Most terrifying/cool/effective looking b-movie monsters.

[Raffine]

Most of monster designer Paul Blaisdell's creatures were slightly goofy-lookin' at best, but his alien for IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE is pretty effective:



Here's a nice tribute to Blaisdell, with photos of most of his critters:

http://www.badmovieplanet.com/3btheater/tributes/Paul_Blaisdell/paul_blaisdell.html

[AndyC]

Dr. Pretorius in From Beyond.

[vukxfiles]

The Fly

[JaseSF]

The Monster That Challenged the World.



The Angry Red Planet's Bat-Rat-Spider



Hey personally I also like Paul Blaisdell's monsters too. Hell I even like Robot Monster, the Giant Claw and the Brain From Planet Arous...at least the aliens looked truly otherwordly and/or downright bizarre back in the old days of B-movies...now they almost always look like they stepped out of a video game.

[indianasmith]

Actually, the villainous truck driver in MONSTER MAN was way spookier looking than that movie deserved!

[Mr. DS]

The monster on the wing in the Twlight Zone movie creeps me the hell out. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwEclI_ffOA

[diamondwaspvenom]

The Ghoulies

[jimmybob]

The monster on the wing in the Twlight Zone movie creeps me the hell out. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwEclI_ffOA

I liked that scene so much I made this fan video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubtv5RjZsZo

-Jimmybob

[voltron]

TARMAN!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV1FKU9Oihw

[Judge Death]

The original "Creature from the black lagoon" always looked great due to the fact you saw no human eyes or mouth even in closeups.

The white eyed godzilla in "GOdzilla, mothra and king gidorah" was the only scary looking godzilla I ever saw.

Not a monster, but I liked the robot suits in A.P.E.X.

[StatCat]

the monster is cellar dweller is pretty awesome looking- too bad the movie sucks

the Eddie werewolf in the howling is intense

[InformationGeek]

I can't believe no one mention the Graboid and shrieker yet!

[Flick James]

I'm sure it has something to do with growing up watching things like the Sinbad movies, but stop-motion monsters have always creeped me out. I know they're corny and kids today would think I'm a complete moron, but there's something about stop-motion monsters, something that's kind of off about them, that made them terrifying to me as a child. I'm not terrified now, of course, but they still carry a surreal, nightmarish feeling for me.

[AndyC]

I've always found the stop-motion effect to be slightly unsettling, in a good way, of course. I agree, it's because there is something slightly unnatural about the movements. Now that I think about it, the effect is not unlike some of the digital tricks applied in a more exaggerated form to ghosts and monsters in movies today. Disturbingly unnatural movement has been one of the most used staples of horror movies since at least the late 90s, and the old stop-motion monsters had it as a natural byproduct.

[JPickettIII]

What is this????   

Later,

John