Top 10 Scariest Movie Dinosaurs

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These dangerous movie dinos are not to be trifled with. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most frightening dinosaurs in film history.

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00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most frightening dinosaurs

00:11in film history.

00:22Number 10.

00:23Spinosaurus, Jurassic Park 3 While they never quite matched the thrills

00:26of the original, both The Lost World and Jurassic Park 3 managed to introduce some

00:29terrifying creatures.

00:31The compys attack a young girl and then eating Peter Stormata are definitely nightmare fuel.

00:42But we have to give it up to the dino that took down the T-Rex in the third film, the

00:55Spinosaurus.

00:56The beast stalks Alan Grant and company across Isla Sorna, able to hunt them both on land

01:00and in water.

01:12After the Spino devours the world's most indestructible cell phone, the ridiculously

01:17loud ringtone serves as a warning, letting everyone know the call is coming from inside

01:21the paddock.

01:32Number 9.

01:33Geyser Dinosaur, 65 Playing the space traveler Mills, Adam Driver

01:37finds himself stranded on the strange alien planet Earth.

01:45However, the film takes place in the distant past, and he just happens to land right as

01:55a certain asteroid is about to strike.

01:57Making his way across the harsh landscape, he and his companion are pursued by an array

02:01of prehistoric creatures.

02:16The biggest and baddest among them is one invented for the film, a towering thing that

02:20seems to combine elements of both dinosaurs and crocodilians.

02:23In a thrilling conclusion, the hulking monstrosity chases Mills across a geyser-filled plateau

02:27as the killer rock approaches.

02:29Its massive jaws mere moments from making Mills its last supper.

02:42Number 8.

02:43T-Rex, Fantasia Animated to the music of Igor Stravinsky's

02:46The Rite of Spring, the fourth segment of this Disney classic highlights the power and

02:50ferocity of these titanic animals.

02:58The T-Rex is revealed like a classic movie villain, staring down a herd of herbivores

03:02and showing off its dagger-like teeth and claws.

03:05The plant-eaters flee with fear on their faces as the classical score heightens the sense

03:09of dread.

03:17An unnerved Stegosaurus faces down the Rex, who looks on with rage as lightning strikes

03:22in the distance.

03:23The battle of these titans ends with the carnivore landing a brutal killing blow.

03:27The life slowly drains from the Stegosaurus's eyes as the T-Rex roars triumphantly to the

03:31swell of the music.

03:41Number 7.

03:42Indoraptor, Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom The Jurassic World trilogy has no shortage

03:46of bigger, badder dinosaurs that could scare the pants off of you.

03:49These include the massive Gigantosaurus, which hunted our heroes in Dominion, and the genetic

03:54hybrid Indominus rex from the first film.

04:04However, when it comes to sheer terror, a smaller dinosaur is the one that really takes

04:13the cake.

04:14In Fallen Kingdom, a scaled-down and more feral version of the Indominus, known as the

04:18Indoraptor, hunts humans with the single-minded determination of a slasher villain chasing

04:22its prey.

04:26Like Michael or Jason, the Indoraptor even stalks a teenage girl, coming close to stabbing

04:31her in her bed with its fearsome talents.

04:41Number 6.

04:42Rhetosaurus, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms Coming from master monster maker Ray Harry

04:47Housen, this colossal prehistoric beast is awakened from its icy slumber by nuclear testing.

05:06The 200-foot-long monster terrorizes the coast as it makes its way to its ancient breeding

05:10grounds, which unfortunately happen to be located in the middle of New York City.

05:14The scenes of it destroying New York created with techniques like rear projection and stop

05:18motion are still scary to this day, and would go on to influence Godzilla.

05:33This was hardly the last time that Harry Housen would create an iconic dinosaur.

05:37His career was filled with them, culminating in The Valley of Gwangi and its titular Allosaurus,

05:42one of the fiercest dinos put to screen.

05:55Number 5.

05:56Dilophosaurus, Jurassic Park Many of the scariest dinosaurs in this movie

05:59don't appear on screen for quite some time, with the characters instead dropping hints

06:03about just how deadly they are.

06:17The frighteningly beautiful but venomous Dilophosaurus is no exception, so when Dennis Nedry comes

06:22face to face with one, we know what he doesn't.

06:25This animal will brutally kill him.

06:27The Dilophosaurus appears friendly and almost cuddly at first, but it's not until it's

06:40too late when it opens its frill and attacks that Nedry realizes he's dinner.

06:44Blinded by venom spat in his eyes, Nedry attempts to flee into his jeep, right where the dinosaur

06:49is waiting for him.

06:55Number 4.

06:56Who Rex is, King Kong Kong isn't the only oversized beast living

06:59on Skull Island, which is filled with gigantic versions of prehistoric animals that survived

07:03the extinction of the dinosaurs.

07:12Not only did they survive like everything else, they kept evolving, growing even larger

07:16and more fearsome than their tyrannosaur cousins.

07:18The vastatosaurus Rex is even more of a killing machine.

07:27One hunts Anne Darrow, snapping at her with colossal jaws that could swallow her in one

07:31bite.

07:32Although Anne is saved by Kong jumping in a second, and then third Rex soon arrives

07:36to triple the terror.

07:48The chomping of those jaws fills us with anxiety thanks to some impressive sound design.

07:53Number 3.

07:54Sharptooth, the land before time.

07:56Big, ugly, snarling, with a glaring red eye, this T-Rex seems a little too scary for a

08:00kids movie about cute talking dinos.

08:11So when he shows up out of nowhere interrupting a playful moment, it's all the more shocking.

08:15He chases Sarah and Littlefoot across a barren landscape, sniffing after them like a blood

08:19hound when they flee into thorn bushes.

08:29Although Littlefoot's mother is able to save the day, the triumph doesn't last long.

08:32The behemoths battle on the crumbling cliffside as the earth splits in half at their feet.

08:37Despite seemingly falling to his death, Sharptooth would return, ruthlessly pursuing Littlefoot

08:42and friends with a single-minded devotion.

08:53Number 2.

08:54T-Rex, Jurassic Park.

08:55In a suspenseful moment that only Steven Spielberg could deliver, the first sign of danger from

08:59the T-Rex is its distant yet powerful footsteps.

09:11The characters see the creature before we do, looking on with pure terror as it escapes

09:14its enclosure.

09:15It stares down Lex and Tim in the motionless Jeep, unleashing a bone-chilling roar before

09:19breaking through the vehicle's glass roof and giving viewers one heck of a jump scare.

09:32Many of the characters barely escape with their lives, with the exception of Genaro,

09:35who meets a grisly end.

09:37The sheer power and violence displayed in this scene make even the sound of a distant

09:40roar into a harrowing moment later in the film.

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10:04Number 1.

10:05Velociraptors, Jurassic Park.

10:06Introduced in a brutal opening scene we know right from the start of Jurassic Park that

10:10These pack hunters are some of the scariest things ever to live on planet Earth.

10:20To drive the point home, Alan Grant terrifies a child by describing their unrelenting ferocity

10:25in graphic detail.

10:26When we see what they do to a cow, we know he wasn't exaggerating.

10:41The kitchen sequence in which they hunt Tim and Lex is pure horror.

10:44The raptors are perfectly designed killers, but their deadliest weapon is their intelligence.

10:48As Muldoon learned the hard way, just when you think you have the upper hand on a velociraptor,

10:52another is ready to pounce.

11:01Which creature from the distant past do you think made the scariest movie monster?

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