Monsters
 

I was originally going to keep this as "Movie Monsters", but then I realized that leaves out some classics, so here we are. Monsters are pretty much why I am into horror in the first place (and fantasy and sci-fi). I loved dinosaurs as a kid, and they were pretty much the ultimate "real" monster, and having seen Alien at 5, that left a mark. i got into D&D after reading the Monster Manual cover to cover at 12. So i figured i would post some of my favorites, figuring everyone else would do likewise:

For starters:

The Alien
The Predator
Cloverfield (a recent favorite)
Fiend(from quake)
Houndeye (From halflife)
ZOMBIES
Werewolves (if done right)

Vampires
Werewolves
Frankenstein
Zombies

I love a good "monster" movie. Growing up, some of my favs where giant ants, a giant prying mantis, giant spiders....you get the drift. Of course there was Franky, The Mummy, The Wolfman and my fav of the Universal monsters, The Gillman.

:eek: :eek: How could I forget the mummy and the creature from the black lagoon??????? I'm ashamed.......*hangs head*

cloverfield monster
the creeper (jeepers creepers)
the thing - from the Thing
the little troll guys from - the gate
the tall man
the mutated vampires in blade 2
the creature from Tremors

The first monster who made any sort of impression on me was King Kong ('76 version) on the big screen. I was a curious 4 year old, and highly impressionable...I gawked at Kong and marvelled at his enormous size.

A few years later, I caught Godzilla on TV. And that made me marvel more.

Since then, my childhood went through a rich experience of movie monsters - most notably Ray Harryhausen creations. I caught ahold of plenty of comic books about Cthulhu too, and non-fiction books which described Bigfoot, sea monsters like giant squids, mammoth whales, the Abominable Snowman etc. Initiation into the classic horror movie monsters came much later, and that started with Chris Lee's version of Frankenstein.

Among my favs would be - Alien, Predator, Godzilla, King Kong, Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot (a TV series from the late 60s-early 70s which had plenty of re-runs), Ultraman, Fraggle Rock thingys, Cthulhu, the Rhedosaurus from Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, the monsters in Godzilla movies, the Cloverfield monster, Graboids, and to top them all - plenty of Harryhausen creations - Kraken, Medusa, Kali, Talos, Hydra, Cyclops, Gwangi, etc. And of course the dinos from Jurassic Park.

OMG, V - I remember Ultraman!! :D

Ultraman is one of two TV series which are close to my heart...the giant Flying Robot with the egyptian pharaoh face being the other one. :)

Oh yeah, I loved Ultraman! Don't remember the other one, tho.......

Ultraman, Ultraman...
Here he comes from the sky!
Ultraman, Ultraman,
Watch out hero fly!

Oh yeah, monsters are the shiznit! Nothin' better.

The other series was "Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot" which was cut into a feature called "Voyage Into Space" which I have many fond memories of because it was on TV a lot back in the day...

i just got a boxset of the entire series given to me ... funny show

my kid goes "the monsters dont blink !"

I'm jealous!! :D

Gotta love Mark! He comes up with some of the best one-liners!

i like

gremlins..
the monsters from the guyver movies..
villians from the he-man cartoon..
critters...
ghoulies from part 1
vampire..
the gingerdead man..
predator..
....and what not....

When I was a kid, I was told some Scottish folktales, therefore had nightmares about horrific nighthag creatures. The Black Annis is one of the oldest, best and scariest of monsters, wanting nothing more than to strip the skin from little children and devour them. After that, I discovered Time Life's the Enchanted World books and learned about all kinds of abominations. My favorites from the movies are Godzilla, Hedorah, Gigan, the Harryhausen Medusa, the vampire in London After Midnight, the Karloff Frankenstein, whatever the thing from Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell is and some of the Final Fantasy bosses.

I love folk tale monsters.

Russalkas are freaking creepy; they are spirits of girls who died violent deaths in water. the original story i read about them said if a person looked into the pool a Russalka inhabited, they would see her reflection over their shoulder. she would appear dead with glowing green pinpoints in her eyes. if you made eye contact, she grabbed you by the hair and dragged you underwater and drowned you.

I also always liked Baykok, a spirit in the great lakes region that looked like a skeleton covered in translucent skin with glowing red eyes that would kill warriors and eat their liver. I also read a description that said they would cut a man open with surgical precision, eat part of their liver, then sew them back up to die a long painful death.


On a more modern note, any of the spirits, and pretty much anything that happens in the "spirit world" in FEAR scares the hell out of me.

Black Shuk
Big Foot
Nessie

The black shuck is awesome.

not a monster in the classical sense, but Big Daddies from Bioshock are awesome.

I have always beena big fan of lovecraft's creations, so of course Cthulhu, but also Nyarlathotep, shoggoths and Mi-Go. And who can forget brother Whatley from Dunwich Horror?

i cant believe no one has mentioned the VODWOK yet

Pumpkinhead! :D
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d1...umpkinhead.jpg

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rofl...and back when we were kids, we NEVER noticed that! :D

Haha...I can't see him as a monster...I see him as a big cuddly thing :)

yeesh ! i could never cuddle that !!

besides - it has a poin-ted stick

He is very cuddly, but he has a passion for fast food that causes him to release a deadly nerve agent.

He's kind of like Godzilla in the old movies: he destroys, but he is still a sympathetic character.

while we're talking about monsters, has anyone heard of the MLF phenomena? it was mentioned on this very forum for the first time a few years back.

oh hell yeah, i'm totally into it

that web page exists as a direct result of something you said :)

had to make me look for real didnt you
(you did notice the edit i made when i quoted you - right ?)


i remember that - i said something about that poor looking demon doing nothing worse than stealing sandwiches - or something to that effect ?

yes i did, but i never said i wasnt an evil little prick, did i? :)
yep, you said he looked like he wouldnt do anything more harmful than steal sandwiches :)

I really need to do another photoshop article, those were fun. :)

That sounds scary!

That reminds me of the creeper!

The Creeper
King Kong (70's)
Giant spiders (The Giant Spider Invasion)
Godzilla
Anaconda
The Loch Ness monster
Jason Vorhees (He may not be considered a monster but he scared me. I first saw him when I was 16. The first movie I ever watched him in was Friday the 13th: Part IV: The Final Chapter.)
Bigfoot
Abominable Snowman
The dead girl in The Ring
The alligator in Lake Placid
The lions in The Ghost and the Darkness

I'd say he qualifies, he is basicly a big, sentient zombie. That make shim an uber-zombie, which is definitely a monster

Jason always reminded me of the draugr, the Viking Undead. Undead vikings with superstrength are badass.