When Animals Attack Podcast Jen & Nilo

In Episode 26: Feline Fury, Jen and Nilo are joined by cat/horror experts Morgan Woolsey and Ben Raphael Sher to discuss what happens when good cats go bad! (Spoiler: they don’t. All Cats Are Beautiful.) We share an irl story of a family (supposedly) terrorized by a housecat before spending the majority of the episode digging into a range of cat horror films, including Strays, The Uncanny, Eye of the Cat, and Hausu, with brief references to Kuroneko, Uninvited, Demonia, Devil Story, Let the Right One In, The Black Cat, and more. For more from Ben and Morgan, you can find them on IG - @benraphaelsher and @quellehorror, respectively.
Sources:
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/calif-house-cat-sends-3-people-hospital-article-1.1762652 
https://meowtel.com/blog/post/how-to-handle-and-prevent-a-cat-attack
Musical snippet from “The Dreadful Story about Harriet and the Matches” by The Tiger Lillies
 

We know it’s been a while, crocodile. But we’re back with a vengeance in an episode nearly as massive as “the chief of beasts” himself! In Episode 25 Jen and Nilo share stories about unfortunate human encounters with crocs, and celebrate various entries in the crocsploitation subgenre: Rogue, Black Water, Dark Age, Lake Placid, Crocodile, Killer Crocodile, and Killer Crocodile 2.
Sources:
Gordon Grice, The Book of Deadly Animals
Hugh Edwards, Crocodile Attack
Michael Garlock, Killer Gators and Crocs: Gruesome Encounters from Across the Globe
Peter Hathaway Capstick, Maneaters
James Clarke, Man Is the Prey
“David/Sandy and Ken/Maura” (I Survived…, S5 E21, 2013)
https://www.aislingmagazine.com/aislingmagazine/articles/TAM30/ValPlumwood.html 
https://theconversation.com/when-and-where-do-nile-crocodiles-attack-heres-what-we-found-119037
https://www.britannica.com/list/7-crocodilian-species-that-are-dangerous-to-humans
http://www.crocodile-attack.info/welcome
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/jan/19/weekend.barbaramcmahon
https://movieweb.com/exclusive-andrew-traucki-goes-deep-into-black-water/
https://mondovulgare.com/2019/04/03/a-history-of-crocsploitation-crocodile-and-alligator-movies-that-is/
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-05-22-mn-60701-story.html
https://www.newsweek.com/giant-crocodile-kills-eats-8-year-old-girl-front-her-friends-1639539
https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/crocodile-named-osama-bin-laden-terrorized-african-village-ate-80-people-3849149.html
https://people.com/human-interest/12-year-old-boy-recounts-crocodile-attack-during-family-vacation-in-mexico/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/25/saltwater-crocodile-attacks-solomon-islands
https://www.krugerpark.co.za/krugerpark-times-4-19-croc-attack-24762.html
 

Known variously as vampires, witch’s steeds, and sexual perverts, across myriad cultures and throughout human history the hyena has haunted our collective imagination. In the words of Peter Hathaway Capstick, “From the first, faraway woooo-uppp of the pack gathering to the sniggering chitter of the kill, the hyena is telling you something you don’t want to be reminded of: you’re just the meat after all and your day will come.” In episode 24, Jen and Nilo share stories of some unfortunate humans’ encounters with these cackling creatures and discuss the dubious merits of Hyenas (2011) and Endangered Species (2021).
Sources:
Gordon Gryce, The Book of Deadly Animals
Peter Hathaway Capstick, Death in the Long Grass
Peter Hathaway Capstick, Maneaters
James Clarke, Man Is the Prey
Human Prey 1.2, “Killers of the Savannah,” Animal Planet
https://letterboxd.com/animalattackpod/list/when-animals-attack-podcast-viewing-list/
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26294631
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/20/africa/hyenas-kill-man-scli-intl/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/nov/21/kenya.xanrice
https://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/23733/hyenas-2011/
 

In Episode 23, Jen and Nilo swap stories of unfortunate arachnid encounters before discussing the invading spider armies of Arachnophobia (1990) and Kingdom of the Spiders (1977) and the far more disturbing spider sex of Latvian art-horror curiosity Spider (1992).
SOURCES:
BJ Colangelo, “Kingdom of the Spiders (1977),” When Animals Attack: The 70 Best Horror Movies with Killer Animals
Gordon Grice, The Red Hourglass
Gordon Grice, The Book of Deadly Animals
Niklas Salmose, “We Spiders: Spider as the Monster of Modernity in the Big Bug and Nature-on-a-Rampage Film Genres,” Animal Horror Cinema: Genre, History and Criticism
https://www.grunge.com/161796/creepy-real-life-stories-about-giant-spiders/?utm_campaign=clip 
https://www.thecut.com/2020/10/sinkhole-opens-in-nyc-sidewalk-plunging-man-into-rat-pit.html 
https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/11/potentially-deadly-spiders-found-in-supermarket-banana-bunch/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/giant-hairy-spider-attacks-spark-panic-in-india/
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jun/15/experience-i-was-nearly-killed-by-a-spider-bite

In episode 22, Jen and Nilo share stories of a variety of avian attacks, from magpies mobbing cyclists to starlings crashing planes to the terrifying exploits of the living velociraptor known as the cassowary. Then they discuss some of the best animal horror movies ever put to celluloid – The Birds and The Lighthouse – and possibly the worst film ever made, Birdemic. But the most fun entry this go-round was the 1987 schlockfest, Beaks (aka Birds of Prey).
Sources:
Gordon Grice, Deadly Kingdom: The Book of Dangerous Animals
https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/26/us/owl-attacks-officer/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/14/jair-bolsonaro-bitten-by-bird-during-coronavirus-quarantine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/behind-scenes-national-zoo-worlds-most-dangerous-bird-180960704/
https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/mobile/stubborn-peacock-claims-entrance-to-victoria-apartment-as-mating-ground-refuses-to-leave-1.5011228
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/goose-attack-leaves-ottawa-cyclist-shaken-and-scarred-1.2686751
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/video/animals/swarms-of-birds-hold-shoppers-captive-in-texas/vi-BB12UKVk?fbclid=IwAR0LOvhlSVP7rX6Kc7aynLKvakVi7cxXBzlGl-u97Cc1tWRXp1rogNjXlbE
https://quietthinker1.wordpress.com/2015/04/06/birdemic-confusion-disgust/
 
 
 
 

In episode 21, Jen & Nilo share stories about a recent mountain lion attack and the Zanesville Massacre, before hashing out their reactions to the Netflix limited series Tiger King. 
For more information about how you can contribute to organizing around the issues raised in this conversation check out:
Panthera, an org that advocates for big cats and their ecosystems, https://www.panthera.org/
DSA, an org dedicated to building progressive movements for social change, https://www.dsausa.org/
Sources:
https://www.gq.com/story/terry-thompson-ohio-zoo-massacre-chris-heath-gq-february-2012?printable=true
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/6-old-girl-attacked-mountain-204206954.html?soc_src=newsroom&soc_trk=com.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard&.tsrc=newsroom