List of eco-horror films explained

This is a list of eco-horror films.

Criteria

These are some natural horror films and other films in the horror genre whose plots include mention of ecological issues. Also included are documentaries dealing with the possible disastrous ecological consequences of human activity.

Documentaries

• The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971)^[1]
• An Inconvenient Truth (2006; global warming)^[2]
• The 11th Hour (2007; the state of the natural environment)
• Gasland (2010)^[3]

Fictional

• King Kong (1933)
• The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)^{[4] [5]}
• Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)^[6]
• Godzilla (1954)^{[7] [5]}
• Them! (1954; about atomically mutated ants)^{[6] [5]}
• It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)^[5]
• Tarantula (1955)^[5]
• Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)^[5]
• Beginning of the End (1957)^[5]
• The Birds (1963)^{[6] [8] [9] [5]}
• Planet of the Apes (1968)^[10]
• Willard (1971)
• Deliverance (1972)^[11]
• Frogs (1972)^{[12] [5]}
• Night of the Lepus (1972; about giant killer rabbits)^{[13] [14] [5]}
• Silent Running (1972)^[15]
• The Wicker Man (1973)^[3]
• Phase IV (1974)^{[15] [5]}
• Jaws (1975)^{[4] [16]}
• Grizzly (1976)^[4]
• Squirm (1976)
• Day of the Animals (1977)^[5]
• Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)^[17]
• Jennifer (1978)
• Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)^[3]
• Long Weekend (1978; animals turn hostile towards a young couple who disrespect nature)^{[18] [5]}
• Piranha (1978)^[6]
• The Swarm (1978; about killer bees)^[19]
• The China Syndrome (1979)^{[4] [3]}
• Prophecy (1979)^{[19] [5]}
• Alligator (1980)^[20]
• C.H.U.D. (1984)^[4]
• The Toxic Avenger (1984)^[4]
• The Quiet Earth (1985)^[21]
• The Stuff (1985)^[15]
• Troll 2 (1990)^[3]
• Arachnophobia (1990)^[22]
• Cronos (1993)
• Jurassic Park (1993; about cloning dinosaurs)^[19]
• Safe (1995; about suburban pollution)^[23]
• Waterworld (1995)^[24]
• Outbreak (1995; about a deadly virus outbreak)
• Mimic (1997)^{[6] [5]}
• The Day After Tomorrow (2004)^{[24] [3]}
• The Last Winter (2006; oil drilling in Alaska awakes slumbering forces)^{[25] [26]}
• The Happening (2008; plants release a toxin as a defense mechanism)^{[5] [27]}
• The Road (2009)^[28]
• The Book of Eli (2010)^[28]
• Take Shelter (2011)^[29]
• The Bay (2012; about the Chesapeake Bay water quality problems)^{[30] [31] [32]}
• Snowpiercer (2013)^{[7] [24]}
• Harbinger (2016; about the poisonous effects of fracking)^[33]
• Us (2019)^[34]
• Unearth (2020; about the consequences of fracking)^{[35] [36] [37] [38] [5]}
• In the Earth (2021)^{[39] [5]}

See also

• List of disaster films
• List of films featuring giant monsters
• List of natural horror films
• List of environmental films
• RiffTrax
  • Mystery Science Theater 3000

References

Sources

• Web site: Ford . Matt . 22 October 2008 . Eco-horror films shocking us into action . . 28 August 2011 .
• Book: Foy, Joseph J. . 2010 . It Came From Planet Earth: Eco-Horror and the Politics of Postenvironmentalism in M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening . Dale . Timothy M. . Foy . Joseph J. . Homer Simpson Marches on Washington: Dissent through American Popular Culture . University Press of Kentucky . 978-0-8131-2580-0 .
• Web site: 30 August 2011 . Lawrence Gough unveils Extraction, talks up Drought . . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052119/http://www.screendaily.com/news/production/lawrence-gough-unveils-extraction-talks-up-drought/5031315.article . 4 March 2016 . .
• Simpson . Catherine . 2010 . Australian eco-horror and Gaia's revenge: animals, eco-nationalism and the new nature . 4 . 1 . Studies in Australasian Cinema . 43–54 . 10.1386/sac.4.1.43_1 . 161169469 . 1750-3175 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111211152356/http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=10219/ . 11 December 2011 .
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Notes and References

