# Giant killer whatchamacallits in horror movies: What are your ideas? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 29, 2000, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-killer-whatchamacallits-in-horror-movies-what-are-your-ideas/31247 "2000-08-29T20:49:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-killer-whatchamacallits-in-horror-movies-what-are-your-ideas/31247/1 "2000-08-29T20:49:37Z")
I’m not talking about Godzilla size type stuff here. This is more about semi-realistic giant size killer whatsits running amok. Try to use a real critter that has not been used before. I think a horror movie about giant mutant killer EARWIGS would be interesting and disturbing for me. I abhorr earwigs. I’m not exactly afraid of them, just appalled by them. I imagine them in a horror film being about eight to ten inches in length, from head to pincer tips. Egads, I’m squirming already. Those things are so friggin ugly!!! The movie earwigs would do all the gory stuff of urban legend, like boring into the skull through the ear canal and eating brains. Eeeeeewwwww! BRB I need to run to the home improvement store and buy a flamethrower. :::shudder::: ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-killer-whatchamacallits-in-horror-movies-what-are-your-ideas/31247/2 "2000-08-29T21:07:15Z")
How about giant bedbugs, have you ever seen enlarged photos of those ? Eeeeew! How do you know a giant bedbug is in your bed - there’s a big B on his pyjamas. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-killer-whatchamacallits-in-horror-movies-what-are-your-ideas/31247/3 "2000-08-29T21:19:41Z")
MSK - Giant whatchamacallits - Time machine and a million bucks - Sex in strange places - Looney Tunes physics. . . I’m not saying you’re not extremely entertaining today … what I am saying is where did you get the shit you’re smoking, and did you bring enough for the whole class? And I’d like to see six foot Fleas hopping around all over the place. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-killer-whatchamacallits-in-horror-movies-what-are-your-ideas/31247/4 "2000-08-29T21:32:37Z")
Probably has been done, but I’ve never seen it - Giant killer mosquitos. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-killer-whatchamacallits-in-horror-movies-what-are-your-ideas/31247/5 "2000-08-29T21:45:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by xizor \* > \*\*Probably has been done, but I’ve never seen it - Giant killer mosquitos. \*\* Woo Hoo!!! Yes, it’s been done! It’s called Skeeter, and the biggest star it has is a toss-up between Charles Napier and Melanie Griffeth’s half-sister Tracy. It boasts some of the suckiest camera work ever. Saw it on Monstervision, with Joe Bob Briggs. God I love crappy movies. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-killer-whatchamacallits-in-horror-movies-what-are-your-ideas/31247/6 "2000-08-29T22:52:11Z")
I vote for those wasps that lay eggs in other insects and spiders and whatnot, having the larvae eat their way out when they’re hatched. Except giant-sized, they’d use people (of course). That could be fun… Um, on screen, that is. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-killer-whatchamacallits-in-horror-movies-what-are-your-ideas/31247/7 "2000-08-29T22:55:40Z")
[slight hijack] have you seen \* \*\* The Night of the Lepus \* \*\* (I think) about the giant maurading bunny rabbits starring DeForest Kelly??? [/slight hijack] and, frankly, I, too was wondering, is school out or something??? (re all these new threads - not that they weren’t entertaining…) ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-killer-whatchamacallits-in-horror-movies-what-are-your-ideas/31247/8 "2000-08-29T23:02:44Z")
I would like to see giant killer rotifers. They draw you in their mouth by the “tentacles” (cilia) that surround the opnening to the digestive tract, and then chew you up with their jaws. You would want to use a species that’s transparent so when they are wandering around looking for new prey you can see the half-digested bodies of the previous victim still in their stomach. ---
**Author:** ![Jello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@Jello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jello)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-killer-whatchamacallits-in-horror-movies-what-are-your-ideas/31247/9 "2000-08-29T23:44:31Z")
I have a tick phobia. Also leeches. The Giant Bloodsucking Parasites Who Ate Rush Limbaugh’s Mutant Garbage would be pretty frightening. Come to think of it, so would a movie about Rush Limbaugh. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-killer-whatchamacallits-in-horror-movies-what-are-your-ideas/31247/10 "2000-08-30T00:05:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jello \* > \*\*I have a tick phobia. Also leeches. The Giant Bloodsucking Parasites Who Ate Rush Limbaugh’s Mutant Garbage would be pretty frightening. > > Come to think of it, so would a movie about Rush Limbaugh. \*\* I wouldn’t mind a movie about _The_ Tick. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-killer-whatchamacallits-in-horror-movies-what-are-your-ideas/31247/11 "2000-08-30T01:43:45Z")
