Beyond monsters, horror movies have a rich tradition of killer animals. Supercharged versions of creatures from our own realm of existence. There’s the giant croc in Lake Placid, the mutated giant ants of Them!, the winged foes of Hitchcock’s The Birds. There’s the bloodthirsty flock of Black Sheep, the titular fish in Eli Roth’s Piranha, the undead dam builders in Zombeavers, and the bear that did cocaine in, um, Cocaine Bear. From Jaws to the giant smartsharks in Deep Blue Sea to the even more colossal megalodon shark in The Meg and its sequel, sharks have a whole subgenre of their own.
Nobody though, at least to my knowledge, has ever tried to make a creature feature movie about a killer sloth.
There’s probably a reason for that.
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