giant-animal movies

Vengeance (2009)

Monday, December 14th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | Hong Kong
Actors: Na Songkhla, Chalad | Sang-aakaat, Sorachai | Tangkaprasert, Watchara
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Frank Yuma, a long time enforcer and hit man for an organized crime syndicate is suspected of being an informer for the FBI. The syndicate orders a hit on Frank and hires his own crew to do the job. But unfortunately for them, Frank Yuma survives.

King Kong (1976)

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Watts, Naomi | Black, Jack | Brody, Adrien | Kretschmann, Thomas | Hanks, Colin | Serkis, Andy | Parke, Evan | Bell, Jamie | Chan, Lobo | Sumner, John | Hall, Craig | Chandler, Kyle | Hadlow, Mark | Brophy, Geraldine | Denis, David
Directors: Singer, Bryan | Jackson, Peter
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The owner of the oil company Petrox Corporation, Fred Wilson, invests all his possessions searching oil in an unexplored island. The vessel leaves Surubaya, in Indonesia, with the stowaway Jack Prescott, who wants to protect an ape called Kong. While traveling, they find the castaway Dwan in the middle of nowhere in a rescue boat in the ocean and bring her on board. The group finds that the island is inhabited and the local natives worship a huge gorilla called Kong. They abduct Dwan to offer her in a sacrifice to Kong. The crew hikes into the jungle trying to rescue Dwan. King Kong falls in love with Dwan and protects her against a huge serpent. When Fred finds that the oil in the island is not ready for exploitation, he decides to capture Kong and bring him to New York for exhibition. In the middle of a show, King Kong escapes, bringing panic to the locals.

Dune (2000)

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: Canada | Germany | Italy | USA
Actors: Annis, Francesca | Cimino, Leonardo | Dourif, Brad | Ferrer, José | Hunt, Linda | Jones, Freddie | Jordan, Richard | MacLachlan, Kyle | Madsen, Virginia | Mangano, Silvana | McGill, Everett | McMillan, Kenneth | Nance, Jack | Phillips, Siân | Prochnow, Jürgen
Directors: Lynch, David
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It is a distant galaxy in the far future. Arrakis is a desert planet and is the only source of Melange, a vital drug used by the Guild Navigators for space travel from star system to star system. The corrupt Emperor Padishah Shaddam IV sends the Atreides family to Arrakis to take charge of the mining operations of Melange, once controlled by the Atreide’s rival family, The Harkonnens. Duke Leto Atreide’s son Paul becomes fascinated by the native Freman’s culture and learns he has a special powers and he can see images of the future. But the Emperor is in league with the evil Baron Vladimir Harkonnen and the Baron and his loyal army attacks, taking control of the mining operation on Arrakis and Duke Leto is assassinated. Paul and his mother Lady Jessica flee in the desert, where they are befriend by the Fremen. Adopting his Fremen name “Maud’Dib”, Paul vows vengeance on Baron Harkonnen and the Emperor and he unites the Fremen and forms a army of warriors and leads into battle, as he sets out to defeat the Harkonnen family and put a stop to the Melange mining operation, as Paul sets out to fulfill his destiny, as he becomes the prophesied all-powerful Kwisatz Haderach.

Clash of the Titans (1981)

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Olivier, Laurence | Bloom, Claire | Smith, Maggie | Andress, Ursula | Gwillim, Jack | Fleetwood, Susan | Roach, Pat | Hamlin, Harry | Bowker, Judi | Burgess Meredith | Phillips, Siân | Robson, Flora | Manahan, Anna | Jackson, Freda | Pigott-Smith, Tim
Directors: Davis, Desmond
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By answering a seemingly impossible riddle, Perseus, the son of Zeus, wins the hand of the Princess Andromeda in marriage. Trouble appears in the shape of Calibos, the princess’s former love, and his mother, the Goddess Thetis. In order that the dreaded Kraken not be released, Andromeda has to be sacrificed and Perseus searches for the Medusa; her head is the only thing that can stop the Kraken.

