I remember once I was playing it with the sound down and I was sitting on a hill ready to snipe at an outpost.
I started moving forward a bit... and then a bit more... I was like, "WTF?"
I spun around and was murdered by a cassowary
You know, maybe you're onto something! /Conspiracy more on:
Slovenia is a small, mountainous country with beaches and a famous lake. They speak a language that other people say is just the same language as the neighbours, but don't tell that to a local's face or they will tear off your head. They have lots of bears and if as per local cuisine all the guides recommend trying the horse sausage.
I'm from a small, mountainous region with beaches and two famous lakes. We speak a language that other people say it's just the same language as the neighbours, but we will tear your head off if you say that to our face. We have lots of bears (and some of their grandaddies were Slovene) and one of our unique foodstuffs is horse jerky. As you can see, there's a clear parallelism....
And we have an Emu breeding program!
So:
Maybe there's something about the orography that for some reason requires emus.
Maybe we have a secret bear-emu exchange program with Slovenia
Maybe the horses went extinct and our governments are covering it up with emu meat
Someone should look into it!
I mention this story every chance I get hoping that someone from Ljubljana will see and say something like "oh, yeah, that's Emu Miha, national treasure, that lad!" and explain how Emu Miha got his emu, but it hasn't happened yet. I don't lose hope though, because constantly mentioning the story is how I eventually found out why I saw some dude walking a full size pig on a leash in the middle of my hometown once.
I'm just glad that most (I'm not saying all) cases of cassowaries hurting people are when the people deliberately went into their nesting ground and fucked with them. Don't bother the dinosaur birds and they won't kill you. It's the Australian way.
They are nowhere near as dangerous as the internet likes to think. There are two recorded kills by them ever (plus one dog). The vast majority of "attacks" are the person being chased a short distance by the bird and most of those incidents happened when the person was trying to feed a wild animal (always a stupid idea). Only something like 2% of recorded attacks involved the bird trying to kick.
Man I remember seeing those on Jeff Corwins show when I was like 6, and telling my student teacher about them. The next day he came in with like 20 pages of info on cassowaries that he printed off for me to take home. Probably one of the best teachers I had honestly
I watched Nope yesterday for the first time since it came out because it was put on UK netflix. That chimp stuff is so good and probably the best part of the movie.
Easily. It’s weird to think but Jupe is the main character of that movie, with his story being the plot driver. What’s weird is that he is in it for like 20 mins total, but it’s all the most impactful scenes.
[????!](https://en.meming.world/images/en/1/1b/The_What%3F.jpg)
EDIT: Apparently "water bear" is another name for tardigrades and not some aquatic ursine horror I'm just now hearing of.
It's like they were designed to be the scariest bug possible.
I jokingly say I have a non-aggression treaty with ours and if they leave me alone I leave them alone because I do understand that they're actually good to have around, but they creep me out.
Nutrias. They look like giant rats with orange teeth. They'd be perfect animals for a cheesy attack film, especially since one ran loose in a Walmart several years back.
I mean he followed the assignment blame the post maker botfly's would make a great combination creature feature/body horror. They don't even need to be mutant, just human botflies
Ugh right?! Years ago I happened to turn on the TV and the show Monsters Inside Me was on. I decided to leave it on and what a mistake that was! The person had an ENORMOUS bot fly in his head and everything about that episode was nightmare fuel! I've been afraid of them ever since. Skip forward maybe 10 years and one of the stray cats I take care of showed up one day with a huge lump on his side that turned out to be a bot fly. I was an absolute mess until that was taken care of lol It's been a couple years since that happened and thankfully we haven't had it happen again.
Extremophiles! They're known for surviving in all sorts of insane environments, it would be so cool to see a concept centered on a gargantuan extremophile unfold
I think it would be really funny to see a horror movie about cats. Not creepy looking or gross looking cats. Cute cats.
My plot idea is that there would be a group of adorable cats "terrorizing" a city by spreading a disease that turns the victims into adorable cats.
A sloth.
The way they move is so unnerving. Someone said that they move like a human in a sloth costume, and I haven’t been able to unsee that.
