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by krakanova | created - 01 Dec 2013 | updated - 6 days ago | PublicWill spoil what the monster is, if the poster does not
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1. Man's Best Friend (1993)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A genetically engineered dog escapes from the science facility where it was created. A family takes it in unaware of its deadly instincts which soon emerge. The scientist who created the dog tries to find it before its too late.
Director: John Lafia | Stars: Ally Sheedy, Lance Henriksen, Robert Costanzo, Fredric Lehne
Votes: 4,895 | Gross: $12.97M
Tibetan Mastiff. USA
Girl is murdered in first few minutes by an animal.
Quint = Lance Henriksen angry with the local authorities about their inaction
2. Barracuda (1978)
PG | 98 min | Horror, Thriller
Little coastal town is being terrorized by deadly Barracudas.
Directors: Harry Kerwin, Wayne Crawford | Stars: Wayne Crawford, Jason Evers, Roberta Leighton, Cliff Emmich
Votes: 1,226
Barracuda. USA
Big Chemical tries to hush the story of pollution causing fish to attack people
3. Tintorera: Killer Shark (1977)
R | 126 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Two shark hunters flirt with an attractive British lady while hunting down a large tiger shark terrorizing the Mexican East coast.
Director: René Cardona Jr. | Stars: Susan George, Hugo Stiglitz, Andrés García, Fiona Lewis
Votes: 1,523
Tiger shark. Mexico
No naked woman, swimming alone, shark attack until 35mns in, but a serial killer shark.
More of a 70's lets-not-fall-in-love yaught-sex love triangle film than Jaws is
4. Mako: The Jaws of Death (1976)
PG | 86 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
A Vietnam veteran with a psychic connection to sharks discovers their exploitation by the local aquarium and begins an underwater reign of terror to avenge them. The movie action scenes were shot using real sharks.
Director: William Grefé | Stars: Richard Jaeckel, Jennifer Bishop, Buffy Dee, Harold Sakata
Votes: 1,063
Mako sharks controlled by the shark telepathy of a scuba diver. USA
Horrid. And odd
5. Orca (1977)
PG | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
A hunter squares off against a killer whale seeking vengeance for the death of its mate.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, Will Sampson, Bo Derek
Votes: 13,294 | Gross: $14.72M
Killer Whale, USA
Awesome orca revenge film!
6. Devil Fish (1984)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A marine biologist, a dolphin trainer, a research scientist, and a local sheriff try to hunt down a large sea monster, a shark/octopus hybrid, that is devouring swimmers and fishermen off a south Florida coast.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Michael Sopkiw, Valentine Monnier, Gianni Garko, William Berger
Votes: 3,754
Shark with tentacles. Italy
Minimal amount of the monster until the end. Some poorly explained side plot with breasts and murder.
Very underrated (at 2/10)
7. The Great Alligator (1979)
Not Rated | 89 min | Horror
Tourists on a tropical island anger an island god, who turns himself into a giant alligator and stalks them.
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Barbara Bach, Claudio Cassinelli, Mel Ferrer, Romano Puppo
Votes: 1,437
Alligator. Italy
Camera angles of below the alligator attacking a boat. Awful close shots of different styrofoam monster attack up close.
Absolutely underrated.
8. Razorback (1984)
R | 95 min | Horror, Thriller
As a vicious wild boar terrorizes the Australian outback, the husband of one of the victims is joined by a hunter and a farmer in a search for the beast.
Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: Gregory Harrison, Arkie Whiteley, Bill Kerr, Chris Haywood
Votes: 7,881 | Gross: $0.15M
Wild boar. Australia
Excellent!
Scenes right out of Jaws, most notably the protagonist on a wooden perch as the monster attacked
9. Chaw (2009)
R | 122 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A black comedy about the events that are set into motion in a town after a man-eating boar goes on a rampage.
