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So I know everyone here has seen monster movies were they show you quick glimpses through the eyes of the monster. More often than not these first person views are just down right strange or idiotic. I wonder sometimes how the creature is even supposed to find its prey considering its eye sight so wierd and screwed up. So im curious, what movies have you seen with bizzare first person views through the eyes of a monster.

Predator- everyone knows this one. Heat vision through most of it which is cool until he takes the mask off, then everything turns red. How is that thing supposed to see anything like that, let alone be highly advanced.
Pinata- Sci-fi channel movie. If i remeber right  its like looking through a red and orange triangle.
Pitch Black- More realistic interpertation of  what its like to see through a creatures eyes.
Wolfen-There eye sight kinda looks like badly exposed film.

The only ones coming to mind right now are An American Werewolf in London and It Came From Outer Space. I don't think either of those were altered, though.

So, uh, glad I could help?

LOL!  I thought this thread was about the old show "MonsterVision with Joe Bob Briggs" on TNT.  I used to love that show.  Joe Bob would get more and more drunk as the horror movie du jour wore on.  The best is when they did The Exorcist and he was complaining about all the stuff they had to cut out of the movie just so they could show it on TNT.

I miss this show big time... :bluesad:

Other than that I have nothing to add to the thread.   :tongueout:

well if it was born like that i dont see it as being obstructed vision because it is its OWN vision. know what i mean? of course it would be hard to see for you because you arent use to it, but if you were born seeing like that you would be able to get a better understanding of what your actually looking at.

Not really altered, but good POV shots in ROBOCOP, THE TERMINATOR and WESTWORLD.  One of my favorites in THE TERMINATOR was when he was in the police station/

I was thinking the same thing.   :bouncegiggle:


But yeah, I agree with Ulthar about Terminator. 

And I think there's one in Toxic Avenger, but I'd have to rewatch it.

 The FLY (1958)...! When David Hedison's ol' lady is screaming, her face is reflected hundreds of times over...as seen by the fly!   :buggedout:

                                    [youtube=425,350] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRf6Nzwq8KE

A goofy giant snake movie I watched the other night called MegaSnake had some funky snake-cam, with things clear and focused in the middle, but blurry on the sides, which I suppose means the snake had crappy peripheral vision.

All I can think of are: Night of the Demon (1980), Tenebrae, and Creatures From the Abyss.

Pretty sure the Jaws movies used the shark's perspective...

And how can I forget The Evil Dead Movies!

Don't forget the 1st person Alien vision in Alien 3.   :lookingup:

CAT'S EYE I remember someone said something about it being good because it didn't have a weird monster-vision filter

The spheres from Phantasm had the weird red radar thing years before predator did :teddyr: not sure if it was kept in the sequels, I'm pretty sure part 2 did it.

 WESTWORLD- When it showed Yul Brynner tracking Richard Benjamin...."DRAW."

SNOWBEAST has lots of monster POV shots, but I think it's mainly an attempt to show the lousy costume as little as possible. The best Snowbeast POV shots includes the ski pole potruding from his chest.  :thumbup: for continuity!

Like most monsters and androids, Snowbeast suffers from a terrible eye condition that creates a fuzzy, red corona around his field of vision.

I've seen a lot of films with, like, ya know, the obligatory B-movie bug monsters, who have the same vision as a fly, how they see the same thing about 20 times in little hexagons. It looks like it'd be a real b***h to be able to see that but I think in real life bugs' brains interpret it into a proper picture they can understand, which would probably be even more "3D" and better for depth judgement and the like than our own eyes, I dunno, but the film just shows what it would look like to us through a zillion hexagonal lenses, lol...

I often find antagonist PoV shots to be kinda useless as well. I mean in Friday the 13th in order to not give away that the killer is female, most of that is shot from the killer's PoV, but I find it much scarier in movies like Halloween where you don't know where the killer is, or catch a glimpse of him in the background...

Thats why they keep eating and killing random people, There not monsters, there just critters with a bad case of glaucoma!  :teddyr:

As we saw in Predator 2, the Pred also has the ability to see in several other aspects of the visual spectrum, for such occasions as when Gary Busey figures out a way to negate your heat vision with a giant freezer and over-sized fire extinguishers...

Other than that, nothing else to add on the topic.  :tongueout:

Strike three on the TNT connection.  I think I still might have some of that on tape some where. That was where I was first introduced to Ray Harryhausens work, and I saw The people under the stairs there too.  Wasn't there a late night show on scifi hosted by Shatner where they'd show Head of the Family and the like? 

Didn't the moster in The Relic have some altered spectrum vision? I could be wrong, it's been a while since I saw it.

"William Shatner's Full Moon Fright Night", which highlighted Full Moon flicks like The Vampire Journals (apparently the only episode of which has since been released to DVD) and the aforementioned Head of the Family.  :thumbup:

I can only think up ones from mst3k movies like the Puma Man, the android from Future War, and the mummy alien in Time Walker.

Killer Tongue has some monstervision moments as well. You look out between two rows of teeth.

Ooooo! I finally have something to contribute based on the subject of this topic! Tremors! I even remember Siskel & Ebert's review for it commenting on how, despite the Graboids being blind, there were still a few "monster vision" shots as the Graboids burrowed through the top soil...  :cheers:

DOOM had that whole sequence at the end of the film which proved to be the one good part.