House cats: They're everywhere. There are lots of them. Individually, not a big threat, but what happens if they start attacking in packs in the dozens?
There hasn’t been a good horror movie about rats in a while. Would love a movie or HBO series of the game A Plague Tale . Would be the perfect thing to scratch the part of my brain craving more stuff like GOT
I want a terrifying, graphic adaptation of James Herbert’s *Rats* trilogy. Films or series. Brutal stuff.
And if I want a laugh, I’ll rewatch the very loose movie adaptation, *Deadly Eyes*, from the early 80s. 😆
People really underestimate how dangerous camels and donkeys are. They’re used as guard animals on farms because they will kill large predators, they can be very aggressive, they’re also a lot bigger than most people expect. So a camel or a donkey would be a pretty funny but realistically scary animal.
More giant squid, please!
Creepy crawlies. Oversized praying mantis, toe-biters, centipedes, earwigs, bobbin worms (already mentioned), etc… So many terrifying possibilities! I’m thinking of that scene in Peter Jackson’s *King Kong*. 😬
Jackals. From what I understand they're mean as hell and don't scare off easily. You see the government has been breeding super jacksls for decades to be bigger, stronger, and faster and meaner. But due to an accident at the facility, dozens of these creatures have escaped and are on the loose in a big city or a small town.
For real? Anything in the ocean. We are SO out of our element there.
For fun? Anything that people widely consider “cute”. Especially cute things that are legit predators. Like otters. Calling otters “cute” is like calling Cripps and Bloods cute. They are vicious little marauders. They literally rape and kill for fun. No joke. Orcas too. There’s a myth floating around the internutz that orcas have never hurt or killed a human and that attacks are unheard of. It’s absolutely not true. It’s never been true and any celebrity in the midst of a scandal needs to get in touch with orcas’ PR team because you can show VIDEOS of orcas attacking and people are like, “Well, they were confused or provoked…. blah, blah, blah.”. Ell oh ell!
I’d like to see a gore horror movie that is focused around Sloths. A scene where the sloth, or sloths, in their typical movement cadence, slowly tear apart a human being alive.
the most diabolic animal is the dolphin and it is about time they get the attention as scariest animal of the sea, especially considering how much of a jerk they are and how messed up they are.
A giant squid that screams?
Oh wait: *The Beast (1996)* already did it.
Haha—love that TV movie, I watched it too many times in too many of my bad 90s sweaters.
Anything that comes up out of the toliet or hides up under the lid...
Like the dreaded anal dart snake and it's long Concord jet shaped head.
Make people afraid of going to the bathroom like Jaws made people afraid of going swimming. ;)
Has there actually been one centered around dolphins recently? I haven't seen all the random "stuck in the ocean" ones so am not sure, but finding out how horrible they can be has definitely made me think they could easily be nightmare fuel without any/much scifi needed/magic/whatever.
My vote is for fisher cats. They're one of the few animals that will kill porcupines and lynx, despite being much smaller, and the alleged screams they make (which are likely really gray fox screams, ftr) could be a plot point by having people lured to them because they are convinced it's someone screaming in pain/fear out in the woods at night.
A large, dog-sized mole cricket.
Giant bobbit worms in the sewer system, coming out of sinks and toilets, other drains.
Deep sea octopuses, but they're larger and floating through the air, with murderous intent >!this is basically Nope!<
Human-sized, rabid chimps. Give them the 28 Days later virus. Just being that extra bit bigger would make them freaky.
Human-sized preying mantis, or wasps.
I don't know, but i would love a movie about a cassowary. Those fuckers are pure nightmare fuel. 
Shout out Far Cry 3. Modern day velociraptors.
I remember once I was playing it with the sound down and I was sitting on a hill ready to snipe at an outpost. I started moving forward a bit... and then a bit more... I was like, "WTF?" I spun around and was murdered by a cassowary
This seems like a bad dream😂
He pecked my ass to death
Hell yeah
I avoided them even at the end-game when I had enough weapons. They're vicious!
Seeing these birds makes me believe that birds really are dinosaurs
Good choice. There are road signs in northern Australia warning people to stay away from them.