1. Book: Monstrous Nature . j.ctt1dxg7cb . Murray . Robin L. . Heumann . Joseph K. . 2016 . University of Nebraska Press . 10.2307/j.ctt1dxg7cb . 978-0-8032-8569-9 .
2. Web site: Taubin . Amy . September 2006 . An Inconvenient Truth . . https://web.archive.org/web/20071112042823/http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/review/3361/ . 12 November 2007.
3. https://sierraclub.typepad.com/greenlife/2013/10/scary-eco-horror-films-for-halloween.html 10 Scary Eco-Horror Films - The Green Life
4. https://www.vice.com/en/article/xyy473/the-evolution-of-eco-horror-from-godzilla-to-global-warming The Evolution of Eco-Horror, from Godzilla to Global Warming - VICE
5. https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/notebook-primer-eco-horror Notebook Primer: Eco-Horror on Notebook|MUBI
6. https://www.vulture.com/article/eco-horror-movies-earth-day-streaming.html 9 Eco-Horror Movies to Watch on Earth Day - Vulture
7. https://filmschoolrejects.com/best-eco-horror-movies/2/ 10 Environmentally Eerie Eco-Horrors : Film School Rejects
8. https://creepycatalog.com/animal-horror-movies-creature-features/ Animal Horror Movies: The Best Creature Feature Films Ever Made - Creepy Catalog
9. https://books.google.com/books?id=No5XDwAAQBAJ&dq=Eco+horror+beginning+of+the+end&pg=PT33 Are You In The House Alone?: A TV Movie Compendium 1964-1999 - Google Books
10. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article/647620/pdf
11. Web site: Scovell . Adam . 28 July 2022 . How masterly horror Deliverance set a controversial trend . . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220802035858/https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220727-how-rural-horror-deliverance-set-a-controversial-trend . 2 August 2022 . ... an ecological message that still resonates; that the destruction of the natural world has consequences for everyone..
12. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/lynn-borden-dead-hazel-actress-779782/ Lynn Borden Dead: 'Hazel' Actress Was 77 – The Hollywood Reporter
13. https://entertainment.time.com/2010/08/20/top-10-killer-animal-movies/slide/night-of-the-lepus/ 'Night of the Lepus'|Top 10 Killer-Animal Movies|TIME.com
14. https://www.comingsoon.net/horror/features/839801-in-praise-of-night-of-the-lepus In Praise of Night of the Lepus - ComingSoon.net
15. https://filmschoolrejects.com/best-eco-horror-movies/ 10 Environmentally Eerie Eco-Horrors : Film School Rejects
16. Rust . Stephen A. . Soles . Carter . 2014 . Ecohorror Special Cluster: "Living in Fear, Living in Dread, Pretty Soon We'll All Be Dead" . Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment . 21 . 3 . 509–512. 10.1093/isle/isu085 . 26430358 .
17. https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/rediscover-these-20-obscure-horror-films-1970s Rediscover these 20 obscure horror films from the 1970s - Blastr
18. Web site: Jordan . Bruce . 20 June 2010 . Long Weekend (1978) . Classic-Horror.com . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20101208044824/http://classic-horror.com/reviews/long_weekend_1978 . 8 December 2010.
19. https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/classified-eco-horror/ Classified: Eco-Horror - Film Comment Magazine
20. https://gizmodo.com/10-cult-sci-fi-movies-about-environmental-revenge-1832546196 10 Cult Sci-Fi Movies About Environmental Revenge - Gizmodo
21. https://screenrant.com/scariest-films-about-the-environment-climate-change-pollution/ 10 Terrifying Eco-Horror Movies|ScreenRant
22. Book: Gambin . Lee . Massacred By Mother Nature: Exploring the Natural Horror Film . 15 February 2018 . Midnight Marquee & BearManor Media . 305 . en.