Director: Jeong-won Shin | Stars: Kwon Bum-taek, Yoo-i Ha, Jang Hang-seon, Philip Hersh
Votes: 1,342
Wild boar. South Korea
Dumb but fun SK monster movie clearly inspired by American movies
10. Cujo (1983)
R | 93 min | Horror, Thriller
Cujo, a friendly St. Bernard, contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
Director: Lewis Teague | Stars: Dee Wallace, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Danny Pintauro, Christopher Stone
Votes: 51,010 | Gross: $21.20M
Rabid dog. USA
Worth revisiting
11. The White Buffalo (1977)
PG | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Western
At the closing of 1874 a haunted, dying Wild Bill Hickok teams up with a grieving Crazy Horse to hunt a murderous albino buffalo.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson, Kim Novak
Votes: 5,224
Buffalo. USA
First half is a western then turns into Jaws
12. Beneath (I) (2013)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Six high school seniors celebrating in the middle of a lake find themselves trapped on a rowboat due to a man-eating fish.
Director: Larry Fessenden | Stars: Bonnie Dennison, Daniel Zovatto, Jon Orsini, Chris Conroy
Votes: 5,067
Giant fish. USA
Quality horror that makes shark and piranha movies look over produced and childish
13. Blood Beach (1980)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Something is attacking and killing people on the beach. David and Mariana, old friends, search for clues where they played as kids to uncover the mysterious creature.
Director: Jeffrey Bloom | Stars: David Huffman, Marianna Hill, Burt Young, Otis Young
Votes: 2,862
Unknown species of worm like creature with a flower bud mouth a la Tremors. USA
Attacks are slow at first then increase.
First scene jacks Jaws
14. The Brain (1988)
R | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A psychologist with an increasingly popular TV show brainwashes his audiences using a giant living brain. A mischievous high school student is sent to the psychologist's institute, and becomes determined to expose him.
Director: Ed Hunt | Stars: Tom Bresnahan, Cynthia Preston, David Gale, George Buza
Votes: 3,522
Giant Brain. Canada, USA
Stalks the main character until the end and is blown up in similar fashion
15. The Last Shark (1981)
PG | 88 min | Horror
James Franciscus tries to save hundreds of swimmers in a coastal resort after a Great White Shark starts terrorizing the area.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: James Franciscus, Vic Morrow, Micaela Pignatelli, Joshua Sinclair
Votes: 3,111
Great white shark Italy
Brody clone
Quint clone
Mayor Vaughn clone
Same ending!
16. Jaws (1975)
PG | 124 min | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary
Votes: 659,816 | Gross: $260.00M
17. Jaws 2 (1978)
PG | 116 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Joseph Mascolo
Votes: 84,519 | Gross: $102.92M
18. Jaws 3-D (1983)
PG | 99 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons of police chief Brody to rescue everyone.
Director: Joe Alves | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Simon MacCorkindale, Louis Gossett Jr.
Votes: 48,257 | Gross: $45.52M
19. Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
PG-13 | 89 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Chief Brody's widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Lorraine Gary, Lance Guest, Mario Van Peebles, Karen Young
Votes: 49,578 | Gross: $20.76M
20. Slugs (1988)
R | 89 min | Horror
Killer slugs on the rampage in a rural community.
Director: Juan Piquer Simón | Stars: Michael Garfield, Kim Terry, Philip MacHale, Alicia Moro
Votes: 5,816
Slugs. USA
Same opening.
Concerned town trying not to spread a panic.
Brody/Scientist are one character
Gory
Underrated
21. Piranha (1978)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies-Urich, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 24,729 | Gross: $6.00M
Piranhas. USA
22. Into the Grizzly Maze (2015)
R | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
Two estranged brothers reunite at their childhood home in the Alaskan wild. They set out on a two-day hike and are stalked by an unrelenting grizzly bear.
Director: David Hackl | Stars: James Marsden, Thomas Jane, Piper Perabo, Scott Glenn
Votes: 10,764
Grizzly bear. USA Billy Bob Thornton is experienced, hardened hunter (Quint)
23. The Sand (2015)
TV-14 | 84 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
After an all-night graduation beach party, a group of hung-over twenty-somethings awake to a beating sun, and a seemingly carnivorous beach that devours anything with a heartbeat that touches the sand.
