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Old 10-21-2008, 04:25 AM
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Monsters

I was originally going to keep this as "Movie Monsters", but then I realized that leaves out some classics, so here we are. Monsters are pretty much why I am into horror in the first place (and fantasy and sci-fi). I loved dinosaurs as a kid, and they were pretty much the ultimate "real" monster, and having seen Alien at 5, that left a mark. i got into D&D after reading the Monster Manual cover to cover at 12. So i figured i would post some of my favorites, figuring everyone else would do likewise:

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The Alien
The Predator
Cloverfield (a recent favorite)
Fiend(from quake)
Houndeye (From halflife)
ZOMBIES
Werewolves (if done right)
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Old 10-21-2008, 04:28 AM
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Vampires
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Old 10-21-2008, 04:38 AM
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I love a good "monster" movie. Growing up, some of my favs where giant ants, a giant prying mantis, giant spiders....you get the drift. Of course there was Franky, The Mummy, The Wolfman and my fav of the Universal monsters, The Gillman.
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Old 10-21-2008, 04:40 AM
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I love a good "monster" movie. Growing up, some of my favs where giant ants, a giant prying mantis, giant spiders....you get the drift. Of course there was Franky, The Mummy, The Wolfman and my fav of the Universal monsters, The Gillman.

:eek: :eek: How could I forget the mummy and the creature from the black lagoon??????? I'm ashamed.......*hangs head*
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cloverfield monster
the creeper (jeepers creepers)
the thing - from the Thing
the little troll guys from - the gate
the tall man
the mutated vampires in blade 2
the creature from Tremors
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Old 10-21-2008, 05:36 AM
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The first monster who made any sort of impression on me was King Kong ('76 version) on the big screen. I was a curious 4 year old, and highly impressionable...I gawked at Kong and marvelled at his enormous size.

A few years later, I caught Godzilla on TV. And that made me marvel more.

Since then, my childhood went through a rich experience of movie monsters - most notably Ray Harryhausen creations. I caught ahold of plenty of comic books about Cthulhu too, and non-fiction books which described Bigfoot, sea monsters like giant squids, mammoth whales, the Abominable Snowman etc. Initiation into the classic horror movie monsters came much later, and that started with Chris Lee's version of Frankenstein.

Among my favs would be - Alien, Predator, Godzilla, King Kong, Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot (a TV series from the late 60s-early 70s which had plenty of re-runs), Ultraman, Fraggle Rock thingys, Cthulhu, the Rhedosaurus from Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, the monsters in Godzilla movies, the Cloverfield monster, Graboids, and to top them all - plenty of Harryhausen creations - Kraken, Medusa, Kali, Talos, Hydra, Cyclops, Gwangi, etc. And of course the dinos from Jurassic Park.
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Old 10-21-2008, 05:39 AM
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OMG, V - I remember Ultraman!! :D
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OMG, V - I remember Ultraman!! :D
Ultraman is one of two TV series which are close to my heart...the giant Flying Robot with the egyptian pharaoh face being the other one. :)
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Old 10-21-2008, 05:46 AM
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Ultraman is one of two TV series which are close to my heart...the giant Flying Robot with the egyptian pharaoh face being the other one. :)

Oh yeah, I loved Ultraman! Don't remember the other one, tho.......
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Old 10-21-2008, 05:51 AM
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Ultraman, Ultraman...
Here he comes from the sky!
Ultraman, Ultraman,
Watch out hero fly!

Oh yeah, monsters are the shiznit! Nothin' better.

The other series was "Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot" which was cut into a feature called "Voyage Into Space" which I have many fond memories of because it was on TV a lot back in the day...
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