Favorite movie monsters.

[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.