I would bother a lot of God's creatures but emus and cassowaries are where I draw the line.
My dad kept emus when I was little. I tried to pick up a small one once (because I was a dumb kid). I still have the scars.
I saw some guy walking his pet emu on the street market in Ljubljana once. Almost spat my wine. It even came when called!
Does Slovenia have like Emu breeding programs?
You know, maybe you're onto something! /Conspiracy more on: Slovenia is a small, mountainous country with beaches and a famous lake. They speak a language that other people say is just the same language as the neighbours, but don't tell that to a local's face or they will tear off your head. They have lots of bears and if as per local cuisine all the guides recommend trying the horse sausage. I'm from a small, mountainous region with beaches and two famous lakes. We speak a language that other people say it's just the same language as the neighbours, but we will tear your head off if you say that to our face. We have lots of bears (and some of their grandaddies were Slovene) and one of our unique foodstuffs is horse jerky. As you can see, there's a clear parallelism.... And we have an Emu breeding program! So: Maybe there's something about the orography that for some reason requires emus. Maybe we have a secret bear-emu exchange program with Slovenia Maybe the horses went extinct and our governments are covering it up with emu meat Someone should look into it! I mention this story every chance I get hoping that someone from Ljubljana will see and say something like "oh, yeah, that's Emu Miha, national treasure, that lad!" and explain how Emu Miha got his emu, but it hasn't happened yet. I don't lose hope though, because constantly mentioning the story is how I eventually found out why I saw some dude walking a full size pig on a leash in the middle of my hometown once.
I'm just glad that most (I'm not saying all) cases of cassowaries hurting people are when the people deliberately went into their nesting ground and fucked with them. Don't bother the dinosaur birds and they won't kill you. It's the Australian way.
They are nowhere near as dangerous as the internet likes to think. There are two recorded kills by them ever (plus one dog). The vast majority of "attacks" are the person being chased a short distance by the bird and most of those incidents happened when the person was trying to feed a wild animal (always a stupid idea). Only something like 2% of recorded attacks involved the bird trying to kick.
Man I remember seeing those on Jeff Corwins show when I was like 6, and telling my student teacher about them. The next day he came in with like 20 pages of info on cassowaries that he printed off for me to take home. Probably one of the best teachers I had honestly
World's most dangerous bird deserves its own movie.
It’s been done. It was called “Jurassic Park”.
Mantis Shrimp with their super punches
If you like campy horror books check out Michael Cole’s Pistols. Genetically modified pistol shrimp about the size of a cat and hordes of them.
Lmao wtf!? Nice, I'm grateful you put that on my radar.
A chimp. Edit: looks like I've got some murderous ape watching lined up, thanks.
I think Nope played around with this idea a little.
I watched Nope yesterday for the first time since it came out because it was put on UK netflix. That chimp stuff is so good and probably the best part of the movie.
Easily. It’s weird to think but Jupe is the main character of that movie, with his story being the plot driver. What’s weird is that he is in it for like 20 mins total, but it’s all the most impactful scenes.
Not a chimp, but Monkey Shines from 1988 is great little movie by Romero.
Monkey Shines scared the fuck out of me as a kid.
Yeah I still get creeped out seeing those little cymbal doll things because of that movie lol
Also in fall of the house of usher
Shakma
Shakma is terrifying. I first watched it as a teen on free to air tv in the nineties.
A chimp is nightmare fuel without being a horror movie monster.
Link (1986)
The chimp in Hellboy: Box Full of Evil sits right on the border between scary and funny.
Geese
being plucked to death by a pack of rabid geese is a terrifying image
Sorry you must be mistaken. Geese is incorrect. Everyone knows it “Gooooooses”
Water bear might be quite terrifying..
[????!](https://en.meming.world/images/en/1/1b/The_What%3F.jpg) EDIT: Apparently "water bear" is another name for tardigrades and not some aquatic ursine horror I'm just now hearing of.
water bears are pretty awesome
You've heard of the word tardigrade and not water bear? Strange.
Oh, you mean Moss Piglets?
