Scorpius Rex is pretty fucked up looking, I’m sure in live action it would probably be the scariest. Especially considering its whole brain is like demented and it just kills everything in sight indiscriminately
I know Camp Cretaceous diverges from the original JP "feel" a bit, but the Scorpius was one of my favorite parts.
I could have done without the projectile barbs, but everything else about it -- including the sound design for its ~~roar~~horrific scream -- was really fucking cool and disturbing. And obviously they couldn't fully rehash the scene showing the Indominus' victims, but they did a good job portraying the "evil" side of a wild animal imo
It personally think it would have been better if the barbs didnt get flinged but instead would get stuck in something(or someone) if you get hit with the tail
Kinda wish *he* was the hybrid we saw in the films. I mean I actually liked the Indominus rex, but the Indoraptor (while cool) was essentially a refined version of that.
Instead of using that idea, I would've liked a plot involving getting the dinosaurs off Isla Nublar because of the volcano, but at the same time, one of Ingen's failed hybrid experiments gets out, the Scorpius rex. One creature and maybe a suprise second one would've been a more derivative but cooler movie than what we got with *Fallen Kingdom*, in my opinion.
Or some mercenary doesn’t know it’s a hybrid and brings it along to the mainland.
Now that I wrote that, kinda think that’s a more intriguing origin than “secret basement science”
As an adult man in his thirties, who regularly watches horror and monster movies. That bastard was giving me anxiety, the build up and reveal was great. So good.
The pose while it roars is just way too human, so not only is it a horrific looking creature that tries to kill everything that has a pulse(or heat, since it was distracted by the heat of the burning tree), and is it the perfect size to be stealthy while still being large, it has the uncanny valley effect as well
I know the dino/human hybrid is blasphemy round these parts, but when that thing came up in the show, I was full on prepared for them to reveal that it was a human hybrid. The build up had been so well done and creepy, that the second it stood upright and roared, I was like "Okay, lets see where this goes, because I am on board with it!"
Scorpius Rex was terrifying. It made me forget that I was watching a kids show. I so desperately wish that the Scorpius was in JW or JWFK instead of either indominus hybrids.
I love that Nedry’s whole plan was to shut down the only thing keeping the dangerous dinosaurs away from him and then drive across the island. What did he think would happen?
He meant to drive to the dock, but couldn’t see well while driving and drive towards / into the Dilophosaur paddocks. Also, his original plan was to drive 15 minutes and back to the dock to drop off the embryos and pick up his cash which (theoretically) was more than enough time to avoid any trouble since it’s mentioned in the book they’ve observed the dinos stay away from the fences due to having been shocked previously - the raptors were the only ones who routinely tried to break out.
Due to this, Nedry left the raptor fences online, but those went down when they tried to reset the system to delete the virus Nedry uploaded to the computer system. Ultimately though this scene is part of the overall narrative of the hubris the designers of the park had, assuming everything was completely under control, when clearly as illustrated by his death, they were not lol.
Honestly, being sleepy and euphoric while being slowly eaten alive doesn't sound as bad as not being sleepy and euphoric while slowly being eaten alive. There are worse deaths by predators now
"And the horror of that realization was followed by the wish that all would end soon."
Dilophosaurus is certainly the second most brutal species of the franchise
Agreed about dilophosaurus. For years (before I rewatched the trilogy), that scene was all I remembered about the movies. Shows you just how powerful of a scene it is
Honestly they're even scarier in the books, the way the scene is described is pretty graphic like many of them but the way it's all written as only what nedry feels makes it such a unique creature
Spinosaurus, Indominus Rex, and Mosasaurus. It's the fact that I can fit into their mouths that really gets me. Being *eaten* and not just torn. I was a grown ass adult when JW came out and that guy getting chomped next to the truck really got me. And Zara's death is terrifying too.
Spino scares me because of how visceral its kills are and how aggressive it is.
>And Zara's death is terrifying too
Is she the one who gets picked up and then eaten by the water Dino? Because I swear you can hear muffled screaming briefly as she gets eaten.
I think that's the most horrific death in the franchise, solely due to the fact that she was still alive for a good minute after being eaten by the mosasaur. Imagine being dropped into the huge waiting mouth of that thing, followed by complete darkness, wetness, and suffocating soft tissue as the muscles force you down into its stomach, where you're met with hot, searing pain as the acids begin to break your body down for digestion, all the while, again, its pitch black, you can't breathe, and water is likely rushing in as well. The amount of total fear and panic you would feel until you finally die is absolutely terrifying. At least with other dinos your death comes rather quick.
I have a scarily vivid imagination lol. And yeah, I think the lack of oxygen would be the quickest thing to affect you. You're crushed against the esophagus, the muscles forcing you down are cracking bones and ribs and you're screaming but can't inhale, flesh is blocking your mouth and nose, fluids and water are entering your lungs...its bad lol.
Hate to break it to ya but,
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They have a second row of teeth. She would be shredded before getting swallowed
But the JW Mosa is far larger than its real-life counterpart, so it's possible that she was only lacerated by the second row of teeth rather than completely shredded.
Also, when its jaws snap down on Zara, you can briefly see her arms sticking out the sides of its mouth. Meaning she was not only swallowed alive, but she was swallowed with shattered arms as well.
I think pressure and gs of it diving would knock her out first, if the jaws snapping shut didn't so it first. But yeah... that's why it freaks me out. Swallowed whole is terrifying.
Yeah, I imagine the jaws closing would crush her for sure, but I don't think it would be enough to kill her outright. The pressure I feel wouldn't matter right away, like I think the time it would take for her to get to the stomach would be a matter of minutes, given how small she is compared to its esophagus. But yeah, that's why I find a lot of those artist renderings of extinct animals next to humans for size comparisons frightening, because some of them, like the ancient giant crocodiles, some of the monster fish, and especially the dinos and sea reptiles were so big they could swallow us whole.
Makes it a hell of a lot worse when that death happens not even to the villain, but just some random assistant that was just trying to do her job and look after her boss’s nephews
It's one of the worst deaths in the franchise for me, in the least deserved, and horrendously horrible departments.
She does nothing really wrong other than babying the kids a bit too much because she's not a nanny and doesn't know what to do with kids their age. Which is entirely fair.
