I have to say mine would be HAL from 2001. I remember seeing this at a young age not really understanding it, but the part when he sings "Daisy, Daisy..." when dying really creeped me out.
Oh and the Shrews...what the hell were they anyway? Great B-movie though.
Without a doubt, H.R. Giger's ALIEN
(http://www.filmsite.org/posters/alie4.jpg)
(you mispelled "villain" by the way)
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Whatever was 'out there' in the Blair Witch Project, made all the more creepy because you never, EVER saw it.
Octaman? that is if y creepy you mean extraordinarily silly.
-Ed
Dubya.
Or maybe his brother Jeb.
Hillary Clinton or Al Gore.
Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Tom Dashle, Nancy Pelosi all smiling for the camera at once.
The Entity (1981) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082334/
I know it's a touchy subject, but it's a frightening thought; not knowing when this thing's around, or when it's gonna strike.
Those two scenes where it makes Carla's family & boyfreind watch and there's nothing they can do always creeps me out.
Thanks for getting back on topic lilcerberus.
The alien certainly is on my list.
So is the thing in Blair Witch. I love camping but the Blair Witch strikes a cord on me. Thankfully I've never been lost in the woods and if I heard cackling one night and it was just me then I'd be s**tting scared.
In an isolated area John Carpteders (and the original author's) The Thing would be even more terrifing than in an city or suburbian area.
But my current number one is most certainly.
The white faced demon from "The Exorcist"
Damn he's/it's quite scary.
The Blob - unthinking, unreasoning, relentless and driven solely by stimuli. Its more a force of nature, yet I find it creepy in how hard it is to escape and/or destroy.
Shadowfyre wrote:
> The Blob - unthinking, unreasoning, relentless and driven
> solely by stimuli. Its more a force of nature, yet I find it
> creepy in how hard it is to escape and/or destroy.
>
Well watching the remake the other day, I thought of how funny it was that noone could run away from it, but it was still a nasty piece of work... scary as hell if done right.
Speaking of the Entity, is that film any good? I was watching an old VHS copy of King Kong the other day and it had ads from the 80s for The Entity, and the trailer was so funny [they kept saying 'The Entity' with a certain emphasis I found funny] It just seemed kind of silly is all...
I love non-human villains, so it's kind of hard to pick Creepiest, but the Alien from the Alien series isn't that creepy to me [scary, sure, but not creepy]
I was watching Dark City the other day and it got me thinking of creepy evil kids actually, I've forgotten his name, but the little kid in Dark City is pretty creepy...
Carpenter's 'The Thing' is pretty creepy, as was Pazuzu from the Exorcist [I'm guessing that's what the demon thing was...]
Anything demonic to me is usually pretty scary or creepy, as was Samara from The Ring. The remake had one of the creepiest scenes I've seen in a long while, though I'm not sure whether that classifies as non-human.
I could crap on for hours so maybe I should stop...
Dittos on the blob. It just wants to eat you, and it can get in anywhere!
And being disolved, alive...eyuck!
Cujo, The Great White from Jaws, It, the Living Dead (They're Dead and all of them together are near indestructible), Freddy (he's demon), Death from Final Destination (1 & 2), and Pat Robertson.
dean wrote:
> Speaking of the Entity, is that film any good? I was watching
> an old VHS copy of King Kong the other day and it had ads from
> the 80s for The Entity, and the trailer was so funny [they kept
> saying 'The Entity' with a certain emphasis I found funny] It
> just seemed kind of silly is all...
>
Yeah, that name does come across as kinda' silly when you try to say it.
As for the movie it'self, I thought it was a little too long, and I felt that the acting, directing, the camera angles, and especially the music were all way over the top, but as I mentioned earlier, it deffinately has it's scary moments.
The Car from "The Car". I saw this movie when young and was scared to be outside in an open area at night for a long time
The sea creature from "Deep Rising". No really creppy but it's way of killy was pretty gruesome
I'd have to say, "The Thing". (Carpenter's.)
It does worse than eat you, it eats you and then BECOMES you.
Gah.
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.
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.
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.
The monster from Jeepers Creepers is a great concept and if it was real, would be quite a scary thing.
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.
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
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!!
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.
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.
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.
I was talking about David in 'An American Werewolf In London', but you have some great points about Dave Bowman.
David almost by definition is not the villian of America Werewolf. He is the movie's hero and a victim.....
Yeah, David isn't the villian. But the werewolf really isn't David, is it?
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.
That's the sort of question that is supposed to add depth to the characters in these types of films: You have to kill people in order to live, so what should you do? Then they toss in a sweet girlfriend to make the whole thing even more ambiguous.