The podcast for all your animal attack needs! Nilo & Jen share harrowing tales of real-life animal attacks, discuss how to keep your animal encounters positive, and recommend the best animal horror movies for your viewing pleasure.
In Episode 26: Feline Fury, Jen and Nilo are joined by cat/horror experts Morgan Woolsey and Ben Raphael Sher to discuss what happens when good cats go bad! (Spoiler: they don’t. All Cats Are Beautiful.) We share an irl story of a family (supposedly) terrorized by a housecat before spending the majority of the episode digging into a range of cat horror films, including Strays, The Uncanny, Eye of the Cat, and Hausu, with brief references to Kuroneko, Uninvited, Demonia, Devil Story, Let the Right One In, The Black Cat, and more. For more from Ben and Morgan, you can find them on IG - @benraphaelsher and @quellehorror, respectively.
Sources:
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/calif-house-cat-sends-3-people-hospital-article-1.1762652
https://meowtel.com/blog/post/how-to-handle-and-prevent-a-cat-attack
Musical snippet from “The Dreadful Story about Harriet and the Matches” by The Tiger Lillies
28 Jul 2022
25 - Oh Snap!
We know it’s been a while, crocodile. But we’re back with a vengeance in an episode nearly as massive as “the chief of beasts” himself! In Episode 25 Jen and Nilo share stories about unfortunate human encounters with crocs, and celebrate various entries in the crocsploitation subgenre: Rogue, Black Water, Dark Age, Lake Placid, Crocodile, Killer Crocodile, and Killer Crocodile 2.
Sources:
Gordon Grice, The Book of Deadly Animals
Hugh Edwards, Crocodile Attack
Michael Garlock, Killer Gators and Crocs: Gruesome Encounters from Across the Globe
Peter Hathaway Capstick, Maneaters
James Clarke, Man Is the Prey
“David/Sandy and Ken/Maura” (I Survived…, S5 E21, 2013)
https://www.aislingmagazine.com/aislingmagazine/articles/TAM30/ValPlumwood.html
https://theconversation.com/when-and-where-do-nile-crocodiles-attack-heres-what-we-found-119037
https://www.britannica.com/list/7-crocodilian-species-that-are-dangerous-to-humans
http://www.crocodile-attack.info/welcome
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/jan/19/weekend.barbaramcmahon
https://movieweb.com/exclusive-andrew-traucki-goes-deep-into-black-water/
https://mondovulgare.com/2019/04/03/a-history-of-crocsploitation-crocodile-and-alligator-movies-that-is/
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-05-22-mn-60701-story.html
https://www.newsweek.com/giant-crocodile-kills-eats-8-year-old-girl-front-her-friends-1639539
https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/crocodile-named-osama-bin-laden-terrorized-african-village-ate-80-people-3849149.html
https://people.com/human-interest/12-year-old-boy-recounts-crocodile-attack-during-family-vacation-in-mexico/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/25/saltwater-crocodile-attacks-solomon-islands
https://www.krugerpark.co.za/krugerpark-times-4-19-croc-attack-24762.html
11 Sept 2021
24 - The Last Laugh
Known variously as vampires, witch’s steeds, and sexual perverts, across myriad cultures and throughout human history the hyena has haunted our collective imagination. In the words of Peter Hathaway Capstick, “From the first, faraway woooo-uppp of the pack gathering to the sniggering chitter of the kill, the hyena is telling you something you don’t want to be reminded of: you’re just the meat after all and your day will come.” In episode 24, Jen and Nilo share stories of some unfortunate humans’ encounters with these cackling creatures and discuss the dubious merits of Hyenas (2011) and Endangered Species (2021).
Sources:
Gordon Gryce, The Book of Deadly Animals
Peter Hathaway Capstick, Death in the Long Grass
Peter Hathaway Capstick, Maneaters
James Clarke, Man Is the Prey
Human Prey 1.2, “Killers of the Savannah,” Animal Planet
https://letterboxd.com/animalattackpod/list/when-animals-attack-podcast-viewing-list/
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26294631
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/20/africa/hyenas-kill-man-scli-intl/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/nov/21/kenya.xanrice
https://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/23733/hyenas-2011/
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