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Jaws is Steven Spielberg's seminal 1975 movie about a monstrous great white shark terrorizing a small island community. It was very successful, grossing higher than anything else in the cinema at the time and causing a reduction in beach attendance as well as an increase in shark sightings the world over. It is also the mother of Nature Runs Amok movies. These are horror films that exploit a particular type of (sometimes fictional) natural life, other than humans, as their main source of interest. Basically, they are films where a bewildering array of animals, and sometimes plants, kill people en masse. Scientific tampering with the 'natural order of things' is often what triggers the onslaught of killer critters in these films. This can take the form of radiation, toxic waste or genetic engineering. Sometimes it is a spiritual or mystical imbalance that causes the eruption of zoological violence.
Emerging in the 1950s, the subgenre saw its heyday in the 1970s and early 1980s but never really died out, with a steady flow of titles released since. Films in the subgenre often have a plot with a marked similarity to that of Jaws, where meddling officials hinder the fight against whatever mutant fauna/flora is causing all the bother.
Nature Runs Amok
1. Shark Frenzy
2. Croc Frenzy
3. Snake Frenzy
4. Bugs Frenzy
X. - other -
XY. Dinosaur Jaws
Jaws is Steven Spielberg's seminal 1975 movie about a monstrous great white shark terrorizing a small island community. It was very successful, grossing higher than anything else in the cinema at the time and causing a reduction in beach attendance as well as an increase in shark sightings the world over. It is also the mother of Nature Runs Amok movies. These are horror films that exploit a particular type of (sometimes fictional) natural life, other than humans, as their main source of interest. Basically, they are films where a bewildering array of animals, and sometimes plants, kill people en masse. Scientific tampering with the 'natural order of things' is often what triggers the onslaught of killer critters in these films. This can take the form of radiation, toxic waste or genetic engineering. Sometimes it is a spiritual or mystical imbalance that causes the eruption of zoological violence.
Emerging in the 1950s, the subgenre saw its heyday in the 1970s and early 1980s but never really died out, with a steady flow of titles released since. Films in the subgenre often have a plot with a marked similarity to that of Jaws, where meddling officials hinder the fight against whatever mutant fauna/flora is causing all the bother.
Nature Runs Amok
1. Shark Frenzy
2. Croc Frenzy
3. Snake Frenzy
4. Bugs Frenzy
X. - other -
XY. Dinosaur Jaws
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