Best Movie Monsters

[Guest SavageRulz]

Alien

 

The whole thing, from start to finish is just terrifying. The emasculation of a human male, impregnated and forced to give birth in that manner is horror enough alone and works on so many levels. Then of course there's the utter terror of the sick killing machine that comes later on, existing only to reproduce, and doing so through the most horrifying of means.

 

Elsewhere Freddy Krueger in the first Nightmare On Elm Street was terrifying. People forget that before he became an all singing all dancing comedy act with slick, shit, one liners, he was a disgusting paedophile who'd raped and murdered hordes of children before being burnt alive.

 

Michael Myers in the first Halloween, cold, chilling, sick and utterly twisted. The tension throughout the first one is immense.

 

What becomes of Jack Nicholson in the Shining, or of Gordo in Session 9 is insanely horrifying too because it has a certain reality to it that has you not only terrified of being attacked by someone like that, but makes you ponder actually becoming that person yourself

 

The man making the documentary in Last Broadcast. If you've seen the film you'll know who I'm talking about and why he's so disgustingly twisted and terrifying, but if you've not I won't spoil a thing for you although thinking about it maybe I already have.

 

Then there's Yamura Sadako frmo Ringu. Pure evil in a human form, there is no humanity there, no remorse, no reason to feel compassion or pity, just pure pure evil and the end scene is as terrifying as anything I've ever witnessed in a film in my life.

[Black Lushus 0]

Candyman always gave me chills...

[Gary Floyd 0]

Godzilla. He'll always be king of the monsters in my heart. Sure, he's not the scariest, but he's still my favorite.

[Guest Coffey]

I'm a big horror movie fan. I collect a lot of horror shit. I even have a friend where all we do is watch horror movies (usually bad ones).

 

I think the coolest looking "bad guy" is Pinhead from Hellraiser. Although Chatterbox was the one that scared me when I was little.

 

I know that the original Amittyvile Horror, Poltergeist and Phantasm all scared the shit out of me. That's the shit I grew up on. Nowadays, I can't get passed all the CGI and bad acting most of the time. I hated The Ring, thought it was trash.

[Guest SavageRulz]

Candyman wasn't a very good film, but the main character was utterly terrifying. Great job there.

 

Pinhead is blatantly the coolest looking, and if you can get into the films then there's a certain terror there too. It's harder to get into and not as accessible as some of the other horrors mentioned though.

 

Oh and Coffey, the Ring is trash. Piece of shit hollywood remake that took everything good from the original and did away with it.

[Black Lushus 0]

oh definantly, the movie was shit, but the concept of the Candyman character combined with Tony Todd being as creepy as he can possibly be makes that character freak me out...

[Guest SavageRulz]

Yeah, bit of a shame they didn't make the film better as the concept was great. And there was always that tempting notion of going up to your own mirror, and not quite having the balls to say it, just in case. Worked brilliantly and as you said Todd was just immense in that role.

[Black Lushus 0]

from a personal standpoint, the spiders in Arachnophobia....I am deathly afraid of spiders, we're talking walking vagina levels of pussy-ish-ness when it comes to spiders...I make my wife kill them...

[Nighthawk 0]

Disagree on the Ring getting rid of everything good on the original. The psychic business was hokey.

 

Anyway, Jason Voorhees, David from the Lost Boys, Brundlefly from the Fly remake and the Predator. If you want to count robots as monsters, Cain from Robocop 2.

[Special K 0]

I would say that the Alien is the coolest looking. Giger's the man, and the design's been ripped off again and again.

 

Michael Myers was awesome for the one movie. Completely silent, essentially a blank template for a face, not very smart, but simply dedicated to killing.

 

Leatherface in the original TCM still fucks with me. He's spastic, violent, big, and he absolutely does not fuck around. People are just meat to him.

 

The worst has to be Henry of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, though.

[Guest SavageRulz]

from a personal standpoint, the spiders in Arachnophobia....I am deathly afraid of spiders, we're talking walking vagina levels of pussy-ish-ness when it comes to spiders...I make my wife kill them...

 

I've not seen these films, but Deep Blue Sea and Open Water I'm sure would give me the scaries most terrifying movie bad guys ever. I am proper sellachophobic.

[Guest SavageRulz]

I don't wanna sound like one of those irritating fuckers who every time you say something goes "ah yeah, but this even better thing happened to me"

 

But , I dreamt a whole fucking Nightmare on Elm Street movie, that I'd not even seen. Weird? Very. Basically you know that Nightmare on Elm Street they did, like, The Final Nightmare or something, like, after they'd supposedly finished them, they did one last one or something? Anyway, I'd not seen it, and I had the most vivid dream ever. It was insane, so much more real feeling than most dreams, and bizarrely kinda feature length in terms of what I could remember. After waking up terrified out of my skin I just had this inkling that I needed to go watch the movie. I rented it, watched it, and there was a hell of a lot of it that was the same. I was spooked to fuck.

[Nighthawk 0]

Hey K, most of those are just regular guys who kill people though.

[tominator89 0]

Machine from 8MM

[Special K 0]

Yeah, they get to me more.

 

If you mean literal monsters, Alien, The Thing from, um, Carpenter's 'The Thing', Brundefly's a really good one, Also the ghosts from Ju-On were freaky as hell.

 

Hollywood producers seriously need to just pay some licensing rights to Konami to use the 'Silent Hill' monsters in their movies.

[Guest SavageRulz]

The worst has to be Henry of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, though.

