2022’s Beast pits Idris Elba against a man-eating lion in the Savanna and there are a surprising number of movies like Beast that are not simply creature-features. Elba plays a father bringing his daughters (Iyana Halley and Leah Sava’ Jeffries) to a game reserve while they all mourn the passing of the family matriarch. The visit quickly goes downhill as animal attacks are on the rise, culminating in one lion stalking the family and, seemingly, determined to get to them.
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Beast heralds the return of the animal attack subgenre of movies that has fallen out of popularity in Hollywood in recent years. But while there have certainly been some goofy entries in the genre over the years, there are also some hugely entertaining ones. There are many elements from Beast that bring to mind other similar movies. From the approach of filmmakers to this specific genre to the tone of the script to the family aspect of the story, fans may also like these movies after checking out Beast.
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Jaws (1975)
Directed By Steven Spielberg
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Release Date
June 18, 1975
Runtime
124 minutes
Director
Steven Spielberg
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Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb, John Milius, Howard Sackler, Robert Shaw
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Roy Scheider
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Steven Spielberg’s legendary tale of one man’s desperate battle with a killer Great White shark on his small seaside community. Faced with a mounting list of victims and a local authority dead-set against causing panic or destroying the tourist economy, he assembles a team to tackle the shark head-on.
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Though Beast feels like it elevates the animal-attack movie beyond the typical B-movie offerings, Jaws was the first one to show how incredible a genre movie like this could be. It also introduced perhaps the scariest movie sea monster ever thanks to its portrayal of a shark that just will not stop. Jaws is set in a small island community where the bustling summer beach season becomes terrorized by a deadly shark. While some attempt to track and destroy the shark, others ignore the danger the shark presents completely.
Jaws has a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Steven Spielberg cemented himself as a true Hollywood talent with a thrilling, terrifying, and brilliant adventure. The movie was plagued with difficulties, but the audience would never know it thanks to some brilliant editing and a fantastic score that ramps up the tension. Beast might not have the Jaws theme in the background of its scenes, but its capable cast and the deliberate camera angles certainly help to raise the tension of the scenes, helping the movie play out like as much of a thriller as the 1975 favorite.
Anaconda (1997)
Directed By Luis Llosa
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Anaconda
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7/10
Release Date
April 11, 1997
Runtime
90minutes
Director
Luis Llosa
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When a documentary crew get captured by a snake hunter in the depths of the Amazon jungle, they find themselves forced to face the wrath of a giant green anaconda. The 1997 cult classic starring Jennifer Lopez, Jon Voight, Ice Cube, Eric Stoltz, Owen Wilson, and Jonathan Hyde spawned three sequels and a crossover with Lake Placid.
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While Beast does attempt to add some credibility to the genre, the animal attack movies benefit from being cheesy at times. The moment in the trailer that showed Elba punching the lion in the face lets audiences know they don’t have to take it too seriously, and there are plenty of moments in the movie that allow the storyline to lean into the more ridiculous aspects of B-movies that popularized creature-features and animal attack movies.
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Another movie that entertainingly leaned into its own ridiculousness is Anaconda. Starring the likes of Jennifer Lopez and Ice Cube, it follows a documentary crew exploring the Amazon jungle when they are forced by a dangerous hunter to track a massive and deadly snake. While they track the snake along the Amazon River, the snake also tracks them, and those aboard the boat are memorably picked off one by one. Anaconda is not for the Beast audience members who were drawn in by the more emotional elements of the story. This is for the audience who wanted the movie to be a bit more sensationalized and a bit more campy.
Rogue (2007)
Directed By Greg McLean
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Rogue
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Release Date
November 8, 2007
Runtime
99 minutes
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Radha Mitchell
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Michael Vartan
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John Jarratt
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Part of the fun of Beast is how it takes the characters to a new location – and one that is perhaps not seen all that often in movies. The Savanna is explored with its beauty as well as its danger, which adds a terrific element to the story. The characters are out of their comfort zone as much as the audience is because they are experiencing this terror in an unfamiliar place. Rogue takes a similar approach with its setting of the Australian outback. It follows an American journalist who joins a boating tour only for the boat and its passengers to be attacked by a territorial crocodile when they follow a distress flare.
It also earned similar praise from critics with the Sydney Morning Herald even calling it “almost elegant,” and comparing it to Jaws, though noting that Jaws is the benchmark for these movies.
Also like Beast, it borrows elements from real-life stories, although the movie’s tale is fictional. It also earned similar praise from critics with the Sydney Morning Herald even calling it “almost elegant,” and comparing it to Jaws, though noting that Jaws is the benchmark for these movies. Of course, the difference here is that the main location is much smaller than in the previous movies. It’s easy to understand why a predator would lash out when a group of people invade its home instead of simply giving them a wide berth in a larger setting.
Burning Bright (2010)
Directed By Carlos Brooks
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Burning Bright
PG-13
Drama
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Release Date
August 17, 2010
Runtime
89 minutes
Director
Carlos Brooks
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Julie Prendiville Roux
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Mark Amin
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Briana Evigan
Kelly Taylor
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Peggy Sheffield
Doctor Orsi
Burning Bright follows Kelly and her autistic brother as they become trapped in their home with a dangerous tiger during a hurricane. With their lives at stake, the siblings must navigate the perilous situation while contending with the threat posed by the man-eating beast.
