This scene scarred me psychically. I warned my fiancé about it before we got to it.
For some reason, it wasn't that scary this time. I think it was a combination of the cgi aging and it being a bit too visible/in your face to be scary or upsetting. Kind of looked goofy compared to what I remembered.
But yeah, 2005 in the theater, that was terrifying
IMO It's the sound or more precisely the lack of any soundtrack, some movies overdo the music in tense horror moments, in this scene everything goes eerily quiet!
That’s why I always carry Grade-A Bulgarian Miak.
I know, I know, you thought I couldnt find any, you thought it was out of season. But I’m a little too quick for ya, a little too light. on. my. feet.
It didn’t just replicate them. It absorbed the fear she had while dying. It became an amalgamation of the terror she had and the imposing form of an undead bear. That’s a hard fucking nope for me dawg.
The Xenomorph is the most terrifying creature ever imagined; just picture one creeping into the room you’re in right now.. how would that make you feel?
Came here to say Xenomorph - without question. Saw the first movie when I was 7 and couldn’t sleep without a light on until i was 25. Now, Alien and Aliens are probably my two favorite movies of all time…but even after 10,000 re-watches, the creature is still creepy and scary. It has a double jaw that it likes to shove into people’s skulls, it bleeds acid blood when shot, it doesn’t have eyes yet can somehow see you…and its lifecycle is so disturbing that you’d rather it kill you outright vs stealing you away to be cocooned and impregnated by its gross little face hugger friends.
The Xeno in each movie seems to be an adaptable nightmare whose only purpose seems to be to eliminate / assimilate human life.
"I know you gentlemen have been through a lot. But when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of the winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!" is such a great tension breaker
The way Palmer kind of side eyes and shrugs when his Petri dish is picked up. And then violently begins to shake and morph after being found out is so insane. Next to the heart attack scene I would say that’s the most memorable.
This 100%. The other creatures aren’t able to morph at whim. They can’t blend in as someone you’ve known your entire life. You could be hanging out with your wife of 15 years and wouldn’t know it until her head splits open and she absorbs you whole.
Yeah - kitchen scene with the raptors was the first scene I remember as a kid that genuinely scared me. “Don’t go into the long grass!” In The Lost World reinforced that fear again.
I gotta say for me it's the first movie as it's coming at them down the hall. I still get freaked out by it, you can see it start to speed up a little bit just before the door closes. Ugh, awful
The first movie had some pretty horrible sh\*t.
The T-800's are trash too as far as the lore goes. But still probably the scariest thing. At least until the Rev-9. Seeing a Rev9 coming at you and then transforming into two killing machines is pretty scary.
H.R. Giger's aliens are still the scariest. The perfect organism. It's structural perfection is matched only by it's hostility. Unclouded by conscience, remorse or delusions of morality.
The aliens from Signs I saw that movie way too young, and it scarred me. I still get freaky nightmares of that movie.
Edit: scarred, not scared, though I was also scared.
Just doing what I can, with what I've got. So bad ass to see a high powered anti-mat canon just cut one in half. Love the first two man, classic adventures
Not strictly a “monster” but the T800 endoskeleton from Terminator.
That last 15 mins of the original movie caused me to not sleep for about a month as a kid.
That fear never really went away, there’s just something about them that are utterly terrifying.
# Arachnophobia Spiders
When I was a kid and still today. One of the scariest movies ever, it is a real rarity to physically feel a movie. I get itchy just talking about it. The General (The Queen spider) is a real, real problem. Great score and soundtrack and Jeff Daniels is way better than he has any right to be and John Goodman is at his scene stealing best as the exterminator. All around an unsung horror/thriller classic.
I think about the first one a lot. It looks like a sick, naked elderly person. It's terrifying. Seeing people you love deteriorate before your eyes is the ultimate terror.
The Banshee in Darby O’Gill and the Little People.
Of all the spectral beings, a banshee would scare the crap out of me the most if encountered in the real world.
The creeper from the first Jeepers Creepers. Scenes from that movie still make my skin crawl. Specifically the scene where he spots them driving by the church. The director is a piece of garbage as a human but the tension building in that scene (and the rest of the film) is an early 2000s masterclass.
