Creepiest non-human villian?

[akiratubo]

I'd have to say, "The Thing".  (Carpenter's.)

It does worse than eat you, it eats you and then BECOMES you.

Gah.

[Shadowphile]

The animal monsters (Jaws, Cujo) aren't really creepy in my book.  They didn't make my flesh creep or skin crawl (which isn't exactly the same thing)  As far as natural creatures are concerned, any movie with cockroaches as the villain should be added, I think,

and the japanese vengence demon from The Grudge.  Like the Blob, it is unstoppable and there is no escape.

[Squeakmiester 3000]

the body snatchers. Origanal movie. I don't know why, but that movie scares the s**t out of me. The remake made them too gross and animalistic, with the goo, and the shreiking. The origanals body snatchers were scary because they were cold, sterile, and emotionless. that was what really creeped me out. the remake tried just showing sort of icky things, and having the body snatchers be scary, not creepy. And thats why remakes suck.

[dean]

Squeakmiester 3000 wrote:

> the body snatchers. Origanal movie. I don't know why, but that
> movie scares the s**t out of me. The remake made them too gross
> and animalistic, with the goo, and the shreiking. The origanals
> body snatchers were scary because they were cold, sterile, and
> emotionless. that was what really creeped me out. the remake
> tried just showing sort of icky things, and having the body
> snatchers be scary, not creepy. And thats why remakes suck.

Well I guess that's where opinions differ: Whilst I liked the cold emotionless clones of the original, I preffered the icky shrieking clones of the remake.  Scared the crap outta me looking at someone wide-eyed shrieking at the un-converted.
 
What I never got about the body snatchers films is that whole 'gotta stay awake' attitude, even when they were out of the normal areas as if as soon as one of them falls asleep a pod is going to pop out of nowhere and clone them.  It always seemed a little silly to me.

[odinn7]

The monster from Jeepers Creepers is a great concept and if it was real, would be quite a scary thing.

[Mr. Hockstatter]

That thing in Bone Snatcher.  A bunch of ants took a human skeleton and animated it using their bodies.  One guy is looking at this thing walking around, aiming at it through his rifle scope, and it turns and looks at him - that was really cool.

[Squeakmiester 3000]

dean wrote:

> Squeakmiester 3000 wrote:
>
> > the body snatchers. Origanal movie. I don't know why, but
> that
> > movie scares the s**t out of me. The remake made them too
> gross
> > and animalistic, with the goo, and the shreiking. The
> origanals
> > body snatchers were scary because they were cold, sterile,
> and
> > emotionless. that was what really creeped me out. the remake
> > tried just showing sort of icky things, and having the body
> > snatchers be scary, not creepy. And thats why remakes suck.
>
> Well I guess that's where opinions differ: Whilst I liked the
> cold emotionless clones of the original, I preffered the icky
> shrieking clones of the remake.  Scared the crap outta me
> looking at someone wide-eyed shrieking at the un-converted.
>  
> What I never got about the body snatchers films is that whole
> 'gotta stay awake' attitude, even when they were out of the
> normal areas as if as soon as one of them falls asleep a pod is
> going to pop out of nowhere and clone them.  It always seemed a
> little silly to me.
>

That was pretty silly, but really the entire film didn't make sense as a real thing. It was all more like a dream really, and I know that been said many times but it's true. the entire idea is sort of surreal.  And even if it doesn't really make sense, it sure is scary

[trekgeezer]

I have to go with the Thing also. As written in the original story it digested you and then regurgitated a copy, leaving it's original mass unchanged.  Eeeeeeewww!!

[Just Plain Horse]

Okay, the original Body Snatchers were a little creepy, the 1970's versions were better, Chirstopher Walken's Headless Horseman seemed really nasty, and the Blair Witch held her own...

But John Carpenter's Thing definitly beats them all hands down. What really creeped me out about the monster was this thought... what if, when the monster absorbs someone, it leaves them so intact that they are actually unaware they've become it, so that if you were absorbed, you'd just keep going through the motions of being you, until something set your cells off, and suddenly your head splits open and become a venus flytrap type of lifeform...



On another note, I always found the Alien overrated. Ugly and insectlike, but way overrated.

[LH-C]

I'm going to have to go with HAL as well. When I was a kid, it really freaked me out about what he does to Frank. My other choice is the werewolf in 'An American Werewolf in London'. I still have a hard time watching David's transformation because 1) it looks like it hurts worse than any pain you could feel in the depths of hell and 2) the simple fact that you feel so sorry for the poor guy because he is turning into something completely foreign from himself that he can't control.

[Just Plain Horse]

I actually liked HAL; I found myself wishing "he" and Dave had both gone-separatly- to Jupiter and into transformations. I got the feeling Dave was battered far more psychologically than physically; his mind and perspective took the brunt of the blow, which in turn translated to his aging. His "death" was more like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon than the final shutting down of his feeble being. The only thing I liked about 2010 was his cameo appearance.

[LH-C]

I was talking about David in 'An American Werewolf In London', but you have some great points about Dave Bowman.

[Shadowphile]

David almost by definition is not the villian of America Werewolf.  He is the movie's hero and a victim.....

[LH-C]

Yeah, David isn't the villian. But the werewolf really isn't David, is it?

[Shadowphile]

Interesting question.

Is the werewolf the villian while David is the victim?

My personal opinion is that the villagers are more the villians than the werewolf.