Herpetophobia
by Encyclopedia_of_Horror | created - 03 Feb 2015 | updated - 26 Oct 2020 | PublicA list of movies for those who have a fear of alligators / crocodiles, brought to you by Eric Myford, author of The Encyclopedia of Horror & Suspense Movies book series...
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1. Alligator (1980)
R | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A pet baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives in the city sewers. Twelve years later, it grows to an enormous size thanks to a diet of discarded laboratory dogs injected with growth hormones. Now, humans have entered the menu.
Director: Lewis Teague | Stars: Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo, Dean Jagger
Votes: 15,829
2. Alligator II: The Mutation (1991)
PG-13 | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A giant alligator makes a city lake his new feeding ground and must be stopped before he breaks out into the surroundings.
Director: Jon Hess | Stars: Joseph Bologna, Dee Wallace, Richard Lynch, Woody Brown
Votes: 3,163
3. Rogue (2007)
R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Horror
An American journalist on assignment in the Australian outback encounters a man-eating crocodile while trapped on a rapidly flooding mud island.
Director: Greg McLean | Stars: Michael Vartan, Radha Mitchell, Sam Worthington, Caroline Brazier
Votes: 33,369 | Gross: $0.01M
4. Crocodile (2000 Video)
R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Eight college students board a houseboat for their spring vacation that promises to be the best of their young lives...how many will survive?
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Mark McLachlan, Caitlin Martin, Chris Solari, D.W. Reiser
Votes: 4,764
5. Crocodile 2: Death Swamp (2002)
R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A criminal carrying stolen money and gold hijacks a plane that crashes in a Mexican swamp, where the survivors are terrorized by a giant crocodile.
Director: Gary Jones | Stars: Heidi Lenhart, Chuck Walczak, Jon Sklaroff, Darryl Theirse
Votes: 2,250
6. Black Water (2007)
R | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
A boat tour of a mangrove swamp turns into a fight for survival when a group of people are attacked by a ferocious saltwater crocodile.
Directors: David Nerlich, Andrew Traucki | Stars: Diana Glenn, Maeve Dermody, Andy Rodoreda, Ben Oxenbould
Votes: 16,021
7. Blood Surf (2000 Video)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Follow an MTV-style filmmaker as she and her crew shoot an expose of the latest, most dangerous craze in extreme sports: bloodsurfing. While shooting in Australia, the crew becomes prey of a vicious saltwater crocodile.
Director: James D.R. Hickox | Stars: Dax Miller, Tziporah Malkah, Duncan Regehr, Matt Borlenghi
Votes: 2,642
8. Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus (2010 Video)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A megalodon battles with a crocosaurus causing massive destruction. The US Army has to try and destroy the havoc creating monsters.
Director: Christopher Ray | Stars: Gary Stretch, Jaleel White, Sarah Lieving, Robert Picardo
Votes: 5,618
9. Dark Age (1987)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Horror
A park ranger is tasked with dealing with a killer crocodile that appears to have a spiritual connection with the local Aboriginals.
Director: Arch Nicholson | Stars: John Jarratt, Nikki Coghill, Max Phipps, Burnham Burnham
Votes: 1,530
10. Mega Python vs. Gatoroid (2011 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
There is a crisis in the Florida Everglades as giant pythons are threatening the alligator population.
Director: Mary Lambert | Stars: Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, A Martinez, Kathryn Joosten
Votes: 3,609
11. Lake Placid (1999)
R | 82 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
Four people attempt to stop a gigantic crocodile, who is terrorizing residents in Black Lake, Maine.
Director: Steve Miner | Stars: Bridget Fonda, Bill Pullman, Oliver Platt, Brendan Gleeson
Votes: 65,488 | Gross: $31.77M
12. Lake Placid 2 (2007 TV Movie)
Unrated | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Man-eating crocodiles return to the lake, as two males and one aggressive female crocodile protecting their nest wreak havoc on the locals.
Director: David Flores | Stars: John Schneider, Sarah Lafleur, Sam McMurray, Chad Michael Collins
Votes: 7,395
13. Lake Placid 3 (2010 TV Movie)
R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Killer crocodiles and their offspring terrorize residents of a small community.
Director: Griff Furst | Stars: Colin Ferguson, Yancy Butler, Kirsty Mitchell, Kacey Clarke
Votes: 5,396
14. Lake Placid: The Final Chapter (2012 TV Movie)
R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Black Lake is now a crocodile sanctuary, surrounded by an electric fence. When the fence is left open, a high-school bus unknowingly enters the park. It's up to Reba and the Sheriff to save the kids from becoming crocodile food.
