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Most Unique and Bizarre Creatures from a movie
I recently saw a horror film that had a carousel horse as the monster and it cracked me up. What is the most bizarre and unhinged creature you’ve ever seen as the baddie in a horror movie?
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The Thing in The Thing
And in the thing
But NOT in The Thing from Another World.
One of those 1950s creature features where they spend most of the time explaining the concept of an alien to us. "A being, from another world, like ours but completely different, which eats and breathes and sleeps just like us, but in a different way..."
The bear in Annihilation.
The ‘Moder’ in The Ritual (2017)
The Ritual is a great movie but the real cherry on top was the brief reveal of the monster at the end. I was blown away at how awesome and scary it looked
I've seen that movie a few times and that creature design is so batshit, I still can't completely figure out what's where on it. Such a good design.
For me, it's the point where Moder rears up and becomes a totem pole
Yeah, that was horrifying
Hell Yeah!! Thought of this one immediately too.
Also from Adam Nevill the creature in No One Gets Out Alive
It was such a great movie. Humane and inhumane in its source of horror at the same time.
It’s nice when a modern movie can produce a cool and original monster design like in The Ritual.
Easily one of my favorite releases in (… recent?) years.
Really wish the fucks at Netflix would put it on home video.
Excellent choices.
Props to the sound design on the bear, that's a big part of it.
Oh wait that ancient god creature in the Ritual is called a moder? I’ve watched that like 5 times and never got that.
It's named in the novel it's adapted from.
Ohhh thanks. I feel better lol.
Both great. The creature in the ritual is soooo cool.
The aliens from No One Will Save You were insane.
Xenomorph from Alien is still my favorite ever, tho
I was suprised how much I liked that movie. Didn’t know what to expect going in but it was pretty fun.
Same! Just by the title I thought it was going to be a slasher movie. I was pleasantly surprised, and horrified at the same time!
Is this the one where nobody spoke during the entire movie? Or at least the main character doesn’t speak?
That's the one! A few words are spoken, but it's been a while, so I don't remember by whom, or to whom, they are spoken.
Attack the Block aliens. Very cool.
I loooved the design and how their fur was so light absorbing that they looked like holes in the movie, but with teeth! I think that's a movie that would look amazing if you had an OLED HDR TV to watch it on!
So cool and scary. Looking forward to the sequel.
Move over, plebs, and bow to the king.
The reclining chair from Killer Sofa is nuts. You might think "Oh, it's a possessed piece of furniture", and you would be WRONG! In that chair "sits" the axe-crazy ex of the film's female lead, who cut his limbs off and used some hoodoo to merge with the chair.
Thats fucking ridiculous. Where can I watch?
When I watched it I think I saw it on Amazon. Really great New Zealand sense of humor
Well this looks completely absurd adds to queue
The only sane reason to watch movies like this.
I went in with super low expectations, but rubber is super fun and worth a watch. It was not at all what I was expecting.
I was pleasantly surprised by this one.
I did too. Loved it.
This is a homage
The floating something from Nope.
Jean Jacket!
Yes!!! That thing is weird and creepy as hell!
It sets off some kind of, idk, maybe megalophobia in me.
The infected mermaid in Guinea Pig: Mermaid in A Manhole.
And for a more mainstream answer, Elisasue in The Substance.
Ohhhh that’s a good one. That mermaid is crazy!
Yeah also quite sad, I didn't expect to get emotional with a Japanese extreme horror movie but what can I say, cinema always finds ways to surprise me!
Monstro ElizaSue was incredible. I'm so glad they went as ridiculous as they did at the ending.
Tarman from Return of the Living Dead
BRAAAAINS! 🧟♂️
Giant container of goo in Prince of Darkness. I love that movie and I think they pull it off.
Carpenter set it up so well that just a shadowy human figure emerging from the church in that transmission was scary.
Belial!
Belial is my homeboy. Scared the shiiiiiiiiit out of me when I was very little.
The scream, holy frick.
I'm not clicking on that on the off chance it's the belial sex scene from Basketcase 2 (?).
