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Time Out's 50 greatest monster movies
As Joe Johnston’s long-awaited reinvention of Universal’s howl-at-the-moon classic ‘The Wolfman’ hits cinemas, Time Out lists our 50 favourite cinematic stalkers, growlers, slashers and biters.
Enter the 50 greatest monster movies...Our biggest challenge in constructing this list was deciding exactly what constituted a ‘monster’. We resolved early on to rule out zombies, which are basically just vitally challenged people, and vampires, largely because that genre’s good for a whole separate feature on its own, and we wanted to make room for all the killer rabbits, killer plants, killer fish and killer dessert foods this list demanded. Friendly, sentient aliens like ET and Chewbacca were also left out, and we’ll call anyone who disagrees with that a racist.
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As always we value your input, and there’s ample room in the comments box below for urgent questions like ‘what about Shelob!?!’ and ‘Haven’t you guys seen "Pumpkinhead"???’ We saw it. It was rubbish.
Enter the 50 greatest monster movies...
Author: Adam Lee Davies, Paul Fairclough, Tom Huddleston & David Jenkins
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- charles said...
- Does anyone remember a film called Belair the sea monster made in 1953, the theme is very good. Realeased by atomic testing the monster comes down the north sea attacking shipping and the climax is when it hits the woolich ferry london. I have the story, we need a remake of the film! Posted on May 23 2012 15:09
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- Anon. said...
- This is from a TV show, but - The Daleks from Doctor Who Posted on Mar 13 2012 02:42
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- iraqi Posted on Jan 22 2011 01:43
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- Tarantulavenom said...
- Pumpkinhead belongs on the list,and as far as Pete's Dragon goes you just threw all your crediability out the door for picking that piece of garbage. Posted on Dec 07 2010 22:57
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- Marybel Salis-El Ismaili Alaoui said...
- Multimedia Artist and Critic Posted on Mar 25 2010 06:38
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- Dom Brewer said...
- Quality of film hardly stopped you guys in several cases -"Pumpkinhead" may not be cinematic gold, but Stan Winston's monster is simply one of the best, and is sorely missing from an otherwise pretty good list. I'd have been tempted to stick in The Descent, Clash of the Titans, Starship Troopers and The Relic as well over Pete's Dragon and Monsters Inc... Posted on Feb 24 2010 14:53
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- frends Posted on Feb 10 2010 08:49
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