In search of monsters

[Ash]

Even cooler would be a giant Mrs. Butterworth vs. a giant Aunt Jemima!

They could shoot acidic syrup destroying everything in their paths!

And one of them would have the power to produce giant pancakes to fling at the other like frisbees and they would explode on impact!

[Brother Ragnarok]

The turtle idea is cool.  I remember a painting in an old Ninja Turtles art gallery sort of book with them battling a huge snapping turtle (not Tokka, just a regular looking snapping turtle only about 30 feet long).
The tumbleweed creature is, I agree, very disturbing.  A moonlit Nebraska plain, a lonely road, a man out for a walk...
I know the story you're talking about, it was really damn good, and I haven't been able to find it either.  I read it in an extremely bizarre book from the library in my elementary school that had a bunch of other creepy and unusual horror fiction stories in it.  Not a book for most elementary students by any means, the subject matter and writing was pretty grown-up style, so of course I read it about a thousand times.
For that giant outer space centipede thing, read "Stinger" by Robert McCammon.  Very cool book.
And finally, my monster idea, dreamt up while I was on a fishing trip with my cousins this week, goblin sharks.  Creepy lookin' mothers.

Brother R

[Foywonder]

Nuclear waste dumped in the Gulf of Mexico spawns giant mutant crawfish that attack New Orleans during Mardi Gras! Beware of D'EM!

[wuggles451]

Ok i have to admit the waffle idea is inspired by some weird Japanese type show where i saw a ham sandwich destroy a city. I searched "japanese sandwich monser" on yahoo and to my amazment i think i found it origins.

http://www.kaiju.com/

In short this is a pro wrestling federation where everyone is dressed as a giant monster...such as a cup of noodles or Boxhead. I recomend watching some of the video clips i may even purchase a DVD once i get the money.

I checked back the DVD is released Sept. 30 and is only $14.99



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[Foywonder]

They're aren't exactly a secret. Its about time the DVD comes out. They've only been hyping it for damn near a year.

[wuggles451]

Really where was I?.... Oh yeah in the middle of fuggin nowhere  Pennsylvania.

[AndyC]

'In His House at R'lyeh Dead Cthulhu waits dreaming'

I like the idea of Cthulhu trashing New York. Meanwhile, a group of scholars at Miskatonic University, led by Jeffrey Combs, must search for a solution in the fabled Necronomicon.

Still, one of the reasons Lovecraft's work hasn't translated well into film is that a visual medium doesn't do justice to his monsters. He devotes so many words simply to describe how indescribable they are. A filmaker would have a tough time with a creature so horrible mortal men cannot look upon it without going mad.

[AndyC]

The people dressed as food made me think of a weird porno movie a friend showed me years ago. The starlet falls asleep while making breakfast, then dreams she's having a threesome with a slice of bread and a box of Cream of Wheat. Seriously, one guy is in a big foam bread costume, and the other is wearing a giant Cream of Wheat box, and he's grinning away in a chef's hat in a window in the front of the box. The costumes had holes elsewhere, but I won't elaborate.

[AndyC]

Here's a monster that, to my knowledge, has yet to appear. Imagine a giant jack-o-lantern, walking on bird legs. It swallows children, transforms them into chickens and spits them back out again.

This was actually drawn by a kid in my class in about grade two or three. It was just disturbing enough to be memorable after about 25 years.

[Fearless Freep]

Sounds crazily similar to some Russian falk tales

[Deej]

Foywonder wrote:

> Nuclear waste dumped in the Gulf of Mexico spawns giant mutant
> crawfish that attack New Orleans during Mardi Gras! Beware of
> D'EM!

Alright...now that's just frikkin' FUNNY!!

[wuggles451]

AndyC  said:

>The people dressed as food made me think of a weird porno movie a friend >showed me years ago

Wow. I am practically at a loss for words. Just wow. Please tell me you remember the title.

[Dave:Blackeye15]

HOW ABOUT A GIANT SNAKE! LIKA ANACONDA! OR MAYBE A GIANT CROCIDALE!! OR EVEN BETTER A ALIGATOR!!

Ok seriously I got a nice idea: This all started back when I was in my first yeah of Middle school. I was watching a boring movie in one of my classes and when I get bored I think in Hyber mode in my head, during Hyber Mode I think up some pretty crazy stuff you see, and I pictured this Rat Creature killing off the characters of this one old kids show that use to be on Nick Junior call Eurika's Castle. I thought the idea was pretty funny so I wrote a story of it in my head, two days later I told my older brother the story , it was full of blood and kinda dark humor and some humor that you'd only get if you saw the show. Anyway he liked it and I started doing sequals..now often this is a no-no in entertainment but in some cases ,Tremors,Final Fantasy,Mad Max, Star Wars, it was a great idea. So far It's gone from #1)Eurika's Castle  #2)The Busy World of Richard Scary #3)Rupert  #4)Little Bear  #5)Frankln #6)(Which my brother did) Gumby and currntly I'm in the middle of #7) Allegra's Window. I really have nothing against these kid's show it's just a odd..traditions, of having the Rat Creature killing of the characters in a gory,slightly dark humor, and funny way. Now these would make nice little films I'd say.

-the first rule of fat club-

[AndyC]

wuggles451 wrote:

> Wow. I am practically at a loss for words. Just wow. Please
> tell me you remember the title.

Unfortunately, I don't remember the title. I was hoping somebody here might know.

[AndyC]

A quick search of Google has turned up the title. It's called Nightdreams.

There's a little blurb on this site:
http://www.pifmagazine.com/vol18/remote.shtml