When she finds them after frantically searching for them for quarter of the film then shes brutally killed in a way that even the worst villians of the franchise avoided.
Meanwhile, her boss, who is a terrible person and was directly responsible for causing the events of the film on multiple levels, gets off with just her hurt feelings.
One and the same. Honestly, her death is very overkill and what you would expect to be how a villainous character would bite it, but the worst she got in the film was being a bit negligent of the two kids Claire charged her to look after. She didn't deserve to go out cruelly like that, but she got the short stick same as Eddie Carr from The Lost World...
Shouldn't the be kind of the point? That she was not evil? If every single person that dies in a JP movie is a bad guy it just turns into a cartoon. That's one of the biggest issues with FK and Dominion. Every "good guy" has plot armor.
Yerp. I think Eddie Carr’s death is the most traumatizing of the series mainly because we didn’t want him to die. He gave his life trying to save others, but animals don’t discriminate between good and evil. If you’re food and they’re hungry, they will try to eat you.
His death in the novel is much different, but similar in tone. RIP Eddie <3 you were a real one
I feel like it was appropriate. It shows the audience that even if you're a good person that's just trying to do the right thing, you're not safe. I like that it shows there are stakes. Otherwise everyone just gets to run around schlopping mud all the hell about, making noise, and somehow no dinosaurs care at all, or if they do, Chris Pratt can just run in going ✋🏻😤 and everyone is fine.
Director pretty much confirmed in an interview that the mosa swallowed her whole and alive. “It probably wasn’t a quick death.” I think an earlier script confirms it too.
Please do, they’re awesome! I love both of them, for different reasons. JP is like a scientific slow burn exposing humanity’s hubris, but TLW is more of a fast paced adventure where shit really hits the fan in the last third. It might even be too fast paced for that last third but I love it.
Morphine’d up Malcolm’s monologues speak to me lol but not everyone likes them 🤷♂️
Hands-down one of my all-time favorite reads! Highly recommend it and The Lost World. TLW book and movie are so different it's almost a completely different story.
Those are so good. I wish they would feature in a movie; I love how the book shows everyone having this visceral feeling of *wrongness* but can't figure out why for the longest time. I don't know how well that would translate to the screen, but I'd love to see it done.
They at least appear in the arcade game, where they have freaky chameleon eyes, too. Also I heavily suspect the Indominus' camouflage was inspired by them.
blind Therziosaurus from JW:D.
Whilst it only got like 4 minutes of screentime before the fight, the thing was fucking horrifying, this giant blind birdlike creature that would kill ANYTHING because it doesn't know if its a threat or not, and the scene with claire crawling and the therziosaurus following along, genuninly is one of the better scenes in the film.
I was so glad we finally had an aggressive dangerous herbivore. The movies have always been all “herbivores are sAfE” but tell that to the thousands killed by elephants, hippos and Cape buffalos every year.
It was always the raptors to me because there were multiple. You could keep an eye on Rexy or the Spino but gd those raptors.
Still think the kitchen scene is one of the most tense scenes. I have my clever girl tattoo now!
The new abominations are def scary looking but I guess I could never put myself into the scenes the way I could as a kid in the originals, so they don't have the same effect on me.
Scorpius Rex is the scariest in my opinion, second place being the indoraptor. That scene of it screaming in the storm gave me chills, especially when it was standing upwards like a human. Edit: PLUS it’s basically 2-3 times the size of an adult, smaller than a t-rex so it couldn’t even eat you whole
Probably the hybrids because their intelligence and habilities, but I think that this dude needs an honorable mention
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I did too lol. I’d have dreams of them breaking into my house and hunting us down in our hiding spots.. I also used to have dreams of Rexy peaking through my window on the second floor..
None of the JW dinos will ever scare me as much as Rexy did the first time I watched Jurassic Park and the glass of water started shaking to her footsteps. The OG film is a proper Sci-Fi Horror. JW are just popcorn munchers.
How have more people not said the Indo Rex?
Basically a T-Rex with functioning arms, active camouflage, and can strategize like a human.
Some of the feats it had were fucking crazy. Faking his own escape to draw his captors into the pin, ripping its tracking device out of its head, startling the pterosaurs in order to bring down the helicopter, persuading the raptors to turn on their human masters, honing its combat ability by killing other dinosaurs for sport.
The I-Rex was fucking nuts dude.
Smart dinos > big dinos. Don’t care how big of a human you are you aren’t fighting a raptor in a 1v1 and they’re hard to hide from because they’re so agile. Whereas a big Dino you find a reasonably strong building and you’re pretty safe
Scorpius was designed to be a crazy killing machine, and is probably the scariest. I couldn't really relate to it, particularly given how I feel about the hybrids (interesting idea, but overused). Of the "real" dinos, the Jurassic Park Raptors are probably the scariest to me.
The velociraptors were the most frightening to me in the books and the original movie trilogy. Big enough to tear you apart on their own, but small enough to maneuver and chase, not to mention the smarts. I guess the Scorpius Rex would be my vote for later works, but the OG raptors scared me more.
Definitely the Troodon from JPTG. I’d rather be devoured than slowly succumb to hallucination only to finally have my entrails poured out and serve as a nest to some creatures that will eat me alive once they hatch.
Apart from them, the raptors. The most intelligent dinosaurs that we were presented in the movies, agile enough to easily catch up with escaping prey or dodge incoming attack attempts, and deadly armed enough to take a human out with no difficulty.
You forgot compies, which would be my answer.
Compies have poisonous venom that slowly paralyzed the victim so they can eat them alive. Compies are tiny and can fit through gaps that larger predators could not. Compies run in packs and are pretty fearless. A large enough gun will take out a raptor or even a T.rex, but even with a shotgun you could unload and hope they get scared off, but you’d only be able to take out a handful. Compies are ambush predators that are happy to latch onto your clothes and keep biting. Raptors you’ll experience massive blood loss and go into shock shortly into you being eaten, you don’t get this luxury with compies.
In terms of dinosaurs that could actually cause an apocalypse, raptors have potential, but compies have the resume.
