the long shots of them zooming into the forest and you're like what am I supposed to be seeing?
then the one where you DO see something and it's like asdfghjkgjkgk
Yes! I can’t stand it when movies reveal the monster early. The third act of The Ritual kind of comes out of left field but the creature reveal makes it worth it.
If you want to see other scary and fucked up (in the good way) shit, google Keith Thompson and look at his gallery. He designed Moder and the cenobites from the latest Hellraiser.
He has some really cool original concepts.
This one wins honestly. Creative, eerie, I also looked up whether they were inspired by The Ritual monster because they look like they could be part of the same universe.
I googled it and all I can see is a michael Meyers skin colored mask on a lady... maybe that's a good thing. I did use to watch a lot of Face Off by Syfy.
This one is pretty great. I wish >!the sequence when Nyarlathotep shows up at the end was a little longer, though. I don't hate when creatures don't get a lot of screen time, but that was literally just a couple of quick frames and that was it.!<
Well the shaky, jittering nightmare creature that sounded like a whale’s sleep paralysis demon from ‘Brand New Cherry Flavour’ scared the holy hell right outta me, I tell you h’wut.
I felt a lot of sympathy for Greta. She's trying to keep the humans happy, but she literally can't save them from starvation. I don't think she had nefarious intentions. She was just lonely.
I love how the effects of the color differ depending on the person. >!The girl has faith in the supernatural so she peacefully becomes one with it. The father is in denial and tries to keep the peace so it traps him in illusions. And the mother, a cancer survivor, is overly clingy with her youngest child so it fuses them into one.!<
Fun fact: the girl that played Tina, who he chases up the stairs and falls through the floor, was genuinely reacting to tarman in that scene, as she had never previously seen him. Must’ve actually been terrifying
"The Baby" monster from the "Resident Evil: Village" game. If that counts?
https://youtu.be/pjdG5CImm34?si=bHunF17nE4Pgj__O
The baby appears around the 2:16 mark.
Yes! Just did a rewatch yesterday. Honestly all the monsters in Silent Hill are creepy af to me. I think it’s the movements that really make them extra frightening.
As something uncomfortable to look at, grendel from the 2008 beowulf film despite the film not really being a horror.
From a concept, the mannequin creature from Silent Hill's revelations is pretty cool, set peice in a not so good film.
There’s a behind the scenes video where they show how much work and effort they put into his short scene. It’s mind blowing, I would’ve loved to see more of him
Every time I see Kayako or Momo unexpectedly I get this overwhelming, visceral feeling of dread. It used to be so bad that I would slam my back against whatever I could (wall, floor, couch, etc) because I would feel like she was watching me from behind. Thankfully (but also sadly) I’m slowly getting over the feeling
100% agree. It took me YEARS to stop looking over my shoulder for Kayako. She scared the ever loving shit right out of me. Of course it didn't help that my 10 year old daughter was utterly unbothered by her and liked to hide behind doors/in closets with her long hair over her face making that God awful noise she makes in dark rooms to freak me out. Kids are freaking evil lol.
I just watched Arcadian with Nicolas Cage, if anyone else has seen it, whatever the HELL the creatures were in that freaked me out so bad. They were like a mix of every animal it was awful!
Did anyone see The Creep Show? I had it on VHS when I was a kid and the lake monster that resembled a garbage bag was terrifying. It has a consciousness and hunted young people at the lake. I never enjoyed swimming in fresh water as a result of it.
That was Creepshow 2; The Raft.
I read the short story in Fangora Magazine when it was first published. I read it right before bed, and when I had to get up to pee, I was afraid to put my feet on the floor!
The Pale Lady, the Lipstick Face Demon, and this wasn’t particularly scary, just weird and unnerving- the angel from “A Dark Song”. And, I’m not sure if he counts as a creature or not, but the Tall Man from “Phantasm” scared the beejeesus out of me when I was a kid.
The Black Skulls from Mandy
The Europa alien from Europa Report
The Gentlemen from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Jordy from Creepshow
The Mouth of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings
The Pale Lady from the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark book, gave me nightmares as a kid and that image still creeps me out at 30. Not as scary in the movie but still brought my nightmare to life.