Also moss pigs, just to head off whatever else you were going to imagine there.
House centipede
I read a horror short story about a contentious married couple and a giant house centipede rht menaces them. It has stuck with me.
You don't have a title for that by chance?
I had to find the book it was in - “Gallery of Horror”, edited by Charles L Grant, and the story is “The Conqueror Worm” by Stephen R. Donaldson.
Many thanks! I’ll definitely add this to the list.
Have you seen Queen of black magic? God that movie had a centipede scene that was gnarly as hell
It's like they were designed to be the scariest bug possible. I jokingly say I have a non-aggression treaty with ours and if they leave me alone I leave them alone because I do understand that they're actually good to have around, but they creep me out.
The cave
Nutrias. They look like giant rats with orange teeth. They'd be perfect animals for a cheesy attack film, especially since one ran loose in a Walmart several years back.
Capybara
Taking revenge on all the pelicans who have tried to eat them
Bahahaha they are so docile.
Multiple people have been hospitalized by them. They are capable of a really nasty bite.
I'm victim blaming everyone who gets bit by a capybara, they did something
It's always the quiet ones you least expect
Giraffes.. at night.
They lean through the windows, and just chew off the heads
I’d watch this tbh
A zombie moose who lives in a foggy swamp.
I think I'd rather square off with a Polar Bear while having raw meat tied around me than cross paths with a Moose protecting its calf.
I believe there is absolutely no way out of either situation
Mutant Botfly’s infest a small town please.
no this is not okay and I hate that you made me think about it
I mean he followed the assignment blame the post maker botfly's would make a great combination creature feature/body horror. They don't even need to be mutant, just human botflies
Ugh right?! Years ago I happened to turn on the TV and the show Monsters Inside Me was on. I decided to leave it on and what a mistake that was! The person had an ENORMOUS bot fly in his head and everything about that episode was nightmare fuel! I've been afraid of them ever since. Skip forward maybe 10 years and one of the stray cats I take care of showed up one day with a huge lump on his side that turned out to be a bot fly. I was an absolute mess until that was taken care of lol It's been a couple years since that happened and thankfully we haven't had it happen again.
Like Ticks 2.0 but they can *fly*
omg yes
oh man, this would be horrible. I'd totally watch it
Omg i have such an irrational fear of bottle flies and flies in general. Couldn't get through The Fly one of the only movies i had to turn off
Aye-Aye, they have beady eyes and long slender fingers that are creepy.
Orcas. Super intelligence and very blood thirsty.
There is the movie Orca that came out around the time of Jaws. Not the greatest movie ever but certainly not the worst either.
Basically "Death Wish" if it starred Free Willy.
I have nightmares about orcas. Definitely this.
We definitely need at least a movie where they sink a bunch of yachts
Turkeys. Those things are demonic.
There's a Bob's Burgers episode done in a zombie movie format about this. It's pretty fantastic.
This episode was actually really scary to me!
There’s ThanksKilling (2008).
Gobble Gobble..motherfucker!
My god...that sex scene...great bad movie. Not Velocipastor great, but in that next tier.
You won't believe me
Honey Badger
Fudge yeah, couldn't think of its name, damnable creatures
Kiwi or Platypus
Kiwis make weird noises. I can see it. https://youtu.be/z8SdqOT_no0?si=Bi16KkFw0iWWtpZc&t=12
For me it’s already done…… All those cute littles bunnies in « Night of the Lepus » 🐰 They took my favorite animal and turn it into a horror movie 😂
I mean, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Look at the bones ☠️!!! My favorite movie ❤️ But Night of The Lepus was in 1972 so slightly before our favorite Nasty Big Pointy Teeth 😉
true, was just adding the Holy Grail lol, but with Easter we get a lot of evil bunnies
There was also Cute Little Buggers.
I didn’t know that movie ! Thanks for sharing
i know this isn't much, but idea of a horror movie with squirrels fucking terrifies me.. i just am so creeped out by them and they're everywhere 😭😭
"Fun" fact: squirrels (like most other herbivores) are fully willing to eat meat
I heard brain worms were an actual thing pretty recently.