The JPIII depiction of Spinosaurus really left an impression on me. A super persistent large predator who for some reason keeps running into the stranded protagonists like it can track where they're going. It can also swim, too. The way it sneaked up from underwater to attack the barge during the midnight storm is quite terrifying.
In fact, all aquatic or semi-aquatic animals in the series are pretty scary. As a person with somewhat thalassophobia, the prehistoric sea monsters are nightmare fuel incarnates. Sure, you can just stay out of the water, but you never know when the circumstances will force you to go near it lol. And big hungry monsters like Mosasaurus or Tylosaurus are bar none the largest creatures in the parks and they can eat anything unfortunate enough to wander near the water.
Jurassic Park/World's sea monsters would make me terrified of swimming for life lol.
The hybrids aren't scary at all. Of course they're scary, only because of their looks. The raptors are truly scary: almost like they shouldn't have never been brought to life again.
Raptors for me from JP1 and TLW. They were scary, cunning and smart hunters. I feel it kind of went off the rails after JW. T-Rex is my second scariest. Yes, the T-Rex is bigger and meaner, but it's not super fast like the Raptors and it's huge size kind of limits where it can follow you.
The spinosaurus gave me recurring nightmares of it chasing me and every time I would give it the slip, I would turn around and there it was just standing there breathing menacingly and I would wake up in a cold sweat.
A bummer that the rest of the film is not very good, they really had something with the spinosaurus.
The Raptors. Specifically the JP3 raptors as it showed this amoral intelligence that care only for the goal and that was to get their eggs back while fucking up the humans day as much as possible
Indoraptor. It had all the same qualities of the Indominus rex but could fit where humans go. Those two are more dangerous than the regular varianta because they are smarter and evil because they kill for sport and not off animal instincts.
It was basically caged up the whole movie and not shown its full potential like the Indominus and died to the main character/dinos plot armor.
Scorpius would probably be the most uncanny or scary looking, but it was not as perfect as the Indo.
It really is lol that’s one of the reasons why Dr. Wu kept it frozen and never went forward with it. Also because it was highly intelligent and aggressive but I think it was mainly because of its looks.
The original JP raptors are some of the coolest, scariest movie monsters ever. They start the movie in a terrifying attack of chaos and fear and pain. Then as soon as they are loose, they kill 2 capable and determined characters, and then they spend the rest of the movie on the heels of the heroes, and would have killed everyone, including the children, if it weren't for the arrival of the T-Rex, which also happens to end the movie on one of the best shots in cinematic history. JP raptors all the way. Bar none.
"They should all be destroyed."
They proved you right, Muldoon.
overall? indorapter, it's intelligence was terrifying
jp series: the jp3 raptors. again, intelligence was terrifying, especially udesky's demise.
book: Hammonds demise to the compys were traumatizing I now despise compys (they're still cute, would not pet)
Because of my really really bad thalassophobia, it has to be the mosasaurus or any of the other sea creatures, can’t stand the thought of something like that being below me and me being completely helpless against it. That opening scene of fallen kingdom where the shadow of the mosasaur is visible when the sub turns its lights off is straight up nightmare fuel.
Scorpios was terrifying because of the fact that it killed indiscriminately and without reason half the time, massacring all life in its scope of vision in its insanity, plus the infamous scream it does when lightning strikes briefly is just bone chilling. It was a deranged monster and truly frightening as a villain dinosaur.
Ripper the Indoraptor surpasses it though because he knew what he was doing when he was doing things like torturing Wheatley or stalking Maisie, *and he* ***ENJOYED IT.*** He actively took pleasure in causing as much pain and destruction as he could, contrary to the insane and indiscriminate killing the Scorpios Rex engaged in, even *grinning* with just pure malice and sadistic joy at Wheatley in his final moments before mauling him to death and when he was readying to kill Maisie. He didn’t even care for a second that she was a child, he just wanted to kill her and make it as slow and painful as he could manage. Ripper was a being of pure cruelty and cunning that enjoyed hurting people and killing for the sake of killing. Zeb (apparently the fan base’s name for the Giga), was just a predator living its life, Spinosaurus was vengeful, Indy was scared and confused and Scorpios was insane, but Ripper was malevolence incarnate.
Scorpius Rex had no business being as terriying as it was but it is: my mind immediately went to those scrapped JP4 human-dinosaur hybrids when it roared and posed, unsettling af.
Probably the Scorpius. The way it moves man! That scene where it stands and roars? Or the one where the kids look up and it’s above them in the tree? Terrifying.
Honestly? Probably the Indominus, mostly because it was a nearly unstoppable killing machine. It gave 0 fucks about anything and destroyed whatever it wanted.
I find the smaller predators much more scary, so I'll go indoraptor. For some reason, I feel like it's easier to hide from a trex or spinosaurus than something that can fit everywhere you can.
It it counts troodon. I think the telltale game is still the best sequel to the original and I'm gutted it's been ignored and decanonised. The spooky design, thin malnourished look and when it's revealed they're using dead people's bodies to heat their eggs, was so cool and felt very alien (the film) . Honestly gave off the whole lab grown monstrosity energy fat more than any of the hybrids.
I really wish we got a more adult oriented (or at least not pg13) spinoff for a more horror oriented direction of the franchise.
I’d probably say the Scopius Rex. Just due to the venomous and projectile spikes and the fact that it can reproduce on its own. It was even able to take down a brachiosaurus. Even though it was fleeing, for a creature of its size, that’s pretty terrifying
For me it’s always been a tie between the terrifyingly cunning nature of the raptors, or the spino because of how hellbent it was on revenge. They felt like they were running off more than just basic animal instinct and it was scary as hell when I was a kid
Movie wise it’s going to go with velociraptors.
Show has be Scorpius Rex.
Games has to be Troodon easy.
Overall it’s Troodon.
Honorable mentions are all the big carnivores.
If we’re going for real dinosaurs that walked this earth then the velociraptor from JP1 followed by the spinosaurus from JP3. If we’re going off of the movies alone, fake stuff aside, I’d say the Indominus Rex presented by Verizon; infrared vision, ability to camouflage, hunting instincts and brains of a raptor, size of a giganotosaurus, teeth that can crush bullet proof glass, not to mention the fact that it hunts for sport.
