Feline Fright
Okay, doing this prompt straight up.
Having already had a killer magic kitty on day two, I go more mundane - and bigger.
5.
Beast (2022)
The one where Idris Elba fights a lion.
A recently widowed father brings his kids on a family bonding photo safari with an old friend and it goes wrong because there’s a rogue lion on the loose. First they find he’s wiped out a village, the group get separated, having to use the butt of a tranq rifle when the rogue gets too close breaks it, there are poachers, only short-range walkie-talkies work...
A lot of it is done in big long tracking shots, some edited together expertly from smaller pieces, to give the sense of movement and that the rogue could be anywhere. And it mixes the wide open landscape with being stuck in the ATV from an inside POV.
And we get a normal lion pride to contrast the rogue with, which is a nice touch.
It’s generally really well done, with one major issue - the lion looks fake a lot of the time. Which kinda kills it.
The medium: Prime
Gameability: A one-shot with an unprepared group up against just one monster?
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