It's always been a wild world, with humans telling stories of killer animals as soon as they could tell stories at all.
Movies are an especially popular vehicle for our fascination with fierce creatures.
In Brute Force , Dominic Lennard takes a close look at a range of cinematic animal attackers, including killer gorillas, sharks, snakes, bears, wolves, spiders, and even a few dinosaurs.
Lennard argues that animal horror is not so much a focused genre as i.