Director: Isaac Gabaeff | Stars: Brooke Butler, Cleo Berry, Cynthia Murell, Dean Geyer
Votes: 5,745
Sand. USA Warning: Jamie Kennedy
24. Creature (1985)
R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
After a member of a geological research team who was sent to Saturn's largest moon: Titan crashes their spacecraft into a space station, another team is sent to Titan to investigate, not knowing the terror that awaits them.
Director: William Malone | Stars: Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Lyman Ward, Robert Jaffe
Votes: 4,689 | Gross: $4.78M
Genetically created hybrid shark/dophin
Peter Benchley story. Kim Cattrall. Pops from Poltergeist
25. Shark Lake (2015)
Not Rated | 92 min | Horror
A local sheriff, Meredith Hendricks, makes it her mission to capture the "animal" and bring the exotic animal collector to justice.
Director: Jerry Dugan | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Sara Malakul Lane, Lily Brooks O'Briant, Michael Aaron Milligan
Votes: 2,635
Shark. USA
Similar. does not show shark until latter part of film. "Everybody get out of the water!" Motive for hunting the shark. Dumbass on ski-jet with bag of meat talking about luring in the shark for a paycheck. <-Premise isn't set up
Bad kill scenes and bad CG sharks. In a perfect world, Dolph Lundgren would have played the shark
26. Bacalhau (1976)
90 min | Comedy
"Jaws" spoof. The title means "Cod". A terrible monster threatens the beach season: the cod from Guinea. To catch the fish, local authorities count on the expertise of a Portuguese oceanographer, a fearless fisherman and baits made with Amália Rodrigues's records.
Director: Adriano Stuart | Stars: Hélio Souto, Dionísio Azevedo, Maurício do Valle, Adriano Stuart
Votes: 109
Big fish. Brazil Parody
27. Tentacles (1977)
PG | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A mutated giant octopus wreaks havoc on a California seaside community.
Director: Ovidio G. Assonitis | Stars: John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins, Henry Fonda
Votes: 4,452
Octopus. Italy/USA
Fish point of view. Dead body jump scare early in the movie. Fish pulling keg under the water (for some reason). Back of the boat broken open by animal attack. Vacationing families and local government politics and intervention. Quinn. Frantic mother screaming for her missing son on the beach. Drunk friendship building dialogue on a boat.
Cheap, but not bad. Excellent Ennio Morricone-style music
28. Q: The Winged Serpent (1982)
R | 93 min | Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
NYPD detectives Shepard and Powell are working on a bizarre case of a ritualistic Aztec murder. Meanwhile, something big is attacking people of New York and only greedy small time crook Jimmy Quinn knows where its lair is.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: David Carradine, Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, Richard Roundtree
Votes: 9,467
Dragon. USA
Preys on humans and their heads. Town panics
29. Freshwater (2016)
83 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A new take on the classic story of a group of twenty-something kids' weekend of terror at the lake house.
Director: Brandy Berry | Stars: John Bobek, Donnabella Mortel, Zoë Bell, Tom O'Connell
Votes: 821
CG alligator, US
Opening scene is Jaws.
Horrible - bad relationship drama
30. Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys (2014 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
After chomping through the fish population, thousands of starved lampreys begin attacking the citizens of a sleepy lake town, and the community scrambles to stay alive.
Director: James Cullen Bressack | Stars: Shannen Doherty, Jason Brooks, Zack Ward, Christopher Lloyd
Votes: 1,943
Lampreys, US
Brody clone
Mayor Vaughn clone
1. Mayor needs the fish population to grow to attract summer tourist fishing income
2. Running out of the water in a panic after an attack
3. Wildlife experts heavily suggesting shutting down the lake and the mayor refuses to take that action
-Asylum
31. Piranha 3DD (2012)
R | 83 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
After the events at Lake Victoria, the pre-historic school of blood-thirsty piranhas make their way into a newly opened waterpark.