 

An utterly brilliant film and based so much in reality that the horror of how easily a serial killer could go on escaping justice and ending lives in such horrible fashion with no remorse whatsoever is chilling.

[Guest SavageRulz]

Machine from 8MM

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For me it's more the film than the person himself. Superb film, with some right nasty bastards in it, not least of all "Machine". Thing is once he unmasks and he's just some fat guy with glasses who lives with his Mum/Gran or whatever, the mystique's gone, the terror's gone, and he's just some sick fuck who you want to beat the shit out of

[CBright7831 0]

Godzilla and pretty much every monster that came from the minds of TOHO (except for Megalon).

[nl5xsk1 0]

My favorite is Pinhead. Just awesome.

 

My favorite 'real' person that's a homicidal maniac in movies is Leatherface, pre-crossdressing of course. Once they made him TS/TV, he became a lot less cool.

 

My favorite random horror movie story: I saw Candyman in the theatre while in Chicago for a vacation. My cousin thought it'd be funny to take us all through Cabrini Green afterwards, to show what it's really like. Being the only caucasians, driving through CG late at night, was scarier than the movie was by a lot.

[Guest SavageRulz]

The aliens in Pitch Black are scary fuckers too. And they do a good job of not giving them away too much. You don't see half as much of them in the movie as you think you do, and that's a good thing.

[Nighthawk 0]

I enjoyed 8MM, but each villain goes down anticlimatically.

 

I think I'll also mention Pennywise in the It movie. Like Candyman, a five star performance in a two star film.

 

Jack Nicholson in the Shining was a hell of a performance. I suppose he straddles the line of monster and regular guy, as he was, you know, possesed and all.

 

As far as regular guys go, I'm a Leatherface fan too, but I'll always say Patrick Bateman. I love that bastard.

[tominator89 0]

The thing about Machine that I found interesting was his motivation: "I do it because I like to" or however the line went. I thought him being a relatively normal looking person added more effect to the creepiness of it.

[Vyce 0]

I want to dispute that Candyman isn't a good film, because I believe it is. It's an absolutely solid film. It's the sequels that aren't worth shit. Although Candyman 2 has Kelly Rowan in a shower scene, I think. Rowr.

[Gary Floyd 0]

Disagree on the Ring getting rid of everything good on the original. The psychic business was hokey.

 

I remember downloading "Ringu" before the American remake came out. before the remake came out. I will say this, and I don't care what obnoxious film geek yells at me about this: The American remake was better, and the Japanese Original is IMO, one of the most overrated Horror Movies I've ever seen. I just remember thinking to myself after the ending of Ringu "That was it? That was the movie everyone is praising?"

[razazteca 0]

John Carpenters The Thing

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But , I dreamt a whole fucking Nightmare on Elm Street movie, that I'd not even seen. Weird? Very. Basically you know that Nightmare on Elm Street they did, like, The Final Nightmare or something, like, after they'd supposedly finished them, they did one last one or something? Anyway, I'd not seen it, and I had the most vivid dream ever. It was insane, so much more real feeling than most dreams, and bizarrely kinda feature length in terms of what I could remember. After waking up terrified out of my skin I just had this inkling that I needed to go watch the movie. I rented it, watched it, and there was a hell of a lot of it that was the same. I was spooked to fuck.

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ooh i've had dreams with Freddy lots of time since i was a kid, they always started with him chasing me like in the movies but right when he was about to kill me i started talking to him and we always endend up in a bar or something srinking some beers.

 

and i would say the whole family is pretty scary in TCM, not just Leatherface.

[Dimensions 0]

The only monster to get me scared would have to be Pennywise from IT.

 

And on a sidenote I saw Saw II, that has got to be one of the most hilarious movies I have ever seen.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

The Alien, The Tall Man, and The Thing.

 

One hid inside every dark corner and attacked you, and if they grew in numbers? Oh shit, you're fucked. TRAINED MARINES couldn't even handle them, as all but one died (and he only survived because the only person to ever successfully defeat the bastards saved his ass). Just ONE took out a crew of 6 (not including Ripley) in less than 24 hours (see the interview at the beginning of Aliens, unless I'm mistaken and it's 48), a couple hundred destroyed a colony of thousands, one was responsible for the deaths of all but 2 inmates on a prison planet, and only a handful layed waste to a ship filled with more trained soldiers (and pirates who could handle anything).

 

The Tall Man is just fucking creepy (Angus Scrimm is the man). He can NEVER die. NEVER. You think you got him, like Reggie and Michael thought all those times? And then BAM! He comes through the doorway with a line like "it's never over" and one of his dwarves grabs you and beats the shit out of you. The hearse pulling up in front of the house at the beginning of Phantasm II is a wonderfully creepy scene (and I say the beginning of #2 because it doesn't show it at the end of the first one), and the standoff of The Tall Man, Reggie, and Mike at the end of Oblivion? One of my favorite moments in horror history. I SOOOO hope Don Coscarelli makes a 5th one and ties it all together, because the main characters have been so well-crafted throughout the series that I actually care for them (a rarity in horror).

 

And The Thing...because you don't know who's infected (a clone) and who isn't. Paranoia is the ultimate horror, isolation just before that, and both come into play when dealing with a shapeshifting viral-like organism that is made up of INDIVIDUALLY LIVING cells.

[AboveAverage484 0]

Laz beat me to it, but the Thing is definitely up there. Pumpkinhead is pretty awesome as well.

[Special K 0]

Ooh, the Body Snatchers in the 70's version were great too. They know who's an alien, but you don't, until they point, scream, and then knock you out and suck your insides out.