24 of the Most Brilliantly Designed Movie Monsters
What would you say is the most motivating human emotion? Love? Compassion? You fool. It’s unabashed, primal fear. That’s why we’ve been making movies about monsters since, oh, about when we started making movies. Sure, the whole “man vs. man” story structure has its place, but sometimes, it gets boring and you have to liven things up with some good old-fashioned alien sky squids. Nothing beats a handcrafted nightmare.
That’s why Wild_Pokemon_Appears recently asked r/movies, “In your opinion, what is the best designed non-human villain in movie history?” Their personal contribution was Alien’s Xenomorph and Jurassic Park’s T-rex, even though — as others pointed out in the thread — the T-rex was a goddamn hero and we won’t hear her name besmirched in this fashion. Some played fast and loose with the idea of humanity (is Darth Vader human or nah? What about Agent Smith?), but the answers will still have us sleeping with the lights on tonight.
The Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Star Wars
Predator
Jaws
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
RoboCop
The Thing
The Matrix
The Marvel Cinematic Universe
2001: A Space Odyssey
Godzilla
It
Annihilation
Star Trek
Superman III
Nope
The Dark Crystal
Love Death + Robots
Dark Star
Rubber
The Black Hole
The Brave Little Toaster
