10 Best Horror Movie Creature Feature Movies Since 2010
9. The Shallows
The shark movie subgenre is a hugely popular beast all of its own, but those shark-based pictures also fall under the label of creature features, too. And when it comes to shark films, few can match the brilliance of The Shallows.
From Jaume Collet-Serra, that 2016 offering was a minimalistic masterpiece of a movie.
As Blake Lively's Nancy seeks solace following the passing of her mother, we find this character heading to a sleepy oceanside locale to embrace the surf. Only the only embrace she finds, is the warm embrace of a great white shark's teeth on her leg.
Quicker than you can say 'but wait, isn't Jaws the only great shark film?', Nancy ends up stranded on a small rock formation, eying her escape to the shore while her predator stalks the route back to safety and the tide continues to rise.
It's tense, it's beautifully shot, it's main beast is nicely delivered, and Lively is on fin-omenal (*groan*) form as she anchors a movie that spends so much of its 86-minute run time centred solely on her character being stuck so agonisingly close to safety.