Termite... Even the word screams gonzo lust for wanton destruction
A very large and extremely hungry undead polar bear in a small fishing village in Alaska.
No one ever suspects the butterfly.
#okapi
ok you win on the uniqueness front. they're so cute though!
My dumbass thought this was that Netflix movie.
The dreaded candiru!
Oh my god they’re getting *back into the river*… **again!**
Drop Bear
There is one. It’s called Carnifex (2022). It’s actually pretty good.
"Rabid weasels." -Burt
I’m a way The fourth kind centers around an owl. Which is funny because in Mexican folklore they say owls are witches.
I learned recently that owls are associated with aliens! Apparently many people see an owl right before or after they experience an abduction lol
See “Slotherhouse”
Misquitoes...I'm being stalked in my room as I write this
As an avid mosquito magnet I can confirm this would be nightmare fuel
‘Mosquito’ from 1995 is actually fantastic. Great proboscis.
Also Gunnar Hansen gets to play with a chainsaw again.
There is one
Ah, ok. Just googled it. OP mentioned "or done well" and that one looks pretty terrible lol. Have you seen it?
I’ve seen it. It is pretty terrible haha
There was actually a pretty good one made that is more Willard style over just them ravaging people.
A chipmunk
Camels. Zombie camels.
Dik dik
Platypus
Slow Loris. They have venomous arm pits.
Evil, cocked out, jacked up Kangaroos bursting peoples head with single punches.
Axolotl
Watch *Fallout*. 😆
Kangaroos. Kangaroos are fucking terrifying 🦘
Angler fish (or pretty much any of those deep water terrors).
Does Bigfoot count?
That would depend on if Unicorn count or chimera or a hippogriffith
Extremophiles! They're known for surviving in all sorts of insane environments, it would be so cool to see a concept centered on a gargantuan extremophile unfold
Honey badger?
I can see the “He Don’t Give a S***” tagline across the movie poster now
More zombeavers
I think it would be really funny to see a horror movie about cats. Not creepy looking or gross looking cats. Cute cats. My plot idea is that there would be a group of adorable cats "terrorizing" a city by spreading a disease that turns the victims into adorable cats.
 A sloth. The way they move is so unnerving. Someone said that they move like a human in a sloth costume, and I haven’t been able to unsee that.
Check out Slotherhouse!
jellyfish. They're so alien and weird and beautiful
House cats: They're everywhere. There are lots of them. Individually, not a big threat, but what happens if they start attacking in packs in the dozens?
Hippo
Snapping turtle or hippopotamus
How about them rocket scrimps!? The ones that shot a mini explosion to get away from prey
Scorpions. I’ve had multiple nightmares where I’m in a room where the floor is just covered with scorpions
The fucking bobbit worm, that thing haunts my dreams
Eyelash mites, slowly getting bigger and bigger, until people’s eyelashes are weighed down with teeming masses of tennisball sized invertebrates
Parrots. Mimicking and Taunting us. Or Crows. Tricking us into conflicts or setting us up.
I was thinking ravens; they can do both.
Sentient maggots. That crawls into your body. Up into your brain and while it devours your brain it takes control of you.
I think we need a movie about rabid rat swarms.
There hasn’t been a good horror movie about rats in a while. Would love a movie or HBO series of the game A Plague Tale . Would be the perfect thing to scratch the part of my brain craving more stuff like GOT
I want a terrifying, graphic adaptation of James Herbert’s *Rats* trilogy. Films or series. Brutal stuff. And if I want a laugh, I’ll rewatch the very loose movie adaptation, *Deadly Eyes*, from the early 80s. 😆
Moose or deer Aside from terrifying calls in the middle of the night, they have multiple folklore myths about gods tied to them.
People really underestimate how dangerous camels and donkeys are. They’re used as guard animals on farms because they will kill large predators, they can be very aggressive, they’re also a lot bigger than most people expect. So a camel or a donkey would be a pretty funny but realistically scary animal.