23. https://books.google.com/books?id=yXewAAAAQBAJ&dq=eco+horror+take+shelter&pg=PA325 A Companion to American Gothic - Google Books (pgs.323-325)
24. https://thesciencesurvey.com/arts-entertainment/2020/06/19/green-monsters-the-rise-of-eco-horror-movies-due-to-climate-change-concerns/ Green Monsters: The Rise of Eco-Horror Movies Due to Climate Change Concerns — The Science Survey
25. Web site: Whitty . Stephen . 18 September 2007 . Eco-horror tale short on horror but effectively unsettling . NJ.com . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20190814213839/https://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/2007/09/ecohorror_tale_short_on_horror.html . 14 August 2019.
26. Web site: Nayman . Adam . 24 November 2008 . The Big Chill: Larry Fessenden's The Last Winter . Cinema Scope: Issue 29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070210213153/http://cinema-scope.com/cs29/int_nayman_fessenden.html . 10 February 2007.
27. . "The Happening is a naturalist parable of what might occur if the earth began rejecting humanity as a virus."
28. https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/11395?lang=fr Bernice M. Murphy, The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture, Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness
29. Book: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2F9781137353726_6.pdf . 10.1057/9781137353726_6 . 'Why Wouldn't the Wilderness Fight Us?' American Eco-Horror and the Apocalypse . The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture . 2013 . Murphy . Bernice M. . 178–213 . 978-1-349-46972-7 .
30. Web site: Erik . Piepenburg . 24 October 2012 . With 'The Bay,' Barry Levinson Makes Eco-Horror . . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20121101035244/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/movies/with-the-bay-barry-levinson-makes-eco-horror.html . 1 November 2012.
31. Web site: Steve . Ramos . 14 September 2012 . TIFF12 Review: THE BAY. Veteran filmmaker Barry Levinson tries his hand at found footage horror and comes up short . upcoming-movies.com . 7 November 2012 . https://archive.today/20130205054641/http://www.upcoming-movies.com/new/tiff12-review-the-bay-veteran-filmmaker-barry-levinson-tries-his-hand-at-found-footage-horror-and-comes-up-short/ . 5 February 2013 . dead .
32. Web site: McGinniss . Paul E. . 1 November 2012 . Levinson's Eco-Horror Film 'The Bay' Highlights Need to Protect Our Water . EcoWatch . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20190826223141/https://www.ecowatch.com/levinsons-eco-horror-film-the-bay-highlights-need-to-protect-our-water-1881658191.html . 26 August 2019.
33. Web site: Harbinger Brings Evil to Cannes with TomCat! . 9 May 2016 . Golden State Haunts . https://web.archive.org/web/20160509202856/http://www.goldenstatehaunts.org/2016/05/09/harbinger-brings-evil-to-cannes-with-tomcat/ . 9 May 2016.
34. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/01/us-is-warning-earth-doesnt-want-us-here/ Opinion|'Us' is a warning: The Earth doesn't want us here - The Washington Post
35. Web site: Reel Suspects Boards Fantasia Eco-Horror 'Unearth'. Grater. Tom. August 26, 2020. Deadline Hollywood. May 4, 2021.
36. Web site: Fantasia Fest 2020: Unearth Review – You Can Work The Ground But Beware What It Can Yield. Tinnin. Drew. August 27, 2020. Dread Central. May 4, 2021.
37. Web site: Cinedigm Buys North America On Eco-Horror 'Unearth'; Watch Official Trailer. Grater. Tom. April 13, 2021. Deadline Hollywood. May 4, 2021.
38. Web site: Gruesome Eco-Horror Unearth Now Arriving in Theaters April 22nd [Trailer]]. Millican. Josh. April 13, 2021. Dread Central. May 4, 2021.
39. https://www.filminquiry.com/in-the-earth-2021-review/ IN THE EARTH: Pandemic Fear Rolled Into Trippy Eco-Horror - Film Inquiry