks (2011; prehistoric sharks swimming in sand)
• Shark (2000)
• Shark! (1969)
• Shark Attack films (genetically enhanced great white shark)
  • Shark Attack 2 (2001; seven genetically enhanced great white sharks)
  • Shark Attack 3: Megalodon (2002; megalodon)
  • Shark Zone (2003; sharks)
• Shark in Venice (2008; great white shark)
• Shark Night 3D (2011; various sharks)
• Shark Swarm (2008; sharks)
• Sharknado (2013; waterspouts full of sharks)
  • Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014; waterspouts full of sharks)
  • Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!,
• Sharktopus (2010; shark-octopus hybrid)
• Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda (2014; shark-octopus and barracuda-pterodactyl hybrid)
• The Reef (2010; great white shark)
• The Shark Hunter (1979; sharks)
• Tintorera (1977; tiger shark)
• Up from the Depths (1979; prehistoric shark like creature)

Molluscs

• The Beast (1996; aggressive giant squid)
• Deep Rising (1998; giant deep sea squid-like creature)
• It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955; giant octopus)
• Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep (2006; giant squid)
• The Monster That Challenged the World (1957) giant mollusks (mollasca)
• Octopus (2000; giant mutated octopus)
  • Octopus 2: River of Fear (2001; giant mutated octopus)
• Tentacles (1977; abnormally large octopus)
• Slugs (1988; Giant Black Slugs)

Insects

• Blue Monkey (1987; giant mutant insect)
• Bugs (2003)
• Infestation (2009)
• Mimic (1997; giant humanoid insects)
  • Mimic 2 (2001)
  • Mimic: Sentinel (2003)
• The Mist (2007)
• Phenomena (1985; multiple insects)
• Insecticidal (2005; various insects)
• Starship Troopers (1997; insect-like aliens, cited as arachnids)
  • Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004)
  • Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008)
  • Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles (1999)
• Stinger (1999)
• The Strange World of Planet X (1958)

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)
• Legion of Fire: Killer Ants! (1998; flesh-eating ants)
• The Bone Snatcher (2003; intelligent ants)
• The Hive (2008; ants)
• Killer Ants

Bees

• The Bees (1978)
• The Deadly Bees (1966)
• Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare (1995)
• Dragon wasps (2012; giant bee)
• Killer Bees (1974)
• Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973; adult-rated)
• The Savage Bees (1976)
• The Swarm (1978)
• Swarmed (film) (2005)
• Terror Out of the Sky (1978)

Beetles

• Bug (1975; beetles)
• Caved In: Prehistoric Terror (2006; prehistoric rhinoceros beetles)

Cockroaches

• Bug Buster (1998; giant cockroaches)
• Creepshow (1982; giant cockroaches)
• The Nest (1988; cockroaches)
• They Nest (2000; cockroaches)

Flies

• The Fly (1958; mutant fly/human hybrid)
• The Fly (1986; mutant fly/human hybrid)
  • The Fly II (1989; mutant fly/human hybrid)

Grasshoppers

• Beginning of the End (1957; giant grasshoppers)

Mantises

• The Deadly Mantis (1957; giant praying mantis)

Mosquitos

• Mansquito (2005; mutant mosquito/human hybrid)
• Mosquito (1995; mosquitos)
• Skeeter (1993; mutant mosquitoes)

Parasites

• The Cave (2005, parasites)
• Larva (2005; parasites)

Wasps

• Black Swarm (2007; wasps)
• Monster from Green Hell (1958; giant wasps)
• The Wasp Woman (1959; mutated wasp)

Mammals

• The Killer Shrews (1959; giant shrews)
• Night of the Lepus (1972; giant man-eating rabbits)
• Black Sheep (2007; genetically engineered sheep)
• Weasels Rip My Flesh (1979; mutant weasel)
• The White Buffalo (1977; white buffalo)

Bats

• The Devil Bat (1940; giant bats)
• Vampire Bats (2005; mutant vampire bats)
• Nightwing (1979; vampire bats)
• Bats (1999; genetically altered bats)
  • Bats: Human Harvest (2007)
• The Roost (2005; bats)
• Fangs (2002; bats)