Director: John Gulager | Stars: Danielle Panabaker, Ving Rhames, David Hasselhoff, Matt Bush
Votes: 45,406 | Gross: $0.38M
Pirahna, US
1. Attack scene at night involving a dock opens film
2. Another attack scene on dock
3. Water park's business is jeapardized by attacks
4. Lifeguard (Brody) camera zooming into background behind his head (multiple times (is parody))
32. Prey (2010)
Not Rated | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
PREY tells the story of Nathan (BEAU TRAVAIL'S Gregoire Colin) who is at a countryside retreat for a Fall family reunion that he expects to be particularly stormy. Claire, his wife, has to ... See full summary »
Director: Antoine Blossier | Stars: Grégoire Colin, François Levantal, Fred Ulysse, Joseph Malerba
Votes: 1,033
Wild boars. France
Film opens with an attack not showing the monster. A family bands together to find and kill it, but it shows overwhelming hostility and dominance
33. Killer Fish (1979)
PG | 101 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Jewel thieves attempt to recover treasure from piranha infested waters. Mistrust and betrayals happen amongst the gang in the quest for gold.
Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Lee Majors, Karen Black, Margaux Hemingway, Marisa Berenson
Votes: 2,382
Pirahna Italy
Attacks start slow but increase. Fish not actually shown attacking until 54 mns in
34. Insectula! (2015)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A giant alien mosquito-type insect is drawn to earth from the CO2 pollution in search of blood. Del, a government agent, loses loved ones to the creature and is on a personal vendetta while... See full summary »
Director: Michael Peterson | Stars: Pasquale Pilla, Arielle Cezanne, Harrison Matthews, Sarah French
Votes: 759
Tentacled alien monster. USA
Behaves like Jaws at the beginning
35. The Meg (2018)
PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of scientists exploring the Marianas Trench encounter the largest marine predator that has ever existed - the Megalodon.
Director: Jon Turteltaub | Stars: Jason Statham, Bingbing Li, Rainn Wilson, Cliff Curtis
Votes: 207,666 | Gross: $143.01M
Beginning has the adventurous music when they set out to hunt with Quinn. This is repeated.
Boat is a character and followed by the shark
When the shark goes down the first time, a sound similar to but lighter is played
Fun at the beach attack scene
36. Blood Hook (1986)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Horror
During a local fishing contest, people are being violently dragged into the lake and killed by a giant fish hook.
Director: Jim Mallon | Stars: Mark Jacobs, Lisa Jane Todd, Patrick Danz, Sara Hauser
Votes: 1,707
Slasher film where the victim is snagged by a fishing lure and drug into the water.
1. Similar stalking method from the lure.
2. This is the biggest tourist day of the year and we can't have people staying at home over one possible death
3. Grizzled, war veteran Quinn like character who educates about and foreshadows the villain
37. Crocodile (1996)
102 min | Drama
A woman forms a twisted bond with a homeless violent thug who prevented her suicide.
Director: Kim Ki-duk | Stars: Cho Jae-hyun, Jae-Hong Ahn, Jeon Moo-song, Yun-kyeong Woo
Votes: 1,849
Crocodile USA
Monster shown more towards the end
38. Boar (II) (2017)
Not Rated | 96 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
In the harsh, yet beautiful Australian outback lives a beast, an animal of staggering size, with a ruthless, driving need for blood and destruction. It cares for none, defends its territory with brutal force, and kills with a raw, animalistic savagery unlike any have seen before. Now coming face to face with the giant bloodthirsty killing machine, teens on a hiking trip will have the beast in ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Sun | Stars: Nathan Jones, Bill Moseley, John Jarratt, Steve Bisley
Votes: 3,872
Boar Australia
See Razorback above. Similar boardroom/ bar meeting discussing how to take down the monster
39. Croc (2007 TV Movie)
Unrated | 100 min | Horror
A huge man-eating crocodile terrorizes people near Krabi, Thailand. A hunter stalks the beast, while a local tries to blame a foreign crocodile-farm owner for the crocodile's rampage.