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As if taking on a deadly animal wasn’t enough for the animal attack movie subgenre, Beast throws in a protective father storyline. When the lion targets Elba and his character’s two daughters, he is determined to do everything he can to keep them safe, adding another layer of tension to the story. Instead of using a predator indiscriminately going after strangers, featuring characters who are bonded together long before the animal finds them provides a more emotional story arc amidst the carnage.
Burning Bright takes a similar approach to this kind of genre story. It follows a young single mother who finds herself and her son trapped inside a house during a hurricane with a tiger inside with them, looking for its next meal. While the movie has the added element of the hurricane and natural disasters going for it, it’s the family bond that gives it an emotional core as well.
Backcountry (2014)
Directed By Adam MacDonald
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Backcountry
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Drama
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Adventure
Release Date
March 20, 2015
Runtime
92 Minutes
Director
Adam MacDonald
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Jeff Roop
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Missy Peregrym
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Nicholas Campbell
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Eric Balfour
Backcountry is a 2015 survival thriller directed by Adam MacDonald. The film follows a young couple who embark on a camping trip in the Canadian wilderness. Their adventure turns perilous when they realize they are unprepared for the dangers posed by the wild, leading to a harrowing struggle against nature. Starring Jeff Roop and Missy Peregrym, the movie explores themes of survival and human vulnerability.
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The lion in Beast is a veracious enough enemy in any setting. But the movie shows just how formidable the animal is when humans wander into the territory that it is familiar with and spends plenty of time hunting in. It makes the fight to survive all the more difficult when the predator knows the setting even better than the humans within it. Backcountry is set in a more relatable location as it follows a young couple on a camping trip in the woods. But it proves to be just as dangerous as they get lost and soon find themselves terrorized by an angry bear.
Out of the movies like Beast, Backcountry is one that utilizes its setting the best. The atmosphere of the woods truly sets the tone, even beyond the bickering couple who could just as easily throttle one another as help each other out of the woods. It’s easy for the audience to feel as lost as the campers. Just as Beast is anchored by the performance of Idris Elba, Backcountry is anchored by the performance of Missy Peregrym. She does a lot of her work in the movie on her own, terrified and fighting to survive, and her performance really elevates the film.
Cujo (1983)
Directed By Lewis Teague
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Cujo
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10/10
Release Date
August 12, 1983
Runtime
93 minutes
Director
Lewis Teague
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Lauren Currier, Don Carlos Dunaway
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Dee Wallace
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Daniel Hugh Kelly
Based on the novel by Stephen King, Cujo is a horror film that centers on a St. Bernard that becomes the terror of a local town. When the friendly Cujo is bitten by a bat with rabies, Cujo begins to slowly change into something almost demonic as he begins to viciously attack those around him, leaving a mother and son trapped by an ever-growing threat.
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The family element of Beast adds a lot to the story. While few can relate to the terror of coming face to face with a lion, many people know the feeling of being scared for their children and trying to keep them safe. That makes it easy to connect with a character in what might seem like an otherwise outlandish story. Cujo is a faithful Stephen King adaptation that takes a simple setting and makes it terrifying. It follows a mother and her small son who are locked in their broken-down car with a rabid dog trying to get to them.
The movie is claustrophobic because so much of it takes place in a small space. It is harrowing because there is seemingly no escape from the rabid dog. In those ways, it has a lot in common with Beast. While Beast is initially in the expansive game reserve, utilizing plenty of vast space, it becomes more and more claustrophobic as the characters become trapped, and a parent wants to make sure their children survive – even if it means they might not.
The Edge (1997)
Directed By Lee Tamahori
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The Edge
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Release Date
September 26, 1997
Runtime
117 Minutes
Director
Lee Tamahori
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Anthony Hopkins
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Elle MacPherson
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Harold Perrineau
The Edge (1997) features Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin as two men struggling to survive in the Alaskan wilderness after a plane crash. Directed by Lee Tamahori and written by David Mamet, the film explores themes of survival and human conflict against the backdrop of nature’s unpredictability. The blend of adventure and psychological drama keeps viewers engaged as the characters face both external and internal challenges.
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Beast combines the typical animal attack movie with a survival movie. Elba and the other characters find themselves facing various threats while out in the wilderness, including some human threats. That adds a new wrinkle for Beast. Most animal attack movies like Beast do not rely on the human elements to keep them going. When characters are targeted by other humans, and not just the animal stalking them, however, it adds an even more sinister feeling.
The Edge is a gripping survival story starring Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin as two men whose small plane crashes, leaving them to fend for themselves in the wilderness. Along with being stalked by a bear, they begin to wonder how much they can trust each other. They only have one another to lean on, and as they doubt one another, the movie becomes as much of a psychological thriller as it is an animal attack story.