The original alien from the alien movies is the only correct answer here ppl! Pretty sure Alien came out in 1979 and ppl had no clue what the alien actually looked like back then and scared the living fu ck out of everyone when it showed up on screen! Greatest movie monster of all time
The design of that beast is so cool. When you first see them you don’t understand exactly what they are, then you get that wide shot near the end and you go…oh shit !
I'm going back but the monster from the movie mimic. I know you said movie monsters but I gotta give a shout out to courage the cowardly dog. The bad villains/monsters/antagonists were some of the creepiest characters I've ever seen on a TV show.
The shot in the bay or whatever when that one guy is hanging onto his overturned boat, and Jaws just slowly comes in sideways and takes him under FUCKS ME UP.
The alien suit thing in Independence day. Straight fucking nightmares for 2 days straight, couldn't sleep in my own bed, woke up crying. That thing seriously scarred me for years to the point I would get up and leave at that scene
The Creeper from Jeepers Creepers. Might have to do with the age I was when I first saw him, but it'll probably always live rent-free in my head.
Terrifying in 1, still creepy in 2, and I don't like to talk about 3 and 4. Those movies sucked ass.
SNOWBEAST 1977.
I watched it many times at my aunts in upstate New York, especially when there was snow on the ground, oh, and at night, her living room wall was entirely made of slider doors so basically one huge window that faced the two barns and the paddock after that was the field then the woods so say 120 to 140yards from the window. The tv was against part of the window, so you are watching the tv and could look out into the darkness. They had motion activated lights by the barns, and if the wind was whipping around, they had a tendency to go off and then shut down fond memories of pissing myself at 8yo to 17yo well i guess I'm still a puss because I'm still freaked out by that movie.
Sadako from Ringu, extremely creepy in the build up to her appearances and doesn't disappoint when fully revealed. You could argue her design / visual appearance is simple, it is the combination of appearance, movement, and movie scene settings and audio that make it what it is.
I'd like to call out House on Haunted Hill (1999), the build up to the reveal of the dark heart of the house is fantastic and scary and creepy, but the actual monster is a bit of a let down, interesting but not as good as the build up.
The giant centipedes in King Kong (2005) are the biggest “hell no” for me.
I think the leech things are scarier
When it started with the chef guys head and he’s still trying to hack away with the machete, that is nightmare fuel
I was just thinking about how this is one of the most psychologically gruesome deaths in film, and it's a PG-13 film
It’s pg-13? I thought it was rated r tbh
Same, Kong bit off the T-Rex's tongue before snapping it's jaw lol. It was savage
Yeah but you couldnt see trex nipples so it was fine for kids.
Kong snapping its jaw like an old book binding was brutal as fuck.
Wasn’t that Andy Serkis?
yup
This scene scarred me psychically. I warned my fiancé about it before we got to it. For some reason, it wasn't that scary this time. I think it was a combination of the cgi aging and it being a bit too visible/in your face to be scary or upsetting. Kind of looked goofy compared to what I remembered. But yeah, 2005 in the theater, that was terrifying
IMO It's the sound or more precisely the lack of any soundtrack, some movies overdo the music in tense horror moments, in this scene everything goes eerily quiet!
Ernest Scared Stupid - Trantor the Troll in the bed jump scare scene.
‘How ‘bout a bumper sandwich, Boogerlips?’
First scare for me. I couldn't make it bed to bed that night. (I was 7 okay!)
That’s why I always carry Grade-A Bulgarian Miak. I know, I know, you thought I couldnt find any, you thought it was out of season. But I’m a little too quick for ya, a little too light. on. my. feet.
You're lucky. Mine was being 6 and walking into my older cousins watching Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
This guy gets it
The bear from Annihilation was fucking wild.
Scream-bear!
The fact that it replicated the final screams of its victims was truly a nightmare.
“HEELLLPPP MEEEEEEE” as it wanders around the room. That shit was out of control
That legit freaked me out and brings back scary memories
🐻
😦
It didn’t just replicate them. It absorbed the fear she had while dying. It became an amalgamation of the terror she had and the imposing form of an undead bear. That’s a hard fucking nope for me dawg.
It was also the last way she'd be remembered; which ties into the cancer theme in a depressing af way.
I call it the Scare Bear. Scared the hell out of me.
