The 10 most exciting monster movies of all time

The monster movie: It's a genre that dates back to the beginning of Hollywood. Classic monsters like King Kong and Godzilla never really disappear; they always come back. Plus, there's a whole series of classic B movies like Black Lagoon Creature and The blob it helped to define the films of their time.

Today, monsters are bigger and scary than ever, but many of these classics are still among the best. To make a scary monster is really an art. They should not just be larger than life, because sometimes the most frightening thing about them is when you do not even see them.

So here's our list of the best of the best, in no particular order, starting with one of the greatest movies of all, and it's not just a movie about monsters.

Jaws (1975)

It's the film that made Steven Spielberg famous. Jaws is just as terrifying and amazing as it was almost 45 years ago on its first outing. He then scared people of the water, and he still does it today. No one is going to swim in the ocean without thinking about what might be hidden in the dark, and it's thanks to the shark Jaws.

One of the scariest things about Jaws This is how you very rarely see the shark in the film. The very thought of a Great White killer like that of Jaws is enough to scare the minds of most people. By the time Roy Schieder, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw finally find the shark, the public is so excited about it, the benefit of being able to finally have a good overview of the shark is incredible, even if the special effects and the robotic shark seem a little dated. It's still one of the scariest monsters in the history of cinema.

Pacific Rim (2013)

Pacific Rim, directed by the always brilliant Guillermo del Toro, is a modern riff of the classic Godzilla film. A crack in the bottom of the ocean is open and with it, monsters from the middle of the Earth emerge and destroy Pacific cities.

With a star cast of Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Charlie Day and Ron Pearlman, the beautifully shot movie, as you can expect from del Toro, is a pure pleasure to watch. It has everything everyone would want in a Godzilla movie. Even the names of the monsters, "Kaijus", are a tribute to classic Japanese movies about the giant monsters of the 50s and 60s. As expected, Pacific Rim has a sequel, although it is not up to the original.

Jurassic Park (1993)

Jurassic Park came in the middle of an incredible race director Steven Spielberg and he immediately figured among his best works when it was released in 1993. The original that spawned a huge franchise and still forces us to keep our buttocks a quarter of a century later remains one of the best.

Jurassic Park changed the game when it was special effects in the monster movies. Even today, when you watch the movie, dinosaurs are both realistic and realistic. The era of giant lizards and gorillas with a nerdy look was definitely over. Just like when the original Star wars rewrote the book on the special effects in science fiction, it was the same for Jurassic Park in the monster movies.

Predator (1987)

In the 1980s, a decade filled with larger-than-life action actresses, one name far surpassed the others: Arnold Schwarzenegger. With a series of hits like the Conan movies, Terminator, Commando, the man who runsand, of course, his classic monster movie, PredatorAh-nold was the king of the box office.

Predator would everyone want in a monster movie, filled with action, bad acting, accidentally hilarious dialogue and an awesome monster, which, like the dinos of Jurassic Park, would launch a lasting franchise that the public still loves today. This monster, The Predator, is as scary as they come. An alien from an unknown planet who can make himself almost completely invisible, but do not worry, if it bleeds, they can kill him.

Foreigners (1986)

Yet another classic monster movie franchise, which ends up cross pollinating with the Predator series really started with 1986 extraterrestrials. Of course, this is not the first in the series (it's the role of Ridley Scott. Extraterrestrial), but it's the one who turned the franchise into a scathing giant. While James Cameron is having trouble with moviegoers in the series, there is no doubt that he was at the top of his form in this one.

57 years after the first Alien movie, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is discovered floating in his stasis boat by a mining crew. After a series of events that forced Ripley to accompany a team of sailors into a colony in space, hell is unleashed under the effects of the alien and his offspring, who Kills almost everything except Ripley, of course, in his own way. extraterrestrials is scary and filled with silly dialogue (but still awesome), just like a good monster movie should be.

Cloverfield (2008)

Cloverfield is a kind of monster movie of the 21st century. Use the "found images" approach to show the attacks and, more often, the reaction to these attacks, Cloverfield do a really good thing, he keeps the monster hidden, with just enough teasing to make us beg to see him at last. Fuzzy and blurry images are all that we really see for much of the movie. It's also a classic Kaiju-type monster that destroys everything in its path, including the Brooklyn Bridge and much of Lower Manhattan.

Like many other films on this list, this one has also launched a successful franchise. It may not be at the level of some of the others, but it has spawned two sequels, although it may take some time before there is another one. as the most recent Cloverfield movie, The Cloverfield paradox, was not well received. But do not worry about that, the original is always epic.

Gremlins (1986)

Gremlins This list offers another kind of movie about the monsters, because it is not a giant monster, but a jumble of nightmarish little imbeciles resembling lizards that rage throughout the city and terrorize the citizens of Kingston. Falls. It is also a black comedy at Christmas, which could also be on the list of "best of".

The monsters start like pretty furry mogwais, of course, but once they have multiplied after being wet and they have become the evil Gremlins after eating after midnight, the destruction is imminent! Plus, the movie is brimming with creative cameos and a cast of actors that date back to the classic movies of the '60s monsters, such as Jackie Joseph and Dick Miller, who starred in the original . Small store of horrors and many more, and Belinda Balaski, who was in The howling and the cult classic Piranha.

The fly (1986)

Director David Cronenberg is best known for his strange, small and original films, such as Lunch naked and Scanners. 1986 Fly its most important commercial success to date has resulted in a sequel, a comic book and even an opera, although Cronenberg did not participate in the sequel or the comic book.

Based on a short story by George Langelaan, who also inspired a version of the story filmed in 1958, Fly star Jeff Goldblum as a scientist who accidentally confuses genetically with a fly. The film is more of a psychological thriller than a film about a pure monster, while Goldblum is trying to figure out how to reverse his DNA curse, but only makes things worse for himself until There is almost nothing left of this man and he is almost flying.

Tremors (1990)

L & # 39; original tremors, With Kevin Bacon and Reba McEntire, it was a bit of a box office bomb when it was released in 1990, but over the years, the film has grown a huge cult because of its ridiculous humor and actions . Because of his huge success on the video, a franchise directly to the video was born.

In the original, members of a small Nevada desert town are terrorized by an underground monster, called Graboids, which, like the best monster movies, is invisible for most of the film. It's almost like a Jaws in the desert with the terrifying monster that hides under the rock and the earth instead of the water. This causes the same helpless feeling as the shark, as if you were on its territory now, so beware of cracks in the desert and the great languages ​​that emerge from it.

King Kong (1933)

We finish the list where the genre probably started, with the king of all, King Kong. There is no scene more emblematic than that of King Kong when the giant monkey climbs into the Empire State Building looking for a safe place for Ann, played by the one and only Fay Wray, the human for which he fell in love.

If this scene is the most memorable, the rest of the movie is also filled with monsters. Kong is discovered on "Skull Island" where he reigns on the few inhabitants and on a huge number of dinosaurs confronted by the research group in search of Kong, to bring back to New York like attraction of circus.

King Kong has since made a place among the greatest movies of all time and has not only created a franchise that has lasted almost a century, but has also been at the center of all genre monster film and for that, she and Kong will remain in never on lists like this.

You can be sure that until there are many more monster movies in the future, we are grateful to you, because the genre is part of the true classics, with a revolutionary ability to s & # 39; 39; adapt to all generations.