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I'm not really talking about animals that get exposed to radiation or chemicals and turn into monsters. I'm more interested in animals that REMAIN as animals, but maybe they go crazy or get rabies or attack for some unknown reason. They don't mutate and grow horns or anything, they just kind of get into bad moods and attack people. I guess we could include insects and other living things too . . .

My suggestions are (and I'll keep this short because I want to hear everyone else's opinion):

CUJO

DAY OF THE ANIMALS

STRAYS (with Timothy Busfield!)

GRIZZLY

NIGHTWING (which was a very good book . . . I'm not sure what the HELL they were thinking about when they made the movie)

Man's Best Friend
Night of the Lupis
Organ Grinders
Bats

Nice list, but I must disqualify NIGHT OF THE LEPUS because it involved giant bunnies. (On the other hand, MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL would qualify, because the bunny was small . . . but vicious).

Ahhh. Mutant animals don't count. Got it. :-D

I don't think anyone will remember this one, but Dogs of Hell is one that sticks out for me.  I remember it was originally released in 3-D in the early 80s.  It's about some Rottweilers trained by the army to kill, who escape and terrorize a town.  Pretty cheap and crappy.

Kangaroo Jack

Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . .The seagulls remain seagulls, but the audience is attacked by poorly articulated feel-good philosophy.
The worms in Squirm remain worms, they just get angry at us because of electricity . . . .
peter johnson

For a more recent affair than most, I'd say Tail Sting. Do mutating scorpions fill the definition of animal?

I think this one was written by a Jr. High school kid on his lunch break.

How about the rattlesnakes in "Silent Predators", a made for T.V., killer animal movie

Well lets talk about the obvious bad movie with animals that was directed by Alan Smithee (yes I am mixing post topics. Muhahahahaha)  O um the movie was BIrds 2 Lands End  regular birds in a crappymovie.  

Oh and what about Monkey Shines even though that isn't really a bad movie per se.  And I liked it so I guess it isn't  the worst movie with animals in it.

Oh and does Congo count?  And what about Burial of the Rats.

okay I'll end my post because I'm out of ideas.

"Congo" was horrible, but if I were to pick only one, it would have to be "Slaughter," AKA "Dogs," (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0074419) basically a negative-budget canine version of "The Birds."  

David McCallum of "Man From UNCLE" stars as a smug, annoying ass (our hero), and everyone else is just buffet. Much is made of a secret experiment at the local university which might be causing all the dogs in town to go nutzoid, but that little subplot comes to nothing.

Night scenes are so underexposed as to be unwatchable. There is one shining moment, however: the movie's final shot is so funny you'll poop 'em. (I wish this board had a "spoiler" function so I could post it...)

  "White Dog". It's about a guy who's trying to deprogram a dog that's been trained to attack black people. It was probably a good premise, and the movie is sincere..but DAMN, it really sucks hard!

Haven't seen it, but wasn't there a horror movie called "Night of 1000 Cats?"

"Night of a Thousand Cats?" Oh yes indeedy do. (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0069018) Directed by Rene Cardona Jr.--who just died about a week ago, actually--who also gave us "Guyana: Cult of the Damned," "The Bermuda Triangle," "Tintorera--Tiger Shark," and the infamous "Survive!" (directed by his father, also a B-movie legend).

I should also point out that the movie I pitched earlier, "Dogs," has a nice review (http://www.badmovieplanet.com/unknownmovies/reviews/rev315.html) over at "Unknown Movies."

I rather liked "Venom," but it seems almost everyone else on the face of the planet hates it.

Oh yeah! Cardona Jr. also directed "Beaks--The Movie." Yeargh.

...Just the CONCEPT of cute, furry little bunny rabbits being a menace is silly!

Why Squishy, do you mean...?

MMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW!!!!![/u][/i]

Hmmmmm?

what about "Frogs" - came out in the 70's i think

Actually, I just remembered another one. It's called THE PACK, starring Joe Don Baker. It's about of people on an island being attacked by vicious dogs. (Joe Don Baker plays a guy, he does not play one of the dogs).

ahhh yes. Frogs - 1972 starring Ray Milland - if any of you haven't seen this you must hurry to do so.