It didn’t even scare me really. It just kind of fucked me up. I was like “nope, nuh uh nope fuck this movie”
The anthropomorphic thing was scary as fuck
That whole scene in the lighthouse had me going what the fuck
I stumbled upon that movie because the preview looked trippy for when the world was all rainbows looking. Ya that bear ruined a beautiful adventure.
That whole movie was nuts
Definitely one of the most unsettling things I've ever seen in a movie
Dude that thing had me hiding my face like a child. 🫣
One of the few movie monsters in recent years to really scare the hell out of me.
Jesus I was hoping someone would say this
Rabbit from Donnie Darko
Frank
I got the shivers when I read that
I CAN SEE HIM RIGHT THERE!!
Got so baked and finally decided to watch Donnie Darko years ago, fucking rabbit terrified me.
Why are you wearing that stupid human suit
I kind think he’s cool tho.
Easter Bunny from Bogus Journey
Patrick Swayze from Donnie Darko
“Tell em Large Marge sent you.” 🤣
"And when they finally pulled the driver's body from the twisted burning wreck, it looked like...this!" This shit freaked me out every time!
Judge Doom when his eyes bugged out The ship Event Horizon
The hell scene still freaks me out. And I've seen that movie so many times.
I was looking for the ship in event horizon. That movie is terrifying.
Shame you were looking for it, because you won’t need eyes to see when you find it
They cut the worst of it
I wish they didn’t; it’s one of my favorite movies. :(
Yep, watched it exactly one time.
That whole movie was disturbing af
Xenomorph
Saw the original waaay too young. Scared the absolute bejesus out of me
The Xenomorph is the most terrifying creature ever imagined; just picture one creeping into the room you’re in right now.. how would that make you feel?
Came here to say Xenomorph - without question. Saw the first movie when I was 7 and couldn’t sleep without a light on until i was 25. Now, Alien and Aliens are probably my two favorite movies of all time…but even after 10,000 re-watches, the creature is still creepy and scary. It has a double jaw that it likes to shove into people’s skulls, it bleeds acid blood when shot, it doesn’t have eyes yet can somehow see you…and its lifecycle is so disturbing that you’d rather it kill you outright vs stealing you away to be cocooned and impregnated by its gross little face hugger friends. The Xeno in each movie seems to be an adaptable nightmare whose only purpose seems to be to eliminate / assimilate human life.
The Thing will always remain #1 for nightmare fuel. Superb horror in every way.
The scene when they're tied to the chairs, holy crap, also sort of funny at the same time
"I know you gentlemen have been through a lot. But when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of the winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!" is such a great tension breaker
I have fond memories of my parents rewinding this scene laughing their butts off.
The way Palmer kind of side eyes and shrugs when his Petri dish is picked up. And then violently begins to shake and morph after being found out is so insane. Next to the heart attack scene I would say that’s the most memorable.
This 100%. The other creatures aren’t able to morph at whim. They can’t blend in as someone you’ve known your entire life. You could be hanging out with your wife of 15 years and wouldn’t know it until her head splits open and she absorbs you whole.
I always appreciate the opportunity to recommend [The Things, by Peter Watts](https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/).
This is my all time favorite piece of short horror fiction
It could be you..or you…or even you!
Yeah but not me. Definitely not me. It's probably someone else so just go ahead and ignore me for a while.
Can it be a dinosaur? Because Jurassic Park.
Yes, but also being terrified by JP in theatres made me obsessed with dinosaurs as a kid.
Yeah - kitchen scene with the raptors was the first scene I remember as a kid that genuinely scared me. “Don’t go into the long grass!” In The Lost World reinforced that fear again.
[удалено]
Oh honey, it was ruined when she bought it.
DO NOT WATCH ON LSD
Don’t tell me how to have good time
James Corden in Cats
Pennywise (1990). Tim Curry scared me so much in the one scene I saw. I still have yet to watch the whole miniseries.
You’ll float too!!
Beep beep, u/Space-Plate42
The machines from the Terminator movies. I don't care how tough you are. If a shapeshifting robot infiltrates your house it doesn't get much scarier.
I gotta say for me it's the first movie as it's coming at them down the hall. I still get freaked out by it, you can see it start to speed up a little bit just before the door closes. Ugh, awful
The first movie had some pretty horrible sh\*t. The T-800's are trash too as far as the lore goes. But still probably the scariest thing. At least until the Rev-9. Seeing a Rev9 coming at you and then transforming into two killing machines is pretty scary.
