Monster Vision

[DistantJ]

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...

[penny lizardo]

I wonder sometimes how the creature is even supposed to find its prey considering its eye sight so wierd and screwed up.

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

[AnubisVonMojo]

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.

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. 

[Dreggen]

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.

[AnubisVonMojo]

Wasn't there a late night show on scifi hosted by Shatner where they'd show Head of the Family and the like?

"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. 

[Chang Saam]

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.

[Dr. Whom]

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

[AnubisVonMojo]

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... 

[Mr. DS]

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