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Real Monsters
JAWS
The film’s trailer says it all: “There is a
creature alive today who has survived
millions of years of evolution without
change, without passion, and without
logic. It lives to kill. A mindless eating
machine, it will attack and devour
anything. It is as though God created the
devil and gave him Jaws.”
GRIZZLY
18-feet of gut-crunching, man-eating
terror! If you went down in the woods in
1976, you were sure of a big surprise.
However, William Girdler’s naff but
entertaining
Jaws
rip-off was definitely no
picnic. Campers, a horse, and even a
helicopter were torn apart in this ursine
rampage.
ANACONDA
The monster snake of the Amazon can
grow to more than six metres in length and
tip the scales at 150kg.This mega-serpent
proved a formidable foe for
J.Lo,Jon
Voight and a documentary crew in the 1997
film of the same name, and had the ghastly
habit of vomiting up its half-digested prey
– as a hapless Voight discovered.
ALLIGATOR
These primeval reptiles are certainly big, but
nothing compares to the gigantic gator on
the rampage in LewisTeague’s tongue-in-
cheek, 1980 monster movie.The film’s
message is simple – don’t flush pet baby
alligators down the toilet, especially when
the sewers contain the carcasses of lab
animals injected with a growth hormone.
TARANTULA
Spiders are scary at the best of times, but
imagine being confronted by “Crawling
terror 100 feet high!” An experimental
growth serum results in the eponymous
arachnid reaching gigantic proportions,
which spells bad news for a small desert
town in Arizona. Why the hell would you
inject a spider with this stuff, anyway?
RAZORBACK
“It only has two states of being –
dangerous or dead.” Well, according to
Bill Kerr, who’s referring to the monster
swine that terrorises the Australian
outback in Russell Mulcahy’s 1984 creature
feature. It’s man versus boar, as Gregory
Harrison faces off against the hungry hog
who has eaten his wife.
Oversized creatures on the rampage –
nature can be a real mother sometimes...