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12 Deadly Animal Movies That Used Real Animals — With Varying Levels of Success

MovieMaker Magazine
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Story by Tim Molloy
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From Snakes on a Plane to Cujo, a wild ride through the world of killer animal movies that used real-life critters in varying degrees of success and terror.
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  • The making of The Birds was no walk in the park, with over a dozen crew members hospitalized from bites and scratches by the 25,000 birds used in filming.
  • The production of the 1981 film Roar was notoriously dangerous, resulting in 70 cast and crew members injured, despite the claim that no animals were harmed.
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Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Bobby Cannavale, Kenan Thompson, Richard Harris, DeForest Kelley, Janet Leigh, Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Harold Perrineau, Bart the Bear, Val Kilmer, Michael Douglas, Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith, Noel Marshall, David Arquette, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Lopez, Jon Voight, Ice Cube, Owen Wilson, Kari Wuhrer, Robert Forster, Bryan Cranston, Dee Wallace, Danny Pintauro, Gary Morgan, New Line Cinema, Paramount, MGM, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Drafthouse Films, Warner Bros., Sony Pictures Releasing, Group 1 Films, Snakes on a Plane, Orca, Grizzly, Night of the Lepus, The Edge, The Ghost and the Darkness, The Birds, Roar, Eight-Legged Freaks, Anaconda, Alligator, Cujo
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