Favorite Monster movies...
 

Some of my top ones were:


Rodan

Attack of the Giant Crab Monsters

The Brain from Planet Aros

Any movie with effects by the greatest special effects artist,the grandfather of stop-motion,Ray Harryhausen.You know the titles...."Jason and the Argonauts","Valley of Gwangi",any of the Voyage of Sinbad movies!! :yes: :thmbsp: Rob
p.s....Ray was in Seattle for a lecture a couple of weeks back,and I missed it :sigh: Wish I could have been there,but they sold out on the tickets :thumbsdn: , could have had him sign my 5 Laserdisc movies I have by him....bummmer,and I could have got his book...super bummmer....and he could have signed it.......ultimate bummmer!!

Forbiden Planet
any of the Bela Lugosi movies
Boris Karloff as Frankenstein

Don't really care for the new hack em up gore movies. they aren't the same as the old classic monster movies.

Almost forgot The Attack of the Killer Tomaotes!

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Jim

The original "King Kong."
The original "Dracula."

Original Frankenstien
ALL the old Godzilla movies (The cheesier the better!)
Alien
Aliens
Original King Kong
New King Kong
Pumkinhead
Night Of The Living dead (original, 1968)


...there's some more I'm not thinking of at the moment.

Russ

I getting the willies just thinking about "The Creature From The Black Lagoon".
B&W,a swamp,& those long fingers!

"Fiend without a Face" was pretty kool.
Invisible alien brains that jumped up and sucked your brain out!!

Or "The Tingler" w/ Vincent Price and the backbone crushing creature that feeds on fear.

You want cheesy, try the gi-ants in "Them".

Damn, I love them old monster movies

hope somebody understands me: the new king kong was mindblowing for
me :thmbsp:

one of my favorite is also monster of the blue logoon in 3d!! :banana:

Anyone remember "The Leech Woman" ? Yeah, "Night of the Living Dead" was pretty good...I also liked the 1979 "Dawn of the Dead"-the one that was set in the shopping mall

night of the living dead scares me to the bone :thmbsp:

MONSTER ISLAND-greatest monster orgy of all time...

When I was a kid, a local TV station always had a Sat night (10:00PM) scarey movie.

There was a guy (Dr Sanguinary) that dresed up in a goolly (sp) costume, with his face painted white, and played all the scarey horror stuff they could find. Played all of those listed above, and about everything made.

One of the first I can remember (besides Frankestein) was "10,000 Leagues Under The Sea". (or something like that). I think it was a Jules Verne book??
It was a 50s movie that featured a 1800s style submarine and a under sea monster that tried to eat the sub. COOL factor all the way :banana:

One of the first I heard on HT 5 channel was Jurassik Park. Great audio !

late 70s or early 80's CBS movie-of-the-week: Dark Night of the Scarecrow. I must have been in 6th grade when it came on and it was all we talked about in school the following Monday.

Living in NY as a kid, we had each weekend, Chiller Theatre (WPIX-ch11), which the intro used to scare me to death with scenes from various monster movies, like Plan9 and She Devils.
Later on, Zacherlie used to host it, at night, after his afternoon kids show with cartoons.
He also did a stint on WNEW-FM.....once saw him open for the Grateful Dead on Haloween!

Steve guttenburg in "Don't Tell Her It's Me".

Whoopie Goldberg in "Sister Act" and "Sister Act 2".

Anything with rosie O'Donnell.

All the "Look who's Talking" movies.

Frightening!

Amen on ANYTHING w/that horrid Rosie O'Devil.....

Monster's Ball :smoke:

"Destroy All Monsters"!Bright,vivid 60's Japanese color,more monsters than you can shake a Panzer Tank at,and my boy,Godzilla.
Mr. Pibb+Redvines=Crazy Delicious!!!!!!!! :thmbsp:
Jimmy

John Carpenter's remake of "The Thing" :thmbsp:

Scott

Man, do I remember those days. :sigh:

The original "Tales from the Crypt" movie. A classic! :yes:

Add me to those who shivered to Chiller Theater! Remember that 6-fingered hand coming out of the swamp? Chiiiiillllllllerrrrrrrrrrrr!

Mine are all from the atom-age fifties and include "20 Million Miles to Earth", "X the Unknown", "The Monolith Monsters", "The Giant Behemoth", "Kronos", "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms", and "Caltiki, The Immortal Monster". I also really enjoyed "The Black Scorpion".

