Stupid Looking Monsters

[Dr. Phibes]

What do you all think are the most stupid looking monsters you've seen in movies? I will go with the slow moving tree monster from "From Hell It Came". This thing looks like a dead tree stump and didn't even scare me as a kid.

[Batmex1]

Not sure what movie it was but the gorilla with a space helmet.....cracks me up!!

[MIB41]

As much as I love the classic Ultraman show from the 60's, you can take just about ANY monster from that series and hang your head on the basic design against that of Ultraman. Now there were some good ones too, but for every good one, there were about ten really bad ones.

[SUP-Ronin]

How about Night of the Lepus with those not scary rabbits????

[Mikey]

From Hell It Came is a good one ..

Hmmm,

Audrey Junior was pretty stupid looking :smiley1:

[Earth 2 Chris]

The werewolf from "Silver Bullet" was horrible. He looked like a frickin' bear!!!

Chris

[ramsey37]

Not sure what movie it was but the gorilla with a space helmet.....cracks me up!!

That would be Ro-Man from "Robot Monster". I like to inflict that movie on my friends from time to time :)
George

[Action Burt]

The CGI vampires in "I am Legend" .....totally stupid :yuk:

[Batmex1]

That would be Ro-Man from "Robot Monster". I like to inflict that movie on my friends from time to time :)
George

Thats it.......got to rent that one......again! :wink_y:

[SUP-Ronin]

Talk about sketchy CGI?? Any of the monsters from "Clash of the Titans" which at the time I really dug. Or any of the monsters from the Sinbad movies. (Not the Comedian)

[fallensaviour]

Talk about sketchy CGI?? Any of the monsters from "Clash of the Titans" which at the time I really dug. Or any of the monsters from the Sinbad movies. (Not the Comedian)

Dude those were stop go animation,And they rocked hard seriously.No CGI back then.

[4NDR01D]

Dude those were stop go animation,And they rocked hard seriously.No CGI back then.

I'm a huge Harryhausen fan, his stop motion is still better than 99% of the cgi out there today. how could you not like his monsters? Oh well, to each his own. Worst monsters have to be some of those Ultraman monsters, I collect kaiju figures as well and sometimes I can't even figure out what I'm looking at, when their good their really good, when their bad the are
absolute ******* !!

[megoat]

Yeah, man, how can you dis Harryhausen? Unless by "stupid" you mean stupidly frickin' awesome!

[Hector]

The Frankenstain monster from that latest Van Helsing film was terrible, it had some kinda detachable stupid top cranium-glass-encased brain or something...and he was weak as heck...terrible.

He also had these stumpy short arms (kinda like me, lol)...

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/universal_pictures/van_helsing/shuler_hensley/oleblueskin.jpg


Thank GOD I have this to fall back on...

http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0021884/frank2.jpg

:yes:

[misterdroid]

Does anyone remember this movie?... "The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant" (early 70's?) , the monster is a 2 headed guy in bib overalls... one head is a tough psychotic black dude, the other head is a ******** white guy. I am not joking. This movie exists and it is the most wretched monster ever.

[misterdroid]

Hey, I got censored! Hooray!! I meant "mentally challenged" white dude...

[4NDR01D]

Does anyone remember this movie?... "The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant" (early 70's?) , the monster is a 2 headed guy in bib overalls... one head is a tough psychotic black dude, the other head is a ******** white guy. I am not joking. This movie exists and it is the most wretched monster ever.

If you guys would like to see the worst monsters pick up a "Something Weird" promo dvd, hundreds of short previews for the WORST OF THE WORST low budget vintage monster/sci-fi/horror/exploitation movies ever made. If you think a guy in gorilla suit with a glass bowl on his head is bad, and it is, try a guy in a gorilla suit :ape: with a green fish net thrown over top of him :juggleyes_y:. Might have some on youtube.

[4NDR01D]

Sorry, guess I shoulda mention you could see the preview for "The Incredible Two Headed Man" on the disk.

[thunderbolt]

Got two for the pile

The She Creature and The mutant from THe Day the World Ended.

[Werewolf]

The evil space cucumber from It Conquered the World.

[SUP-Ronin]

Dude those were stop go animation,And they rocked hard seriously.No CGI back then.

You are totally right. My bad. I did say I liked them, but they are still pretty rough.

[Hector]

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes monsters.

"Hey, pass the ketchup!"

:smiley1:

[Boris71]

for me it's a tie between Octoman Shlock and the werewolf that ran around the woods in a turtle neck sweater and sports coat

[fallensaviour]

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes monsters.

"Hey, pass the ketchup!"

:smiley1:


Ya I'll agree here killer tomatoes now that was a suck ace monster...

[ramsey37]

The critter from "The Creeping Terror" beats them all, hands down. It looks like a couple of guys crawling underneath a moldy rug ;)
George

[Seeker]

Triffids and Killer tomatos

[Mikey]

Frankenberry.......

A pink Frankenstein's monster (made of dead human body parts and has at least a few marbles missing) used to pitch kids breakfast cereal.

[Seeker]

Just about anything that fought the original gamera. Especially that 4 armed squid or that thing that had a knife nose.

That newer movies had much better monsters.:googly:

[Mikey]

Just about anything that fought the original gamera. Especially that 4 armed squid or tha thing that had a knife nose.