Director: Don Michael Paul | Stars: Elisabeth Röhm, Yancy Butler, Paul Nicholls, Poppy Lee Friar
Votes: 3,489
15. Croczilla (2012)
PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A 36 foot crocodile goes on the rampage in Beijing after being moved from a peaceful Crocodile Farm and onto the menu of a local gangster.
Director: Lisheng Lin | Stars: Barbie Hsu, Tao Guo, Zhaoqi Shi, Suet Lam
Votes: 889
16. Croc (2007 TV Movie)
Unrated | 100 min | Horror
A huge man-eating crocodile terrorizes people near Krabi, Thailand. A hunter stalks the beast, while a local tries to blame a foreign crocodile-farm owner for the crocodile's rampage.
Director: Stewart Raffill | Stars: Michael Madsen, Peter Tuinstra, Sherry Edwards, Elizabeth Healey
Votes: 1,726
17. The Great Alligator (1979)
Not Rated | 89 min | Horror
Tourists on a tropical island anger an island god, who turns himself into a giant alligator and stalks them.
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Barbara Bach, Claudio Cassinelli, Mel Ferrer, Romano Puppo
Votes: 1,435
18. Primeval (2007)
R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A news team is sent to Burundi to capture and bring home a legendary 25-foot crocodile. Their difficult task turns potentially deadly when a warlord targets them for death.
Director: Michael Katleman | Stars: Dominic Purcell, Orlando Jones, Brooke Langton, Jürgen Prochnow
Votes: 15,047 | Gross: $10.60M
19. Robocroc (2013 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A rocket carrying nano robots crash lands shortly after takeoff into a zoo. The bots are released and find their way into a massive crocodile. The croc, now programmed to kill, will target anything and anyone for its next meal.
Director: Arthur Sinclair | Stars: Corin Nemec, Lisa McAllister, Keith Duffy, Steven Hartley
Votes: 1,134
20. Supercroc (2007)
85 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A team of soldiers must stop a giant, bloodthirsty crocodile from reaching a nearby city, while trying to avoid being a meal for the beast themselves.
Director: Scott Harper | Stars: Cynthia Rose Hall, Matt Blashaw, Kim Little, David Novak
Votes: 1,216
21. Ragin' Cajun Redneck Gators (2013)
88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When a young woman comes home from college to her family, mutated alligators start attacking her kin and the rivaling family in the bayou. They must overcome their feuds and fight together against the redneck gators.
Director: Griff Furst | Stars: Michael Baird, Nicoye Banks, Christopher Berry, Amy Brassette
Votes: 859
22. Khoht phetchakhaat (2005)
87 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the 1960s, there were few places on Earth as quiet and peaceful as Thailand's Chumporn province, where people continue to live life the old country way. This tranquility is shattered the... See full summary »
Director: Anat Yuangngern | Stars: Chartchai Ngamsan, Chirapat Wongpaisanlux, Worapod Cha'am, Lukana Lisani
Votes: 125
23. Killer Crocodile (1989)
Not Rated | 90 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of environmentalists arrives at a faraway tropical delta where toxic waste is being dumped. However the water also hides a giant crocodile. The corrupt local officials don't help much either.
Director: Fabrizio De Angelis | Stars: Richard Anthony Crenna, Pietro Genuardi, John Harper, Sherrie Rose
Votes: 1,590
24. Killer Crocodile 2 (1990)
Not Rated | 87 min | Horror
The Caribbean swamps which is to be made into a holiday resort is terrorized again by a second monstrous crocodile which is killing off anyone unfortunate to be on the water.
Director: Giannetto De Rossi | Stars: Richard Anthony Crenna, Debra Karr, Ennio Girolami, Terry Baer
Votes: 842
25. Crocodile (1979)
R | 92 min | Horror
A giant crocodile is killing and frightening people living nearby rivers. Two men, whose wives and daughter have been killed by the crocodile, decide to chase and eliminate it.
Director: Sompote Sands | Stars: Nard Poowanai, Ni Tien, Angela Wells, Kirk Warren
Votes: 325
26. Crocodile Alert (2006 TV Movie)
90 min | Action, Comedy
After a group of criminals accidentally set their crocodile loose in a German river, a reptile hunter and a forensic expert must team up to track down the bloodthirsty reptile before its eggs begin to hatch.