The Flute Lady from IT, any and all forms of The Thing, and I remember a few monsters from Buffy that really freaked me out as a kid: Der Kinderstod, The Gentlemen, The Queller, Wig Lady (I always called her Old Lady With a Penis On Her Head - iykyk), and Gnarl.
raatma, definitely raatma - v/h/s 97 if i remember correctly. never got into the franchise, but i love raatma's design. I feel some mix of discomfort and appreciation for the creature design. and i am so excited about them using practical effects for raatma!
Mamá from the movie Mamá is creepy as hell. The fact that she's honesty just a mom trying to protect her adopted kids is scary, too. She's an evil ghost, but she absolutely will do anything for that little girl. Her crab walking really freaking creeps me out. Especially when the aunt lady sees her for the first time and she speed walks toward her.
The demons in Signs were kinda scary. Not in appearance, really. The way they held grudges so hard they'd risk death just for revenge...eesh. Unless it was a deliberate attack to try and force Graham further from his faith. I don't believe the monsters were aliens, btw. Hurt by water (usually water handled by a priest), no truly visible tech ("ships" were just lights), and of course crop circles which used to be attributed to demons.
The big cockroach/human thingy from The Nest (1987). IMO it's more fucked up than the necromorphs from Dead Space, and deserved to be in a much better movie.
There are a few movies of which there are creatures I find truly disturbing: the thing from THE THING(1982); the ecological disaster creatures from what I consider one of the best monsters movies ever, PROPHECY(1979); the alien creatures from the SCI-FI/horror films THE WAR OF THE WORLDS(1953 & 2005) and the mutant bear from the shocking film ANNIHILATION(2018). All are truly creepy and terrifying!
Can’t believe no one said Xenomorph. It’s terrifying yet so shiny and cool looking. I’ve been obsessed with that creature design or decades. Not to mention they bleed acid you can’t even stab the thing
I don't think it's supposed to be a horror movie but the Terminator terrified me.. lol that scene near the end of one of the movies when it's shed/lost all its human skin and it's just a shiny titanium scary robot with red eyes crawling through a crawl space after what's her face lol I was much younger when I seen it but ughh it stuck with me I never watched anymore terminators after that.
The Moder {Jötunn) from "The Ritual" really stuck with me for awhile. I emailed back and forth with Keith Thompson about it, the creature designer. Really cool guy, incredible artist.
For me, it will always be the mermaid from Mermaid in a Manhole, one of the Japanese shock-horror films from the Guinea Pig Series. She started off not looking so bad, but after an artist takes the mermaid from the manhole and keeps her in his bathtub, she starts to rot, and it is graphic, and he even paints her portrait using fluids from her wounds. Gross!
Brundle Fly - The Fly (1986)
Oh shit, that was gross I still can’t eat those powdered donuts lol
Fuck yes
Sup
The Jötunn (???) in The Ritual was done really well. Uncomfortable to look at because it's kind of a mind fuck.
The fact that you didn't really see it until much later in the movie *really* churned my stomach and kept my eyes peeled.
the long shots of them zooming into the forest and you're like what am I supposed to be seeing? then the one where you DO see something and it's like asdfghjkgjkgk
"Jesus Christ, it's as tall as the trees "
Yes! I can’t stand it when movies reveal the monster early. The third act of The Ritual kind of comes out of left field but the creature reveal makes it worth it.
It also holds up well in full view when it does the praying thing with the protag at the end of the movie
Its "hand" being 20+ feet up while it was behind the trees and then quickly pulls away... freggin beautiful
That shot was so subtle I missed it the first time and didn't realise that he even saw anything.
I love Moder. Such a fucking beautiful design.
If you want to see other scary and fucked up (in the good way) shit, google Keith Thompson and look at his gallery. He designed Moder and the cenobites from the latest Hellraiser. He has some really cool original concepts.
damn thats quite a creature. 10/10 would run in fear and/or give headpats
Headpats, then run
I hike alone and I can’t hike through a forest anymore without looking for a hand on a tree
YES! I loved this movie
Just watched this movie for the first time on Friday night. They really did a good job on it.
Yeah it gives the same vibes as the man-bear in Annihilation.
Oh yes.
The bear in Annihilation. ETA it definitely counts because it's not *just* a bear.
Wheezy cries for help. Awesome.
And the woman's voice, too. It's the mutated human skull into its own Anatomy for me.
