12. When Animals Attack (Vol.1)

About this episode

The episode features a showdown of films where humans battle animals, alongside discussions about future media.

Send us Fan Mail In our new episode, we pit four films against each other where man fights animals on an epic scale. Anaconda from 1997 fights The Ghost and The Darkness from 1996, then The Reef from 2010 fights Crawl from 2019. Does a giant snake best a lion? Will the mighty shark defeat an alligator? Listen to find out! Also, some optimism about 2026 in movies, TV and video games for the first twenty minutes if you are all about that kind of thing... Follow us on Threads and Instagram...

People in this episode

Hosts: John Holt, James Brigginshaw

Topics covered

• animal attacks
• film reviews
• action films
• cinema history
• optimism in media

Keywords

• Anaconda
• The Ghost and The Darkness
• The Reef
• Crawl
• animal fights
• film comparison
• 2026 movies

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Anaconda, The Ghost and The Darkness, The Reef, Crawl

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