![]() Watch as Kong smashes natives into the ground! Watch as he viciously chomps on men who get in his way! Watch as he pulls a woman out of a skyscraper window, and then lets her fall to her death when he realizes its not Fay Wray. ![]() Be wowed like I was at the amazing degree of crazy-ass stop-motion violence from master FX man Willis O’Brien. Forget that awful 70s crapfest with Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange, and check out the ground-breaking original “King Kong” from 1933. King Kong : Alright, Kong definitely borrowed some of the sympathy earned by Frankenstein’s monster, but mostly I love him because he kills puny humans in spectacular fashion. Living vicariously through his actions as he dispatches both casual and arch-enemies with brutal and hilarious nonchalance, he derails an entire passenger train, chokes a cop unconscious and then raps him on the skull afterwards with a chair just for kicks, and sends his former co-worker to a fiery death down a cliff in his car, laughing “I hope your car is insured, Kemp, because I think there’s going to be a little accident!” The Invisible Man : Remember that line in “Rocky Horror” when the giant pair of red lips sings about Claude Rains as “The Invisible Man,” and the audience response is supposed to be something along the lines of “Who the fuck is Claude Rains?” Well, he’s only my number one greatest movie monster of all time, that’s who! The 1933 film was directed by James Whale, an outcast who personalized his movies with a sardonic brand of humor– and none more so than “The Invisible Man.” Rains plays the main character as unrestrained id, using his black humor as a defense shield. Without further ado, as Alice Cooper once sang in a really terrible, scary-bad song, “Welcome to my Nightmare.” Links to related lists: Top 10 Scariest Movie Themes, Top 10 Overlooked Scary Movies, Top 10 Movie-Inspired Halloween Costumes, Top 10 Slapstick Horror Movies, Top 10 Giant Monster Attacks! Movies We understand this kind of defeats the purpose of the strength in numbers mentality of zombies, so there you have it. In order to make the list, one zombie or vampire would have had to jump out in particular above the rest. Ha ha.) it’s got to be more creative than that.Īlso, as a sidenote, we have not listed “zombies” or “vampires,” because that’s just too general. And if you can’t tell, we don’t think too much of knife-wielding maniacs either–(Jason and Michael Myers, you’re dead to us. The list is compiled of non-human monsters and/or mutated humans only, which basically means no serial killers. Most of these are very near and dear to our hearts and all of them have scared the crap out of us at one point or another. In honor of Peter Jackson’s “King Kong” remake (which is to be released on Wednesday), we have put together a list of our personal favorite movie monsters of all time.
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