What is Your Scariest Movie Monster?

[Pomorek]

I'm surprised Dead Space is not mentioned. 99% of zombies induce only yawns from me, but those extremely mangled, mutilated and mutated corpses - that's something different. Worse yet that they tend to jump at you unexpectedly in cramped spaces. I'm just ridiculously oversensitive to jump scares and these games seem to depend on those.

This also made xenomorphs all the more scary, they use surprise attacks a lot too.

 

[Kinguyakki]

The slime/oil slick thing from Creepshow, for some reason the idea of something like that just digesting you alive makes me cringe. Same thing for the "bugs" at the bottom of the canyon in the Peter Jackson version of King Kong.

 

[AceQuorthon]

The Cenobites in Hellraiser 1, before they became super silly and boring in the sequels. Just the idea of these giant huge perverts who dimension travel to find the extremest form of pleasure in self mutilation and murder just sends shiver down my spine.

 

[Filter]

Gremlins. They still creep me out. If you come across a Mogwai, whatever you do, don't feed it after midnight!

 

[tuxedo_fish]

The slime/oil slick thing from Creepshow, for some reason the idea of something like that just digesting you alive makes me cringe. Same thing for the "bugs" at the bottom of the canyon in the Peter Jackson version of King Kong.

Oh sweet dino jeebus, those freaking worm things were horrifying.

I didn't think they were particularly scary, per se, at the time -- just really gross? But the idea of being enveloped by a horrible snail mouth was a sort of fridge horror that has come back and gotten worse each time I think about it.

I don't know what critter traumatized Jackson as a child, but I hope I never meet it.