Things That Go Bump in the Night, or Ghouls on Film

[the night watchman]

What are your favorite monsters of the silver screen? Here's my top ten:

1. the Alien
2. the Thing
3. Pumpkinhead
4. the werewolves, from "The Howling"
5. Vermnithrax Pejorative, from "Dragonslayer"
6. Gill-man, from "The Creature from the Black Lagoon"
7. Mama Rex, from "The Lost World: Jurassic Park"
8. The Judas beetles, from "Mimic"
9. Godzilla
10. King Kong (original)

Honorable mentions: The Aylmer (Brain Damage); Rodan; the Yeti ("Creepshow"); Bruce the shark ("Jaws"); Dr. Pretorious ("From Beyond"); the griffin aliens ("Pitch Black"); Frankenstein's monster (Boris Karloff); Count Orlock (Max Schreck, "Nosferatu"); Kothoga ("The Relic").

[ColonelColinCaine]

1. The Thing (John Carpenter's version)
2. The Zuni Doll (from Trilogy of Terror)
3. The Blob (the one from the remake)
4. the Alien
5. Possessed Cheryl (from Evil Dead)
5. Bruce the Shark
6. Pumpkinhead
7. Killer jawas (Phantasm)
8. Godzilla
9. the Graboids
10. Killer oil slick (Creepshow 2)


[This message has been edited by ColonelColinCaine (edited 01-05-2001).]

[Dehydrator]

Here are my favorite Monsters:

1.Lady Silvia - hot and poisonous( The Lair of the white Worm )
2.Pinhead ( Hellraiser Flicks )
3.The American Werwolf
4.Kangoroo Werwolves from Howling 3 ( had me laughing 5 days after I saw them )
5.Dr. Phibes ( Vincent Price )
6.The Spiritualist from "Black Sabbath" ( should be known to more people )
7.Mutated Ash ( Evil Dead 2 )
8.The priest Zombie ( Dead Alive )
9.Pennywise the clown ("It" - Tim Curry, not that giant Spider thing )
10.Sivillia Insybillia, the Spider-queen from "Arachnophobia"

[kerryanne]

Here's my top
(in no particular order)

Pennywise
The Mummy (Arnold V...can't spell his last name)
The Thing
Frankenstein's (Boris Karloff)
Jaws
Mothra(anybody seen this one?)
Anaconda
Cynobites (hellraiser)
Alien
Pinhead
Godzilla

[the night watchman]

(bump)

[thirdeye]

1- Pumpkinhead in Pumpkinhead

2- Pinhead in Hellraiser

3- Bub The Zombie in Day Of The Dead

4- All the zombies in Dawn Of The Dead

5- The Baby zombie in Braindead (Dead Alive)

6- The Strangers in Dark City (Not really horror i know but they're just too cool)

7- Sadako in Ringu

8- Creature from the Black Lagoon in The Creature from the Black Lagoon

9- Queen Alien and the Aliens in Aliens

10- Predator

[J.Sledge]

1. Dracula (God Bless Bela Lugosi)
2. Phantom Of The Opera (Lon Changi Sr.)
3. Headless Horseman (Sleepy Hollow)
4. Jason Voorhees/Uber Jason(Jason X)
5. Candyman
6. Leatherface
7. Evil Ash (Army Of Darkness)
8. The Breaker (13 ghosts)(new)
9. Sex Machine (Vampire Version)(From Dusk Til Dawn)
10. Eric Draven (The Crow)(He was undead so it kinda counts)

[Xipe Totec]

Not in specific order, but here are some of my fave. monsters.....
Cenobites
Alien
The Thing
The skeleton coming back to life in "Creeping Flesh"
The good-old classics, like Frankenstein`s monster and The Gill Man.
The Headless horseman
Sadako
Samara
Freddy

These are not from movies, but Buffy the series has some great one`s: Gentelmen, Der Kinderstod, Adam, The Ugly Man, Moloch, etc.


haven`t seen House of 1000 corpses yet, but those monsters on some pictures look yummy.....

Actually there should be more decent monsters....there are only few good new one`s

[Andrew Tom]

Lon Chaney Jr's Wolf Man
Alien
Frankenstein(Karloff)
Creature From The Black Lagoon
Cenobites
Terminator
Count Orlock
The Graboids most definately
Jerry Dandrigde
Undead Jack from American Werewolf in London

That's it for now, I'll post more if I can think of anymore.

Shouldn't this be in Best/Worst..???

[Damn_Disgrace]

Sorry folks but mine will be mostley zombies....Can't get enough of them!!!

1. Tar Zombie from Return of the living dead
2. Fulci zombie from Zombie 2
3. Rat Monkey from Braindead
4. Pinhead from Hellraiser
5. Any of the creatures off of Demon Night rad movie
6. Samara
7. Title Zombie for Dawn of the Dead
8. The giant creature from Poltergeist
9. The Thing from.... You guessed it The Thing
10. Brundle Fly from The Fly Remake


Well that'll be it, that about wraps er up.

-Tony

[Xipe Totec]

Actually Orc`s and Uruk-Hai`s from Lord Of The rings are cool too.