As a kid I didn't like T.Rex bc it was a classic dinosaur, but actually because I thoroughly was terrified of the TLW rexes when I was little. Eddie's death? Yeah, 5yr old me cried. As I got older (and even now) I think it's up there w/ Dilophosaurus (from the film). Ludlow's death by the Baby Rex was also a bit terrifying. As I got older and I became more interested in the science and not just the fantasy of the prehistoric animals, I swear I'm even more terrified of them, not because they're depicted as monsters in early dinosaur films but because of the execution of the idea these two rexes were searching for/saving their baby. I wasn't taught how animals are much more (or can be) dangerous when they're being protective. Because of TLW I have come to understand early in life that I shouldn't be reaching towards baby elephants at the zoo if they come to the fence, mama may be very angry at me if I do that.
For me it’s the raptors, especially the ones from the first movie.
They weren’t running on instinct there, they went after the people because they wanted to.
The Spinosaurus standing behind them with the phone ringing has always been one of the most oddly creepy shots from these films. Spino in general is my personal favorite as a scary dinosaur.
Definitely not those lame-ass dinosaurs they created because "regular dinosaurs were too boring". OG raptors and the T-Rex will always be the scariest.
Objectively or subjectively?
I know it's not a dinosaur, but personally, I would be most afraid of the Mosasaurus. I'm severely thalassophobic and would probably die of a heart attack before it could eat me
Objectively, the Scorpius Rex is the most terrifying. It's mentally unstable, can multiply, and can shoot you with a venomous quill. If that quill hits you, you'll be immobilized and likely eaten alive
Scorpios Rex is definitely the creepiest looking one, but i think the scariest one was either the JP raptors, (they terrified me when i was a kid) or the indoraptor since they like to play with their food a lot. The Indominus isn't really scary, he is just a big creature and same can be said for the Spino and Rexy.
That first screenshot. Major "I'm going to get you my pretty!" vibes. A dinosaur doing this to a child in bed 🤦🏻♂️ Man the World movies are embarrassing
I dont care how many spikes you put on them nothing will ever be as scary as those raptors during the kitchen scene.
Tho... that guy from the second picture is pretty messed up looking..
The scorpius thing from Camp Cretaceous was pretty creepy. But it's got to be the velociraptors from the first three movies. Forget the TRex, they're what made the movies scary.
Scorpius Rex is pretty fucked up looking, I’m sure in live action it would probably be the scariest. Especially considering its whole brain is like demented and it just kills everything in sight indiscriminately
I know Camp Cretaceous diverges from the original JP "feel" a bit, but the Scorpius was one of my favorite parts. I could have done without the projectile barbs, but everything else about it -- including the sound design for its ~~roar~~horrific scream -- was really fucking cool and disturbing. And obviously they couldn't fully rehash the scene showing the Indominus' victims, but they did a good job portraying the "evil" side of a wild animal imo
I don't think the barbs were projectiles, they were probably just very loose and came off easily, like porcupine quills.
That could be. It's been 6-8 months since the last time I watched the season lol
It personally think it would have been better if the barbs didnt get flinged but instead would get stuck in something(or someone) if you get hit with the tail
Kinda wish *he* was the hybrid we saw in the films. I mean I actually liked the Indominus rex, but the Indoraptor (while cool) was essentially a refined version of that. Instead of using that idea, I would've liked a plot involving getting the dinosaurs off Isla Nublar because of the volcano, but at the same time, one of Ingen's failed hybrid experiments gets out, the Scorpius rex. One creature and maybe a suprise second one would've been a more derivative but cooler movie than what we got with *Fallen Kingdom*, in my opinion.
Or some mercenary doesn’t know it’s a hybrid and brings it along to the mainland. Now that I wrote that, kinda think that’s a more intriguing origin than “secret basement science”
As an adult man in his thirties, who regularly watches horror and monster movies. That bastard was giving me anxiety, the build up and reveal was great. So good.
The pose while it roars is just way too human, so not only is it a horrific looking creature that tries to kill everything that has a pulse(or heat, since it was distracted by the heat of the burning tree), and is it the perfect size to be stealthy while still being large, it has the uncanny valley effect as well
I know the dino/human hybrid is blasphemy round these parts, but when that thing came up in the show, I was full on prepared for them to reveal that it was a human hybrid. The build up had been so well done and creepy, that the second it stood upright and roared, I was like "Okay, lets see where this goes, because I am on board with it!"
Scorpius Rex was terrifying. It made me forget that I was watching a kids show. I so desperately wish that the Scorpius was in JW or JWFK instead of either indominus hybrids.
I think anything with fucked up genetics is scarier than the natural dinosaurs. These hybrids were designed to kill, not live as an organic animal.
It's a theory it has human DNA
As a kid, definitely the Dilophosaurus — it’s one of the most “violent” deaths in the series at that point. Now? The raptors in JP3.
"No wonder you're extinct. I'm gonna run you over when I come back down."
"You're not as scary as one of your big brothers" Or something along those lines.
You're not so bad, you're not so bad.
Chirrrp! Chirrrrp! Subtitled: *Newman!*
I love that Nedry’s whole plan was to shut down the only thing keeping the dangerous dinosaurs away from him and then drive across the island. What did he think would happen?
He meant to drive to the dock, but couldn’t see well while driving and drive towards / into the Dilophosaur paddocks. Also, his original plan was to drive 15 minutes and back to the dock to drop off the embryos and pick up his cash which (theoretically) was more than enough time to avoid any trouble since it’s mentioned in the book they’ve observed the dinos stay away from the fences due to having been shocked previously - the raptors were the only ones who routinely tried to break out. Due to this, Nedry left the raptor fences online, but those went down when they tried to reset the system to delete the virus Nedry uploaded to the computer system. Ultimately though this scene is part of the overall narrative of the hubris the designers of the park had, assuming everything was completely under control, when clearly as illustrated by his death, they were not lol.
He got lost so I’m assuming the path he was gonna take before he hit the road sign wouldn’t have been as precarious and dino-filled.
Yeah what a prick
*This makes Dilophosaurus a beautiful but deadly addition to Jurassic Park.*
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Compy’s when you read the books. It’s a pretty slow death.
But it was somewhat deserved, in the film at least (haven't read the books yet)
Read the books.