That newer movies had much better monsters.:googly:

I forgot about that thing :smiley1:

He'd shoot Chinese stars out of his nose-horn :smiley1:

If i'm remembering correctly. you could also see he was clearly a guy on his hands and knee's :smiley1:

[fallensaviour]

How about the horta from star trek...Now that was a cheap monster/alien costume if I ever saw one.

[Mikey]

How about the horta from star trek...Now that was a cheap monster/alien costume if I ever saw one.

Nahhh,
The Horta was TOP NOTCH SPECIAL EFFECTS compared to that Gamera Chinese star monster :smiley1:

[BlackKnight]

I recently saw some sorta Fish/Gator thing on the SciFi channel,.. it was so damn stupid,.. & could bairly move. This thing would crawl up to it's victims,.. then eat them,.. all they really had to do was walk away. :smiley1:

... Come to think of it,.. I've scene some really bad Monsters on SciFi's low budget,.. or no Buget D movies as of late. :wink::smiley1:

[Hector]

The critter from "The Creeping Terror" beats them all, hands down. It looks like a couple of guys crawling underneath a moldy rug ;)
George

We have a winner here, lol.

That one was beyond terrible, great call.

:grin:

[Mikey]

Tor Johnson
MST 3000
YouTube - Mystery Science Theater 3000: Bride of the Monster (11 / 12) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_rYd90BLkk)

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[Seeker]

There was this one monster movie , I dont remeber the name but there were these giant crystals. They would grow out of the ground a couple of hundred feet then fall over and regrow. They were attacking this town. One of the stupidest ideas for a monster ever.

Lets see does anyone remember the Attack of the Giant leeches?


I also might add any movie that glued sails or spikes to some poor iguana to make a cheap dinosaur movie.

[HardyGirl]

How about that ridiculous bird monster from "The Giant Claw"? That was supposed to be scary? It looked like a large version of "Nutty Bird" from "The Bugaloos"!:rolleyes:

[ramsey37]

There was this one monster movie , I dont remeber the name but there were these giant crystals. They would grow out of the ground a couple of hundred feet then fall over and regrow. They were attacking this town. One of the stupidest ideas for a monster ever.



That would be Universal's "The Monolith Monsters". I remember seeing that as a teen and being disappointed that there were no actual monsters in the movie ;)
George

[HardyGirl]

Hey, my kids love the Monolith Monsters. One of them even asked me to record it for her.

[apes3978]

Yeah, man, how can you dis Harryhausen? Unless by "stupid" you mean stupidly frickin' awesome!

Is "stupid" a trait you look for in a movie monster?

[ctc]

>Just about anything that fought the original gamera. Especially that 4 armed squid or tha thing that had a knife nose.

>He'd shoot Chinese stars out of his nose-horn

You guys are mixing up two of 'em. The squid thing was from one of the later moves; and the shuriken monster is from the third film. I can't remember the names. (And I'm kind of ashamed to admit that....) The shuriken monster is actually a ninja monster. (And Japanese, not Chinese. Wow, I am such a nerd....) Not only does he shoot stars, but his head is modeled on a ninja sword.

>How about that ridiculous bird monster from "The Giant Claw"?

NOW we have a winner! Not only is it obviously of the breed "wooden puppetus cheapus" BUT in the story it's from another dimension, and is made of material SO DENSE that Earth weapons can't harm it.

*snicker*

>Tor Johnson

That is SOOOO fake looking! You can tell it's two kids in a suit!

>Is "stupid" a trait you look for in a movie monster?

HELL YEAH! Effects are nice; but they don't impress me so much 'cos the monsters in a movie AREN'T real. So making them look real is nice; but I'd rather see something totally off the wall. Ever since I was a kid I've enjoyed the idea of a monster more than the technical bits. (Be it SFX or realistic conceptualization.) Case in point: you guys have mentioned a lot of my favourite beasties on this list.

One thing that bugs me about current effects, especially CGI is that it took a lot of the imagination out of movie monsters. Since they've all got to be "realistic" they tend to fall into fewer more easily defined categories. And when designed for CGI they tend to use a lot of already established vectors. Was it just me, or were the mutants from "I Am Legend" A LOT like the morlocks from the last "The Time Machine" movie?

Now, I'd LOVE to see something like "The Giant Claw" rendered with modern effects; but keeping the same look. Nobody does that though.

'Course the line between "stupid" and "totally rocks!" is a narrow one. Take the Dalek; one of the world's most recognizable and beloved (is that the right term?) monsters. It's also one of the STUPIDEST ideas for a bad guy. A salt shaker with a gun. That probably shouldn't be able to climb the stairs. OR use a doorknob. BUT it's always PRESENTED as being threatening, so the audience accepts it.

Don C.

[palitoy]

http://www.impawards.com/1968/posters/green_slime.jpg
I have this awesome poster in my living room, I love it but the monsters are gawdawful.

http://www.scifimoviepage.com/images/zontar2.jpg
Zontar : The Thing From Venus is a cheaper remake of "It conquered the world"

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51P81GHJ8VL._SS500_.jpg
Larry Buchanan is a god of the paper mache monster.

[Fuzzysnail]

What? nobody named the scary sleestack from the land of the lost? They moved at the rate of a tottering child learning to walk, and had the flexibility of Bill and Ted in their suits of armor. (they still gave me nightmares)