Where the Wild Things Are: The Best Man vs. Nature Movies

By Kyle Rupprecht
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/screenwriting/article/man_vs_nature_movies_deliverance_cast_away_into_the_wild_127_hours_20120127/
It's like a bad nightmare: Being stranded in the wild with scant resources and no guarantee of survival, your very existence hanging in the balance. What can you eat? How do you make it out alive? How do you manage to hang on to your humanity? This harrowing scenario has provided grist for many movies over the years. The latest of these is The Grey, in which Liam Neeson plays a man stranded in the Alaskan wilderness and hunted by a pack of hungry wolves. With the film hitting theaters today, it seems a perfect time to take a look back at some of the most thrilling man vs. nature movies from the past 40 years.