Lots of favorites - "Rodan" was probably the first Japanese giant monster movie I saw as a kid - maybe 5 or 6 when I first saw it. When a trio of police are wading through the flooded mine shaft - tethered together by a rope - and one of them is seized by an (unseen) giant insect larvae, dragging him and the others to a horrible off-screen doom - that was one of the scariest things my young eyes had ever seen.

Another awesome scene - when the mine engineer ends up separated from the others in the rescue party - he's trapped in a huge cavern filled with dozens of the giant carnivorous insects. Then the Rodan hatches from an egg - and the once terrifying monster insects are instantly reduced in stature to merely tasty grubs, which the hatchling hungrily devours - the contrast between the monsters in size and menace is amazing - and I don't think the emotional effect has ever been duplicated before or since this film was released.

Predator!!!

The Blob, great 50's atmosphere.
Eegah, absolutely horrible in a good way, watch the MST3K version. :yes:

There was some dreadful movie I remember catching just a snatch of when I was a tadpole..it had something to do w/these things that looked like horseshoe crabs, that would attach themselves to yr back, & w/this HORRIBLE squishing sound, would suck all the life out of you. They COULD be pulled off right at first, as some guy did to this girl-one had just landed on her-they flew, too- but that's about all I remember about it.The noise they made was sorta like the noise you make when swirling water around in yr mouth, when rinsing yr teeth...

Tarantula (1955)
The Thing from Another World (1951)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) / Revenge of the Creature (1955) / The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)

for some reason B&W is scarier than color :scratch2:

Chiller Theater was where it was at. Jon Zacherlie was (probably still IS) the real deal. Weird to the gills. Good looking too!

I was generally not afraid of anything I knew I could outrun. When I was scared, smoke came off those sneakers. The Creature? I could crawl faster. Frankenstein? Not a chance of touching this kid. The Mummy? I'd run backwards two steps ahead of him and shoot rubber bands in his face.

I was scared shit of...

The Wolfman
Bela
The Thing (James Arness)
Rodan (The parts Cleve mentioned are burned into my head forever. Goro was the guy who got separated from the rest of the guys and saw the grubs getting eaten.)
Godzilla
Little girls who can spin their heads around 180 degrees. There's something really wrong about that.

I like these also, especially "The Thing From Another World", and "The Creature Walks Among Us". Jeff Morrow, who was in "The Creature Walks Among Us", "Kronos", and another one of my favs, "This Island Earth" was one of my favorite B movie actors. Also loved Mara Corday, who was featured in "Tarantula", and "The Black Scorpion". If no one has seen "The Black Scorpion", give it a shot. While it's low budget shows through at times, it still has some eyepopping stop motion effects supervised by Willis O'Brien. Watch for the seen where the guy gets pulled off off a telephone pole by one of the giant scorpians. Scared me to death when I was a kid, and still a potent seen. Also, the underground sequence is good, with a variety of giant creatures. Great sci-fi fun from the fifties!

Pardon some of my bad spelling in the above post. It was 5:30AM, and I was getting ready for work!

Oh yeah! "Black Scorpion"....freaked me out as a little kid. The scene where the guy gets pulled off the telephone pole by the giant scorpion is STILL cool & creepy to watch! I love that old classic. I can never think about a scorpion without thinking of that movie.

Russ

Yeah, one of my favs. Borders, at my local mall, has "The Black Scorpion" reissued on DVD. I own this and many of these other movies discussed here on DVD. Ebay is also a great source for these films. It's awesome having these childhood memories permanently preserved on DVD!

How about Elvira, The Mistress of the Dark.

We had a local Saturday night horror show that showed a lot of the great old movies, put on by one of the local siding companies, The Acre Creature Feature.

As a kid it wasn't really a monster movie but about the scairiest movie I remember was Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. I hide under a blanket for a lot of that movie.


Jim

One of greatest titled movies ever--the 1958 classic, I Married a Monster From Outer Space.

I remember seeing a double feature of that with The Blob. Must have been 6 years old, and I was scared out of my wits.

Oh yeah, how could I forget that classic! Tom Tryon as an alien, great John P. Fulton disintegrating ray effects and awesome alien creature make-up make "I Married a Monster From Outer Space" a classic '50's sci-fi movie. Speaking of effects by John P. Fulton, has ayone seen another '50's classic that he worked on called "The Colossus Of New York"?

I recently rented all of the Hammer Corporation remakes of the classic horror films. They are all really fun to watch. "Horror Of Dracula" (1958) scared me to death when I saw it in 1964 at a drive-in. It all came back to me when I saw the DVD's, which, by the way, looked fantastic, except for the first theatrical reel of Horror of Dracula. From reel 2 on, it was sharp as a tack!

Does Forbidden Planet count?????