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Hooptober 12.0 – Day Of The Animals (1977)

Being Film #23 for Hooptober 2025

I’ve never been one to revel in bad movies. I know folks that do, and dedicate copious amounts of time and words to the pursuit of the bad, the cheesy, and the exploitive. I need a little more, certainly more than a shirtless Leslie Nielsen wildly fighting a bear. That’s such a bizarre scenario though, it at least got me to the door of Day Of The Animals, an incredibly dumb movie that nevertheless found a level of fun I was not expecting. And that was before Nielsen fights the bear.

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Hooptober 2022 #2: Day of the Animals (1977)

This film from 1977 starts out with a declaration that just recently it was discovered fluorocarbons created a hole in the ozone layer. This film proposes that what follows is a potential consequence of this. What is that consequence you ask? Folks, the higher exposure to ultraviolet rays will cause animals to attack mankind en masse, especially at higher altitudes. Not that the temperatures of … Continue reading Hooptober 2022 #2: Day of the Animals (1977)