Drive-in creature features

1canon

Jaws

The broken shark forced Spielberg to suggest instead of show. It made the film.

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Piranha

Sayles script, Dante direction, and jokes that land. The best Jaws rip.

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Alligator

Sayles again. A flushed pet in the sewers, and it knows how silly that is.

4cult

Grizzly

Jaws with a bear, pitched exactly that way, and it worked.

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Orca

The whale wants revenge and has a plan. Morricone score, oddly moving.

6cult

Squirm

Electrified worms in Georgia. Rick Baker's early effects are the draw.

7cult

Razorback

A giant pig film shot like a perfume ad. Somehow works.

8cult

Q: The Winged Serpent

Larry Cohen, a dragon over Manhattan, and a great Michael Moriarty.