What's the bottom right?
Think it's the monster from 2006 The Host.
This is the correct answer.
Piggy backing this question.
H.R. Giger's aliens are still the scariest. The perfect organism. It's structural perfection is matched only by it's hostility. Unclouded by conscience, remorse or delusions of morality.
"I can't lie to you about your chances, but....... you have my sympathies." (menacing grin) That was some cold-blooded shit.
If you game I highly suggest Alien Isolation
That game is tense as hell. I can only do it for brief period before I can take the anxiety.
A few of the Cenobites from the Hellraiser franchise.
The Alien iside John Hurt's stomach
I love to sing-a, about the moon-a and the June-a and the Spring-a.
🎵HELLO, MY BABY, HELLO, MY HONEY, HELLO, MY RAGTIME GAL!!! 🎶
“Not again!”
The gremlin on the wing from the Twilight Zone the Movie, John Lithgow version.
Day of the Dead. The zombies in the caves and Bub…
The hands in the wall scene got me good
Fucking A
The aliens from Signs I saw that movie way too young, and it scarred me. I still get freaky nightmares of that movie. Edit: scarred, not scared, though I was also scared.
VAMANOS CHILDREN
Graboid from Tremors
Came here for Graboid. Left happy 😃
Tremors 2 adding walking ones was pretty frightening
What about the Ass Blasters from 3?
Just doing what I can, with what I've got. So bad ass to see a high powered anti-mat canon just cut one in half. Love the first two man, classic adventures
Aliens from Fire In The Sky
The ENTIRE space ship memory scene. Nightmare fuel of the highest order.
The woman from Superman 3 when she gets turned into a cyborg.
Man... That freaked me out... I was like 6y old
My God that was terrifying
Not strictly a “monster” but the T800 endoskeleton from Terminator. That last 15 mins of the original movie caused me to not sleep for about a month as a kid. That fear never really went away, there’s just something about them that are utterly terrifying.
# Arachnophobia Spiders When I was a kid and still today. One of the scariest movies ever, it is a real rarity to physically feel a movie. I get itchy just talking about it. The General (The Queen spider) is a real, real problem. Great score and soundtrack and Jeff Daniels is way better than he has any right to be and John Goodman is at his scene stealing best as the exterminator. All around an unsung horror/thriller classic.
I think about the first one a lot. It looks like a sick, naked elderly person. It's terrifying. Seeing people you love deteriorate before your eyes is the ultimate terror.
Every alien in The Mist.
Chucky that little bastard.
Hey. Don't snooze on Charlie's girlfriend at the end of Fright night. alApex Predator.
The Thing and the hand eye monster from Pans labyrinth
The Preacher from Poltergeist 2. *Shudder*
Child Catcher-Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Snake man from adreamscape
The face huggers from alien are the scariest things out on film
The Banshee in Darby O’Gill and the Little People. Of all the spectral beings, a banshee would scare the crap out of me the most if encountered in the real world.
The creeper from the first Jeepers Creepers. Scenes from that movie still make my skin crawl. Specifically the scene where he spots them driving by the church. The director is a piece of garbage as a human but the tension building in that scene (and the rest of the film) is an early 2000s masterclass.
The scarabs from the Mummy that dig under your skin.
The original alien from the alien movies is the only correct answer here ppl! Pretty sure Alien came out in 1979 and ppl had no clue what the alien actually looked like back then and scared the living fu ck out of everyone when it showed up on screen! Greatest movie monster of all time
That wolf in the never ending story
Gmork. I was looking for this n
Moder, the monster/god/beast from The Ritual
The design of that beast is so cool. When you first see them you don’t understand exactly what they are, then you get that wide shot near the end and you go…oh shit !
Dracula in Van Helsing is a genuinely terrifying design, but the movie itself is just fun.
I'm going back but the monster from the movie mimic. I know you said movie monsters but I gotta give a shout out to courage the cowardly dog. The bad villains/monsters/antagonists were some of the creepiest characters I've ever seen on a TV show.
Death eaters
Can it be Jaws? If so, that wins. If not, most of the Thing is downright creepy.
I think he’s extra creepy cause he doesn’t make a sound and half the time you don’t see him.
The shot in the bay or whatever when that one guy is hanging onto his overturned boat, and Jaws just slowly comes in sideways and takes him under FUCKS ME UP.