Crawl (2019)
Directed By Alexandre Aja
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Crawl
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8/10
Release Date
July 11, 2019
Runtime
87 minutes
Director
Alexandre Aja
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Alexandre Aja, Michael Rasmussen, Shawn Rasmussen
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George Somner
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Morfydd Clark
Crawl is a horror thriller set during a Florida Hurricane. It follows a young woman named Haley who refuses to heed the mandatory evacuation order to search for her father, who went missing at the beginning of the storm. When Haley finds her father seriously injured, they discover the hurricane is the least of their problems. Suddenly, their home is besieged by a group of massive alligators looking for their next meal.
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Another animal attack movie that features a family element like Beast is Crawl. This time around, however, the family relationships are flipped, which helps give the movie a fresh feel. It also features a natural disaster to bring in the animal, like Burning Bright. It follows a young woman who checks on her father during a hurricane only to find him trapped under his house’s crawl space with the water rising.
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While that threat is worrisome enough, the flooding also brings several alligators. It is fun seeing a daughter fighting to protect her father in this intense and terrifying thriller. It makes for a heart-pounding ride from beginning to end. Again, like Beast, the movie is grounded by the performance of the lead. Kaya Scodelario is mostly known for appearing in Skins as a teenager and the Maze Runner franchise, in which she plays a teen, but Scodelario is an incredibly versatile character actor and is able to give the movie a similar weight to Elba in Beast.
The Grey (2011)
Directed By Joe Carnahan
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The Grey
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10/10
Release Date
January 27, 2012
Runtime
117 minutes
Director
Joe Carnahan
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Joe Carnahan, Ian Mackenzie Jeffers
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Liam Neeson
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James Badge Dale
The Grey follows a group of oil workers who fend off a pack of hungry wolves in the Alaskan wilderness after a plane crash leaves them stranded in the Alaskan wilderness. The cast includes Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney, Dallas Roberts, Nonso Anozie, and Joe Anderson.
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Elba is a terrific actor to see in this type of movie. He has the acting chops to elevate the story but is also an exceptional movie star and action hero that fans can root for as he takes on this deadly animal foe. If movies like Beast want to be taken seriously instead of seen as campy, they have to employ similar actors of gravitas to make the stakes of the movie feel real.
The Grey is another animal attack movie that makes great use of its protagonist. Liam Neeson plays a hunter who finds himself trapped in the Arctic tundra with other survivors of a plane crash. And as much as Neeson is familiar with hard-hitting fight scenes, he meets his match with a pack of hungry wolves.
Just as Beast begins with a man mourning the loss of his wife, The Grey also leans on the way grief can affect a person. Neeson’s hunter takes a job as a sharpshooter for an oil rig because he is apathetic about his own life after losing his wife. His abilities are exactly what the group needs to even attempt to survive though. The end of the movie, however, is a bit more ambiguous than the audience might be ready for.
The Ghost And The Darkness (1996)
Directed By Stephen Hopkins
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The Ghost and the Darkness
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History
8.5/10
Release Date
October 11, 1996
Runtime
109 Minutes
Director
Stephen Hopkins
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John Henry Patterson, William Goldman
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Michael Douglas
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Val Kilmer
Col. John Henry Patterson
The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 film directed by Stephen Hopkins, starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas. The film is based on the true story of two man-eating lions in Tsavo, Africa, who terrorized the workers constructing a railway bridge in 1898. Val Kilmer plays the engineer tasked with overseeing the construction, and Michael Douglas portrays a seasoned hunter brought in to deal with the lions.
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Though there are so many different animals presented in the man vs. beast genre, lions have not been used very often. However, Beast does a very effective job of showing why they are considered the “kings of the jungle” and are apex predators. While it is often easier for audiences to see giant reptiles like anaconda or alligators as something to be feared, from a distance, a lion looks like a house cat. A lion is not a house cat though as Beast and other movies like it make abundantly clear. Another movie that did a great job of making lions a formidable threat is The Ghost and the Darkness.
It also won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing. It’s rare to see movies in this particular subgenre be recognized by the Oscars.
Loosely based on a true story, Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas star as hunters trying to stop a pair of deadly lions who terrorize a local construction operation in 1800s Africa. This is one of the few movies like Beast that takes the audience a little further into the past. Though the movie received mixed reviews from critics, it comes the closest to the same threat-level and tension of Beast. It also won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing. It’s rare to see movies in this particular subgenre be recognized by the Oscars.
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Beast
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Thriller
Adventure
Drama
Horror
6/10
Release Date
August 19, 2022
Runtime
93 minutes
Director
Baltasar Kormakur
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Jaime Primak Sullivan, Ryan Engle
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Iyana Halley
Beast is a survival thriller that stars Idris Elba as Dr. Nate Samuels. He visits Mopani Game Reserve, South Africa, with his two daughters, Noah and Meredith, as he tries to reconcile with the passing of his wife. However, after a reunion with an old friend, Martin, who runs the reserve, things turn for the worst when a series of animal attacks culminate into one lion, which has gone rogue and begins to hunt the family. Faced against unknown assailants, a blood-thirsty lion, and unfamiliar land, the Samuels family will fight to survive against all odds.
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