Amidst our joyful destruction of the planet and idle apathy as the animal kingdom suffers at our predatory human hands, sometimes nature strikes back with extraordinary violence. Since the origin of time, our worst fear has been of Mother Nature's justified revenge against the various aggressions we've unleashed upon her. A number of filmmakers take mischevious pleasure in playing on our primitive anxieties. The creature feature is one of the earliest cinematic genres, one that provides generous fodder for our B to Z programming and in which the level of cheese is often inversely proportional to that of the budget.

After the immense success of Spielberg's "Jaws", producers desperately sought to develop all kinds of variations on the same theme. "Grizzly" is a shark movie on dry land: deep inside a North American national park, visitors and campers are massacred by a bear of monstrous proportions. And the Australian bush doesn't lack for wild, ferocious beasts either: "Razorback" is a horrifying wild boar, some 400 kilos of pure instinctive force. Known at the time for his music videos, director Russel Mulcahy immerses his debut feature in the trashy-chic esthetic of the 80s and manages to capture the relentless savagery of Australia's natural spaces unlike any other.