A herd of carnivorous lambs would be scarier.
591773
'The Silence of the Lambs' is one of the most overrated movies of the past 15 years.  I don't know what in the world audiences and critics found terryfying or tense about this borefest, but I wasn't impressed the least.  One of the first problems is the director, John Demme.  This man couldn't direct a scene to save his life.  Many scenes seem uneven and look like they only took one take.  All the scenes look dark, dirty, and cloudy.
The second problem is the acting.  Jodie Foster gives a southern accent a good try, but lets not fool ourselves.  Then there is everyone's favorite, Hannibal Lector.  When he talks to Jodie, he stares at her with INTENSE EYES.  I'm really scared now!!  The third problem is the story.  Hannibal's escape is really shocking...Really shocking in that it was so ridiculous, so implausable, I found myself gaping at the screen in disbelief.
1594295
Who you gonna call when the people are facing really large predators
2887234
The worlds scariest places series continues with a trip to northern Ohio to a park with a history of evil and supernatural activity. Legends and crimes of the past are side by side with Satanic slayings and rituals in the present. If you believe that Bates will go to any length to frighten the squeamish and tease thte horror lover, this book will prove you right. Bated uses a backstory for every character to humanize them and bring them to life, and many times to death. As in the other stories in this series, the story would make a great movie, but is all the more frightening as a book where the images are supplied by the reader. Keep this on your shelf for a stormy night.
4406264
It's quite loud and the movements are... well, I'm not sure who thought the movements looked like prey but my kitten is more alarmed than excited by this.
2149663
This book is too realistic and frightening for my 5 year old. It is really middle and high school information regarding how factory raised animals are treated, but it is completely inappropriate for young children. This is not the way to teach them about vegan and vegetarian diets. Their grandparents, friends  and other important people in their lives might be meat eaters. There would be judgment after reading/being read this book. I think it is better to express our love for animals in a simple way.  WE choose not to eat animals.  Other people do eat them, and that's everyone's personal choice.
2719690
This think looks spooky. The green on the back is very shinny and almost glowing and the eyes are crazy-big. Scary.
2512941
A fascinating and horrifying book about native birds in Alaska and New Zealand that are endangered by introduced rats and other predators. This story of the attempts to eradicate these predators reads like a crime novel.
4199249
All citizens are advised to be on the lookout for sacred cows.
These creatures must be considered "armed and dangerous", as they carry a virulent strain of mad cow disease proven to cause insanity in activists and politicians.
Several of these sacred cows have been identified (thanks to information provided by left-wing professors who once kept them as pets): the concocted myth of a matriarchal communist "Golden Age", the romanticized (if not racist) portrayal of Native Americans as "Noble Savages", deceptive ecological euphemisms, and other diseased beasts whose only reason for existence is to spread or reinforce guilt. Be advised that these sacred cows are likely to be traveling under assumed names, such as "environmentalism", "multiculturalism", and "political correctness".
Should you be approached by one of these creatures, make every effort to defend yourself. A simple edged weapon, such as Occam's razor, should be sufficient to dispatch the beast. For butchering instructions and helpful recipe tips, consult _Plagues of the Mind_ by Dr. Bruce S. Thornton.
3434846
This is a good book, which I can see as a TV movie someday. A horror story about centuries old creatures looming about, waiting to kill. Town people are aware of the legend, and never speak of this evil, until some newcomers move to town.
3055676
This movie explores the possibilities and dangers of living in a society where worldwide transportation is readily available as a means of spreading disease. The assumptions are all plausible and move with a rather frightening logic to their devastating conclusions.

While this movie moves along quickly and definitely holds ones attention it is also depressingly feasible and demonstrates how vulnerable our society is to the spread of a serious disease and how thin the veneer of civilization that protects it from chaos really is.

The movie is rated PG-13 but the subject matter is serious enough that I would take care as to which members of the family saw it; it has some very disturbing scenes showing patients as the disease advances.
524725
It can scare animals with the noise it makes -maybe.  It has zero zap power.  It could actually make things worse for you.  It is a toy.
1828017
On visiting auschwitz a few years the true horror was not the obvious cruelty but the banality of it all - the procedures, the normalisation of brutality and the dehumanisation of all involved. Such is the case with vivisection. Slusher's brave personal story is a tough read for anyone interested in animal rights. It's not the cruelty involved, but the clinical nature of what is done to non human animals that is truly horrific. An eye opening read and one that deserves a wide audience.
3994606
Suspenseful tale of hungry polar bears whose main food supply (harp seals) has run short and now the bears have gone savagely after humans.  The setting is Fogo Island just off Newfoundland.  The books starts off with two humans killed in the first 6 pages and ends with both human and polar bear casualties in triple digits.  This is a what could happen scenario with global warming.
3079966
It was so surprising to see each new place around the farm and countryside that a lamb fell asleep. The illustrations and rhymes were charming.
511103
There are many risks in its back and one risk in its face.
1470020
This is a thoughtful, compassionate, relatively horrifying book. Survivors of the Holocaust and their descendents draw detailed, specific, sickening parallels with the way we treat slaughter animals. The first half of the book examines the rise industrialized slaughterhouses in the USA, and how they shifted the context in how we treat creatures labeled as subhumans. The second half gives stories of Jews and other people in Germany, the USA or Israel who were moved by the Holocaust's horrors to become lifelong defenders of animal rights.

The book's note of moral anguish is quite incontestable, but it doesn't go much further to explore a workable alternative vision. Clearly in nature, all creatures are kept in balance through a circle of predation. But predation does not require the transformation of farming and hunting into industrialized mass murder, where living creatures are reduced to products on an assembly line. Beyond that issue, we are fools to target whole species of undesired creatures for extermination through chemical or other weapons. We can treat our ecological community lots better than that.
4167596
Not for the faint of heart.  The violence is sickeningly graphic and hard to take, I wanted to stop reading this book at a couple different points but found I couldn't .  I finished it in less than a day and its unlikely I will sleep well tonight.  It  was creepy and disturbing in a "Silence of the Lambs"  kind of way and I don't know if that's a good thing or not.  Its not accurate to say that I enjoyed this book,  but my inability to put it down  earned it 3-1/2 stars.