Movie Monsters Thread

[ryoneo]

Watching Predator last night and thought that it had to be one of the best movie monsters ever created. I am sure there are tons more, but Predator has to be on top of my list. Anybody else?

 

[Tokyo Slim]

If you ever get the chance, watch the "making of" documentaries in the special features on the Predator DVD. The original concept of the "predator" was sort of like a big scaly ant - looking thing, and the person inside, supposed to make it menacing and unstoppable? Jean Claude Van Damme.

 

[ryoneo]

Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

If you ever get the chance, watch the "making of" documentaries in the special features on the Predator DVD.

The original concept of the "predator" was sort of like a big scaly ant - looking thing, and the person inside, supposed to make it menacing and unstoppable?

Jean Claude Van Damme.

Haha, Van Damme was suppose to wear the Predator suit but was too heavy for him. What a ***, it only weighed about 300+lbs.

 

[Tokyo Slim]

I have always liked Doug Bradley with nails in his face.

Giger's Alien

The Fly

and of course, the King of All Monsters

 

[ryoneo]

^ Good call on Pinhead. Scared the **** out of me as a kid, you know, opening the gates of hell and all.

 

[Tokyo Slim]

Originally Posted by ryoneo

^ Good call on Pinhead. Scared the **** out of me as a kid, you know, opening the gates of hell and all.

I always thought he was really somewhat charming, a bit sad, and fair by his own standards, and yet at the same time, completely untrustworthy and horrifyingly masochistic. Which is an interesting combination.

I really do love the Hellraiser series, even the ****** ones. I own all of them.

 

[Jekyll]

 

[robin]

I remember being very disturbed by some of the monsters in Willow when I was a child.

 

[javyn]

The ghosts in Ju-On still make my skin crawl when I think about them.

 

[BrettChaotix]

Pinhead and (most) of the other cenobites from Hellraiser pt 1 and 2 were pretty awesome. The female cenobites especially.

One of my favorite modern monsters was The Thing (John Carpenter version) - you've got to give Carpenter credit. He took a monster that can turn into just about anything and visualized it in a way that we all seemed to agree was kickass... without the help of CGI!

 

[BrettChaotix]

Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

I always thought he was really somewhat charming, a bit sad, and fair by his own standards, and yet at the same time, completely untrustworthy and horrifyingly masochistic. Which is an interesting combination. I really do love the Hellraiser series, even the ****** ones. I own all of them.
As a huge Clive Barker fan, I'd recommend reading the book the movie was based off of "The Hellbound Heart" - there are significant differences between the movie version of the cenobites and the originals. Barker's attempt to humanize Pinhead at the end of the second movie was ****. Cenobites are demons without souls, per Barker's own definition. They killed an already-dead demon only to bring him back in movies 3,4 and 6.. now how does that work? Also, Barker produced an R-rated graphic novel series called Hellraiser in the early 1990s. I have most of them. He invites various artists and writers to create their own cenobite stories using either the characters from the movies or making up their own (the Atkins cenobite, being the most well known) - there are some amazing short-stories and artwork in those books!

 

[BrettChaotix]

Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

Giger's Alien

Geiger's original Alien = scary and original

Cameron's revision = ******* terrifying! (PS - there is a 3 hour version of Aliens that shows what happened to the colony. It's a must-watch)

 

[BrettChaotix]

Let's not forget the mutha-fuckin tri-fecta of horror monster legends.... all either re-made or in the process of a remake.... tragic....

 

[denimdestroyedmylife]

man Carpenter's The Thing is a good call
all the more insidious because it can be you or me or anybody
yeah man

 

[longskate88]

MMM, Starship Troopers