Day of the Animals

Day of the Animals (1977)

  • 29% want to see it
    (1,299 ratings)

An interesting low-budget entry in the post-Jaws animals-run-amok genre (which also owes more than a little to Hitchcock's The Birds), this noisy, violent thriller features the prophetic premise of a widening gap in the ozone layer (thanks to human indulgences in hairspray and other aerosol… More

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Critic Reviews

  • Chuck O'Leary, Fantastica Daily

    A highly entertaining nature-goes-wild thriller. What's not to like about a movie where a macho, bare-chested Leslie Nielsen literally tries to fight a grizzly bear?

  • Staci Layne Wilson, StaciWilson.com

    Every dog has his day... and he doesn't choose to spend it watching this movie.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Tim S


    Here we go again with another Jaws rip-off, right down to the font of the text that opens the movie explaining the plot to us before we can even get a chance to get involved in it. Day of the Animals is another in a long line of 'nature goes awry and attacks human beings'… More

  • Luke B


    Fun and face-palmingly brilliant killer monster nonsense. It was awesome to see so much use of real animals. I was also very surprised at who bought it and when, and in a film like this, sometimes who gets killed is the best part. The characters all turn against each other, or… More

  • Ken S


    Leslie Nielson fights a bear!

  • Christopher B


    William Girdler, Christopher George, a racist Leslie Neilson and plenty o' animal attacks make this a great entry in the nature gone amok film. Sure it's a product of it's time, but oh what a time it was.

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