Forgotten animals in monster movies

[Dr. Whom]

Throughout film history, mankind has been attacked by a variety of animals, and even the occasional vegetable or Tree From Hell. Yet, some animals have never made it, like turtles (not counting the Teenage Ninja ones). Why is this? After all, slugs have Threathened The World.  Are there any other unfortunate species out there?

[AndyC]

But turtles have made it in monster movies. Mind you, after being something of a menace at first, Gamera very quickly became the lovable friend of children everywhere.

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

Afte 20 minutes of trolling the www, I have to agree.  So I'll just hum the Gamera theme song...

-Ed

[daveblackeye15]

I don't believe their has ever been a movie where evil Aphids attacked.

Nor do I believe has a giant salmon haunted swimmers.

Hamsters and Gerbils I am confidante that they've never been a movie monster.

[AndyC]

This kind of reminds me of a thread a while back in which we discussed a potential movie about an attack of woolly caterpillars.

[Derf]

How about Attack of the Head Lice?

[odinn7]

Hmmm...let's see here....

Lemur? Capybara? Aardvark? Giraffe? Opossum? Koala? Sloth? Cow?

I dunno...

[Mofo Rising]

Koala bears.  So cute, so cuddly. . . so deadly.

The vast breadth of the animal kingdom pretty much means that there are billions of creatures that will never be immortalized by slaughtering attractive co-eds.

Trilobytes.  They're back, they're p**sed.

Hermit crabs.  They're starting to socialize. . . with a vengeance!

Musk ox.  DON'T call them buffalo.

Cows.  They're mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore.

I could go on like this all day.

[ulthar]

odinn7 wrote:

> Hmmm...let's see here....
>
> Lemur? Capybara? Aardvark? Giraffe? Opossum? Koala? Sloth? Cow?
>
> I dunno...
>

Man, Odinn, when I saw you posted to this thread, I thought you'd say ...

SQUIRREL

[odinn7]

ulthar wrote:

> Man, Odinn, when I saw you posted to this thread, I thought
> you'd say ...
>
> SQUIRREL
>

TOOOOOOoooooooo obvious, even for me.

[Ash]

Let's see....Killer Whale has already been done....



Hmmmm....perhaps the Eye-Eye? (or Aye-Aye)

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It has that one extra long finger on each hand for digging out termites & grubs.
Or in the case of a giant Aye-Aye....people.

I can picture it clinging to the side of a high rise building sticking its finger in through windows to get you!
And you can't hide from it...it uses echolocation to find your exact position....It knows you're there!
AAAHHHH!!!!!



Attack of the Giant Aye-Aye!!!!
Run for your lives!!!!!



Post Edited (09-06-05 02:08)

[Dr. Whom]

Giraffes! Now there's a poser. How do you make a horror movie with giraffes? Mutant giraffes devastate Nairobi? Vampire giraffes?

[dean]

I like Derf's Head Lice idea:

A worker, let's call him 'Bob,' is accidentally exposed to Atomic [not nuclear but atomic] waste and has his head lice grow to the size of a large dog!  Still suffering from the urge to latch onto the heads of people and suck their blood, the lice go on a rampage trying to find their old home, poor old Bob's head, who, in trying to escape these beasts who suffer from blood lust, ends up leading them to his small home town in the country.  

These bugs can leap tall buildings and pack a massive punch, and are perfectly capable of draining a human in under a minute, and whilst their eye sight is not so great, their sense of smell is really good.

Of course, these poor lice are just going on their natural instincts [or are they!] so that makes it alot easier for the ever-dwindling population of this small town to devise a plan to trap the beasts, using Bob as bait, and to try and blow them to hell with an extremely expensive pyrotechnics display!

It has such potential! But then again, you can't really go wrong when you take a relatively harmless animal, dump it in toxic waste and it grows in size... It's a proven formula I guess!

[Ash]

Big head lice could be easily killed with shoulder fired rockets or massive amounts of small arms fire per bug.  (like In Starship Troopers)

A giant Aye-Aye on the other hand, one that was ten times bigger than King Kong!....well that'd take a big military effort to put down.
I can imagine it swiping an entire row of more than twenty M-1 Abrams tanks out with its tail.



Remember, it can send out sound waves to hear you inside wherever you're hiding.  
Echolocation: A sensory system in certain animals, such as bats and dolphins, in which usually high-pitched sounds are emitted and their echoes interpreted to determine the direction and distance of objects.

YOU CAN'T ESCAPE!!



Post Edited (09-06-05 04:26)

[Just Plain Horse]

Cows have been used; check out Roger Corman's "The Beast with a Million Eyes"... They aren't exactly menacing, are they?

I think killer gerbils probably won't have a movie made about them in our lifetime... the potential film would be just too graphic :(

I vote for killer aphids versus killers ants... but they'd have to be leafcutter ants that can climb trees...