Favorite movie monsters.

[B.T.C]

My top five have are
1.The Tall Man
2.The Thing
3.Zombies
4.Jason
5.Jaws

What are yours?

[Terra]

The cheese stands alone...

[Niolani]

Mmmm… Let see. Dracula, the Gillman, the Rancor, Frankenstein’s creature, Slimer, Mothra and Godzilla.

[Fathom Zero]

The "non-viable" monster thing at the end of "The Fly 2."

[ArrowX]

The Sasquatch from Sci-Fi's "ABOMINABLE" is my #1

[Obscurus Lupa]

Maurice from Little Monsters.


Oh, and I suppose the entire cast of Evil Dead 2.

[Mockery]

Hmm, tough call... not sure if I could rank them but here are some of my favorites from over the years:

-Freddy Krueger (my childhood favorite)
-The Tall Man
-Jason Voorhees
-Jack Frost
-C.H.U.D. (always loved how they looked)
-Patrick Bateman

[Jomb]

zombies in general
The Brood
The Tall Man
The Fly
Pinhead
The Bloody Hammer

[ArrowX]

The Thing Virus anyone?

[J. Tithonus Pednaud]

Purely on visual merit:

All the monsters from The Thing, as well as...

Count Orlok


Ro-man of Robot Monster - Sums up the B-movie monster like no other.


Captain Howdy of The Exorcist


All around visual favorite is Tarman of ROTLD. Mime Allan Trautman played the character and his shambling gait still freaks me out.

[FLappyBat]

Max Schreck from Shadow of the Vampire

[Vila]

Count Orlock
The Robot from Metropolis
The Flying Monkeys (only half joking)
Damen from the origional Omen
The Aliens from Invasionof the Saucer Men
The Cyclops from The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

And of course, who can forget Bela Lugosi going completly cookoo for coco puffs in The Black Cat...

[Blue Gularis]

I'd like to revive this thread in honor of the season.


Five? No, five movie monsters simply aren't enough and I have no self control. Here's My Top Ten:

1. The original The Fly from 1958. He was so freaky in his lab coat and you knew his "I'm still me" mild manners weren't going to last. Extra Super Bonus: the tiny human headed fly body stuck in the spiderweb at the end. "Heeeellllllp meeeeeeeeee!"

2. The little girls from The Shining. "Come play with us, Danny!" Pretty much not happening, make that big wheel burn tracks in that crazy carpet!

3. John Carpenter's The Thing. Highlights included the dog splitting open and the upside down severed head sprouting legs. A good choice for 'dinner and a movie'.

4. The aliens from Alien and Aliens. (I do not acknowledge the existence of any further 'Aliens' movies beyond those). The eggs in the creepy spaceship. The face huggers. Acid blood. "They're comin' outta the walls!!!'

5. The original Halloween Michael Myers just about made us shit ourselves.

6. The Brood. They look like little kids in jumpsuits until you see their faces... AAAAAAAAAAH!

7. Linda Blair. She was pretty scary in The Exorcist, too.

8. Love them or hate them, but I thought the 'fast zombies' from 2004's Dawn of the Dead were pretty damn scary. I'd much rather have the slow kind chasing me, thanks.

-The last two were made for TV, but if that matters I went over five anyway so what the hell.

9. The devil doll in Trilogy of Terror. All dolls in our house were removed from display and stored in locked steel chests after that.

10. The creepy little things that live behind the fireplace in Whose Afraid of the Dark. An obscure lost classic and a must see. Seriously creepy.

Enjoy.

PS: Some purists might argue that some of my choices are not really "monsters" at all but ghosts, or possessed people. I say that if it's weird and fucked up enough to be scary it's a monster.

[Grislygus]

The Blob, Gillman (first movie), and that gigantic dragon/troll motherfucker from Willow.

[Jomb]

Originally Posted by Blue Gularis

I'd like to revive this thread in honor of the season.
10. The creepy little things that live behind the fireplace in Whose Afraid of the Dark. An obscure lost classic and a must see. Seriously creepy.
a monster.

In this movie, did a woman trapped in a basement scare the things off using the flash of a camera? There are a few movies I saw as a child and were scared by that I dont know the titles of now as an adult, and that could possibly be one.

[Blue Gularis]

Originally Posted by Jomb

In this movie, did a woman trapped in a basement scare the things off using the flash of a camera? There are a few movies I saw as a child and were scared by that I dont know the titles of now as an adult, and that could possibly be one.

It has been a long time but that kind of rings a bell. Definitely check this one out if you can find it, it seriously traumatized me when I was a kid.

-A quick search and I find that I got the title wrong- it's Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. Here's a link: http://www.terrortrap.com/television...raidofthedark/

These weird little goblin fuckers are creeping around inside this house's walls:

"Don't hurt her...not yet."
"I want to."
"Wait until tomorrow."
"Let me just scare her."
"Alright, then scare her!"

I had to live in a tent for a few months after seeing this...

[Jomb]

I checked into Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark, and it could very well be the movie I've been searching for from my childhood, but I'm not 100% sure. Nothing mentioned any cameras, but things do look vaguely familiar in the screenshots. All I remember about the movie I'm looking for is that a family was in a house and these very creepy little monsters were living in the walls spying on them and plotting to harm them. The monsters could be held at bay by bright light, and late in the movie they get a woman trapped in the basement and were about to kill her when she starts snapping polaroids of them and the flash bulb buys her enough time to escape.

[Vila]

The Gremlins?

Oh wait.. that was in a bar..

[JediScum]

I've only seen Pinhead in this thread once but i have to go with Cenobites as a concept in general ("explorers of the furthest reaches of experience... angel to some, demon to others").
The Mugwumps in "Naked Lunch".
Swamp Thing.
Mr. Hyde in "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" mainly because it was an actual suit and makeup, not CGI.
And a lot of credit should go to the microwave in the first Gremlins movie that nuked a mogwai. It seemed to scare the shit out of a lot of concerned mommies, eventually creating the PG-13 rating.

[Jomb]

I wanted to say the Cenobites but did'nt know how to spell it and was too lazy to look it up

Mugwumps!! When i was a small child and we'd go camping I'd ask my father what kind of monsters were in the woods, and he'd say to be careful because there are mugwumps out there!

[JediScum]

Did your dad ever read William S. Burroughs?

[Jomb]

He must have, because that was before Cronenberg made that movie.

[J. Tithonus Pednaud]

The word mugwump was originally used to describe a person of importance in Native Algonquin culture. Not sure how it got its monstrous reference though. Perhaps confused with Wendigo?

[Otto]

The blind cyclops cultists in The City of Lost Children always scared me.

Freddy Krueger is hilarious, especially in the middle of the series when they ramped up the clownishness.

The Goombas in Super Mario Brothers weren't really scary, but I still love the idea of a gestapo of 6 foot tall lizard retards.

[Kenster102.5]

Leatherface - Texas Chainsaw Series'