This chapter examines the depiction of humans and reptiles in Dark Age (1987), an Australian animal horror film about a giant, deadly saltwater crocodile. It positions Dark Age as differing from its generic predecessors and contemporaries, because it condemns the attitudes expressed by settler Australians and privileges the worldviews of Indigenous peoples. As it proceeds, the chapter explores the types of fear that the two protagonists—Aboriginal elder Oondabund (Burnham Burnham) and settler-conservationist Steve Harris (John Jarratt)—express towards the reptile. Drawing on the scholarship of Rayson K. Alex and S. Susan Deborah, it argues that Dark Age represents an ecocentric animal horror film that offers viewers two different but viable approaches to living with saltwater crocodiles. Steeped in traditional knowledge, Oondabund adopts an attitude of reverential eco-fear towards the reptile. Influenced by his friend but trained in Western science, Steve adopts an attitude of respectful eco-fear towards the crocodile. Though they possess different cultural and epistemological backgrounds, both men embrace views of dangerous predators that encourage tolerance and coexistence as opposed to extermination and mastery.