Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Boba_Fett1138 You might expect lots of fun from a movie called "Day of the Animals", that features a story about animals turning against humans, due to a sudden discovered problem with the ozone-layer (yeah don't ask, still not sure how that works in this movie). But the movie is a bit of a disappointment, since very little is actually happening in it. It's a real lackluster, that only becomes mildly interesting when the Leslie Nielsen character for some reason suddenly becomes crazy mad.Seriously, Leslie Nielsen's role in this movie is more hilarious than any of the movies he did in the last couple of years. And he is not even playing his character in this movie in a comedy-like way but he's playing it completely straight and serious, which really makes it all the more hilarious.But other than that, this is a really uninteresting genre movie to watch, that absolutely has nothing special in it. It's not the worst movie in its genre but that is because it is not being the most ridicules one. There is just far too little happening for that to become so.It really takes a long time before there is finally something happening in the movie and when it does, it's over before you know it. Surely they could had done far more interesting with its concept of all kinds of animals attacking humans, despite of its obvious low budget. The moments in which the animals attack in this movie are not done well at all and absolutely do not work out and are often more laughable than anything else really. So perhaps it after all is not such a bad thing at all that there are actually being very little moments in which the animals attack.The story really doesn't ever makes much sense but you just have to go along with it and don't think too much about anything that is happening, or else you will most likely be never able to finish watching this movie.Really not much good about this movie, though it obviously could had all still been a lot worse.5/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

udar55 Hiking guides Steve Buckner (Christopher George) and Santee (Michael Ansara) take a group of civilians (including Leslie Nielsen, Andrew Stevens, Richard Jaeckel, Ruth Roman and, naturally, Lynda Day George) into the California mountains. What they don't know is that a hole in the ozone layer is allowing rays from the sun to reach animals and make them thirsty for human blood! If you are looking for the ultimate "animals gone truly wild" movie, check out William Girdler's entertaining-as-hell flick. This has snakes, birds, mountain lions, dogs, wolves, and bears (oh my!) stalking (in perhaps the greatest tribute to the Kuleshov effect) and going off. The cast is great all around with the stand out being Nielsen as a racist jerk ad man from the city ("Hey, did you know Indians can't cry?"). Girdler effectively stages several attack scene but seems to have dug himself into a hole regarding how to correct all of this at the climax. The end is a total cop out as the animals just roll over and die ("We're lucky it stopped when it did"). Regardless, it is a great ride getting there. I mean, where else can you get to see a shirtless Nielsen wrestle a bear?

Michael_Elliott Day of the Animals (1977) *** (out of 4) Steve Buckner (Christopher George) takes a group of people on a hike through some mountains and before long they become targeted by a wide range of animals. It turns out, via a message at the start of the picture, that the ozone layer is being damaged and now the animals are attacking people.After the success of JAWS movie producers were rushing to get any sort of "animal attacks" movie on the screen. William Girdler struck gold with GRIZZLY as it made well over $35-million on a very small budget. DAY OF THE ANIMALS isn't quite as good as that movie but there's no question that it's an entertaining "B" movie that's actually a lot darker than you'd expect.There are a lot of very good things here but I will admit that there are some flaws. One major flaw is that the film adds in a martial law sequence and I think the budget just didn't allow them to do anything with this. Another problem is the Leslie Nielsen character. He turns in a fine performance but what the character does during the final portion of the film was just downright silly and I thought it took away from the seriousness of the picture. On a campy level it's somewhat funny but it just didn't fit well with the rest of the picture.Speaking of Nielsen, him and the rest of the cast are a lot of fun. George, who also appeared in the director's GRIZZLY, is a lot of fun as usual. He's certainly got that tough guy persona working and he was a lot of fun here. Lynda Day George isn't wonderful here but she's at least watchable. You've got the likes of Richard Jaeckel, Ruth Roman and Andrew Stevens who add to the fun as well.The animal attacks are all well-staged and I'd argue that the film has a very serious and dark tone to it. This isn't something you usually see in these pictures but it's clear the director and screenplay were very serious at playing up the "warning" they were going for.

davetheddick When I was a kid in the 70's, I saw a movie that really freaked me out, It was about some people that went to this secluded valley to escape atomic radiation, that due to a wind updraft? could by staying there survive nuclear fall out. In it one of the character's draws a picture of a mutant squirrel that he had seen in the valley, (I know sounds corny but I was quite young then) The squirrel had fangs and it and other mutant small animals would attack and eat the survivors. That and there may have been some sort of ancient hot spring there that provided the up draft, that somehow displaced the fallout. and that the valley may have been in Europe somewhere, is all I can remember. anyone know?