The scariest monster

[Calin Leafshade]

What do you think the scariest monster is from horror films? I'm mostly talking in a visual sense but the character too.

I propose that, visually, the things from fright night are pretty bad.



any others you can think of?

[Crimson Wizard]

Sadako.

East-asian monsters (demons/ghosts) in general.

[abstauber]

I happen to find this child eating monstrosity on top of my list.

[Crimson Wizard]

@abstauber, yeah thought about that one too

Actually, I once tried to analyze what makes monsters scary. I think that unnaturality (like eyes on hands and not on head) is one of the most important.

[Calin Leafshade]

Yea, I too am trying to see what it is about these things that is scary. That's why i want to see what people find scary and if there is a correlation between the different monsters.

[abstauber]

I think it's mostly the mixture between the known and the grotesque.

For me the scariest fact about the child eater is, that he's designed after a really evil grandfather (look at the facial features). Also his skin color and folds pretty much look like a fresh cadaver. So in sum we have a dead naked senior with eyeballs in his hands, who slowly eats the flesh of living children (or at least implies that).

@CW: ahh, that's Sadako. I didn't know her name in der jap. Version. Yeah, she's pretty scary too.

[Calin Leafshade]

The vampires from 30 days of night are pretty good. Only ever so slightly different from a normal human but enough to make them look very unsettling





http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk44/DarkAngelPrincess25/30_Days_Of_Night_wallpaper_4.jpg (large image)

[an Urpney]

Cenobites.









Great mixture of grotesque, symmetry and body mutilation.

[Eric]

When I was a kid, I was terrified of Gmork from The Neverending Story:



...and Large Marge:



As an adult, I'm more bothered by supernatural creatures that instill despair instead of fear. Like most things in Guillermo Del Toro movies. Especially the ghost boy from Devil's Backbone. The sight of him makes me feel as though I have a black hole in my soul:

[Vince Twelve]

Oh Jesus, Large Marge... Nightmares for weeks!

[Darth Mandarb]

Personally I found PeeWee Herman far more creepy and scary than Large Marge.

[NickyNyce]

The Jackel from thirteen ghosts was cool

[imgzoom]http://i1228.photobucket.com/albums/ee455/nickynyce/thCARJC94O.jpg[/imgzoom]

[Eric]

Looks kind of like a grown-up Linda Blair:



The scariest thing in The Exorcist, by the way, was finding out what MRI machines used to look like.

[Ali]

Sorry guys, the scariest monster was identified by Lee and Herring back in 1999:

Lee and Herring's Reasonably Scary Monsters
[embed=425,349]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV47hWehB0Y[/embed]

On reflection, Stewart Lee's tan/chest hair might be the most disturbing aspect of the video.

[Ponch]

Damn you Large Marge! I had finally started sleeping through the night again! And now you're back!!! 

[EchosofNezhyt]

Gotta agree I think 13 ghosts was sick... It had alot of awesome stuff.

Prolly one of my favorite horrors.

[Snarky]

[Crimson Wizard]

The Jackel from thirteen ghosts was cool

Are we talking of coolness, or of scaryness? I found many monsters "cool" but they weren't always really scary.

I think it's mostly the mixture between the known and the grotesque.

Well, I won't probably say anything original if I tell that unknown can be frightening. Since "The Ring" was mentioned, I think most scary thing about the dead girl is that you don't know what's under her long hair :/. You have no idea what to expect precisely and so expect something terrible. The facial experessions of people killed by her make us to assume that they saw things beyond human imagination, something not the explainable (heh).

@Snarky: I hoped no one would do this... now you have seven days left. 



BTW.
In Soviet Russia children scare monsters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj7SoDy4CQE

[NickyNyce]

I think the Jackel is in the coolness categorie actually, but only because the Jackel played such a small part.

As for The Ring and the first Grudge, what you can't see is certainly the most scary IMO. I am a believer that less is more.

[Miguel R. Fervenza]