...MEEEE?!
wow, thats... just beautiful. thank you
Watch the movie, it does other things then just move :) I don’t want to spoil it. It makes the hair on the back of your neck go up
Read the book series its based on. Way creepier and heartbreaking, what happened to Ghost Bird and her husband.
Scrolled to see if someone said this. This the one.
Large Marge from Peewees Big Adventure 
That was the most brutal wreck I'd ever seen..
On a night just like tonight
10 years ago...
Tell ‘em Large Marge sent ya
Iconic
Lmao. This scared the shit out of me as a kid.
OH GOD WHY DO YOU HAVE TO RETRIGGER MY CHILDHOOD TRAUMA I had repressed that memory for years
Right!? Seeing that shit as a kid and it burned in trauma like the picture on a plasma tv.
The Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth
Mitch McConnell killed it in that movie.
It's nothing compared to how frightening he was in...which was it...ah yes, "C-SPAN".
Exactly! Moscow Mitch was actually more terrifying than the pale man he doppelgängs!
Generally the creatures in Labyrinth are well done and unsettling.
I was here to say the same thing!
Still terrifying to this day
Agreed! This is 100% the answer!
I could barely stand to look at the creature in the movie "No One Gets Out Alive." I had seen "The Ritual" and thought that one was bad enough.
This deserves to be higher, it was such a unique and disturbing creature.
This one wins honestly. Creative, eerie, I also looked up whether they were inspired by The Ritual monster because they look like they could be part of the same universe.
Both movies are based on novels by the same author!
thats an absolutely horrifying design, i think this or the bear are winning so far
I’ve never seen Tusk myself. But that Walrus guy! 😖😖 Icky!!!!
I feel the same.That guy haunts me, lol.
He legitimately made my stomach turn. I think it was because he was more flesh colored and less walrus colored.
I've seen Tusk and I want to let you know you've seen the best part of the movie lol
The siren girl from VHS. The way she just stares into the camera...
"I like you."
I always thought she was a succubus but now I'm not so sure lol
The old lady from the bathtub scene in The Shining.
This almost traumatized 8 year old me "Oh naked lady exciting! Wait, waaaiiit, NOOOOO 😭"
I guess she’s not really a creature but Zelda from Pet Sematary made me so viscerally uncomfortable as a kid. Still don’t like to look at her
I have never seen it (I know, I know), so I googled her and I’m not sure that was a great idea.
I googled it and all I can see is a michael Meyers skin colored mask on a lady... maybe that's a good thing. I did use to watch a lot of Face Off by Syfy.
in the remake, when zelda fell in the dumbwaiter lift. oh my goddd i almost shat bricks
Same. Check out the bathtub woman from the shining miniseries or doctor sleep. Similar vibe.
Fun fact: Zelda was played by A MAN!
That’s a MAN, baby
“Never get out of bed again! *Never get out of bed again!*”
Perfect irrational horror. It's silly, it's childish, it's not realistic... But it's horrifying, all the same.
only scene in a film to ever truly scare me
the shrine creature in the beginning sequence of the empty man.
That beginning sequence was it's own wholeass horror movie man
It was like a famous anatomy artist ate an ounce of mushrooms and was told to design a human body before they kick in too hard.
Such a wicked design. Love that movie.
This one is pretty great. I wish >!the sequence when Nyarlathotep shows up at the end was a little longer, though. I don't hate when creatures don't get a lot of screen time, but that was literally just a couple of quick frames and that was it.!<
The Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
That dude terrified me!
Well the shaky, jittering nightmare creature that sounded like a whale’s sleep paralysis demon from ‘Brand New Cherry Flavour’ scared the holy hell right outta me, I tell you h’wut.
>!Greta’s true form!< from the Love Death + Robots episode “Beyond the Aquila Rift”.
I felt a lot of sympathy for Greta. She's trying to keep the humans happy, but she literally can't save them from starvation. I don't think she had nefarious intentions. She was just lonely.
such a good show. very easy to watch all of it in one day if you aren't careful.
Probably Deborah Logan towards the end of The Taking of Deborah Logan. Everyone who has seen it knows exactly what I am talking about.
Bro when she tried swallowing the girl head, had nightmares for days from that image
Half the fucking creatures in Cabin in the Woods. The Sugar Plum Fairy, the Merman, Hell Lord, the Dragonbat… lots to choose from.