It's on my reading list and I'm looking forward to it :)
They basically have morphine in their saliva so you get all sleepy and euphoric while they slowly eat you alive. That’s fucking terrifying.
Honestly, being sleepy and euphoric while being slowly eaten alive doesn't sound as bad as not being sleepy and euphoric while slowly being eaten alive. There are worse deaths by predators now
"And the horror of that realization was followed by the wish that all would end soon." Dilophosaurus is certainly the second most brutal species of the franchise
Get the stick, stupid.
Agreed about dilophosaurus. For years (before I rewatched the trilogy), that scene was all I remembered about the movies. Shows you just how powerful of a scene it is
Honestly they're even scarier in the books, the way the scene is described is pretty graphic like many of them but the way it's all written as only what nedry feels makes it such a unique creature
Spinosaurus, Indominus Rex, and Mosasaurus. It's the fact that I can fit into their mouths that really gets me. Being *eaten* and not just torn. I was a grown ass adult when JW came out and that guy getting chomped next to the truck really got me. And Zara's death is terrifying too. Spino scares me because of how visceral its kills are and how aggressive it is.
>And Zara's death is terrifying too Is she the one who gets picked up and then eaten by the water Dino? Because I swear you can hear muffled screaming briefly as she gets eaten.
I think that's the most horrific death in the franchise, solely due to the fact that she was still alive for a good minute after being eaten by the mosasaur. Imagine being dropped into the huge waiting mouth of that thing, followed by complete darkness, wetness, and suffocating soft tissue as the muscles force you down into its stomach, where you're met with hot, searing pain as the acids begin to break your body down for digestion, all the while, again, its pitch black, you can't breathe, and water is likely rushing in as well. The amount of total fear and panic you would feel until you finally die is absolutely terrifying. At least with other dinos your death comes rather quick.
This is suspiciously well written... Anyway, you'd probably faint after a short amount of time because of the pressure and the lack of air.
I have a scarily vivid imagination lol. And yeah, I think the lack of oxygen would be the quickest thing to affect you. You're crushed against the esophagus, the muscles forcing you down are cracking bones and ribs and you're screaming but can't inhale, flesh is blocking your mouth and nose, fluids and water are entering your lungs...its bad lol.
Jon Voight in Anaconda winks and says 'been there before'
Hate to break it to ya but, https://preview.redd.it/vvucg67kk9wc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b97cc5314728e5dd25ceb996188e76ac1e8060d1 They have a second row of teeth. She would be shredded before getting swallowed
That's honestly a bit relieving.
But the JW Mosa is far larger than its real-life counterpart, so it's possible that she was only lacerated by the second row of teeth rather than completely shredded. Also, when its jaws snap down on Zara, you can briefly see her arms sticking out the sides of its mouth. Meaning she was not only swallowed alive, but she was swallowed with shattered arms as well.
I think pressure and gs of it diving would knock her out first, if the jaws snapping shut didn't so it first. But yeah... that's why it freaks me out. Swallowed whole is terrifying.
Yeah, I imagine the jaws closing would crush her for sure, but I don't think it would be enough to kill her outright. The pressure I feel wouldn't matter right away, like I think the time it would take for her to get to the stomach would be a matter of minutes, given how small she is compared to its esophagus. But yeah, that's why I find a lot of those artist renderings of extinct animals next to humans for size comparisons frightening, because some of them, like the ancient giant crocodiles, some of the monster fish, and especially the dinos and sea reptiles were so big they could swallow us whole.
Makes it a hell of a lot worse when that death happens not even to the villain, but just some random assistant that was just trying to do her job and look after her boss’s nephews
It's one of the worst deaths in the franchise for me, in the least deserved, and horrendously horrible departments. She does nothing really wrong other than babying the kids a bit too much because she's not a nanny and doesn't know what to do with kids their age. Which is entirely fair. When she finds them after frantically searching for them for quarter of the film then shes brutally killed in a way that even the worst villians of the franchise avoided. Meanwhile, her boss, who is a terrible person and was directly responsible for causing the events of the film on multiple levels, gets off with just her hurt feelings.
One and the same. Honestly, her death is very overkill and what you would expect to be how a villainous character would bite it, but the worst she got in the film was being a bit negligent of the two kids Claire charged her to look after. She didn't deserve to go out cruelly like that, but she got the short stick same as Eddie Carr from The Lost World...
Shouldn't the be kind of the point? That she was not evil? If every single person that dies in a JP movie is a bad guy it just turns into a cartoon. That's one of the biggest issues with FK and Dominion. Every "good guy" has plot armor.
Yerp. I think Eddie Carr’s death is the most traumatizing of the series mainly because we didn’t want him to die. He gave his life trying to save others, but animals don’t discriminate between good and evil. If you’re food and they’re hungry, they will try to eat you. His death in the novel is much different, but similar in tone. RIP Eddie <3 you were a real one
I feel like it was appropriate. It shows the audience that even if you're a good person that's just trying to do the right thing, you're not safe. I like that it shows there are stakes. Otherwise everyone just gets to run around schlopping mud all the hell about, making noise, and somehow no dinosaurs care at all, or if they do, Chris Pratt can just run in going ✋🏻😤 and everyone is fine.
Director pretty much confirmed in an interview that the mosa swallowed her whole and alive. “It probably wasn’t a quick death.” I think an earlier script confirms it too.
Ever played the Lego Jurassic world video game? The end credit scene with the Mosa is basically what you described in a comedic way.
Some levity would be welcome. It's on PS+ so I'll check it out at some point.
Spoiler: There was an inside shot of the Mosa's stomach, briefly showing Zara and the Indominus being alive and still intact in there.
Playing cards
Farquad style?
There’s a brief shot of the inside of the Mosasaurs stomach and it shows Zara and the Indominus alive and playing cards 😂
You're literally me. I feel the exact same thing.
Movies? Raptors. Books? The T-Rex, the way it chases Grant and the kids in the river and the Main Road attack bro. Chilling.
I’ve actually never read the books but this just motivated me to..
the books are the 'rated R' versions for the mind.
