A B-Grade Attack of the Killer Whatever movie needs a title. So you name it after the Killer Whatever.
Only applies when the monster the film is named after is not some made up creature.
Subtrope to Antagonist Title. Often a One-Word Title as well.
Examples:
- Alligator
- Anaconda
- Arachnid
- Barracuda
- Bats
- The Beast
- Beast (2022)
- The Bees
- The Birds
- Blood Monkey
- Boa
- Boar
- Bugs
- Camel Spiders
- Carnosaur
- Cocaine Bear
- Creature
- Crocodile
- Frogs
- Great White
- Grizzly
- King Cobra
- Killer Fish
- Komodo
- Leeches
- The Meg
- Megalodon
- Mosquito
- Octopus
- Orca: The Killer Whale
- Pig Hunt
- Piranha
- Pterodactyl
- Python
- Raptor
- Razorback
- Sabretooth
- The Shrike: A subtle one that relies on the audience to know birds. A shrike is a harmless-looking songbird that is actually carnivorous, and kills its victims by impaling them on thorns or other pointy objects, after which the shrike tears them apart. When protagonist Jim is sent to a mental ward after a suicide attempt, his estranged wife Ann pretends to be sympathetic and supportive, but actually manipulates events so that Jim will be Wrongfully Committed unless and until he agrees to return to her. The title is symbolic of how Ann destroys Jim over the course of the play.
- Slugs
- Spiders
- Tarantula!
- Tasmanian Devils
- Terror Birds
- Ticks
- The Vampire Bat
- Vipers
- Wolf
- While Jaws isn't an example in English, in Spanish-speaking countries it's retitled as Tiburón, in Portuguese-speaking ones Tubarão, in Hungary Cápa, and in Sweden as Hajen, among others, all of which means "(the) Shark". In Finland, it is titled Tappajahai, which translates as "Killer Shark", and in German Der Weisse Hai, meaning "The (Great) White Shark".