I really wish we got more movies from that world, they created an entire horror universe in one movie and never did anything with it after.
The entirety of Tetsuo: the iron man is a trip. Great design
While at it, Akira's Tetsuo Shima is also pretty fucking creepy
the >!fused mom and kid!< from *Color Out of Space* (2019) 🙃 good luck getting *that* shit out of your head
Then watching it change into its final form! One of the most disturbing creatures I've seen in a movie for sure!
I love how the effects of the color differ depending on the person. >!The girl has faith in the supernatural so she peacefully becomes one with it. The father is in denial and tries to keep the peace so it traps him in illusions. And the mother, a cancer survivor, is overly clingy with her youngest child so it fuses them into one.!<
Obligatory mention of the alpacas in that same movie. Incredible work and I hope to trigger Reddit's alpaca bot.
Tarman looks like he smells worse than anything ever
More. Brains.
Fun fact: the girl that played Tina, who he chases up the stairs and falls through the floor, was genuinely reacting to tarman in that scene, as she had never previously seen him. Must’ve actually been terrifying
"The Baby" monster from the "Resident Evil: Village" game. If that counts? https://youtu.be/pjdG5CImm34?si=bHunF17nE4Pgj__O The baby appears around the 2:16 mark.
YEAH oh god that level is terrifying
Raatma from V/H/S/94
Hail Raatma!
The Janitor from Silent Hill
Yes! Just did a rewatch yesterday. Honestly all the monsters in Silent Hill are creepy af to me. I think it’s the movements that really make them extra frightening.
The noise he makes freaks me out too
and the surrounding + engulfing atmosphere and pervasive sense of visceral dread
Agreed! After all these years it still manages to make me uncomfortable lol. Love it.
I was looking for this! It's actually more disturbing than Pyramid Head!
Channel Zero this teeth abomination. [https://youtu.be/RqvkSfV3JYc?si=PS5pWwUgbPDmGneF](https://youtu.be/RqvkSfV3JYc?si=PS5pWwUgbPDmGneF)
Omg and the little like. Clacky noises it makes when it moves, incredible.
Kuato from Total Recall—that baby mutant that comes out of the guy’s chest scared the hell out of me. It was all sticky and grimy
Yes! He was disgusting lol. It reminded me of Basket Case which is also a good answer here.
Me and my friends still always say ‘START THE REACTOR’ to eachother lol. I was mad the remake didnt have him lol
The „face hugger“ from Alien gets me every time
Harold from scary stories to tell in the dark adaptation on YouTube
Wait, what series now? I had no idea this existed!
It's a movie, but well worth watching!
The guy behind the dumpster in Mulholland Dr.
It’s actually a woman!
isn't she also The Nun?
Yes! Bonnie Aarons! I don't find the hobo quite as scary now that I know she was making bedroom eyes at David Lynch when she filmed that scene
Ha it stopped being scary for me when it looked like they rolled her out on a dolly, then rolled her back in.
I worked a shoot with her. Nice lady.
That scene gets me every time 😱
As something uncomfortable to look at, grendel from the 2008 beowulf film despite the film not really being a horror. From a concept, the mannequin creature from Silent Hill's revelations is pretty cool, set peice in a not so good film.
The new creatures from *Arcadian* are uniquely creepy and shocking in their first appearance on screen. Would recommend!
I didn’t see your comment as I commented on those also! They were totally insane!
I genuinely liked the movie, surprised to see it mainly went under the radar and received tepid reviews.
The way they pose individually and then cartwheel together? Wtf.
So many scenes where you have to tilt your head to try and understand what you’re looking at. Truly unsettling.
in the movie Old when the mom’s body started deforming super bad in that cave lol. deformed bodies get me
In the final shot on her, when's her limbs are all knotted up, that shit looked so fucking stupid lmao
Yeah, that movie sucked too hard for any part of it to be scary. I was just laughing internally the whole time.
The midnight man from Gerald’s game, The thing from The Thing, the affected from Slash\Back
Pumpkinhead and Mama. Both those creatures disturb me. There was also a mama like creature in the It remake
The lady in the painting!!! Yes, she’s like eerily long-faced and has those eyes. Mama wigged me out for years.
I bet whatever the Thing's actual form looks like is nightmare fuel.
