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We've seen movies with Dragons, giants, minatours, gorgans, elves, mermaids, and now thanks to Sci-Fi channels originals the manticore, and cerberus.  But who or should I say what else. 

What monsters form myth and legend would you like to see in a movie.  Here's a few of my ideas.

1.  The Hodag  A creature from American settler legends-this ia a bear sized animal with sharp teeth, horns, and a nasty temper.  Good for the typicall small country town under attack fro a monster.

2.  The gougou  From Native America folklore.  A female sea giant that would grab people off ships and drag them under to her underwater lair to eat them later. 

3.  The Hoop Snake.  From American folklore.  It grabs its tail, and rolls after victims.  I can see the chase scene now where a heard (or whatever you call a group of snakes) chasing after the leads in hair grass/corn rows.

For those who took a mythology class in college- nows a good time to dust off the old books (you tried to turn them in for money, but since they were going to another edition they wouldn't buy them back..I hated when that happened)

I'm not sure if it has or not but I'd love to see a movie with The Minotaur in it.

The Basilisk: Though it's been in Harry Potter: Chamber of Secrets and a SciFi movie, the ones in those films were incredibly different from the one I saw a picture of. What I saw a picture of was a big CHICKEN with a snake's TAIL. I want my basilisks to be that, not another random snake!

Scylla, Charybdis, Lorelei and the sirens - Though we saw them in the TV version of The Odyssey, these gals totally deserve their own film! Would be interesting to see passengers on a cruise ship constantly trying to navigate out of a sentient whirlpool, slay a seven-headed creature, and resist a plethora of beautiful chicks for a whole 2 hours!

@Patient7 - Minotaur's been in a movie or two before, but more wouldn't hurt, he's certainly not the most overused beast out there. It would be especially good if they actually adapted Theseus and Asterion's story to a full-length picture!

If you're counting the Lovecraft mythos, Cthulhu and his great old one buddies obviously.

Most of the others have been mentioned.  I can't wait until they make movies out of Percy Jackson And The Olympians.  The author likes to mix in a lot of popular creatures of the myths. 

A Guamanian Taotaomo. The way I heard it, they are the ghosts of a race of giants that inhabited Guam before the Chamoro.

http://guam.org.gu/hemplo/taotaomo.html (http://guam.org.gu/hemplo/taotaomo.html)

I agree with you on that one, the modern spin on the gods and monsters in it is also pretty neat.

I want to see that on a SCi-Fi Channel Original with hula hoops to be used as special effects for the snakes..

There's one I heard about years ago, but I can't remember the name.

It's an old fable the early West Virginia settlers would tell the folks back east, about a snake that's able to leap into the air & stab it's victims with it's poisonous tail.

Living in Virginia, I've heard tales here & there throughout my life about Chessie, the Chesapeake Bay Monster.

Ogopogo, just to hear the song.
His father was a tadpole, his mother was a whale
I'm going to put a little bit of salt on his tail
And Ogopogo was his name

Despite CLASH OF THE TITANS and sciffy's orginal movie HARPIES the Harpy of classic Greek mythology has yet to be portrayed so I'd like to see that, for starters.  And a faithful adaptation of the story of the Minotaur, not just the Theseus tail-end of the tale, I mean from the beginning.  Starting with Pasiphae.

Maybe a movie about the Igigi (see THE ATRA-HASIS EPIC).  We've gotten quite a few odd ball takes on the Nefilim, especially on sciffy, but I don't think anyone has bothered much with Mesopotamian mythology.  That said, if I were to choose a mythological tale that hasn't been covered yet, I'd have to vote for the Epic of Gilgamesh.  I'd also like to see the story of Deucalion and Pyrra turned into a movie.

Maybe a movie exploring the 'demonic' entities/forces/powers associated with the Qlippoth.

And, just for the fun of it, I'd like to see someone tackle Zecharia Sitchin's interpretations on classical mythology and bring his idea to the big screen.  Can't be any worse than the endless stream of remakes Hollyweird has been urinating on the masses.

