10 Best Wilderness Horror Movies

Released in 2014 and starring a rogue's gallery of former child stars (yes, that is 2003's Peter Pan you noticed amongst the line up), Animal is a simple, straightforward, and terrifying creature feature which uses the beautiful North American wilderness as its evocative setting.

This monster movie makes incredible use of its remote and stunning deep forest scenery in the film's early scenes, eschewing the claustrophobic rotting woods of the Evil Dead and its imitators in favour of a lush, verdant landscape of gorgeous greenery.

Gorgeous greenery wherein there are all manner of monsters, sure, but nonetheless beautiful scenery.

With no mountain men or ornery locals to hassle its cast, the threat in this one is entirely monstrous, but the fact that it's a creature feature doesn't detract from the foreboding emptiness of its setting and the tangible distance from civilisation. Much as the earlier The Descent stranded its victims below ground, here our heroes are out in the open expanses, but nothing is there to hear their cries...

Or worse, the only things that can hear said cries are more of the monsters prompting them.