>> Creature Feature Monsters: How Do You Like Yours?

[rayw]

No ghosts or psycho killers. Just good ol' Man vs. Beast creatures.

http://www.moviesonline.ca/2011/06/t...eature-movies/

Do you guys have a preferencefor the size of your creature?

There are the over-sized monsters that pit human ingenuity and/or community against brawn. Godzilla, King Kong, 'Cloverfield' monster, 'Tremors' worms (or 'Graboids', Ha!), 'Jurassic Park' dinos, 'Starship Trooper' bugs, 'War of the Worlds' tripods, Anaconda/Jaws/Croc/Octopus/Sharktopus/etc.

Swarm mosters are kinda like over-sized monsters since they represent more like a force of nature, like fire or a tornado, where there's not "a single heart to stop." Zombies en masse, 'Arachnophobia' spiders, Piranhas, Gremlins & Critters, hormone aggravated 'Snakes on a Plane', etc.

Then there's the human-sized monsters which basically boil down to a boxing max or 'Mortal Combat' video game mentality of attribute vs. attribute. Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies (mano a zombo), Alien, Predator, 'Splice' girl, 'Descent' creatures, 'Terminator' T-800, etc. (There's a sh!tload of these. Probably at least 70% of the creature feature genre.)

The there's 'other', something that doesn't really fit into either category. JC's 'The Thing' creature, 'Splinter'... thing, 'The Ruins' plant, and the goo from 'Prometheus'. Very few of these.



For me, I love over-sized monsters, am neutral to negative about swarm monsters, loathe human-sized monsters, and am intrigued by entries in the too neglected 'other' category.

[harpsichoid]

I like over-sized monsters, but not too big, then it gets stupid.

My favourite monster and favourite monster film is Gwoemul, or The Host.

[rayw]

Just watched that the other week!
The Weta animation was great.
The story, Asian-->American cultural differences aside, was.. odd, and not in a good way.

And I agree. If they're too big the concept does get kinda stupid.

[Modern Day Myth Prod. LLC]

Creature Feature Monsters have the name Roger Corman written all over them.

It Conquered The World
Attack Of The Crab Monsters
And so on
...

[rayw]

The man did it all: http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&fiel...arch-alias=dvd

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_C..._Cult_Classics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Corman_filmography

Looks like mostly psychos and human-sized monsters until this last decade.

How about you MC? What's your preference to watch?

[JoshL]

Creature features aren't my favorite, but I think I lean towards "human-sized" or "other". Not really into daikaiju (godzilla, etc). A swarm movie can be fun (Arachnaphobia, as you mentioned, is a good time), though a good zombie film shouldn't be about the monsters.

But at the end of the day, I'll watch almost anything once, and you can't go wrong with classics like the Creature From The Black Lagoon or Them! (the opening of which is one of my favorite scenes)

[rayw]

Interesting leads, Josh! Thank you!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikaiju --> Kaiju (怪獣 kaijū?, literally "mysterious beast") & Kaijin
Kaijin (怪人?, literally "mysterious person")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokusatsu

Yeah, I really enjoyed the first 'The Mummy' remake, (the second's fair, the third tripe). Vampires and werewolves I'm sick of. So the development hell entombed remake of 'Creature From the Black Lagoon' will hopefully not suck.
http://www.the-reelgillman.com/news/remake.html

[mad_hatter]

I think I have a preference for 'human-sized' monsters, with the Xenomorph probably being my all-time favorite.

Not sure about giant monsters. The old B-Movies (like 'Them!' or 'The Blob') are a lot of fun to watch. Do the JP dinos really count towards this? Sure, T-Rex is big, but the raptors are man-sized... Either way, gotta love a good Dinosaur! I'm certainly intrigued by 'Pacific Rim' too. And the new 'Godzilla' should be worth a watch.

Do 'slashers' count towards this? Surely Freddy Kruger counts as a monster?

[rayw]

Originally Posted by mad_hatter

Do 'slashers' count towards this? Surely Freddy Kruger counts as a monster?

FK's kinduva supernatural-monster-slasher hybrid, I suppose.
Could consult 'Hoyle's' if you want!

He kinda does lean toward making for the third leg of the modern classic Jason/Michael/Freddy triumvirate, though - generally considered to be slashers. But not strictly so since he bridges the gap between nightmares and reality.

[Psychosis Media]

I Have 4 fer right now........all good storylines.










This last one is from the great director who gave us Godzilla...a verry unknown kaiju movie but enjoyable..hope you watch and enjoy it!

[Modern Day Myth Prod. LLC]

I have no specific preference.

A creature with a lot of history and legend is more interesting.

[Cracker Funk]

I have no preference.

I will say, however, that the most underrated Creature Feature is The Mist. I love that movie, think I might watch it tonight!

[richy]

The Monster that Challenged the World

Challenged? What a great word choice to get horror fans excited.

Don't know that I have a preference. My inner child who loved dinosaurs says you can't hardly beat the T-Rex. Raptors are scary because they're like little T-Rexs with the intelligence of pack animals, as portrayed by JP, anyway.

A lot of the scariest monsters have been human sized. Maybe that's because our ancestors (and that would include us too) had to fear predators -real world monsters- that were around our own size to a little larger: leopards, bears, tigers, lions, possibly canines, etc.

But the creepiest, nastiest monsters may be the ones that are like parasites like the xenomorphs or the slither creatures and also creatures like the Blob remake that digest people alive etc. Eek.

Huge creatures may not be the best type to build an entire film around, but it can be cool to give them cameos. I'm thinking of creatures like that one near the end of The Mist which is skyscraper sized. Or, on the audio commentary of Pitch Black, David Twohy speaks ruefully of how had they had the budget for it, there was a scene in which a living example of what those huge bones in the bone field belonged to would have crossed the camera's view. I think that would have been sweet.

[rayw]

After reviwing many of the animated GIFs at the following site I really don't care for gross and disgusting effects.

http://spidersexx.tumblr.com/

I've spent too much of my life in a medical setting/environment to be entertained by skull popping and delimbing the living.

I'm definitely in the spooks and monsters camp.

Is what it is.

[Psychosis Media]

This movie is verry orginal!! its as combo of a swarm monster and giant monster except its not really alive!




Here is a preview

http://youtu.be/NBaVo2I9hJo