12 Best Killer Dog Movies, Ranked

There are a lot of monsters in horror movies, but the killer dog movies are much more terrifying as the threat comes from deadly beasts that were once beloved pets. One of the earliest examples of this wasn’t a horror movie but was a tense drama from 1936 called Killer-Dog, a story about a family dog accused of killing sheep. However, before the dog gets put to death, the family asks a judge to determine its fate. While that was mostly about proving the dog’s innocence, the killer dog movies that arrived decades later caused great fear by showing a family pet turning into an out-of-control killing machine.