▶ watchcultThe Legend of Boggy Creek
1972 · USA · 90m
The Arkansas Bigfoot docudrama that invented an entire regional-monster format on a hundred grand.
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▶ watchcultQ: The Winged Serpent
1982 · USA · 93m
Larry Cohen, a dragon over Manhattan, and a great Michael Moriarty.
▶ watchcultSquirm
1976 · USA · 92m
Electrified worms in Georgia. Rick Baker's early effects are the draw.
▶ watchcultGrizzly
1976 · USA · 91m
Jaws with a bear, pitched exactly that way, and it worked.
▶ watchcultRazorback
1984 · Australia · 95m
A giant pig film shot like a perfume ad. Somehow works.
▶ watchknownPhase IV
1974 · UK/USA · 86m
Saul Bass's only feature. Ants, geometry, and an ending nobody saw for 40 years.
▶ watchknownIt's Alive
1974 · USA · 91m
A mutant newborn kills the delivery room and goes on the run. Larry Cohen means the metaphor.
▶ watchknownAlligator
1980 · USA · 87m
Sayles again. A flushed pet in the sewers, and it knows how silly that is.
▶ watchknownOrca
1977 · Italy/NL · 88m
The whale wants revenge and has a plan. Morricone score, oddly moving.
▶ watchknownPiranha
1978 · USA · 94m
Sayles script, Dante direction, and jokes that land. The best Jaws rip.
▶ watchcanonJaws
1975 · USA · 124m
The broken shark forced Spielberg to suggest instead of show. It made the film.
▶ watchcanonThe Birds
1963 · USA · 119m
Hitchcock refuses to explain anything. Nobody since has had the nerve.