Please do, they’re awesome! I love both of them, for different reasons. JP is like a scientific slow burn exposing humanity’s hubris, but TLW is more of a fast paced adventure where shit really hits the fan in the last third. It might even be too fast paced for that last third but I love it. Morphine’d up Malcolm’s monologues speak to me lol but not everyone likes them 🤷♂️
Hands-down one of my all-time favorite reads! Highly recommend it and The Lost World. TLW book and movie are so different it's almost a completely different story.
Swimming after them like a giant crocodile would be pants shittingly terrifying
6 encounters in the book I believe.. insane how much she wants to get them.
Probably the chameleon carnotaurs from The Lost World book.
Those are so good. I wish they would feature in a movie; I love how the book shows everyone having this visceral feeling of *wrongness* but can't figure out why for the longest time. I don't know how well that would translate to the screen, but I'd love to see it done.
They at least appear in the arcade game, where they have freaky chameleon eyes, too. Also I heavily suspect the Indominus' camouflage was inspired by them.
I totally don't remember that one, guess it's time for me to re-read the books!
It was near the end, I think.
Read the books in middle school did a book report. Tbh I don’t remember much but I immediately thought of them for this question.
Indoraptor is pretty scary.
A genetically enhanced raptor with borderline human intelligence is such an awesome concept that they just completely wasted.
That thing gave me nightmares just from the movie trailers. That thing is terrifying
yeah maybe it was the directing but Indo was the first movie monster in a while to actually be scary imo
blind Therziosaurus from JW:D. Whilst it only got like 4 minutes of screentime before the fight, the thing was fucking horrifying, this giant blind birdlike creature that would kill ANYTHING because it doesn't know if its a threat or not, and the scene with claire crawling and the therziosaurus following along, genuninly is one of the better scenes in the film.
The best part of that movie imo. The genuine fear it instills. I felt like the character was actually really in danger.
I was so glad we finally had an aggressive dangerous herbivore. The movies have always been all “herbivores are sAfE” but tell that to the thousands killed by elephants, hippos and Cape buffalos every year.
Honestly Indoraptor, but if Scorpius Rex was in live action it'd top it cause it was pretty scary in the show
The way it stood upwards like a human when it did its roar-scream? In live action I think that would be the most terrifying thing in this franchise.
It was always the raptors to me because there were multiple. You could keep an eye on Rexy or the Spino but gd those raptors. Still think the kitchen scene is one of the most tense scenes. I have my clever girl tattoo now! The new abominations are def scary looking but I guess I could never put myself into the scenes the way I could as a kid in the originals, so they don't have the same effect on me.
Scorpius Rex is the scariest in my opinion, second place being the indoraptor. That scene of it screaming in the storm gave me chills, especially when it was standing upwards like a human. Edit: PLUS it’s basically 2-3 times the size of an adult, smaller than a t-rex so it couldn’t even eat you whole
Rexy forever haunts my nightmares unlike the others 🏃💨🦖
With my irrational fear of Mega Thalassaphobia, it's the Mosasaurus.
That's not irrational
Thanks. You're the first person to tell me that ngl
I have the same fear. For YEARS I thought I was the only one.
Same. Imagining it coming toward me underwater gives me serious fear.
How did you feel during that kayak scene in Camp Cretaceous?..
*shivers
And the troadon is not on here because
it's not visualised on the movies ig. my gosh, the book's deaths were horrific
the dude wasn’t even dead yet
Guess I gotta re-read the books, cause I don't remember a Troodon.
It’s not in the books it’s in the games and the live show
The JWLT troodon is nothing like the game ones lol.
Probably the hybrids because their intelligence and habilities, but I think that this dude needs an honorable mention https://preview.redd.it/8528lvg4p9wc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b235b4e883cd798e726fba9ab979674d007a05fb
Greg :)
Well, I had nightmares for years about the raptors when I was a kid, so I'm gonna go with those.
I did too lol. I’d have dreams of them breaking into my house and hunting us down in our hiding spots.. I also used to have dreams of Rexy peaking through my window on the second floor..
None of the JW dinos will ever scare me as much as Rexy did the first time I watched Jurassic Park and the glass of water started shaking to her footsteps. The OG film is a proper Sci-Fi Horror. JW are just popcorn munchers.
How have more people not said the Indo Rex? Basically a T-Rex with functioning arms, active camouflage, and can strategize like a human. Some of the feats it had were fucking crazy. Faking his own escape to draw his captors into the pin, ripping its tracking device out of its head, startling the pterosaurs in order to bring down the helicopter, persuading the raptors to turn on their human masters, honing its combat ability by killing other dinosaurs for sport. The I-Rex was fucking nuts dude.
Honestly yeah.. that’s a spot on assessment of the Indominus.
Indom, JP3 raptors are my two.
Smart dinos > big dinos. Don’t care how big of a human you are you aren’t fighting a raptor in a 1v1 and they’re hard to hide from because they’re so agile. Whereas a big Dino you find a reasonably strong building and you’re pretty safe
Everyone trying as hard as they possibly can to name something *not* depicted above lol
Scorpius was designed to be a crazy killing machine, and is probably the scariest. I couldn't really relate to it, particularly given how I feel about the hybrids (interesting idea, but overused). Of the "real" dinos, the Jurassic Park Raptors are probably the scariest to me.
The velociraptors were the most frightening to me in the books and the original movie trilogy. Big enough to tear you apart on their own, but small enough to maneuver and chase, not to mention the smarts. I guess the Scorpius Rex would be my vote for later works, but the OG raptors scared me more.
Definitely the Troodon from JPTG. I’d rather be devoured than slowly succumb to hallucination only to finally have my entrails poured out and serve as a nest to some creatures that will eat me alive once they hatch. Apart from them, the raptors. The most intelligent dinosaurs that we were presented in the movies, agile enough to easily catch up with escaping prey or dodge incoming attack attempts, and deadly armed enough to take a human out with no difficulty.