Director: Stewart Raffill | Stars: Michael Madsen, Peter Tuinstra, Sherry Edwards, Elizabeth Healey
Votes: 1,728
Crocodile
5/10
Girl is grabbed and ran through the water while the same tense music plays. Michael Madsen shows up as the town Quint
40. Alligator II: The Mutation (1991)
PG-13 | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A giant alligator makes a city lake his new feeding ground and must be stopped before he breaks out into the surroundings.
Director: Jon Hess | Stars: Joseph Bologna, Dee Wallace, Richard Lynch, Woody Brown
Votes: 3,176
Alligator
1. The mayor has a large and lucrative construction area finishing and is not going to close the opening day because of some alligator attack. One alligator attack
2. A special crocodile hunter is called but fails with a demise akin to Quinn's
3. Very jaws-themed music plays as the croc invades the opening fair
41. Killer Crocodile (1989)
Not Rated | 90 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of environmentalists arrives at a faraway tropical delta where toxic waste is being dumped. However the water also hides a giant crocodile. The corrupt local officials don't help much either.
Director: Fabrizio De Angelis | Stars: Richard Anthony Crenna, Pietro Genuardi, John Harper, Sherrie Rose
Votes: 1,599
Crocodile
Opening scene has jaws theme with first person view from attacker in the water. Boat is thumped up against. Very strong Jaws vibes everywhere
42. Deep Blood (1989)
Unrated | 94 min | Adventure, Horror
Several young men have to stop an ancient native American evil in the form of a killer shark which is attacking a small beach community.
Directors: Raffaele Donato, Joe D'Amato | Stars: Frank Baroni, Cort McCown, Keith Kelsch, Wayne Camp
Votes: 581
Great White Shark
Mediocre American shark attack event that kinda wants to be Jaws.
After two shark attack deaths, why does Janis want to swim? Oh, because her boyfriend won't leave his wife. But he will watch the attack from his pickup, then speed away.
Jaws inspired: Someone needs to get eaten every 20 mns, they blow up the shark at the end
43. Red Water (2021)
69 min | Action, Drama, Horror
Due to changes in ocean currents, shark activity appeared near a certain diving area, but the traces are unknown. The hungry shark is ready to move, waiting for an opportunity to start a merciless killing. Doctor Shen Xin was invited.
Director: Zhaosheng Huang | Stars: Chloe Zhao, Tao Huang, Hong Shuang, Xie Yiqing
Votes: 195
Great White Shark
4/10
POV shark cam! Same ending with an explosive gas tank.
44. The Savage Bees (1976 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The festive fun of the annual Mardi Gras celebration is brought to a halt when a swarm of African killer bees escape from a foreign freighter.
Director: Bruce Geller | Stars: Ben Johnson, Michael Parks, Paul Hecht, Gretchen Corbett
Votes: 804
Bees USA
6/10
Mardi Gras is coming up and the mayor does not want this killer bee story getting out to the locals. There's a Quint and Brody there. Kind of.
Looks made for TV.
Actual line, "Them's not the bees you were looking for"
45. Dogs of Hell (1983)
R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller
A pack of Rottweilers, bred and trained by the U.S. military to kill humans, escape to ravage the peaceful mountain resort town of Lake Lure. It is up to the local sheriff to protect his small community.
Director: Worth Keeter | Stars: Earl Owensby, Bill Gribble, Robert Bloodworth, Kathy Hasty
Votes: 375
Rottweiller pack USA
Dogs attack single victims without showing you antagonist until halfway through. There is a town hunt/search party
46. Demon of Paradise (1987)
R | 87 min | Horror, Thriller
Hunters become the hunted when illegal dynamite disturbs the ageold slumber of a carnivorous lizardman. Resort owner Angela, joins forces with Sheriff Keefer to save tourists from the beast's path of death.
Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Kathryn Witt, William Steis, Laura Banks, Frederick Bailey
Votes: 646
Carnivorous Lizardman USA
A mysterious creature is killing the dynamite fishers and the owner of an Hawaiian resort does not want to scare off the tourists
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