Personally I'm still waiting for "Newts" to come out.

I saw Venom when it was released in theatres and I hated it!

How about Bruno Mattei's ultra cheap Rats: Night of Terror that features mice painted grey with red eyes. Pretty entertaining and random.

I actually rented "Silent Predators" recently because of the box -- really fills the "bad" bill & would be enjoyed(?) by posters on this site.
"Rats" is simply wonderful -- so many things wrong with it -- really worth it.
"Night of 1000 Cats" sounds terrific.  Must look for it . . .
peter j.

We can't forget The Swarm. Hordes of Africanized bees wreck a train and cause a nuclear plant to explode, while the army torches Houston and two old farts woo the school marm. All this and Michael Caine, who is hurt because "the bees have always been our friends."

And then there's Kingdom of the Spiders. Shatner vs. hordes of hungry tarantulas that have learned to live in colonies and hunt together because pesticides have wiped out their food.

Jeez! How did I--or anyone else here--forget "The Swarm?!?"

...I suppose it's because these "bees" are so totally divorced from reality that when real bees appear (The Venom-Induced Universal Hallucination, the "Marysville captives" in the lab), I fail to connect them with the train-ambushing,  helicopter-assaulting, Hero's-Death-Exemption-honoring styrofoam pellets and nutmeg sprinkles that the "all-star cast" is crapping their pants about...

Many years ago, I saw a crummy little picture called "Stanley," (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0069308) about a doofus and his pet rattler. Scifilm (http://www.scifilm.org/musings/musing306.html) has an accurate review of its by-the-numbers revenge plot.

Re: "Dogs"--yes, Chadzilla, that's the one. :) Oh my God, I was too scared to sleep for fear of the kitties gettin' me.

There was a typical made-for-TV movie a few years back with millions of fire ants as the antagonist. I only remember the hero and female companion fighting of a massive with a a flame thrower and a NEF single-shot .410 shotgun.

Argh. That was "Legion of Fire: Killer Ants!" which shows up on TNT or SciFi or both as "Marabunta."

And what's the name of the Army Ant one with Joan Collins?  Huge swaths of "ants " cut through the South American "jungle" -- good ol' matwork -- in glorious Technicolor . . .
peter j.

5min. later:  "Empire of The Ants" -- d'oh!!
peter j.

I always hated "Squirm"..if you can count worms as animals.

Whenever I see this topic, I humbly submit a list I did as a previous work a few years ago.

Animal Acts of the Seventies (and slightly before)

http://www.jabootu.com/acolytes/bnotes/frogs.htm#WC2

(Beast With a Million Eyes not included.)

regards,

Apostic

I remember that while I was in ninth grade we got to atch The Beast all the way through my biology class for a whole week.  I don't know if I was just tired (since my class was at * in the morning) or if the movie was just bad but I found it repugnant then and I fear having to watch it again.
 
A similar thing can be said for Orca

the Deadly Shrews...Joe wrote:
>
> I'm not really talking about animals that get exposed to
> radiation or chemicals and turn into monsters. I'm more
> interested in animals that REMAIN as animals, but maybe they
> go crazy or get rabies or attack for some unknown reason.
> They don't mutate and grow horns or anything, they just kind
> of get into bad moods and attack people. I guess we could
> include insects and other living things too . . .
>
> My suggestions are (and I'll keep this short because I want
> to hear everyone else's opinion):
>
> CUJO
>
> DAY OF THE ANIMALS
>
> STRAYS (with Timothy Busfield!)
>
> GRIZZLY
>
> NIGHTWING (which was a very good book . . . I'm not sure what
> the HELL they were thinking about when they made the movie)
>
>

THE CORPSE GRINDERS

THE UNCANNY

RATTLED

MAKO, JAWS OF DEATH