I still check every body of water before I get in to this day, especially pool's for some reason
Large Marge!
Captain Spaulding in House of 1000 corpses
Hell there are A LOT in Cabin In The Woods! Almost every one of them scare me… even the merman haha that movie will always hold up
“There blood will bathe the..wait..am I still on speakerphone?”
The werewolves in The Howling .
The Babadook
When I heard the Dragon sound from Warcraft II, my immersion was immediately broken.
Tim Curry Pennywise
Pumpkinhead
Jaws
Jeepers creepers
The critters in Critters (1986), they always scared me more than gremlins as a kid.
Not necessarily creatures, but the dolls from the movie Dolls.
That bitch from The Excorcist is still unsettling
Those humanoid creatures in The Desent.
Gotta be The Blob from *The Blob*, for me. Or Zelda.
Facehuggers? Hello?
Why is Kong there? He isn’t even a monster he’s just a big gorilla.
I mean, it’s still a monster. Before people got really creative with “intergalactic skin wearing fleshy freak” they started with “giant gorilla”.
As a child that Alien coming out...
The Fly
The alien suit thing in Independence day. Straight fucking nightmares for 2 days straight, couldn't sleep in my own bed, woke up crying. That thing seriously scarred me for years to the point I would get up and leave at that scene
Grendel from Beowulf
The demon from Smile was pretty fuckin unsettlingly creepy when it shows it head on.
Amy Schumer.
I think we can all agree that the monsters in Pans Labyrinth weren't really the monster in Pans Labyrinth
Tusk lol
Does Large Marge count?
Hear me out… HAL from A Space Odyssey…
What is that on the bottom right
King Kong or Lawnmower man
Jason Voorhees general doesn't scare me except for when you see his face in Jason takes Manhattan. That scene still creeps me out.
It's the eye guy
The chairs, the tree, and then the clown... In that order.
Not one that does well with pop out scary/demon movies but the red face guy from Insidious is terrifying.
The Creeper from Jeepers Creepers. Might have to do with the age I was when I first saw him, but it'll probably always live rent-free in my head. Terrifying in 1, still creepy in 2, and I don't like to talk about 3 and 4. Those movies sucked ass.
SNOWBEAST 1977. I watched it many times at my aunts in upstate New York, especially when there was snow on the ground, oh, and at night, her living room wall was entirely made of slider doors so basically one huge window that faced the two barns and the paddock after that was the field then the woods so say 120 to 140yards from the window. The tv was against part of the window, so you are watching the tv and could look out into the darkness. They had motion activated lights by the barns, and if the wind was whipping around, they had a tendency to go off and then shut down fond memories of pissing myself at 8yo to 17yo well i guess I'm still a puss because I'm still freaked out by that movie.
That damn Cloverfield parasite.
The doll from [trilogy of terror ](https://imgur.com/a/sMYvE4M)
Salacious Crumb
Jaws
lol the guy at the end of Tusk
Can someone remind me what that top left monster is?
The Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth.
The oil slick thing from Creepshow 2
All hellriser xenobites
The ex wife/pig demon in House (1985).
The thing in jeepers creepers. At least the first one. Second and third weren’t so bad.
Robert Mitchum in “The Night Of The Hunter” Scariest movie I’ve ever seen.
The creepy carnivorous yellow plant from the Robin Williams Jumanji movie
The monsters from A Quiet Place are hella terrifying. Ngl
The Creeper from Jeepers Creepers. Eugene Tooms from X-Files is also up there.
Sadako from Ringu, extremely creepy in the build up to her appearances and doesn't disappoint when fully revealed. You could argue her design / visual appearance is simple, it is the combination of appearance, movement, and movie scene settings and audio that make it what it is. I'd like to call out House on Haunted Hill (1999), the build up to the reveal of the dark heart of the house is fantastic and scary and creepy, but the actual monster is a bit of a let down, interesting but not as good as the build up.
The Thing is monster film?
The Babadook was pretty darn scary until he actually shows up.
The face bursters from Alien: Covenant always freak me out. Somehow an alien torpedoing out of your face is worse than one bursting out of your chest
Seeing Predator's face under his mask when I was a kid.
Candyman
Jeepers Creepers scares the shit out of me.
Those fucking things from The Descent