Favorite Monsters

[Goldie Munro]

Dracula was one of my scariest monsters - for a while I used to go to bed with a crucifix under the pillow to scare him off!

But the worst monsters where the ones in my childhood dreams - gangs of dalmation dogs and giants who used to appear at my two storey window!

 

[Vincent E]

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

Or how about the scene where they give the electric shock to the guy having a heart attack and his chest opens up and cuts the guy's hands off. Of all the remakes, John Carpenter's remake of The Thing is probably the best.

How about Linda Blair's character in The Excorsit? Head twisting, vomit puking, spider crawling creeeeeeepy. Funny, I was never scared by that film. But the monster in the locked room who rips the guy's arm off in The Head that Wouldn't Die got me scared when I was a kid. That Roger Corman is a genius.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Probably the dopiest movie I ever saw was "Teenagers from Outer Space". The monster" was some kind of giant lobster thing that wasn't the least bit scary. The young men from outer space were just dumb.

The scariest kind of monster, like in R. Richard's Halloween story, is a real person who goes about doing evil things. Dracula, Wolfman, et al are just hokey but people like the night goblin really exist. They are usually called serial killers and Ted Bundy was a good example.

 

[cantdog]

These things come and go. Sometimes the horror stories where the horror comes from Outside is what grabs people. Other times, the human is the most creepy of all.

Ted Bundy was caught. Jack the Ripper and the Torso Murderer in Cleveland were not. Heh, heh, heh.

 

[herecomestherain]

Witchpoo from HR Puff'n Stuff creeped me out for years...the whole show did.

Vella wrote

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.

Trilogy was bloody scary stuff! The original Phantom of the Opera and The Blob (1958) did irrepairable damage to my youthful pysche. As a result of watching The Blob, I slept with my hands under the blankets for about three years lest the horrid blobby beast latch onto me in the middle of the night.

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[Sabledrake]

cantdog > yes, that sounds like the one ... and the kid comes home after escaping, only to see his mom combing her hair or something and _she's_ got one of those little thingies in the nape of her neck ...

:: shudder ::

Sabledrake

 

[Wicked-N-Erotic]

I can't think of any movie monsters that creeped me out, I love horror movies. My favorite monster would have to be any of the vampires, you can't beat a vampire. I love the mystery of them and there is something sensual about them, IMO.

My kids love horror movies too. We have a tradition on trick-or-treat night that we have done every year since as long as I can remember. After they trick-or-treat we come home and get out of costume, go through thier loot and then fix a huge bowl of popcorn, we find the scary movies and stay up late watching them. I let them sleep in the next morning and take them to school late. They don't do anything in school that day anyway, they have their parties and do fun things anayway.

Wicked

 

[cloudy]

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.

Oh, shit!!! I remember that damn show!!!

Karen Black was the woman and that evil little doll kept poking her with his spear from under the couch!

(doesn't sound nearly as scary, but that show gave me nightmares for years)

 

[cantdog]

How lovely, wicked.

HR Pufnstuf was eerie and fucked. I found it repellent. All the Krofft stuff was repellent. Not scary, just icky. It was supposed to have been fun, too.

I think the Karen Black segment was the scariest. That little doll (gone over to talking about Trilogy now, sorry) succeeded in a way Chucky never really did, for me. I get a creepy Stepford-wives sort of feeling from very realistic dolls, too. The craftsmanship is unmistakeable, sometimes brilliant, but there's a dead quality, a zombie quality.

Although it was ruined by the performance of the female lead, the King movie Pet Cemetery had a moment of that with the returned animal and the returned boy. The miscast mother was a hard living coke fiend with all the empathy of a razor, and it showed through her attempted imposture in the role.

I went to the coast to watch the filming a few times. It was fascinating to see it, but I found the woman just objectionable. She didn't think much of hick Maine either. Tried to get out of a speeding ticket by offering to blow the constable. Sad.

 

[Sabledrake]

HR Pufnstuf was eerie and fucked. I found it repellent. All the Krofft stuff was repellent. Not scary, just icky. It was supposed to have been fun, too.

Sigmund the Sea Monster. Oh-my-freakin'-GAWD! I could have done without that memory, thanks ...

Sabledrake