Brute Force: Animal Horror Movies

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Welcome (Back) to the Jungle
	Once Bitten, Twice Shy
	Animal Attractions: The Spell of the Predator
	Getting a Closer Look
	Framing Animals?
	Into the Wild
1 Going Ape: King Kong
	Beauty and the Beast: King Kong (1933)
	Every Ape-Man for Himself
	Crude Motives in King Kong (1976)
	Beauty of the Beast: King Kong (2005)
	Gorilla Warfare: Kong: Skull Island
2 Out of Our Depth: Surviving Marine Monsters
	The Bite Perimeter of Jaws
	Second, Third, and Fourth Courses
	Turn Yourself In(ward): Orca
	Holidays from Hell: Open Water and The Reef
	Fin-clement Weather: Bait 3D and Sharknado
	Detour: Beasts from the Backwater
	Beach Therapy in The Shallows
3 Man versus Wild: Bears, Wolves, and the Men Who Fight Them
	Beasts of Men: Grizzly and Day of the Animals
	Like a Bridge over Feline Slaughter: Rising to the Big Cat Challenge in The Ghost and the Darkness
	Bearing a Resemblance in The Edge
	Fighting for Meaning: The Grey
4 Creepy Crawlies: Intelligent Ants, Sickening Spiders, and Other Ill-intentioned Invertebrates
	The Big Bad Ants and Outsized Arachnids in Them!, Tarantula, and The Black Scorpion
	Picking on Someone their Own Size in The Incredible Shrinking Man and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
	Life on Earth: Phase IV
	Frozen in Fear (and Time) by Arachnophobia
	Showing More Leg: Eight Legged Freaks
	Under the Skin: Bug
5 Mad Science Makes for Cranky Creatures
	Atom-age Animals
	Eco Transgression, Planetary Payback
	Nutty Professors and Zany Zoology
	Creative Minds and Contaminated Bodies: The Fly
	Big Dreams and Big Problems: From Jurassic Park to Jurassic World
6 In Their Sights: The Gaze of the Predator
	Taking a Look at Ourselves
	Cover Your Eyes from The Birds
	The Eyes of Jaws
	In Their Eyes: Wolfen
	When the Sights Come to See You: Jurassic Park
7 Snakes Alive
	Bed Snakes: Conan the Barbarian, Sssssss, and Venom
	Male Snakes in the Grass in Anaconda and Anacondas
	Mile-High Anxiety: Snakes on a Plane
8 Bad Dog! The Rogue Hounds of Horror
	From Defenseless Dog to Controlled Killer
	“Who’s there!”: Suspiria
	A Demonic Bark: The Exorcist
	Canine Confusions in The Thing
	Straying Too Far: Cujo
9 Beast Mode: Becoming the Wolf Man
	“He kills what he loves best”: Werewolf of London
	The Hairiest Heir: The Wolf Man
	Bestial Desires: The Curse of the Werewolf
	Sexual Awakenings in The Howling and An American Werewolf in London
	Old Dog: Wolf
	Wolves in Every Guise—or, Guys: The Company of Wolves and Bad Moon
	Girls Gone Wild: Cat People and Ginger Snaps
Aftermath
Notes
Works Cited
Index