I really don't need to see that again.
Haha Its a spoof 80s tot commercial i made with a tot belial
What movie?
I'm assuming they're talking about Basket Case, though I wouldn't be surprised if there.sre other film Belials.
Yes Basket Case
"Whats in the basket?" "......my brother" ....."your brother?!!! Hahahaha...etc" <<chaos ensues>>. Saw that movie when I was about 15. Batshit crazy. Awesome soundtrack. Me & my mates rented that and 'Driller Killer' .... good times. This was back before cordless drills were invented so.... yeah, I'm old.
Itzpapalotl from No One Gets Out Alive (2021) is my go-to answer. Like, WTF is that thing!?
The floating goo monster from The Raft segment of * Creepshow 2* is pretty odd
Psycho Goreman has some excellent creature design.
The washing machine filled with blood voiced by Rich Evans is definitely a hilight
The mother/son fuse from Color out of Space!
that one was insanee
The Vourdalak deserves a mention...
The Mangler.
A sentient laundry machine starts eating people. But it's serious.
That movie fucked me up as a kid! That old manager dude was creepy AF in that movie too.
Lol dude I saw this movie as a small kid too. I remember in my twenties vaguely remembering something about it and I spent a minute trying to find it on google. Weird ass movie.
The bear in Annihilation was so gnarly and terrifying
The mannequin spider in Silent Hill Revelation gave me nightmares fr
The sea monster in The Host made my skin crawl 😖
The men in Men.
I always liked the Judas breed in Mimic
Brotherhood of the wolf is my fav only because of the reveal of what the monster actually is
Ok so the Penis monster in Beau is afraid Or whatever that thing was 😭
Hahaha I can’t believe I had to scroll so far down to find this thing. Easily my pick for the most bizarre creature ever made. I know a lotta people didn’t like that movie but I’m so glad Ari Aster got a blank check to make it.
Man, I started watching this movie on a plane once (love Ari Aster, this looked like kind of a bonkers pic I wouldn't be into) and wow wow wow. Immediately tapped into anxiety so hard that I never turned it on again after that plane ride.
I think the dick monster may be worth it
Jaba the Nut!!!
“Mother Buddha” from Incantation.
The monster from Night Beast
🎶 working on my night beast 🎶
The movie Death Bed is about a bed that kills.
Black sheep and Poultrygeist had some corny monsters too
The Japanese had some weird ones too, not least in Tokyo Gore Police, Meatball Machine etc
I think Guillermo del Toro often has really cool designs in his movies as well
In the same vein, Killer Sofa! It's exactly what you think it is, yet somehow I couldn't switch it off
Sounds hilarious - I'll try to find it
It's on UK Prime, but I'm not sure where you are - it might be on yours too :)
It's not but I will try VPN:ing my way to it
Thanks!
The giant monsters in The Mist, ughhhh they effed me UP 😭
Merman, obviously. You wouldn't believe the mess they make.
Aww man…
The monsters in Smile are the best things about those movies
Deepstar six has a very unique monster
The monster from Grabbers 2012
I totally forgot about this movie until now, I will watch it againz
Concept-wise, I don't think anything will ever beat The Abomination (1986). A woman with throat cancer gets cured while watching a TV preacher, and the tumour she coughs up and throws away crawls out of the garbage can and "infects" her son. He then goes around, spreading more tumour around, that grow into giant piles of meat with mouths and sharp teeth that start eating people. I think, also, that it's supposed to be The Abomination that's mentioned in the bible.
That is an extremely bizarre description. This may be the weirdest in the thread! Haha.
It's a REALLY weird zero-budget movie, but it's insanely good!
The smile monster is one of my newer favorites, its unique to me
Neill Blomkamp made a few short films a couple of years ago - the creature in Zygote is FUCKING HORRIFYING.
I seen that carnival horse movie too, don't recall the name of it, don't care to. My votes for the humanoid thing in From Beyond.
There's a "possessed" rocking horse in Prom Night 2: Hello Mary Lou. It was so creepy!