Bears

• Grizzly (1976; prehistoric grizzly bear)
• The Edge (1997; bear)
• Prophecy (1979; mutant bear)
• Grizzly Park (2008; grizzly bear)

Felines

• Prey (2007; lions)
• Savage Harvest (1981; lions)
• The Ghost and the Darkness (1996; lion)
• Maneater (2007; Bengal tiger)
• Sabretooth (2002; genetically engineered sabretooth tiger)
• Attack of the Sabretooth (2005; cloned sabretooth tiger)
• Burning Bright (2007; bengal tiger)
• Pet Sematary (1989; undead domestic house cat)
• Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990; killer domestic house cat)
• The Uncanny (1977; anthology of three stories about killer domestic house cats)

Canines

• Atomic Dog (1998)
• The Breed (2006; feral dogs)
• Cujo (1983; St. Bernard)
• Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978; demonic German Shepherds)
• Dogs (1976)
• Dogs of Hell (1982; rottweilers)
• Frozen (2010; wolves)
• The Grey (2012, Wolves)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932 • 1939 • 1959 • 1978 • 1981 • 1983 • 2000 • 2002; hound, based on the Sherlock Holmes novel)
• Man's Best Friend (1993; genetically altered Tibetan Mastiff)
• The Pack (1977; feral dogs)
• Pet Sematary Two (1992; dog)
• Rottweiler (2004; genetically altered rottweiler)
• White Dog (white German Shepherd)
• Zoltan, Hound of Dracula (1978; vampire dog)
• Wolfen (1981; wolf-like animals)

Pigs

• Daddy's Deadly Darling (1972; pigs)
• Razorback (1984; giant wild hog)
• Chaw (2009; pigs)
• Pig Hunt (2008; giant hog)

Primates

• Ape (1976; abnormally large gorilla)
• Blood Monkey (2007; man-eating monkey)
• Congo (1995; gray gorillas)
• In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro
• King Kong (1933; abnormally large gorilla)
  • The Son of Kong (1933)
  • King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
  • King Kong Escapes (1967)
  • King Kong (1976)
  • King Kong Lives (1986)
  • King Kong (2005)
• King of the Lost World (2005)
• Link (1986; super-intelligent orangutan)
• Monkey Shines (1988; monkey)
• Night of the Bloody Apes (1976; ape-like creature)
• Planet of the Apes (1968)
  • Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
  • Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
  • Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
  • Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
  • Planet of the Apes (2001)
  • Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
  • Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
• Shakma (1990; baboon)
• Trollhunter (2010; trolls)

Rats

• Altered Species (2001; giant rat)
• Deadly Eyes (a.k.a. Rats) (1982)
• The Food of the Gods (1976; giant rats)
  • Food of the Gods II (1989)
• Of Unknown Origin (1983)
• The Rats (2002)
• Killer Rats (2003)
• Rats: Night of Terror (1984)
• Willard (1971)
  • Ben (1972)
  • Willard (2003)
• Graveyard Shift (1990)
• Revenge of the Rats (2001)
  • Scratch: The New Sound of Terror (2004)
  • Alert Paris! (2006)
• Rat Scratch Fever (2011)

Whales

• Orca (1977; orca whale)
• The Sea Beast (1920; whale)

Reptiles

• The Relic

Alligators and crocodiles

• Blood Surf (2000)
• Alligator (1980)
  • Alligator II: The Mutation (1991)
• Black Water (2007)
• Brutal River (2005)
• Chorakhe (1980)
• Croc (2007; crocodile)
• Crocodile (1981)
• Crocodile (2000)
  • Crocodile 2: Death Swamp (2002)
• Dark Age (1987)
• The Great Alligator River (1979)
• Killer Crocodile (1989; abnormally huge crocodile)
  • Killer Crocodile 2 (1990)
• Lake Placid (1999; abnormally large saltwater crocodile)
  • Lake Placid 2 (2007)
  • Lake Placid 3 (2010)
  • Lake Placid: The Final Chapter (2012)
  • Lake Placid vs. Anaconda (2015)
• Primeval (2007; Gustave crocodile)
• Ragin' Cajun Redneck Gators (2013; mutant redneck alligators)
• Rogue (2007)
• Dinocroc vs. Supergator (2010)
• Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus (2010; megalodon and supercroc)

