List of eco-horror films

This is a list of eco-horror films. These are documentaries dealing with the possible disastrous ecological consequences of human activity.^[1][2] Also included are some natural horror films and other films in the horror genre whose plots include mention of ecological issues.^[3][4]

Documentaries

• An Inconvenient Truth (2006; global warming)^[5][6]
• The 11th Hour (2007; the state of the natural environment)^[5]
• Flow: For Love of Water (2008; privatization of water infrastructure)^[5]

Fiction

• Long Weekend (1978; animals turn hostile towards a young couple who disrespect nature)^[7][8]
• The Last Winter (2006; oil drilling in Alaska awakes slumbering forces)^[9][10]
• The Happening (2008; plants release a toxin as a defense mechanism)^[11]
• The Bay (2012; about the Chesapeake Bay water quality problems)^[12][13]

See also

• List of disaster films
• List of giant-monster films
• List of natural horror films

References

1. Ford 2008. "Unlike most horror films these movies aren't fiction, they are serious documentaries tackling the big issues of our time. But the message is still: Be afraid."
2. Ulaby 2008.
3. Simpson 2010. "... this article examines how a number of exploitation horror films have dealt with environmental topics and issues of trespass. In particular ... animals ... in some key Australian eco-horror films from the last 30 years..."
4. Screen Daily 2011. "...Drought, [an] eco-horror tale about survivors of an apocalypse whose precious water source is threatened by a legion of bloodthirsty youths."
5. Ford 2008.
6. Taubin, Amy (September 2006). "An Inconvenient Truth". BFI. Retrieved 4 September 2011.
7. Simpson 2010.
8. Jordan, Bruce (20 June 2010). "Long Weekend (1978)". Classic-Horror.com. Retrieved 4 September 2011.
9. Whitty, Stephen (18 September 2007). "Eco-horror tale short on horror but effectively unsettling". NJ.com. Retrieved 4 September 2011.
10. Nayman, Adam (24 November 2008). "The Big Chill: Larry Fessenden's The Last Winter". Cinema Scope: Issue 29. Retrieved 4 September 2011.
11. Foy 2010, p. 168. "The Happening is a naturalist parable of what might occur if the earth began rejecting humanity as a virus."
12. Piepenburg, Erik (28 October 2012). "With 'The Bay,' Barry Levinson Makes Eco-Horror". nytimes.com. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
13. Ramos, Steve (14 September 2012). "TIFF12 Review: THE BAY. Veteran filmmaker Barry Levinson tries his hand at found footage horror and comes up short". upcoming-movies.com. Retrieved 7 November 2012.

Citations

• Ford, Matt (22 October 2008). "Eco-horror films shocking us into action". CNN. Retrieved 28 August 2011.
• Foy, Joseph J. (2010). "It Came From Planet Earth: Eco-Horror and the Politics of Postenvironmentalism in M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening". In Dale, Timothy M.; Foy, Joseph J. Homer Simpson Marches on Washington: Dissent through American Popular Culture. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-2580-0.
• "Lawrence Gough unveils Extraction, talks up Drought". Screen Daily. 30 August 2011. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
• Simpson, Catherine (2010). "Australian eco-horror and Gaia's revenge: animals, eco-nationalism and the new nature". Studies in Australasian Cinema. 4 (1). doi:10.1386/sac.4.1.43_1. ISSN 1750-3175. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
• Ulaby, Neda (14 June 2008). "'Eco-Horror': Green Panic on the Silver Screen?". NPR. Retrieved 4 September 2011.