As with most previous lists, I started with a preliminary list before turning to social media to crowd-source for more. I'm grateful to everyone who contributed suggestions.
What counts: cats, dogs, guinea pigs, hamsters, mice, rabbits, rats, etc.
C-D
S-T
What doesn't: chickens, cows, horses, pigs, and other farm animals.
What about invertebrates? Furry mammals preferred!
A- B
Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
Jonesy the cat (pictured above)
Alligator (Lewis Teague, 1980)
Bad Moon (Eric Red, 1996)
Baxter (Jérôme Boivin, 1989)
Ben (Phil Karlson, 1972)
Features Michael Jackson's most touching love song!
The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)
The lovebirds!
The Black Cat (Lucio Fulci, 1980)
The Cat (Lam Nai-Choi, 1982)
Cat's Eye (Lewis Teague, 1985)
Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)
Critters (Stephen Herek, 1986)
Cujo (Lewis Teague, 1983)
Based on the 1981 Stephen King novel
The Curse of the Cat People (Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise, 1944)
Dogs (Burt Brinckerhoff, 1977)
Eye of the Cat (David Lowell Rich, 1969)
G-I
Good Boy (Ben Leonberg, 2025)
Indy, the golden retriever (pictured above right)
Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984)
The Hidden (Jack Sholder, 1987)
The Hills Have Eyes (Wes Craven, 1977)
The Hills Have Eyes Part II (Wes Craven, 1985)
House/Hausu (Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, 1977)
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein, 2025)
The hamster!
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman, 1978)
K-P
Kuroneko (Kaneto Shindo, 1968)
Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
Weird CGI cat attack
Lost Boys (Joel Schumacher, 1987)
Monkey Shines (George Romero, 1988)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (Jack Sholder, 1985)
The Pack (Robert Clouse, 1977)
The Pack (Nick Robertson, not a remake, 2015)
Pet Sematary (Mary Lambert, original, 1989)
Pet Sematary (Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer, remake, 2019)
Based on the 1983 Stephen King novel
The Plague Dogs (Martin Rosen, animated, 1982)
Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper, 1982)
Primate (Johannes Roberts, 2025)
S-T
The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)
Darla, Buffalo Bill’s Bichon Frisé
Sleepwalkers (Mick Garris, 1992)
Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1978)
Albert, the blind pianist's German Shepherd
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (John Harrison, 1990)
David Johansen fights a cat!
They Only Kill Their Masters (James Goldstone, 1972)
The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
V-Z
The Voices (Marjane Satrapi, 2014)
White God (Kornél Mundruczó, Hungarian, 2014)
Willard (Daniel Mann, 1971)
Ben, the rat, pictured above left with Bruce Davison as Willard
The Crypticon Seattle panel Good Boy! (Pets in Horror) takes place on Sat, May 2, at 3pm with moderator Brien Gorham and panelists Todd Johnston, Eric Li, and me. Click here for tickets and more information.
Images from Bloody Disgusting (Sigourney Weaver with Jonesy in Alien), The Guardian (Indy in Good Boy), and the IMDb (Willard poster).
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