What Are Your Favorite Monsters in Movies and Television?

[BAYLOR]

Gamera

 

[Dan Jones]

I always loved and feared H.R Giger's Alien in equal measure. An incredible, iconic vision of a creature.

Edward Tooms from the X-Files was also a pretty cool monster.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Giant Cyclops in Lost in Space. Even today, it still loos good.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Mutant Bear in the 1979 film Prophecy the Monster Movie.

 

[J Riff]

The hand, the detached hand from Hands of Orlac, and there was another hand that crawled around in some movie.
Even though those hands played good piano, the thought of them under the bed was pretty awful.
The monster in Cloverfield was pretty cool, whatever it actually was.

 

[Foxbat]

I really liked The Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth.

 

[BAYLOR]

Gamera the giant Fire breathing turtle.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Smog Monster

 

[BAYLOR]

The Mighty Peking Man.

 

[BAYLOR]

Mechagodzilla

 

[Jeffbert]

The hand, the detached hand from Hands of Orlac, and there was another hand that crawled around in some movie.

Are you thinking of the hand from EVIL DEAD II? The poor guy's right hand was possessed, attacked him (as did Dr. Strangelove's) & unlike the doc, he chopped it off. It then crawled across the floor, climbed up the tablecloth, etc., on its way to get him.

Are machines included? if so, then the kid from Screamers: "can I come with you?"

Actually, Monster means a person who is hideously deformed; & thus unworthy to inherit titles, lands, $, etc.

 

[anno]

Surely it's the Beast with Five fingers?

 

[anno]

 

[Jeffbert]

I think it is likely you are right.

 

[The Neon Seal]

The Weeping Angels. All other monsters wish they were one!

 

[logan_run]

it! a film about a golem statue,,

 

[Jeffbert]

The Gorn from the Star Trek (TOS) episode Arena. I was a kid at the time and thought the guy in the ill-fitting rubber suit must be awfully hot. Suspension of disbelief kicked in and I sat back and enjoyed the show. How will Kirk get out of this one?

In another version of Fredrick Brown's Arena, this one in the Outer Limits, these creatures as I recall, were not even identified. Except for the silliness factor in the Star Trek version, Fun and Games is my preference, because it is really creepy.

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Are you really sure you want to see the

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The male killed his mate so that with the limited food & water all to himself, he would outlast his human opponents without even fighting them. He had a boomerang with cutting edges on it; though it seemed the wrong bthing to use in a jungle arena, with trees and vines all over.

Then there are the tentacled creatures in Deep Rising & some other film, made recently. Deep Rising's ones would eat you through their tentacles, in a truly horrifying way! A slow & painful death, for sure; I do not recall the details about the things in the other film, though.

I do agree with Rodders,Apr 6, 2015, that the Thing From Another World is really frightening, except that I laughed my ass off when

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it, in the form of a wounded man, opened its mouth as his chest cavity, & ate that surgeon's arms! The remake, as I recall, had no such scenes that were so far over the top, as to be funny.

 

[Alias Black]

Big screen: The Mist, though technically not a monster. Watching that movie made me terrified of foggy days, and every silhouette I spot through them. Small screen: Weeping Angels, because how can you not love that concept?

 

[Venusian Broon]

Big screen: The Mist, though technically not a monster. Watching that movie made me terrified of foggy days, and every silhouette I spot through them. Small screen: Weeping Angels, because how can you not love that concept?

Also add the mist in the game Silent Hill. The only video game that has made me jump in fright (for that moment in the school!). Even now getting something that sounds like the transistor radio in the game (when it picked up when something was lurking nearby) gives me the creeps.

 

[AnyaKimlin]

Nothing before or since has terrified me more than the Kandy Man from Dr Who. Daleks or Cybermen I had no issue with but there was something about a giant sweet that killed people by drowning them in liquid candy is terrifying.

Although the Torchwood one with the village of cannibals came close but they weren't monsters they were human. Most of my favourite biggest, scariest villains are human beings.