I liked the Harpies in JASON & THE ARGONAUTS.

(http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/Reviews/jason/harpies.jpg)

Not the best image, but they were nasty little buggers, if you remember.

I believe there was a Sinbad (or other Harryhausen movie) that had one.

Have Chupacabras been incorporated into a movie yet? I'd love to seen the goat suckers get some screen time.

This is what really is p**sing me off about the D&D franchise they have a crapload of great monsters which I guess is protected by copyright and they can't put a decent movie together. I've heard that the second D&D movie is better, I haven't seen it yet since it went to straight to video. If it is based in any way on the universe from the first movie then it will have continued to give a very poor accounting of the proper portrayal of their monsters.

The World of Warcraft movie which should be right around the corner has the potential for some good beasties.

Yes, althrough I have not seen it yet: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0435617/
Chupacabra terror...sounds promising.

Also "The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" has a Minotaur in it. Actually, he's the leader of the White Queen's army, and he is one bad dude.

There was a Sci-Fi original movie based on the Minatour Myth, with Thesues and the maze.  The story was chagned, and the minatour looked like the ones from the God of War video game.  I thought it was good for a sci-fi original.

Got my Monster Spotter's Guide to North America here in front of me.  Let me see if I can find some more creatures for movies.

Guyascutus-according to the description its a dragon like creature with attributes of alligators, armadillos, rabbits, and deers.  Love to see the concept art of that.  It also has telescoping legs to help it run on the sides of mountains (which I've just noticed is a common motif of these america settler folklore.)

The amhuluk-description given is that its a great serpent with horns.  One of the legends is that it speared some children and dragged them into the lake. A few days later when their father came looking for them, the undead children rose from the water.  The father was unable to get the kids to return with him-and they went back into the lake.--Monsters and Zombies?  Perfect b-movie.  I see the vengeful father trying to kill the monster in order to release the souls of his kids.

The Lake Iliammna monsters-from cryptozology.  Unlike most lake monsters that are supposed to be giant serpents.  These are large unknown fish in this cold Northern lake.  They are said to be extemely large and fierce.  Some believe them to be a type of freshwater shark.

If we're going to exapand the list to include cryptids how about the Mokele-Mbembe from folklore of west-central Africa?  It's described as a "half elephant, half dragon" creature that modern cryptozooligists seem to think may be account of a sauropod, so I suppose technically that would make it a dinosaur, but just imagine the crazy CGI critter a sciffy original movie would give us for this thing!!

Already been done.  It was called Baby:  Secret of the Lost Legend.  It was an old disney movie where the dinosaurs were played by unconvincing puppets and guys in suits. 

The Mokele-mbembe is too tame.  If we're gonna have a movie about a cryptid, how about the MONGOLIAN DEATH WORM?  Now there would be a cool movie monster!

The Sinbad movie of which you speak is the GOLDEN VOYAGE of SINBAD...I've fond memories of seeing it at the Strand in the 70's.

Also...if I recall...a 1953 movie called the MAZE involved a large maze...and at the end of it lurked a Minataur! (I saw it as a kid...but my memory is hazy....I AM sure of the Minataur ....I'm pretty sure it's the MAZE (1953). I gotta check it up in some of my old film books.

Small correction:  the Sinbad film with the mechanical minotaur was "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger."  I do not remember any other Harryhausen film with a minotaur.

Of course...you are correct! I'm thinking of the Cenataur!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NLXl3Xhs2U

But...it got me to do so research...and Peter Cushing starred in a little known flik-(by me,at least!) called the DEVIL's MEN...aka the LAND of the MINOTAUR (1976)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074769/combined

Also...and I remember a pic from this in an old FM mag...a peplum type Itailion film...the MINOTAUR (1960).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055518/combined

A Disney film you say?

Never heard of it.

