Review of Day of the Animals (1977) by Elliss D — 13 Mar 2016

Usually with animal attack movies I expected several deaths and obstacles for the survivors to overcome. With this, it is kind of tamed down (until the last act). It is basically survivors getting attacked by animals, hiking, getting attacked, hiking, and then getting attacked. Few are attacked (or even killed) until later in the movie when it becomes mayhem, but the first half is a drag. The only thing that made up for it was an over-the-top performance by Leslie Nielsen reverting back to a primitive caveman in the second half of the movie for no reason. He's so good at being a jerk.

Anyway, I did not really enjoy this movie, but I may need to give it another shot. It had moments I liked, but overall I was bored. It was like a less entertaining Lost Weekend.