Okay, let’s see – They’ve already don giant ticks and giant leeches (Attack of the Giant Leeches – so bad it ended up on MST3K). I think the giant whatzits in Deep Rising were supposed to be magnified microcopic beasties, kinda like rotifers (effects by computer animation) A few giant thingies: Snails (The Monster that Challenged the World, and Snails) (Look – a Giant Snail! Walk for your Lives!!!) Grasshoppers (Beginning of the End, and The Cosmic Mnters) Ants (Them! and The Empire of the Ants - with Joan Collins!) Spiders (Tarantula and Earth Vs. the Giant Spider and The Giant Spider Invasion and lots of others) Bunny Rabbits (Night of the Lepus, as already pointed out) Rats, chickens, and assorted others (Food of the Gods I and II) Shrews (The Killer Shrews) Women (Attack of the 50-foot Woman, The 40-foot Bride of Candy Rock, Attach of the 50 ft Centerfold) Men (Amazing Colossal Man, War of the Colossal Beast) Teenagers (Village of the Giants) Kids (Honey, I Blew up the Kid) Scorpions (The Black Scorpion, Clash of the Titans) I’m sure there are other candidates, like water beetle larvae and bladderworts and turtles. ---
**Author:** ![Erroneous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71c47a/32.png) [@Erroneous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erroneous)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-killer-whatchamacallits-in-horror-movies-what-are-your-ideas/31247/12 "2000-08-30T02:10:20Z")
[**SEE!** Rodents the size of your thumb grow to terrifying proportions!](http://natzoo.si.edu/zooview/exhibits/nmrats/handprof.jpg) [**SQUEAL!** As they go on a gnawing rampage!](http://natzoo.si.edu/zooview/exhibits/nmrats/biting.jpg) [**QUIVER!** In revulsion at just how damn ugly they are!](http://natzoo.si.edu/zooview/exhibits/nmrats/intube1.jpg) In… _ **Attack of the hundred-foot naked mole rats from Kenya!!** _ ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-killer-whatchamacallits-in-horror-movies-what-are-your-ideas/31247/13 "2000-08-30T02:12:56Z")
[Centipedes!](http://www.ent.iastate.edu/ipm/iiin/housece.html) \*\*RE: Earwigs–\*\*They were one of the first giant animals noticed in the _novel_ “Food of the Gods”, but I never saw the movie versions, so don’t know if they were in there. Insects in general get my vote. Anything fast and spindly. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-killer-whatchamacallits-in-horror-movies-what-are-your-ideas/31247/14 "2000-08-30T03:06:23Z")
Junebugs. Or how about slugs? ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-killer-whatchamacallits-in-horror-movies-what-are-your-ideas/31247/15 "2000-08-30T04:11:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kat \* > \*\*Or how about slugs? \*\* [Been there, done that](http://www.badmovies.org/movies/slugs/index.html). ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-killer-whatchamacallits-in-horror-movies-what-are-your-ideas/31247/16 "2000-08-30T04:56:13Z")
**Wring** and **CalMeachem** , you are both posters after my own heart. Or at least wretched taste in movies… _Night of the Lepus_ with the killer attack bunnies is a gem, a fall-off-the-couch-laughing GEM. And (buffs nails modestly), I just happen to own my own copy of _The Killer Shrews_. The special effects are so dismal the giant, mutant shrews are quite unmistakably romping, tail-wagging dogs. Blissful sigh. The giant marshamallow man in _GhostBusters_ almost pales in comparison. Expanding on the thought though…Spam; huge, pink, glistening blocks of Spam, dropped onto cities, rotting in the sun. Or mutant, huge and disgusting: Rush Limbaugh. Veb ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-killer-whatchamacallits-in-horror-movies-what-are-your-ideas/31247/17 "2000-08-30T05:02:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TVeblen \* > \*\ ***Wring** and **CalMeachem** , you are both posters after my own heart. Or at least wretched taste in movies… > > Veb \*\* “Slugs” insufficiently wretched??? Or am I being dissed here? Veb, you wound me… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-killer-whatchamacallits-in-horror-movies-what-are-your-ideas/31247/18 "2000-08-30T07:13:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dijon Warlock “Slugs” insufficiently wretched??? Or am I being dissed here? Veb, you wound me… ☹ [/QUOTE] No, no, Dijon! Would I wound someone with such a sneaky, sideways SN? (Took me two beats, then I cracked up laughing, but haven’t recoverd from SN Envy yet.) “Slugs” is truly wretched, indeed! Though I wouldn’t say that too loudly, given the _real_ dissing in the Pit over The Artist Still Known As Slug. But to continue…it’s just not as dippy, as screwily _stupid_ as giant attack bunnies. Though Jimmy Carter may disagree. Bowing to Dijon’s stellar wretchedness, Veb ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-killer-whatchamacallits-in-horror-movies-what-are-your-ideas/31247/19 "2000-08-30T07:22:48Z")
You must see “Night of the Lepus.” When the giant bunnies attack people, they do an extreme close-up and dub in lion roars. Hah hah hah. ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-killer-whatchamacallits-in-horror-movies-what-are-your-ideas/31247/20 "2000-08-30T08:02:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wring \* > \*\*[slight hijack] have you seen \* \*\* The Night of the Lepus \* \*\* (I think) about the giant maurading bunny rabbits starring DeForest Kelly??? [/slight hijack] > and, frankly, I, too was wondering, is school out or something??? (re all these new threads - not that they weren’t entertaining…) \*\* DeForest Kelley, huh? Did he have any good lines? “I’m a doctor, Jim, not a…” I haven’t seen the movie, but I hear that it has a great line: “There’s a hoard of killer rabbits coming this way!” Any others? Any jokes about how the rabbit died? And lion roars, huh? I really have to see this film! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-killer-whatchamacallits-in-horror-movies-what-are-your-ideas/31247.md?page=2)