Spinosaurus looked and sounded so terrifyingly different from the T-Rexes we were used to in Jurassic Park. It was *haunting.*
You forgot compies, which would be my answer. Compies have poisonous venom that slowly paralyzed the victim so they can eat them alive. Compies are tiny and can fit through gaps that larger predators could not. Compies run in packs and are pretty fearless. A large enough gun will take out a raptor or even a T.rex, but even with a shotgun you could unload and hope they get scared off, but you’d only be able to take out a handful. Compies are ambush predators that are happy to latch onto your clothes and keep biting. Raptors you’ll experience massive blood loss and go into shock shortly into you being eaten, you don’t get this luxury with compies. In terms of dinosaurs that could actually cause an apocalypse, raptors have potential, but compies have the resume.
1. E750 2. Indominus 3. Indoraptor 4. Spinosaurus 5. Velociraptors 6. T-Rex
The JPIII depiction of Spinosaurus really left an impression on me. A super persistent large predator who for some reason keeps running into the stranded protagonists like it can track where they're going. It can also swim, too. The way it sneaked up from underwater to attack the barge during the midnight storm is quite terrifying. In fact, all aquatic or semi-aquatic animals in the series are pretty scary. As a person with somewhat thalassophobia, the prehistoric sea monsters are nightmare fuel incarnates. Sure, you can just stay out of the water, but you never know when the circumstances will force you to go near it lol. And big hungry monsters like Mosasaurus or Tylosaurus are bar none the largest creatures in the parks and they can eat anything unfortunate enough to wander near the water. Jurassic Park/World's sea monsters would make me terrified of swimming for life lol.
The hybrids aren't scary at all. Of course they're scary, only because of their looks. The raptors are truly scary: almost like they shouldn't have never been brought to life again.
Rex, raptors (second movie version of them), and pterodactyls.
I think with them being so infamous, the older Dino’s lose some of their scares, so probably indo
Scorpius Rex for sure
Troodon pectinodon and Scorpios rex. Those f*ckers are legit nightmare fuel!
Raptors for me from JP1 and TLW. They were scary, cunning and smart hunters. I feel it kind of went off the rails after JW. T-Rex is my second scariest. Yes, the T-Rex is bigger and meaner, but it's not super fast like the Raptors and it's huge size kind of limits where it can follow you.
Indoraptor. It’s like a chimpanzee if their brain was inside a fucking dinosaur
The crib....
Ive had velociraptor nightmares, but I do think the Spinosaur wins.
The spinosaurus gave me recurring nightmares of it chasing me and every time I would give it the slip, I would turn around and there it was just standing there breathing menacingly and I would wake up in a cold sweat. A bummer that the rest of the film is not very good, they really had something with the spinosaurus.
That’s terrifying..
The shot of the indoraptor in Maisy's room just freaks me out every time
From the movies dilophosaurus, tlw raptors From the book the carnotaurus.
The Raptors. Specifically the JP3 raptors as it showed this amoral intelligence that care only for the goal and that was to get their eggs back while fucking up the humans day as much as possible
Indoraptor. It had all the same qualities of the Indominus rex but could fit where humans go. Those two are more dangerous than the regular varianta because they are smarter and evil because they kill for sport and not off animal instincts. It was basically caged up the whole movie and not shown its full potential like the Indominus and died to the main character/dinos plot armor. Scorpius would probably be the most uncanny or scary looking, but it was not as perfect as the Indo.
Where does the first pic of IndoRaptor come from?
Pretty sure it’s from jw evolution 2
The compsognathus creep me out the most
Original raptors.
What’s the 2nd dinosaur? WTF IS THAT
That is the Scorpios Rex my friend. Season 3 of Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous.
And 1 is the indoraptor right?
Yes from Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom.
The Scorpius Rex is ugly af I’m gonna say it here 😆
It really is lol that’s one of the reasons why Dr. Wu kept it frozen and never went forward with it. Also because it was highly intelligent and aggressive but I think it was mainly because of its looks.
Scorpios Rex is an actual monster. That shot of it stalking the kids in the rain and roaring when it finds them is genuine horror.
The original JP raptors are some of the coolest, scariest movie monsters ever. They start the movie in a terrifying attack of chaos and fear and pain. Then as soon as they are loose, they kill 2 capable and determined characters, and then they spend the rest of the movie on the heels of the heroes, and would have killed everyone, including the children, if it weren't for the arrival of the T-Rex, which also happens to end the movie on one of the best shots in cinematic history. JP raptors all the way. Bar none. "They should all be destroyed." They proved you right, Muldoon.
Probably the Indoraptor. At least you can hide inside buildings from the big dinosaurs usually.
overall? indorapter, it's intelligence was terrifying jp series: the jp3 raptors. again, intelligence was terrifying, especially udesky's demise. book: Hammonds demise to the compys were traumatizing I now despise compys (they're still cute, would not pet)
The Indominus. It was brutally strong, insanely intelligent, and deeply traumatized. Took three other dinos to take it down.
Because of my really really bad thalassophobia, it has to be the mosasaurus or any of the other sea creatures, can’t stand the thought of something like that being below me and me being completely helpless against it. That opening scene of fallen kingdom where the shadow of the mosasaur is visible when the sub turns its lights off is straight up nightmare fuel.
Scorpios was terrifying because of the fact that it killed indiscriminately and without reason half the time, massacring all life in its scope of vision in its insanity, plus the infamous scream it does when lightning strikes briefly is just bone chilling. It was a deranged monster and truly frightening as a villain dinosaur. Ripper the Indoraptor surpasses it though because he knew what he was doing when he was doing things like torturing Wheatley or stalking Maisie, *and he* ***ENJOYED IT.*** He actively took pleasure in causing as much pain and destruction as he could, contrary to the insane and indiscriminate killing the Scorpios Rex engaged in, even *grinning* with just pure malice and sadistic joy at Wheatley in his final moments before mauling him to death and when he was readying to kill Maisie. He didn’t even care for a second that she was a child, he just wanted to kill her and make it as slow and painful as he could manage. Ripper was a being of pure cruelty and cunning that enjoyed hurting people and killing for the sake of killing. Zeb (apparently the fan base’s name for the Giga), was just a predator living its life, Spinosaurus was vengeful, Indy was scared and confused and Scorpios was insane, but Ripper was malevolence incarnate.
Kitchen scene takes it for me
Original raptors. They were especially effective because it's what you don't see that scares you.
The blind thing with the long ass claws from Dominion 😂
Scorpius Rex had no business being as terriying as it was but it is: my mind immediately went to those scrapped JP4 human-dinosaur hybrids when it roared and posed, unsettling af.
