frankenstein? draculas? asian ghost girls with long black hair? chupacabras? cenobites? fruity yummy mummy? what is it? I bet a lot of people say zombies. I really really love the Creature from the Black Lagoon. and I think werewolves in general are really underrated and get no love next to the other monsters.
both great picks, Chad. what's your fav Harryhausen monster? and my next question is of course, do you have any of the toys of them?
3. the Crimson Ghost (not sure if that really counts but what the hell) 4. oh, and all the vampire chicks in Hammer Horror films
sure, the CG counts. he's more of a diabolical villain in the serial than a monster, but he's evil and scary so that's close enough.
I guess I have to go with the Cyclops from the 7th Voyage of Sinbad. X-Plus made several characters of Harryhausen monsters in 6-inch vinyl form. I have the gold Minotaur (Sinbad film), 6-armed Kali statue (Sinbad film), Dragon (Sinbad film), and Cyclops.
I love any of Paul Blaisdell's monster designs. She creature, It conquered the world, and "Invasion of the Saucer men".
I love zombies, but not those fast, scary, "28 days later" fuckin' tweaker zombies. I like the slow, falling apart, hungry for brains variety. Some thing I can fend off with a shovel or random stick. I am so with you on that one. If I could be any monster it would definately be a werewolf. It's cool, because it's not like a full time commitment. It's like monster reserves, just show up once a month and the rest of your time is your own. I could do that.
First would be Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster. More of a man monster but I'd also say Gunnar Hansen as Leatherface.
I never realized that the carrot cone from It Conquered the World and the Saucer Men were designed by the same guy. awesome.
"the blob" and "son of blob" really terrified me as a kid "poltergeist" too, used to be scared of the big tree in the back yard! but i gotta second whoever said the ghoulies in Carpenters "the thing" as as i like to call it.... Tha THAAAANG!
scariest monster - the evil bunny rabbits from Watership Down, i was 4 when my dad took me and made me sit through the movie. favorite monsters - domokun, mothra, lochness, nj devil, and this toy i lost that was half-girl, half-serpent-snake...
MMM..Monsters! My picks are Ghastly Graham Ingles for his body of work in EC comics, the old witch is hard to beat. Roth Studios monster shirts when someone says monster Rat Fink and his ilk instantly pop in my head. Ed Newton's designs for roth studios are the shit.
I love monsters, period. But if I had to pick a couple for the top of the non-kaiju heap, it would have to be Frankenstein's Monster (and the various iterations thereof) and Cthulhu from Lovecraft's works. Frankengirls really appeal to me... heh. Xenomorphs (those from Aliens) rank pretty high up there too. And lately I've become a fan of Jason Voorhees, who reminds me a bit of a favourite monster from DC comics, Solomon Grundy. Not to mention that Predator was like one of my favourite movies ever growing up. Sometimes there are advantages to living in the country -- get to play Predator in real woods. I'm gonna stop before I get on to too big a roll...
