![]() ![]() We’re talking Tremors, Gremlins, Leviathan, Bad Milo!, and Cloverfield (a specific origin is never given for this monster). These are those beings that are completely made up by the creators of the film whose mythos and origin is entirely unique to that one film or film series. So now we should be able to say that everything that does not fit into any of the above categories can finally be called a creature feature. Basically, if the creature in question can be categorized with a real, existing scientific classification, then it should be under the animals run amok sub-genre. ![]() Films in this category would be Jaws, Cujo, Anaconda, Arachnophobia, Lake Placid, Snakes on a Plane, and probably the best-worst of these films, Orca: The Killer Whale. I contend that there should be a category for creature features and one for what I like to call “animals run amok.” Animals run amok would be identified as any kind of normal animal, untouched by science, that suddenly decides to go on the warpath against humans. This is where an important dichotomy needs to be made. Now we are left with non-human, non-mechanical beings that are strictly “terrestrial” in origin. ![]() This would include the Alien films, obviously, but also movies like The Thing, Slither, The Mist, Species, The Faculty, etc. In a similar vein, anything extra-terrestrial can be called an alien. For instance: Robots, Terminators, cyborgs, and basically anything mechanical can be clumped together under the general heading of robot films. Don’t get too overwhelmed, though, there are some other subcategories that can easily help with our definition. ![]()
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