Princess Bride, The (1987)

Friday, May 8th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Elwes, Cary | Patinkin, Mandy | Sarandon, Chris | Guest, Christopher | Shawn, Wallace | André the Giant | Savage, Fred | Wright Penn, Robin | Falk, Peter | Cook, Peter | Smith, Mel | Kane, Carol | Crystal, Billy
Directors: Reiner, Rob
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When a young boy falls ill, his grandfather pops round to visit him. To cheer his grandson up, Grandpa has brought a storybook; The Princess Bride, a tale of the love between the beautiful Buttercup and the besotted Westley, a love cruelly interrupted by Westley’s tragic apparent death at sea when seeking his fortune. Heartbroken, Buttercup has sworn never to love again, but accepts the marriage proposal of the rich and handsome Prince Humperdinck, heir to the throne of Florin; but death is no barrier to true love, and in a story filled with exotically-accented swordsmen, big-hearted giants, genius kidnappers, sadistic torturers, vile swamps, Rodents of Unusual Size, the Dread Pirate Roberts and a somewhat embittered miracle worker, the love between Westley and Buttercup twists and turns on a path filled with adventure. Will the True Love of Westley and Buttercup win the day? Will Inigo Montaya find the six-fingered man who murdered his father? Will Humperdinck’s evil plans come to fruition? And, more importantly, will Grandpa be able to tell the story without any of the yucky kissing?

Lake Placid (1999)

Friday, April 17th, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Pullman, Bill | Fonda, Bridget | Platt, Oliver | Gleeson, Brendan | White, Betty | Lewis, David | Dixon, Tim | Malthe, Natassia | Hargitay, Mariska | Salenger, Meredith | Rees, Jed | Leacock, Richard | Roberts, Jake T. | Takeuchi, Warren | Olsson, Ty
Directors: Miner, Steve
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Lake Placid – Well it would be, but; “somebody said that name was taken.” At least according to the local Sheriff. When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden (Pullman) teams up with a paleontologist (Fonda) from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for “Crocs” (Platt), and here we go! This quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals…and people!

Razorback (1984)

Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Australia
Actors: Harrison, Gregory | Whiteley, Arkie | Kerr, Bill | Haywood, Chris | Argue, David | Morris, Judy | Howard, John | Ewart, John | Smith, Don | Drake, Mervyn | Phillips, Redmond | Becher, Alan | Schwarz, Peter | Child, Beth | Kennedy, Rick
Directors: Mulcahy, Russell
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A wild, vicious pig terrorizes the Australian outback. The first victim is a small child who is killed. The child’s granddad is brought to trial for killing the child but aquitted. The next victim is an American TV-journalist. Her husband Carl gets there and starts to search for the truth. The local inhabitants won’t really help him, but he is joined by a hunter and a female farmer to find the beast.

Doctor Dolittle (1967)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Murphy, Eddie | Davis, Ossie | Platt, Oliver | Boyle, Peter | Schiff, Richard | Wilson, Kristen | Tambor, Jeffrey | Pratt, Kyla | Raven | Gilborn, Steven | Dellums, Erik | Christopher, June | Franklin, Cherie | Adair-Rios, Mark | Calfa, Don
Directors: Thomas, Betty
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Doctor Dolittle is a world-renowned veterinarian who speaks a wide array of animal languages. He sets off from his home in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, England, in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail. In so doing, he and his friends meet such exotic creatures as the Pushme-Pullyu and the Giant Moon Moth. This musical is the source of the hit song, “If I Could Talk To The Animals.”

Alligator II: The Mutation (1991)

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Bologna, Joseph | Wallace, Dee | Lynch, Richard | Brown, Woody | Gagnier, Holly | Daily, Bill | Steve Railsback | Peters, Brock | Eyster, Tim | Goric, Voyo | Norris, Buckley | Reyes, Julian | White, Deborah | Anderson, Bill | Arnold, Harlan
Directors: Hess, Jon
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A giant alligator runs riot in a small town with a lake connected to a sewer/drainage system. Typical plot; nobody believes the sightings until lots of people have been killed.

Alligator (1980)

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Forster, Robert | Riker, Robin | Gazzo, Michael V. | Dean Jagger | Lassick, Sydney | Carter, Jack | Lang, Perry | Silva, Henry | Braverman, Bart | Wood, John Lisbon | Ingersoll, James | Doyle, Robert | Jerome, Patti | Tompkins, Angel | Lyon, Sue
Directors: Teague, Lewis
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Ramon the alligator is flushed down the toilet as a baby and grows into a gargantuan monster by eating the corpses of laboratory animals who have undergone dubious hormone experiments, thus providing all the ecological and social subtext that one could possibly wish for, even if one doesn’t normally go for films about giant alligators eating people left, right, and center—which is the inevitable and tragic result of Ramon’s decision that the outside world looks rather more interesting than the sewers….