Favorite Monsters

[Guest]

 

[English Lady]

well i am a horror scaredy cat so I just avoid the genre mostly. the kind of monsters I like appear in the munsters or the addams family*grins* The only horrors I have wathed is the cream trilogy. Someone got me into the first one at the cinema on false pretenses and it scared the crap out of me but I liked the "who dunnit?" element and so I wasn't too deeply affected. I saw the other two just'cos so it's gotta be scream guy for me I guess as he's the only horror "monster" I've watched *L*

 

[impressive]

So which horror movies/monsters have given you the creeps?

Ghost Story !

 

[cheerful_deviant]

The Wizard of Oz. The munchkins give me the creeps.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

The Wizard of Oz. The munchkins give me the creeps.

PMSL........no the flying monkeys are creepy.

The original Phantom of the Opera!!! He was scary!!!

 

[Guest]

Pennywise, the clown in IT. *shudder*

And, yeah, those flying monkeys and the Wicked Witch of the West.

Oooh, and the child-catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I used to have nightmares about him.

Lou

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Pennywise, the clown in IT. *shudder*

Good call, he was seriously creepy.

(But the miniseries still sucked)

 

[Vincent E]

Boris Karloff in Die Monster, Die creeped the fuck out of me when I was a kid.

The creature from the original The Thing from Another World chilled me a bit when I was a kid.

The zombies in Night of the Living Dead, and I mean the original, not the remake. Slept with the night light on, and I was 17-years old at the time.

The whole Godzilla, Rodan, Moster X genre was a favorite also. Gamara was a pussy.

Anything with tentacles is good too.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

When I wa a kid I saw a movie, Empire of the Ants, totally scaredme to death. For months afterwards i had to sleep with a night light. Saw it not to long ago on cable and laughed my behind off. Nowhere near the horror i remembered.

The best montser I can remember is the Alien from the thing. If the scene in the remake, where they are putting hot irons into each crew members blood doesn't creep you out, I doubt much will.

-Colly

 

[Guest]

 

[TheEarl]

Favourite monsters sounds a bit oxymoronic. In terms of sheer entertainment value, I would have to nominate Spike from BtVS, simply because of some of the amusing lines.

Film monsters don't really tend to scare me that much (unless they're something to do with my phobia - Shelob springs to mind). I'm much more affected by a book that I can lose myself in. Pennywise was scary in the book of It and Leland Gaunt in Needful Things was creepy. Books are far more immersive when it comes to that kind of thing.

Why, oh why, do I always have a cold when I'm reading The Stand?

The Earl

 

[oggbashan]

The monsters in the TV series 'Quatermass and the Pit'.

I had nightmares about them for weeks but I couldn't miss an episode.

Og

 

[rgraham666]

In fiction, Mr. Dark from Something Wicked This Way Comes and AC from I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream.

In movies, The Thing from John Carpenter's remake. Especially the scene where the guy's head sprouts legs and scuttles off screen. As on character said, "You've got to be fucking kidding me."

 

[oggbashan]

The aliens in 'Plan 9 from Outer Space'.

I enjoy them.

Og

 

[R. Richard]

I'm with Colly. The alien from The Thing.

However, what really creeps me out is the failure of the Creature (from Creature From The Black Lagoon) to win an Oscar for Best Actor. If ever there was a portrayal that evoked the emotions, it was the Creature when he loses the girl. How the Academy could have overlooked this is beyond me.

 

[Sabledrake]

The ones that scared me the most were the "they could be anybody" type of monsters, like the pod people from Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Two movies that freaked the hell out of me when I was a kid were Westworld, and ... oh, jeez, it must've scared me so that I'm blocking the name ... the one where the sand sort of whirlpools you down and the aliens shoot a mind-control staplegun into the back of your neck. Invasion from Mars?

Earl > you, too, huh? Every time I break out my copy of The Stand, the next day I've got the sniffles and a sort throat.

