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When Nature Turns Predator

A run of films where a shark, a flock of gulls, a giant ape, a crocodile, a trained dog or the creatures under the ground turn on people, and each one uses the monster to say something else: a town that cares more about money than safety, a man getting smaller, a racism someone has taught.

Mostly crowd favourites and classics that are easy to like, from Jaws and Tremors to The Birds and King Kong, with a couple of rougher cult films (Fuller's uncomfortable White Dog and Hooper's grimy Eaten Alive) for viewers who want the genre's harsher side.