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Since I love to collect monster movies I thought it would be cool to list my top ten monster movies I love to watch.

1. alien series
2. predator series
3. jaws
4. the relic
5. alien vs predator
6. the thing 1982 version
7. the beast from 20,000 fathoms
8. the black scorpion
9. prophecy
10. dog soldiers

Mine are

1) Vampires (John Carpenter's)
2) Night Breed
3) Interview with the Vampire (and Queen of the Damned)
4) Resident Evil
5) Hellraiser (series)
6) Evil Dead (series)
7) Sleepy Hollow
8) Hell Night
9) The Breed
10) American Werewolf in Paris

Of course everyone is going to know my fav.. lol. Its like a big DUH! For me. hehe.

1. A Nightmare On Elm Street series
2. Hellraiser series
3. The Evil Dead series
4. Dawn Of The Dead
5. Alien
6. Godzilla (lol! Well it is! and I mean the old cheesy Japanese ones!)
7. Pet Semetary
8. An American Werewolf in London
9. War Of The Worlds (Both versions)
10. Sleepy Hollow

Ok, what constitutes a "monster"?......a creature, non-human, right? But not a person returned from the dead and such?.....just trying to clarify!!

If we're speaking of monsters....Pumpkinhead is one of my faves (although, he was originally a man!) And the Alien series. I think those Aliens are cute! Don't know why, I'm just weird that way!

RedSonja:
If you haven't already, check out the artwork by a Swiss(?) artist named H R Giger. I was passingly familiar with his work before the movie came out, he had a sort of cult following. As soon as I saw that Adult version of the Alien, I thought, "Giger's gonna sue." Then, the closing credits, IT WAS HIM.

As far as my favorite Monsters, I gotta go with the Big Three, Frankenstein, Dracula and The Wolfman.

Monsters...

I'm so down with Giger's alien and pumpkinhead... I also dig the Creeper, but I'm not certain why, as the movies weren't that good. The most recent Japanese Godzillas, the old Universal monsters, gorillas in general, and the new WOTW aliens, even tho they occupy about eight seconds of the film.

The Alien quadrilogy is at the top of my list...love those movies AND the 5 discs with all the extras is awesome.
Dawn of the Dead (original is cool but the remake is better)
Day of the Dead
The Shining
The Evil Dead (both) and Army of Darkness
Any of the old movies with Vincent Price

Since this looks more like a top ten horror movies as opposed to monster movies thread, here's my top ten (which changes with the slightest gust of wind or slghtest change in my mood):

• Dawn of the Dead (78)
• Halloween
• Bride of Frankenstein
• Evil Dead 2
• An American Werewolf in London
• The Exorcist
• Aliens
• Jaws
• Poltergeist
• Night of the Living Dead (1968)

WOW! This is going to be a tough one because I like funny movies that are about horror as well...but here goes... and not necessarily in this order....

#10. Shaun of the Dead
#9. Vamp
#8. Nightflier
#7. The Wolfman ( or any Universal Monster Movie)
#6. Freaks
#5. Shadow of the Vampire
#4. Young Frankenstein
#3. Nightmare Before Christmas (also, anything with Vincent Price!!!)
#2. Arsenic and Old Lace
#1.Nosferatu ( both Verner Herzog's and F. W. Murnau's)


This is just painful to do...I can't have just ten!!! There are sooo many great movies I didn't even touch on!!! We will need to give more room!!! I didn't get to list a Hammer Film!!! Shame on me!!! What about The Fog, Jaws, Alien, The Thing, Haunted Honeymoon, Beetlejuice, Elvira & Elvira's Haunted Hills, Pumpkinhead, The Haunting of Hillhouse (original), The Raven, Fright Night, THe Horla ( Diary of a Madman), The Pit and the Pendulum, She Creature, The Creature From the Black Lagoon.....Oh...I am going to faint....there are just too many to choose from!!!

Monster movies


1) Scream series
2) Friday the 13th the first 4 movies
3) Monster squad
4) Nightmare on Elm Street series
5) I know what you did last summer 1 & 2
6) The ring 1 & 2
7) Jeepers Creepers 1 & 2
8) Evil Dead 3 the army of darkness
9) Chucky
10) Night of the living dead
Vincent Price movies

I could sit here all day and change this a dozen times.