I liked the creature from 2006's The Host.
Not 'scary', but very cool, the designs for the monsters in Digging Up the Marrow are really striking.
Well, the Velocipastor deserves a mention, even if he isn’t the “bad guy”.
The tar monster from Creepshow 2's The Raft used to give me nightmares as a kid
The titular Zeiram from Zeiram. Like if the Predator was also a Terminator and John Carpenter’s Thing.
It Conquered the World (1956): The monsters look like angry traffic cones.
idk, imo you can't beat the simplicity of a demonic skin book 🤷
Dren in Splice (2010)
the monster in “Monsters”
The pants in Slaxx
The horse demon in lovely Molly
Baby in eraserhead
The monster in Splinter was very impressive.
The monster in The Ruins was a really interesting concept and executed fairly well. I’m a sucker for plant monsters though.
I will also take this opportunity to give a shout out to The Kothoga from The Relic. It’s not that bizarre or unique, but they did a great job of presenting the monster in bits and pieces throughout the first half, and then when they show you the whole thing it is still pretty impressive. The CGI shows its age nowadays, but at the time it blew my freaking brain.
The relic is awesome. Rip Tom Sizemore
The deros in Marebito really stuck with me.
While not the most unique. I really appreciated the creature in Loop Track 2023.
Penis monster in beau is afraid
Arcadian.
Monolith Monsters (1957) Giant crystals attack!
Zelda IYKYK
Louise from Spring.
Not a movie but just about any of the Weirdmagedden monsters from Gravity Falls. Peak kid friendly horror.
Loop Track (2023) - new zealand horror film that I was seriously digging until everyone gets killed by Big Bird
Velocipastor
Splinter (2008).
It's not really super bizzare (not even horror) but I do love the alternate creatures that popped up in Evolution (2001). Same with the ones in A Sound of Thunder.
The monster in "The Kindred" 1987
Killer Bong
Not exactly a baddie, but there’s a chair in Tokyo Gore Police that pisses into a crowd. I hadn’t seen anything like that before.
Deep Rising
I always thought mama from Mama (2013) was uncanny.
Slaxx - A pair of jeans bent on vengeance.
The Queen of the Lair from She Creature (2001). Really makes mermaids into the folklore monsters that they are.
Pumpkinhead has to be one of my favorite creatures
I thought Joe was pretty bizarre looking.
Joe from Ligma?
😂 That's the one!
The monsters in A Quiet Place were pretty damn good.
Monsters from Pontipoon
The tire that kills everyone in that movie
The monsters in Arcadian were as bizarre as they were terrifying. Like a killer cartoon given life.
I was really impressed at the weird chance they took on those monsters. There was a very real possibility that they'd come off as goofy rather than scary, and one may still argue that given how they give chase later in the movie, but the weird jaw snapping thing was very unsettling.
Funnily enough they are literally based off of Goofy. To be exact the transformation scene of Max turning into Goofy in A Goofy Movie was the initial inspiration.
Sauce? Not that I doubt you
https://www.ign.com/articles/nicolas-cage-new-horror-movie-arcadian-inspired-by-goofy
Also has earlier concept art that is more goofy-like
Thank you!
Loved how weird they were. That really elevated what could have been a bland movie.
Yes! My SO and I just looked at each other like wtf when they showed up, and they just kept getting weirder! So original and actually scary. And how the filmmakers made you feel sympathy for the creature that was locked in the cage and suffering in the light was just a really well done manipulation of your feelings.
I came here to post nearly this verbatim. It was a decent movie overall but the monsters stood well above most other aspects.
I thought the creature design was fine. The scene where it's long arms are reaching for the kid really gave me the creeps. But I thought the creatures joining and rolling like a wheel was way too goofy.
I was going to say this. I immediately wanted to know more. The movie was ok but the creature design was top tier.
It was such a *weird* movie. Really compelling to me, great in style, but it was so clear that it's not one of those universal acclaim movies.
They're like if someone saw windup teeth and wanted to make them into a monster