If you think animals only attack in the country, you’re dead wrong.

Erin Dawn (Manic Movie Monday Podcast ) follows us into the city sewer for ALLIGATOR (1980) starring Robert Forster and Robin Riker in this film about a mutant man-eater.

Alligator was directed by Lewis Teague and written by John Sayles.

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This week we look at two animal attack movies that try to incorporate Native American culture into the story:

Corporate greed creates a mutated bear with a taste for blood in PROPHECY (1979) starring Robert Foxworth, Talia Shire & Armand Assante and directed by John Frankenheimer.

Then it’s time to wake up and smell the ammonia as we face vampire bats in NIGHTWING (1979) starring Nick Mancuso, David Warner & Kathryn Harrold and directed by Arthur Hiller.

It’s time for terror to go small with genetically altered PIRANHA (1978) directed by Joe Dante, screenplay by John Sayles, and executive produced by Roger Corman.

Jen Howell of the Every Rom Com podcast joins us to discuss the horror comedy classic.

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We leave the sea and head for the hills as animal danger evolves to attack on land. It’s a William Girdler double feature as we discuss GRIZZLY (1976) starring Andrew Prine, Richard Jaekal, and Christopher George as a park ranger battling a murderous bear.

We then tackle ozone problems in THE DAY OF THE ANIMALS (1977) when every animal over 5,000 feet elevation goes on a violent rampage, starring Leslie Nielsen as an ad exec who proves that the most dangerous animal of all is man himself.

We are joined by Carmelita Valdez McKoy to discuss the “happy for deep people” that is ORCA (1977).

Richard Harris and Charlotte Rampling star in the film about a killer whale hell bent on revenge for the death of its mate and unborn calf.

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Hello and bonjour to you fair podcast listeners! it’s time to grab a Narragansett Beer and climb into your anti-shark cage as we explore the films that followed in Jaws’s considerable wake.

This week we kick things off with Steven Spielberg’s classic that started it all: JAWS (1975) starring Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, and Robert Shaw. Written by Carl Gottlieb, based on the novel by Peter Benchley.

Then we really get in the swing of things with TINTORERA (1977) starring Susan George, Hugo Stiglitz, and Andrés García in a tale of shark hunters finding love in a throuple.

Yakmalaaaa! Join us for GYMKATA (1985), a martial arts movie about a gymnast who plays a deadly game to secure a “Star Wars” earth station for the U.S.A.

It stars Olympic gymnast Kurt Thomas, and is directed by Robert Clouse (Enter the Dragon) from a screenplay by Charles Robert Carner (Blind Fury).

Put down the peace pipe and make a video run with us to the teenage end of the Fatal Attraction series as we discuss:

FEAR (1996) starring Reese Witherspoon as a teen girl who rebels against her family by dating the baddest of boys, played by Mark Wahlberg.

SWIMFAN (2002) starring Jesse Bradford as the guy who gets mixed up with Erika Christensen’s absolute supervillain, Madison Bell (the titular Swimfan).

This episode is a must listen if you ever wanted to hear Chris say, “I was expecting Hoobastank.”