Dinosaurs

• Carnosaur
  • Carnosaur 2
  • Carnosaur 3: Primal Species
  • Raptor
• Godzilla (1954; atomic giant dinosaur hybrid)
  • Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
  • King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
  • Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
  • Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
  • Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
  • Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster (1966)
  • Son of Godzilla (1967)
  • Destroy All Monsters (1968)
  • All Monsters Attack (1969)
  • Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)
  • Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
  • Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
  • Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)
  • Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
  • The Return of Godzilla (1984)
  • Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)
  • Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)
  • Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992)
  • Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)
  • Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994)
  • Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)
  • Godzilla (1998)
  • Godzilla 2000 (1999)
  • Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000)
  • Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)
  • Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002)
  • Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003)
  • Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
  • Godzilla (2014)
    • Godzilla 2 (2018)
  • Godzilla (2016)
• Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
  • Viaje al centro de la Tierra (1978)
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth (1989)
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
    • Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
• Jurassic Park (1993; genetically engineered dinosaurs)
  • The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
  • Jurassic Park III (2001)
  • Jurassic World (2015)
• Gorgo (1961; abnormally large bipedal aquatic dinosaur)
• Land of the Lost (2009)
• Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds (1977; Plesiosaurus and Rhamphorhyncus)
• Planet Raptor
• Raptor Island
• A Sound of Thunder
• The Dinosaur Project (2012)

Lizards

• Aberration
• Curse of the Komodo
• The Giant Gila Monster (1959; giant gila monster)
• Komodo (1999; starving Komodo dragons)
• The Amazing Spider-Man (2012; giant humanoid lizard)

Pterosaurs

• Pterodactyl
• Q

Snakes

• Anaconda (1997)
  • Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)
  • Anaconda 3: Offspring (2008)
  • Anacondas: Trail of Blood (2009)
  • Lake Placid vs. Anaconda (2015)
• Copperhead (1983)
• Copperhead (2008)
• Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987)
• Hisss (2010)
• Jennifer (1978)
• King Cobra (1999)
• Python (2000)
  • New Alcatraz (2001)
  • Pythons 2 (2002)
  • Boa vs. Python (2004)
• Rattled (1996)
• Rattlers (1976)
• Silent Predators (1999)
• The Snake King (2005)
• Snake Island (2002)
• Snakes on a Plane (2006)
• Snakes on a Train (2006)
• Spasms (1983)
• Sssssss (1973)
• There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
• Venom (1981)
• Venom (2005)
• Venomous (2001)
• Vipers (2008)
• Komodo vs. Cobra (2005)
• Mega Python vs. Gatoroid (2011)
• Mega Snake (2007)
• Piranhaconda (2012)

Plants

• Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978; tomatoes)
  • Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988; tomatoes)
  • Killer Tomatoes Strike Back (1991; tomatoes)
• Contamination .7 (aka Troll 3) (1993; mutant tree roots)
• The Day of the Triffids (1962; man-eating plants)
  • The Day of the Triffids (1981 TV series; man-eating plants)
  • The Day of the Triffids (2009 TV series; man-eating plants)
• Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965; second story)
• The Happening (2008; airborne disease caused by plants)
• The Little Shop of Horrors (1960; comedy farce involving a man-eating plant)
  • Little Shop of Horrors (1986; flowers)
• Maneater of Hydra (1967; trees)
• The Ruins (2008; vines)

Worms and parasites

• Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959; Giant Leeches)
• New Attack of the Giant Leeches (2009; Giant Leeches)
• Mongolian Death Worm (2010; enormous white worms)
• Slither (2006; alien worm parasites)
• Squirm (1976; worms)
• Tremors (1990; giant, prehistoric worms)
  • Tremors 2: Aftershocks (1996)
  • Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001)
  • Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (2004)
  • Tremors 5: Bloodline (2015)

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