Best movie monsters of all time

Me
Godzilla - first and foremost
Mothra- but likely because I have a thing for the singing twin 1" girls that bring Mothra out
Ghidora - the three headed thing from planet x - another awesome one - particularly when he is golden
Mecha-Godzilla - though technically not a monster but a machine to fight Godzilla
Destroyah -a seriously bad a$$ mo fo. 
Space Godzilla - Godzilla on roids

Not so much -
Rodan - Mothra without the hot fairies
Biolante - that messy thing that looks like a wet rug in the Godzilla movies
Hedorah the smog monster - blah blah blah
Ebirah - the shrimp/lobster thing - maybe scary if you are surfing, but no threat to Godzilla.  

Its a shame Cloverfield could not match up to Godzilla.  We need someone to attach NYC unprovoked every once in a while.  


Away from Godzilla
The critter from Alien/Aliens/Return of the son of Aliens jr
The thing from the THING - the John Carpenter/Kurt Russel one.  
Rosie O'Donnell - as scary as it gets.
Nancy Pelosi - actually scarier.  Likely to explode bo-tox when the face lifts finally break
The big ants from THEM!
The Monolith Monsters
The Flesh Eaters - though you never see them
The Blob
The Body Snatchers
Not a big fan of mummy/dracula/frankie.

You?  

Nuff said.

Cookie Monster?

He's scary for sure.

This one is kind of scary

Warning - kind of adult content if you consider a 40' tall boobie made of plastic hunting down and killing innocent bystanders to be adult content.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7loP7OsLZ8


After they catch this thing with 1/2 of a 40' bra, i seem to recall some type of warning - be careful, these things usually travel in pairs.  

No nominations for Bing or Asparapuss?

Ok then.

• S----pit (ask Beagle, the director)
• George Lucas (singlehandedly destroyed the Star Wars saga)
• Klaus Kinski (creeped me out in Crawlspace)
• Meryl Streep (if she's in a movie, I know I'm going to need time travel to undo the damage)

 

Of all time?

I don't see Frankenstein...

did you guys have creature double feature where you were in the 70's? or was that just a new england thing?

Frank Booth.

On one level, the visual aspect (aesthetic?), it’s probably easy to differentiate between Godzilla and Frankenstein.  But I think, on another level, you can make an argument that to a degree, they represent or reflect some of the same fears and the realization of the danger of science and technology run amuck, Godzilla (1954) coinciding with the nuclear era and Frankenstein (1818) with that of the harnessing of electricity.  Personally, I am in the Godzilla camp and have always been a big fan.  The ants from “Them” always scared the bejesus out of me when I was little and if I was categorizing, I would put the ants in the same fear category as Godzilla and again, to some extent Frankenstein, although Frankenstein, along with Dracula and the Mummy throw in that un-dead component which I guess can affect their likability.  Additionally, and I guess coincidently, whenever I get into one of those discussions about “if you could have written any song what would it have been” my serious reply is Godzilla by BOC, and one of my all-time favorite “desert island” songs … you guessed it, Edgar Winter’s Frankenstein.

Fraankensteen


The Godzilla type monsters are terrifying because of what they do.
The Frankenstein/Dracula/werewolves type monsters are terrifying because of what they are.
I think Godzilla is somewhat amusing.
Frankenstein and Dracula are scary on a more conceptual level.
Lycanthropes bug the heck out of me. Thankfully, werewolves are not real.
Or are they?

Gary Oldman in Francis Ford Coppola's "Dracula".  Actors...not nitwits in rubber suits.

Hell..Gary Oldman, as a bad guy, in almost anything he's appeared in.

marcos69


All time favorite is Ray Harryhausen's fightin' skeletons from Jason and the Argonauts.

Again Mark cuts straight to the bare bones of the matter.

No contest!
 

The Phantom of the Opera always scared the **** out of me..

If I remember correctly, the scene from Godzilla (the one with Raymond Burr) that really gave me the chills was when they were in the mine hip-deep in really dark, opaque water and something (Godzilla) was swimming are and attacking the miners. 

Gorgo, and The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms were both Godzilla wannabees.  Gorgo attacks London and the Beast attacks NYC.  They were fairly entertaining as I recall. 

The crab from Mysterious Island gave me the chills when I was a young lad.