Whether they made us cover our eyes as kids, or scream like children as adults, movie monsters have a way of creeping into our subconscious and fanning the flames of our fears. Here are our Top 10 Monsters in Movie History!
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THE LIST
Gremlins Gremlins (1984) & Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) They turn from adorable pets to sociopathic monsters when you expose them to water. Water? Seriously? How do you avoid that?
It It Follows (2015) It may be slow but it just keeps coming. You can’t escape it because it’s always there, or almost there, well it’s coming because IT follows!
Skeksis The Dark Crystal (1982) Disgusting and cruel and like nothing we ever expected a muppet to be.
Gill Man Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) The classic lizard man which all other lizard men aspire to be.
Brundlefly The Fly (1986) Science goes wrong and the results are disturbing and actually pretty gross.
Frankenstein’s Monster Frankenstein (1931) Though a somewhat sympathetic creature, this creation of a mad scientist is huge, terrifying, and dangerous.
Godzilla Godzilla (Gojira) (1954) Not just a giant dinosaur-like monster that terrorized Japan, but a representation of the fears about the aftermath of the nuclear bombs being dropped on the country.
The Great White Shark aka Bruce Jaws (1975) He’s giant, he’s deadly, he scared people enough to not only keep them off the beach, and he continues to scare audiences because shark attacks are real.
Zombies Night of the Living Dead (1968) The progenitor of the modern zombie craze, the slow moving undead were most scary because of how many there were.
The Thing The Thing (1982) It could be anyone and whoever it is suffers a bloody disgusting death.
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