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Man vs. Beast is a series of sensationalistic television specials aired in the United States by the Fox television network in 2003. The shows were produced by Brian Richardson and directed by Bob Levy. They involve a variety of challenges in which people and animals compete against each other.
- Reality Television
- Jaws
- The Ghost and The Darkness
- Jurassic Park
- Cujo
- King Kong
- Piranha
- The Birds
- Anaconda
- Arachnophobia
- Lake Placid
What better way to kick off a list of epic man vs. beast battles than with the movie that made generations of moviegoers afraid to go in the water? Jaws is inspired by a series of real-life shark attacks in New Jersey in the early 1900s. In the original, the island town of Amity is stalked by a large and very tenacious Great White whose arrival is ...
Like Jaws, The Ghost and the Darkness is another tale of man battling beast inspired by real events. The film is set in late 19th-Century Kenya, where a pair of man-eating lions (named The Ghost and The Darkness, of course) are terrorizing a railroad crew as they construct a vital bridge. Engineer John Henry Patterson (Val Kilmer) and expert hunter...
Jurassic Park isn't just a movie about spineless lawyers getting mauled by Tyrannosaurs. It's also a cautionary tale about what happens when science is pushed too far, too fast. The film focuses on an island near Costa Rica that has been turned into a zoo for genetically grown dinosaurs. Naturally, the dinosaurs escape and all hell breaks loose jus...
One of Stephen King's most iconic novels was the source for this popular horror film. Cujo proves that, no matter how friendly or benign a Saint Bernard might be, there's very little a human can do when the dog decides it's going to attack. Kindly house pet Cujo is struck by rabies, beginning a reign of terror that culminates with a mother and her ...
King Kong is the prototypical man vs. beast film, debuting in 1933, being remade in 1976 and 2005 and helping to inspire Legendary's current MonsterVerse franchise. It isn't exactly the most plausible of the films in this genre, pitting an intrepid band of explorers against hordes of dinosaurs and one extremely oversized ape. Much of the film takes...
Given the massive popularity of Jaws, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood began churning out various rehashes and spinoffs. Piranha was among the first on the scene. In this case, one man-eating Great White was replaced by a swarm of man-eating piranhas. Not just any piranhas, mind you, but a strain of genetically modified creatures desig...
Birds are the most pleasant branch of the animal kingdom. They're colorful and make pretty music. But when Alfred Hitchcock gets behind the camera, they can also be scary as hell. In The Birds, a quiet California town is suddenly bombarded with unexplained attacks from birds of various species. The film culminates with the infamous telephone booth ...
Sharks and bears can be scary, but for a lot of people, snakes are the creepiest animals roaming the wild. In Anaconda, a group of National Geographic photojournalists find themselves unwillingly swept up in a quest to hunt down an anaconda of record-breaking size. Naturally, that leads to several people being suffocated to death and eaten. Though ...
Like snakes, spiders are creatures that really manage to make some people's flesh crawl. Arachnophobia played on that fear. Playing out like a slightly more humorous version of The Birds, Arachnophobia sees a rare and extremely deadly type of spider make its way from the jungles of Venezuela to small-town America. Once the spider begins breeding, i...
Anyone with the slightest interest in prehistoric zoology knows that the planet used to be populated by much larger sharks and crocodiles than the ones swimming around these days. Lake Placid offers up a scenario where one of those giant crocs has survived to the present and isn't afraid to devour whatever hapless humans and even bears that happen ...
Man vs. Beast: Directed by Bob Levy. With Steve Santagati, Michael Buffer, Shawn Crawford, Dave Francisco. Humans compete against animals in feats of athleticism.
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- Game-Show, Reality-TV
- Bob Levy
- 2003-01-15
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Overview. Man vs. Beast is a series of sensationalistic television specials aired in the United States by the Fox television network. The shows were produced by Brian Richardson and directed by Bob Levy. They involve a variety of challenges in which people and animals compete against each other.