Sadly most creatures of traditional folklore and myth have been thoroughly mined for, if not always well represented by, cinema.    That's why I chose an obscure cryptid.  Sure it's all been done before, but then again no it hasn't.  Same with the story of the Minotaur.  We've seen it, yet we haven't really gotten the full story.  Google Pasiphae and cross referece with Daedelus and/or "white bull".

Sadly given the subject matter we're not likely to see this particular myth brought to life any time soon.  Shame.  There's a excellent Milo Manara graphic novel that would make a great movie adaptation.   Then again I think the same of his GULLIVERA.  :teddyr:

Alas the MONGOLIAN DEATH WORM has also technically been done.  The movie was called DUNE.   Or was it TREMORS?  Either way those were movies with big f---ing deadly worms!  :wink:

But I agree.  A movie specifically about the MONGOLIAN DEATH WORM would be fun.

A Disney film you say?

Never heard of it.

Sadly most creatures of traditional folklore and myth have been thoroughly mined for, if not always well represented by, cinema.    That's why I chose an obscure cryptid.  Sure it's all been done before, but then again no it hasn't.  Same with the story of the Minotaur.  We've seen it, yet we haven't really gotten the full story.  Google Pasiphae and cross referece with Daedelus and/or "white bull".

Sadly given the subject matter we're not likely to see this particular myth brought to life any time soon.  Shame.  There's a excellent Milo Manara graphic novel that would make a great movie adaptation.   Then again I think the same of his GULLIVERA.  :teddyr:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKZ8XKfJWvE

Baby

This movie is actually quite good for a Disney feature.  Back when it was released, there were some "concerned" parents who were whining not about the machine guns or violence towards the end, but about the tribeswomen's breasts!  Did they want them wearing Victorian Era dresses or something!?!

Anyways, the should make a movie about the water panther or Dohbar-Chu.  Giant killer otters seem like a fun idea.

Especially when the giant killer otters grab a person, flip onto their back, and then crack the human's skull open against a rock balanced on the otter's stomach.  Or maybe the giant mutant otters could naturally have armored plates on their stomachs.

I remember seeing "Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend" in the theater.  William Katt insinuating a bit of hanky-panky with Sean Young really freaked me out.

How about a movie with Drop Bears?

Say what now?

Speaking of rare seldom heard of cryptids have cats with wings appeared in any movie?  I've always been fascinated by those reports.

Yep, occasionally I'll see a news report about a winged cat - doubters usually try to explain it away with some nonsense about "matted fur".

My vote for a cryptid in need of some movie exposure is De Loy's Ape (Ameranthropoides loysi), supposedly a South American great ape. It's certainly NOT a spider monkey with its tail hidden.

(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/morrisawilliams/ameranthropoides.gif)

When explorer François de Loys came upon a couple of these creatures roaming the jungles of Columbia the apes responded by flinging feces at him. Typical.  :lookingup:

I wondered about drop bears too...so I looked it up....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_bear

I could see a Drop Bear movie marketed to be an epic summer movie for some reason, complete with the serious deep-voiced announcer saying "This summer, they will get the drop on you!  Drop Bears, rated R!"

I'd see it.

Aswang in the Philippines

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aswang#Appearances_in_other_media

Bunyip in Australia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bunyip_(1935).jpg

What interests me about both of these is the wide variety of descriptions associated with the same name. This extends not just to what the monster looks like, but whether it is a monster/rare species or an evil spirit.

It is already scientifically recognized that 'Mega Faunna' were still roaming Australia less than 100,000 years ago. As for Aswang, I've heard Americans living in the Philippines describe it more as a mystery than a myth, as something the locals (modern educated people as well as tribal villagers) take very seriously.

I imagine a team of cryto-zoologists catching one of these things...then realizing that they need witchdoctors rather than outdoorsmen.  :drink:

Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp aka South Carolina Lizard Man

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Man_of_Scape_Ore_Swamp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Man_of_Scape_Ore_Swamp)

Definitely a candidate for a Sci-Fi Channel movie all his own!

(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/morrisawilliams/lizardman.jpg)