Sabledrake

 

[Guest]

I love Karloff's 'Frankenstein' monster and Lugosi's 'Dracula', mostly out of nostalgia and cos as a young girl they introduced a weird beauty to my consciousness. I don't know if he qualifies as a 'monster' but I also love the original King Kong for the same reason.

The 'Evil Queen' from Disney's "Snow White" frightened me cos she seemed so like my mother (don't ask).

Probably the most frightened I've been watching a film was during "Night of the Living Dead" and the first "Alien".

Otherwise I generally feel an empathy with 'monsters'.

Perdita

 

[Guest]

erm.. prolly no one remembers the "Trilogy of Terror"
i saw it when i was knee high to a grasshopper... seriously still get the creeps just thinking about the little voodoo doll running around, baring its teeth and tossing about his spear...*shudder* yes, i still get creeped out and check under my bed...afterall, who wants their ankles slashed? you can never be too careful.

 

[LadyJeanne]

The Shining...."Heeere's Johnny!"


Technically not a monster, but creepy as hell.

 

[Boota]

Lou called mine already. The child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was fucking scary when I was a kid. I don't think I have ever seen another thing as creepy as that guy. Another one that is scary, because he's completely human, is Machine from 8mm. It must be the level of realism that is allowed when the monster is human that makes them scary.

As far as "monster monsters", Frankenstein is a long time favorite, since I was about 3 or 4 years old. The possessed Regan in the Exorcist became a favorite when I was 8 and I first saw that.

 

[fogbank]

The red bull from The Last Unicorn definitely gave me more bad dreams than anything else I've seen, but on the bright side, he weened me off of my nightlight:
If you haven't seen this film, it's a mediocre animated film, and from what I can remember of the plot, it revolves around this unicorn and a red bull sent to destroy it. Whenever they showed the bull, it would always be running toward the viewer in slow motion, wreathed in fire--definitely a scary image for a child. But for me, I got it into my head that whenever I closed my eyes and looked toward any sort of light source, I would see this red bull in those ephemeral patterns you see on the inside of your eyelids. I can remember lying in bed, afraid to turn my head toward my nightlight because I knew that through my closed eyes I would see the bull. But I'd turn and look anyway, and then I'd have to open my eyes. Pretty soon it became clear that if I was ever to get a good night's sleep again, I needed total and complete darkness.

Yeah, I was a messed up kid.

The Nazgul also gave me nightmares the first time I read LoTR (maybe age 11?).

 

[gothgodess]

I was terrified of the Honey Moster from the sugar puff ads until I was about 10. I can't watch horror movies they freak me out but I love reading horror novels. The Rats scared me for months, I was convinced they were lurking in the bushes.

I agree with The Earl, Spike did get all the best lines and for a vamp was sooo sexy.

 

[Guest]

I was terrified of the Honey Moster from the sugar puff ads until I was about 10.

Trying so very hard not to snigger.

"Tell 'em about the honey, Mummy."

 

[cantdog]

There was an old, badly produced B&W film. A kid looks out his bedroom window because of a bizarre effect of light in his room, and sees the Glow Behind the Trees. A spacecraft has landed behind those trees, but we don't see it.

His parents suddenly don't know him, thay act wrong, all wrong, and they have a little scar at the backs of their necks. It was a body snatcher sort of idea. The film was seriously scary as a pubescent teenager, because the same thing was happening in my house at the time. The parents were acting very weirdly and all of a sudden they didn't know me!

It sounds like the one Sabledrake couldn't think of the name of.

Ghost Story was amazing, both book and movie.

cantdog

PS I'm going to look up the film title.

 

[millennium_bard]

Movie monsters never really scared me as a kid, I was usually laughing at the antics of the hero trying to figure out how to stop the monster.

Probably the stupidest movie monsters I can remember were from an old move "Night of the Lepus".
Giant bunny rabbits? Get real...