Mr. Woot Posted February 3, 2004 what movie/game/book do you think had the most imaginative monster ever? personally i liked hexen's creations, pumpkinhead had an interesting demon, and predator without a doubt was ingeniously amazing, for it's time 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted February 3, 2004 Alien. I know it's a square choice, but someone has to say it. And now that this one's covered, the rest of you can pick whatever other stuff you like. 0 Share this post Link to post
Ed Posted February 3, 2004 I'd have to say Alien also, mostly because I'm a Giger fanatic. Otherwise, the Cenobites from the Hellraiser series. 0 Share this post Link to post
darknation Posted February 3, 2004 No, I think Giger's alien pretty much covers it. The Eye of Sauron, not the comical piece of shit from the second / third movies, but the eye that Frodo sees in Galadriel's mirror in the book...that passage freaked me. Ditto with the discription of Morgoth with he answers the Elf King's challenge in the Silmarilion and splatters him with Grond. Oh, and Ungoliant. Yeah, Tolkien really had a knack for his discriptions of evil. Very few movie monsters have ever really scared me. 0 Share this post Link to post
DaJuice Posted February 3, 2004 Your MOM! OHHH!!! Yeah, I said it! lol j/k. Hmm, lemme think. Alien & Predator seems like the obvious answer and they are both great, but there has to be something else. Shit idunno, the beasts in Pitch Black were pretty well done. Um, a few of the mosters from the Doom and Quake1 universe could also be up there, but they weren't really fleshed out enough due to the limitations of their game engines (too pixelated/too few polys & low res textures). 0 Share this post Link to post
Fletcher` Posted February 3, 2004 Alien; nothing more thrilling and scary than a believable one on one fight for survival against an opponent that is not only stronger than you, faster than you, more intelligent than you, but is also incapable of mercy. Uh, thanks Fredrik. 0 Share this post Link to post
Kristian Ronge Posted February 3, 2004 The one in Stephen King's "The Raft" (it's a short story. read it, it's great!). It appears in a collection of his short stories entitled "Skeleton Crew", IIRC. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted February 3, 2004 ravage said:Alien; nothing more thrilling and scary than a believable one on one fight for survival against an opponent that is not only stronger than you, faster than you, but is also incapable of mercy. Don't forget really smart. 0 Share this post Link to post
Janderson Posted February 3, 2004 Heh, Critters from Critters 4. Jezzzus! 0 Share this post Link to post
DaJuice Posted February 3, 2004 Kristian Ronge said:The one in Stephen King's "The Raft" (it's a short story. read it, it's great!). It appears in a collection of his short stories entitled "Skeleton Crew", IIRC. I've read that short story, and yeah, that was pretty gruesome how it disposed of the humans. The Mist also had some cool monsters. The Jaunt was the scariest one of them all IMO, even though it didn't have any monsters. All of Skeleton Crew was pretty great actually. 0 Share this post Link to post
Mr. NobodX Posted February 3, 2004 ravage said:Alien; nothing more thrilling and scary than a believable one on one fight for survival against an opponent that is not only stronger than you, faster than you, more intelligent than you, but is also incapable of mercy. Uh, thanks Fredrik. And dont forget the risk of being splashed by the acid blood when he's hurt 0 Share this post Link to post
Fletcher` Posted February 3, 2004 Anybody who says Graboid gets a bullet up the ass. 0 Share this post Link to post
Russell_P Posted February 3, 2004 ravage said:Anybody who says Graboid gets a bullet up the ass. so is it okay to say Arse Blaster? 0 Share this post Link to post
Ubik Posted February 3, 2004 Grimgrin, a boss from the old NES game The Guardian Legend. The rest of the monsters in the game are really awesome too, but you can't get much better than Grimgrin. :) 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted February 3, 2004 That one really does remind me of the Cacodemon. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fletcher` Posted February 3, 2004 Russell_P said:so is it okay to say Arse Blaster? Graboids, Shriekers, and Assblasters are all banned. 0 Share this post Link to post
Kristian Ronge Posted February 3, 2004 DaJuice said: The Mist also had some cool monsters. Indeed.. they are more hinted at than actually thoroughly described, causing your own imagination to play tricks on you. Great stuff. :-) The scariest monsters are the ones you never see and make up yourself -- the ones hiding under your bed when you were a kid (Which is why the first part of "Jaws" is so suspenseful.. you see flashes of the shark but most of it is just a shadow, a form, accompanied by the terrifying music. This is almost ruined in the second half when you see too much of it.) 0 Share this post Link to post
Scabbed Angel Posted February 3, 2004 Ed said:I'd have to say Alien also, mostly because I'm a Giger fanatic. Otherwise, the Cenobites from the Hellraiser series. Seconded on both counts. As far as best looking monster, anything from Silent Hill or the fiend from Quake one. The cenobites aren't really monsters, but that thing in hallway in HR1 was, and it owned! 0 Share this post Link to post
læmænt Posted February 4, 2004 JEWS Also, Alien. BTW, who said Aliens were "really smart"? 0 Share this post Link to post
Scabbed Angel Posted February 4, 2004 læmænt said:JEWS Also, Alien. BTW, who said Aliens were "really smart"? "You can't kill them; they are like sheep, they're going to take over." 0 Share this post Link to post
Grimm Posted February 4, 2004 Dracula's second form from Castlevania III, and anything from Hellraiser . . . ugh. I can't think of any others right now . . . 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted February 4, 2004 læmænt said:Also, Alien. BTW, who said Aliens were "really smart"? I did. 0 Share this post Link to post
chilvence Posted February 4, 2004 I've got one.... they were badly modeled, had crappy textures and silly looking motion capture. They weren't particularly threatening, and could be quite easily confused - but they still managed to make me hide in corners. Just thanks to the awesome choreography of sound, constantly feeding your paranoia. And I don't just mean the monster sounds, every sound in the game was carefully orchestrated to make you feel uncomfortable. Im talking about the many from Shock 2, but I honestly think they could have got the same effect with any old monster. Monsters are in the mind :) 0 Share this post Link to post
MaximusNukeage Posted February 4, 2004 mine is another vote for Alien gieger does indeed kick ass 0 Share this post Link to post
Chopkinsca Posted February 4, 2004 When defining best monster, it is actually the most destructive, fear inducing, gruesome monster ever. I would have to say god, for giving me existence. Well, if there is a god. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted February 4, 2004 The sandworms from Dune. I love their whole life cycle and demigod status. Plus, they can eat any manmade vehicle short of the city-size Guild Heighliners in one gulp. "Yikes, what a monster!" 0 Share this post Link to post
Quast Posted February 4, 2004 KoRn said:When defining best monster, it is actually the most destructive, fear inducing, gruesome monster ever. I would have to say god, for giving me existence. Well, if there is a god. Yes...so true 0 Share this post Link to post
david_a Posted February 4, 2004 I think The Thing from John Carpenter's version of the movie deserves a mention here. It was just so... weird. That part when one guy tries to perform CPR on another dude and his chest eats his hands... Man that was good the first time I saw it:) The scene where MacReady tries to find out who is infected is pretty damn good, too. 0 Share this post Link to post