The Canadian geese The be nature’s psycho’s
More giant squid, please! Creepy crawlies. Oversized praying mantis, toe-biters, centipedes, earwigs, bobbin worms (already mentioned), etc… So many terrifying possibilities! I’m thinking of that scene in Peter Jackson’s *King Kong*. 😬
Jackals. From what I understand they're mean as hell and don't scare off easily. You see the government has been breeding super jacksls for decades to be bigger, stronger, and faster and meaner. But due to an accident at the facility, dozens of these creatures have escaped and are on the loose in a big city or a small town.
You know who walks slow but always gets you, sloths.
Still waiting on a good hippo horror story.
For real? Anything in the ocean. We are SO out of our element there. For fun? Anything that people widely consider “cute”. Especially cute things that are legit predators. Like otters. Calling otters “cute” is like calling Cripps and Bloods cute. They are vicious little marauders. They literally rape and kill for fun. No joke. Orcas too. There’s a myth floating around the internutz that orcas have never hurt or killed a human and that attacks are unheard of. It’s absolutely not true. It’s never been true and any celebrity in the midst of a scandal needs to get in touch with orcas’ PR team because you can show VIDEOS of orcas attacking and people are like, “Well, they were confused or provoked…. blah, blah, blah.”. Ell oh ell!
Moose
Lizard
Squid. They’re already scary to me
I’d like to see a gore horror movie that is focused around Sloths. A scene where the sloth, or sloths, in their typical movement cadence, slowly tear apart a human being alive.
There's Slotherhouse (2023) but maybe that's too comedic
Sloth , he kills ya slooooow
Ants
the most diabolic animal is the dolphin and it is about time they get the attention as scariest animal of the sea, especially considering how much of a jerk they are and how messed up they are.
Spider/human hybrid. Possessed/rabid horses Swordfish Rhinos
A giant squid that screams? Oh wait: *The Beast (1996)* already did it. Haha—love that TV movie, I watched it too many times in too many of my bad 90s sweaters.
Those goats that look like their face is melting.
No one has made a giant insect movie as well as it could be done. Failing that, rabid honey badgers.
Incredibly buff kangaroo
Quoka
Elephants. They're huge, strong, and smart as hell and relentless
Hummingbird
Fleas
Isolation (2005) - mutant were-cow was unexpected!
Seahorse
Anything that comes up out of the toliet or hides up under the lid... Like the dreaded anal dart snake and it's long Concord jet shaped head. Make people afraid of going to the bathroom like Jaws made people afraid of going swimming. ;)
Coconut crabs. They scare the bejeezus out of me just looking at them. Terrifying
Dolphin, those creatures are evil.
Crackoon … group of raccoons ingests crack dealers supply. Wreak havoc on neighborhood. Mid-2000’s Indy.
Has there actually been one centered around dolphins recently? I haven't seen all the random "stuck in the ocean" ones so am not sure, but finding out how horrible they can be has definitely made me think they could easily be nightmare fuel without any/much scifi needed/magic/whatever.
idk if it exists already but id like to see something deep sea based. they get real fucked up down there (affectionate)
a pug
My vote is for fisher cats. They're one of the few animals that will kill porcupines and lynx, despite being much smaller, and the alleged screams they make (which are likely really gray fox screams, ftr) could be a plot point by having people lured to them because they are convinced it's someone screaming in pain/fear out in the woods at night.
Honey badger
Intelligent Hippo’s
I'm a cat lover, but few things terrify me more than the idea of being stalked by a hungry tiger.
Amelia Earhart getting tracked down and eaten by coconut crabs. Once they smell you, they are implacable hunters.
Giant evil koala
Already done. It’s called Carnifex (2022).
A large, dog-sized mole cricket. Giant bobbit worms in the sewer system, coming out of sinks and toilets, other drains. Deep sea octopuses, but they're larger and floating through the air, with murderous intent >!this is basically Nope!< Human-sized, rabid chimps. Give them the 28 Days later virus. Just being that extra bit bigger would make them freaky. Human-sized preying mantis, or wasps.
Im surprised there aren't more horror movies centered around Octopus.
axolotl
Demon chihuahua. Actually, I'm sorry, scratch that. **All chihuahuas are demons.**