I found this screen image today. Does anyone know what this is from? I can totally see Martin Ontiveros doing something like this.

I don't have a definite title or anything, but it appears to me to be from an old film (I'm guessing probably 20's or earlier), most likely a Russian, German, or possibly Scandinavian fairy tale film.

Where did you find the image? That might help in the search.

It looks kind of like something Georges Melies would have done. Not sure if it's actually his, though.

A friend sent it to me knowing I like strange monsters. Incidentally, that was the email subject title: strange monster.

I forgot the name but its from a silent film.They would show a clip of that scene back in the day whenever they showed monster film docs.

Damn thats a cool image !

I think you are correct

À La Conquête Du Pôle (Conquest of the Pole) - 1912 - Georges Méliès, director. (France)

You can see several stills from the film here.

So that is where it it from. Good work tracking that down, Dean!

Mighty fine Monster.

Damn!!!! Great find!!! Hows about this one?

Creepy. Reminds me of a T9G Yumenoko

Conquest of the Pole.



...sorry.

that's the She Creature

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050957/

Awesome, skylar! Thanks!!

Future_Man where are you finding these photos? Various places or any one in particular?

I remembered the Méliès giant abominable snowman thing from a movie monster book I had when I was a kid. I don't think I've seen the She Creature before, but the movie posters are awesome.

Cool thread. Anyone have any more unidentified monsters?

Nope, no one place in partic. I get lots of photos sent to me from people who either think they are 'funny' (as fodder for my blog) or 'strange' (as I am).

I think this is Gosura (sp?), but not sure.

Yeah, I saw the possible name at the Monster Brains blog. Whatever it's called, it's from Captain Ultra Ep. 13 ... video clip here.

Awesome family photo.

the She Creature made an appearance way back in the early 80's here, by the awesome artist Thomas Scott.....

The creature's name is ゴースラ. It's a play on the English word "Ghost", and the official English name is "Ghosler."

What is the creature in the upper right corner?

finally saw this movie recently after years of seeing this in famous monsters
of filmland when i was a kid .BTW pretty sure this was the insperation for the
evil dead movie .

Seems to be a variation of the Mitsume Kozo or Three-Eyed Priest, but is much older than those usually depicted. If I could see larger text, or the page you retrieved the image from, I could identify it better.

here are some of my favorites:

the hideous sun demon



the fishmen from Destination Innerspace



and of course, the Venusian from It Conquered the World

The Venusian Cucumber from IT CONQUERED THE WORLD (which was later remade as ZONTAR: THING FROM VENUS) was nicknamed "Beulah" by its creator, monster maker Paul Blaisdell, who made a lot of monsters for AIP, including the aforementioned She Creature. Blaisdell also played most of his monsters as well!