This is for movies that once may have shined, but now are forgotten or not. Monsters that are not zombies, werewolves or vampires. What is there besides zombies, werewolves , and vampires that are terror in the night.
My first submission The Mist.
My second The Fog.
My third Pet Cemetery
My forth is War of the Worlds because it is a classic that will always be great.
My fifth Poltergeist.
My sixth Amityville Horror
My seventh Tommyknockers
My eighth Christine yes a possessed car was scary then
My ninth It
My tenth The Exorcist because it was scary as Hell when it came out.
There was a spaceship “graveyard”, with some kind of tentacled critter that pulls victims into it’s burning maw, and spits out their baked husk. I dunno how this critter moved from ship to ship. I don’t think we see it moving it’s main bulk on screen, only it’s tentacles.
I hardly every was allowed to watch that show and that episode is burned into my mind forever. I picture steaming skeletal parts emerging from a lighted maw fresh from the beast’s gullet. The beast arrived as a swirling light. Special effects on that show were very bad. All the instrument displays were painted in place, yet that episode was terrifying. The episode was Dragon’s Domain.
Good Lord, there are tons of them. Don’t you watch many movies?
1.) The aforementioned Blob is only one of a series of Blob monsters (and don’t forget it came back in Beware the Blob! and the remake of The Blob. Other blobs are:
X - the Unknown
The H-Men (Japanese, from Toho, the makers of Godzilla) Caltiki – The Immortal Monster
The Stuff
2.) Monstrous Aliens of all kinds, besides your Tommyknockers and Martians from War of the Worlds
*Five Million Miles to Earth
Dagora the Space Monster
The Creeping Unknown (The Quatermass Xperiment)
Enemy from Space (Quatermass 2)
Invaders from Mars * (remade once) The Thing (remade and prequeled) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (remade twice) The Puppet Masters (made and bootlegged)
3.) Giant Monsters – there are too many to list
King Kong
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
Godzilla
Gorgo
The Giant Nehemoth
Rodan
Ghidrah
Cloverfield
and that barely scratches the surface
4.) Giant Bugs and the like – a subclass of the above
Them!
The Deadly Mantis
The Black Scorpion
Tarantula
Earth Vs. the Giant Spider
Eight-Legged Freaks
Ice Spiders
Empire of the Ants
The Monster that Challenged the World
Beginning of the End
The Cosmic Monsters (as I’ve said before, I think Stephen King stole The Mist from this one)
et cetera et cetera et cetera
5.) Scientific Experiments Gone REALLY Bad
The Fly (remade, and with a total of three sequels)
*The Projected Man
the 4D Man
Atom Age Vampire
First Man Into Space
The Incredible Melting Man
Monster a-go-go
The Invisible Man
The Hollow Man
The Hideous Sun Demon
The Amazing Colossal Man
not to mention every version and variation on Frankenstein
And that’s just off the top of my head. I could list Dinosaurs and Ghosts and Evil Robots and Diseases Out of Control and others.
Wasn’t there a “Star Trek: TNG” episode the first season that had alien bugs taking over Starfleet personnel and moving starships out of the way in preparation for an invasion of Earth. Picard stopped them, warned they were still there, and we never saw them again.
