50+ Creature Features

"The Lost World" from 1925 should be on here somewhere, I think it was the first dinosaur movie.

Creepy Creature. Scary!! But they did a good job creating this creature.

HOW can you have not nominated Pinhead from the Hellraiser series!...one of the scariest MF's I've seen!...yeah the "50 Foot Woman" was far more of a "monster"...NOT

Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005) is the creepiest flick.

Did you forget the original "Invaders From Mars". This movie gave me and my friends nightmares when we where kids, but loved the movie in spite of being scared out of our wits.

i would've gone with BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN or FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN, personally... but those absent? i'm going with Q.

The Crawling Eye and The Attack of the Crab Monster are my favorite clips

I knew Leo G. Carroll was over a barrel
When Tarantula took to the hills
And I really got hot when I saw Janet Scott
Fight a Triffid that spits poison and kills
Dana Andrews said prunes gave him the runes
And passing them used lots of skills
But when worlds collide, said George Pal to his bride
I'm gonna give you some terrible thrills, like a:

Science Fiction - Double Feature
Dr. X will build a creature
See androids fighting Brad and Janet
Ann Francis stars in Forbidden Planet
Oh-oh at the late night, double feature, picture show.
I wanna go, oh-oh, to the late night double feature picture show.
By RKO, oh-oh, at the late night double feature picture show.
In the back row at the late night double feature picture show.

One of the more impressive lists I have seen. But you left off "the Relic" a terribly underrated film. If "Starship Troopers" can make your list, c'mon.

One of the best "Monster Movie" lists.... so many people have a misunderstanding of what a monster is- and confuse the genre with horror. Great job, LA Times... and just in time for the holiday season

for me as a kid...several are on the list...

THIS ISLAND EARTH

INVADERS FROM MARS ( Iwas afraid to go to the beach (sand) for a long time

HELLRAISER

How about the original "The Thing" with James Arness from the early 50s?

In the Mouth of Madness is scarier than most of the movies on this list,

where's Invaders From Mars? or Jerusalem's Lot? I saw most of the older ones--and a few of the bad new ones.

There can be no credible answer beyond Frankenstein or Dracula; they are the foundation of all cinema horror and their influence in literature of all kinds is enormous. I voted Frankenstein because the story has more moral significance, the monster being created by man rather than supernatural means. This gives the creature a pathos that Dracula lacks.

Howard Hawkes' THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951). The unseen is always the most terrifying!

You forgot "The Black Cat" Karloff and Lugosi

The Original 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers', Invaders From Mars', and 'The Thing' not to leave out 'Forbidden Planet', 'This Island Earth' and 'The Brain From Planet Arous'

no medusa????

I agree Invaders from Mars scared me as a kid, even though you could see the zippers on the backs of their costumes.

I was surprised at how many I hadn't seen... thought that I was a monster-movie junkie..
Have to hold off on my opinion until I get those unseen ones into my head! But great list nonetheless...

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original from the 50's

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My boss should've been on there. Or how about Shaq in Kazaam? That was scary.

Jaws and The Alien... whit "hats off" to The Predator... But probably the worst was The alien from The Thing..

What about the Hammer version of The Mummy? best ever.

Eraserhead.

Shame on you accursed chordates for omitting The Call of Cthulhu:
http://www.cthulhulives.org/cocmovie/index.html

GARGONS from Teenagers From Outer Space!

As a fan of scary movies for nearly fifty years now I have to say that no movie has ever frightened me nearly as much as "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"! John Carpenter's "The Thing" is a distant second place and everything else far behind that.

tremors is my favroite movie of all time i love them all

For me, Alien is the most monstruous movie by far. I have nightmares with it sometimes.

I just saw a good one... "Monsters In The Woods". Will definitely be a classic.

nice comment

-The Deadly Spawn
-The Stuff
-Hellraiser 1-2
-Rosemary's Baby
-Slime City
-Bad Taste
-Invasion of the Body Snatchers
-Squirm
-Blood Freak
-Tokyo Gore Police
-The Forbidden World
-Antichrist (Willem Dafoe is a monster)