eco-horror?

[Zero]

Hey -

A guy I work with asked me if there are horror films that have focused on ecological issues - I rattled off a few I could think of off the top of my head - but then went blank. . ..


help?? (as the official office 'horror film geek' - my rep is on the line here)

[Doc Faustus]

Any of the Godzilla movies. Prophecy, The Host, fifties sci fi, It's Alive.

[urgeok2]

Monsturd !!!!!!

[zwoti]

day of the animals
long weekend


etc

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...are some, apart from the usual popular ones, which I d recommend.

[newb]

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[Roderick Usher]

Blood Car, The Ruins and The Happening are a few new ones

and a few good scifi flicks that have an eco-thriller element to them

Silent Running
No Blade of Grass
Soylent Green

[newb]

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[neverending]

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[neverending]

Of all the Godzilla movies, this one fits the eco-horror bill the best:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_vs._Hedorah

Known in the USA as Godzilla VS. the SMOG MONSTER!

[newb]

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The Deadly Mantis

[newb]

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The Deadly Mantis

scratch that...it wasn't eco....after doing a bit of research I found out it was more of geological events that released a giant, prehistoric Praying Mantis from the Arctic ice

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Most of the good ones involve insects.

I remember watching The Swarm and Prophecy at about the same time and liking them both. Especially Prophecy.

[Despare]

The Host was a recent one...

The very beginning is based on a real case.

[urgeok2]

The Host was a recent one...

The very beginning is based on a real case.


the end too .....it's all real.

[Despare]

the end too .....it's all real.

Hahaha, I'm serious...

"Albert McFarland, 57, was charged with violating a water-quality law for
ordering two morgue employees in February 2000 to pour out about 192
bottles containing 16 ounces each of the embalming chemical. The fluid
eventually flowed through sewage treatment systems into the Han River,
the main source of drinking water for Seoul's 12 million people."

[ChronoGrl]

The really obvious ones have been mentioned... How about:


Black Sheep
Isolation
Frogs
Return of the Living Dead
C.H.U.D.
Mimic
Larva
Bats
Severed: Forest of the Dead
Cabin Fever
Hills Have Eyes (to some extent)
Jacob's Ladder (human atrocity/experiments against nature)
Attack of the Giant Leeches
Attack of the Killer Shrews
Them!
The Incredible Shrinking Man


As people mentioned, pretty much any Roger Corman or 50s-60s Giant Monster flick.

[Doc Faustus]

Of all the Godzilla movies, this one fits the eco-horror bill the best:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_vs._Hedorah

Known in the USA as Godzilla VS. the SMOG MONSTER!

My favorite. Hedorah scared the crap out of me the first time I saw it when I was six.

[neverending]

My favorite. Hedorah scared the crap out of me the first time I saw it when I was six.

One of my fave Godzilla flicks, definitely.

[Roderick Usher]

Larva


Ha! That's my buddy Tim's film!

[ChronoGrl]

Ha! That's my buddy Tim's film!

NICE!

My boyfriend and I own it!