Director: Simon X. Rost | Stars: Christian Tramitz, Jennifer Ulrich, Doreen Jacobi, Dirk Bach
Votes: 156
27. Dinocroc (2004)
R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
After an African dinosaur ancestor of the crocodile is found, Dr. Campbell uses its DNA to create prototypes at Paula Kennedy's Gereco lab.
Director: Kevin O'Neill | Stars: Costas Mandylor, Charles Napier, Bruce Weitz, Matt Borlenghi
Votes: 2,022
28. Eaten Alive (1976)
R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller
A psychotic redneck, who owns a dilapidated hotel in rural East Texas, kills various people who upset him or his business, and he feeds their bodies to a large crocodile that he keeps as a pet in the swamp beside his hotel.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Neville Brand, Mel Ferrer, Carolyn Jones, Marilyn Burns
Votes: 8,672
29. Freshwater (2016)
83 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A new take on the classic story of a group of twenty-something kids' weekend of terror at the lake house.
Director: Brandy Berry | Stars: John Bobek, Donnabella Mortel, Zoë Bell, Tom O'Connell
Votes: 809
30. Lake Placid vs. Anaconda (2015 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A giant crocodile goes head to head with a giant anaconda. The town Sheriff must find a way to destroy the two monsters before they kill the whole town.
Director: A.B. Stone | Stars: Corin Nemec, Yancy Butler, Skye Lourie, Robert Englund
Votes: 3,821
31. Supergator (2006 Video)
87 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
An American geologist is monitoring a local volcano when the Supergator, a prehistoric alligator recreated from fossilized DNA, escapes from a secret bio-engineering research center.
Director: Brian Clyde | Stars: Brad Johnson, Kelly McGillis, Bianca Lawson, Mary Alexandra Stiefvater
Votes: 999
32. Crocodile Fangs (1978)
R | 100 min | Horror
A giant crocodile is terrorizing Thai villagers. A group of adventurers set out by boat to track it down and kill it.
Director: Won-se Lee | Stars: Oo Min, In-il Shin, Eun-hie Wang, Am Park
Votes: 131
33. The Hatching (2014)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
On the death of his father, Tim Webber returns to his childhood village in Somerset to find something sinister is disturbing the idyllic peace of the villagers.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Andrew Lee Potts, Sylvia Syms, Laura Aikman, Thomas Turgoose
Votes: 907
34. A Zombie Croc: Evil Has Been Summoned (2015 Video)
TV-14 | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A team of researchers and a mysterious hunter known only as "Crocodile Jack" venture into the swamp to battle a monstrous resurrected swamp beast that has been mutilating and devouring town... See full summary »
Director: Robert Elkins | Stars: Crystal Howell, Tony Jones, Ken Peebles, David S. Witt
Votes: 121
35. Dinocroc vs. Supergator (2010 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Created in the laboratories of a biotech corporation, two ravenous mega-reptiles level everything in their way. Now, three defenders must try to save the day. Who shall live and who shall die in the battle between Dinocroc and Supergator?
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: David Carradine, Rib Hillis, Amy Holt, John Callahan
Votes: 2,218
36. Crawl (I) (2019)
R | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A young woman, while attempting to save her father during a category 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped in a flooding house and must fight for her life against alligators.
Director: Alexandre Aja | Stars: Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Morfydd Clark, Ross Anderson
Votes: 93,878 | Gross: $39.01M
37. Black Water: Abyss (2020)
Not Rated | 98 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Five friends exploring a remote cave system in Northern Australia find themselves threatened by a hungry crocodile.
Director: Andrew Traucki | Stars: Jessica McNamee, Luke Mitchell, Amali Golden, Benjamin Hoetjes
Votes: 6,792
38. The Pool (III) (2018)
Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Drama, Horror
In an abandoned 6-meter deep pool, a couple is stranded there with a deadly predator.
Director: Ping Lumpraploeng | Stars: Theeradej Wongpuapan, Ratnamon Ratchiratham
Votes: 3,436
39. Lake Placid: Legacy (2018 TV Movie)
R | 93 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of urban explorers venture to a quiet lake in upstate Maine that is home to a deadly and forgotten secret. Unfortunately for them, they quickly discover they're not alone and encounter a deadly threat that can kill them all.
Director: Darrell Roodt | Stars: Katherine Barrell, Tim Rozon, Sai Bennett, Luke Newton
Votes: 2,636
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