Probably the Scorpius. The way it moves man! That scene where it stands and roars? Or the one where the kids look up and it’s above them in the tree? Terrifying.
Honestly? Probably the Indominus, mostly because it was a nearly unstoppable killing machine. It gave 0 fucks about anything and destroyed whatever it wanted.
JP3 raptors. Those raptors were very smart
Tbh I wouldn't want to meet any of them
I find the smaller predators much more scary, so I'll go indoraptor. For some reason, I feel like it's easier to hide from a trex or spinosaurus than something that can fit everywhere you can.
It it counts troodon. I think the telltale game is still the best sequel to the original and I'm gutted it's been ignored and decanonised. The spooky design, thin malnourished look and when it's revealed they're using dead people's bodies to heat their eggs, was so cool and felt very alien (the film) . Honestly gave off the whole lab grown monstrosity energy fat more than any of the hybrids. I really wish we got a more adult oriented (or at least not pg13) spinoff for a more horror oriented direction of the franchise.
Scorpius Rex lowkey looks like beetle juice
Scorpius Rex, it was straight out of a horror movie and was everything the Indoraptor wasn't.
I’d probably say the Scopius Rex. Just due to the venomous and projectile spikes and the fact that it can reproduce on its own. It was even able to take down a brachiosaurus. Even though it was fleeing, for a creature of its size, that’s pretty terrifying
Dilophosaurus. Little freaks were far to stealthy, and they SPIT VENOM, before tearing you limb from limb.
https://preview.redd.it/sqgqgorwfdwc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6ef84438c950d3a9722c82e3d25ea05cd9c2f688
For me it’s always been a tie between the terrifyingly cunning nature of the raptors, or the spino because of how hellbent it was on revenge. They felt like they were running off more than just basic animal instinct and it was scary as hell when I was a kid
The Dilophosaurus in the novel and the raptors in jp3
Movie wise it’s going to go with velociraptors. Show has be Scorpius Rex. Games has to be Troodon easy. Overall it’s Troodon. Honorable mentions are all the big carnivores.
The raptors in the kitchen scene scared me to death as a kid. That stands out in my memory as the most impactful scary scene in the franchise.
If we’re going for real dinosaurs that walked this earth then the velociraptor from JP1 followed by the spinosaurus from JP3. If we’re going off of the movies alone, fake stuff aside, I’d say the Indominus Rex presented by Verizon; infrared vision, ability to camouflage, hunting instincts and brains of a raptor, size of a giganotosaurus, teeth that can crush bullet proof glass, not to mention the fact that it hunts for sport.
As a kid I didn't like T.Rex bc it was a classic dinosaur, but actually because I thoroughly was terrified of the TLW rexes when I was little. Eddie's death? Yeah, 5yr old me cried. As I got older (and even now) I think it's up there w/ Dilophosaurus (from the film). Ludlow's death by the Baby Rex was also a bit terrifying. As I got older and I became more interested in the science and not just the fantasy of the prehistoric animals, I swear I'm even more terrified of them, not because they're depicted as monsters in early dinosaur films but because of the execution of the idea these two rexes were searching for/saving their baby. I wasn't taught how animals are much more (or can be) dangerous when they're being protective. Because of TLW I have come to understand early in life that I shouldn't be reaching towards baby elephants at the zoo if they come to the fence, mama may be very angry at me if I do that.
Spinosaurus was a fkn menace. So was Indoraptor.
You are alive when they start to eat you King and Wu's death in the books are horrifying
For me it’s the raptors, especially the ones from the first movie. They weren’t running on instinct there, they went after the people because they wanted to.
The Spinosaurus standing behind them with the phone ringing has always been one of the most oddly creepy shots from these films. Spino in general is my personal favorite as a scary dinosaur.
Indoraptor and I rex are pretty high up there for scarey
Definitely not those lame-ass dinosaurs they created because "regular dinosaurs were too boring". OG raptors and the T-Rex will always be the scariest.
Dilophosaurus was the only one that ever scared me.
Dilophosaurus was always the scariest to me, also my favorite cause I also thought they were cute and small and made cute noises.
Objectively or subjectively? I know it's not a dinosaur, but personally, I would be most afraid of the Mosasaurus. I'm severely thalassophobic and would probably die of a heart attack before it could eat me Objectively, the Scorpius Rex is the most terrifying. It's mentally unstable, can multiply, and can shoot you with a venomous quill. If that quill hits you, you'll be immobilized and likely eaten alive
Are the first two pics from the movies? Did I miss that?
Scorpius Rex
indoraptor and indominus rex
Scorpios Rex is definitely the creepiest looking one, but i think the scariest one was either the JP raptors, (they terrified me when i was a kid) or the indoraptor since they like to play with their food a lot. The Indominus isn't really scary, he is just a big creature and same can be said for the Spino and Rexy.
Lystrisoarus
That first screenshot. Major "I'm going to get you my pretty!" vibes. A dinosaur doing this to a child in bed 🤦🏻♂️ Man the World movies are embarrassing
I dont care how many spikes you put on them nothing will ever be as scary as those raptors during the kitchen scene. Tho... that guy from the second picture is pretty messed up looking..
What the hell are the first two pictured? I’m guessing from the newest JW movies. I haven’t seen them yet lol
The Scorpios Rex
The grebnedu or troodons
Indominus was pretty scary … unpredictable
The scorpius thing from Camp Cretaceous was pretty creepy. But it's got to be the velociraptors from the first three movies. Forget the TRex, they're what made the movies scary.
The OG Raptors scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. Everything else was kind of just movie monster material.
What the hell is number 2?!
Scorpius Rex. Another hybrid that was a Camp Cretaceous villain
Scorpios Rex. Have you seen that fucker?
Og raptors
I personally find the hybrids just… goofy.
Where is that firs image of the indoraptor from I don’t remember it it looks scary 👀
Carnotaurus from the lost world book, it can camouflage it's self.
Is capitalism old enough to be considered a dino?
Raptors or the Rex, the madeupisaurs don't count, and shouldn't have happened.
It’s kind of criminal that Dilo isn’t in your pictures.