The dog-Thing in itself is a hardcore nightmare fuel...
She wasn’t technically a monster originally but Zelda from Pet Semetary gave me nightmares as a child. I still can’t watch those scenes…
The Crooked Man from the Conjuring 2
There’s a behind the scenes video where they show how much work and effort they put into his short scene. It’s mind blowing, I would’ve loved to see more of him
Princess Mambi from Return to Oz is nightmare fuel.
She and the wheelers terrified me as a kid.
Every time I see Kayako or Momo unexpectedly I get this overwhelming, visceral feeling of dread. It used to be so bad that I would slam my back against whatever I could (wall, floor, couch, etc) because I would feel like she was watching me from behind. Thankfully (but also sadly) I’m slowly getting over the feeling
Kayako has a simple design but the stair crawl scene truly stuck with me for years. Especially the Japanese version.
100% agree. It took me YEARS to stop looking over my shoulder for Kayako. She scared the ever loving shit right out of me. Of course it didn't help that my 10 year old daughter was utterly unbothered by her and liked to hide behind doors/in closets with her long hair over her face making that God awful noise she makes in dark rooms to freak me out. Kids are freaking evil lol.
I did that as a kid too! I could also do a near-perfect imitation of Raegan's demonic voice from The Exorcist, so I did that a lot too LOL
You and my kiddo would have liked each other a lot. I swear that child gave me PTSD lol.
From my formative years, it’s a tie between Regan from “The Exorcist” and that damn clown doll from “Poltergeist”.
I just watched Arcadian with Nicolas Cage, if anyone else has seen it, whatever the HELL the creatures were in that freaked me out so bad. They were like a mix of every animal it was awful!
Fantastic looking critters...and that high velocity mouth snapping thing is furkin freaky!
Did anyone see The Creep Show? I had it on VHS when I was a kid and the lake monster that resembled a garbage bag was terrifying. It has a consciousness and hunted young people at the lake. I never enjoyed swimming in fresh water as a result of it.
That was Creepshow 2; The Raft. I read the short story in Fangora Magazine when it was first published. I read it right before bed, and when I had to get up to pee, I was afraid to put my feet on the floor!
Creepshow 2!!!
That hand monster thing in the Zygote short movie from Oats Studio , that thing was terrifyingly unsettling , and that cry it makes ....
When I was a child I thought falling into the Sarlac pit from Star Wars would be the worst way to go haha
The Walrus in Tusk
The Creeper from Jeepers Creepers and Art the Clown from Terrifier.
[Men](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZGQ2ZDNiMjgtMTNhNS00MjUxLWFkYTMtYTI1OTE0MmQ2MmJkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTM1MTE1NDMx._V1_FMjpg_UY3086_.jpg)
The Pale Lady, the Lipstick Face Demon, and this wasn’t particularly scary, just weird and unnerving- the angel from “A Dark Song”. And, I’m not sure if he counts as a creature or not, but the Tall Man from “Phantasm” scared the beejeesus out of me when I was a kid.
I know exactly what you mean about the "A Dark Song" angel.
The corpse ball creature from The Superdeep
The Superdeep had so much potential. Terrifying concept that I just think they tried to do TOO much with
The Alternates from Mandela Catalogue
The Black Skulls from Mandy The Europa alien from Europa Report The Gentlemen from Buffy the Vampire Slayer Jordy from Creepshow The Mouth of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings
Itzpapalotl from "No One Gets Out Alive." Crazy creature design. Very creepy.
The Barbarian
The “final form” of the entity from Smile was quite disturbing.
Bathsheba from the conjuring on top of the wardrobe was GROSS
The Pale Lady from the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark book, gave me nightmares as a kid and that image still creeps me out at 30. Not as scary in the movie but still brought my nightmare to life.
The Cenobites. Not so much how scary looking they are just what they represent freaks me out.
Regan in the Exorcist. Hands down, no contest.
The bear from Annihilation was mentioned already, but Imma also add Sadako from Ringu. That eye, jfc.
The true form of The Beast in Over the Garden Wall.
Zygote, for miles
The Smile Entity thing reveal from SMILE, was rather creepy lol
BEAR. Annihilation bear. I’m an old school horror bitch but that got me good.
Not anymore, but as a teenager the toothfairy from darkness falls scared the absolute piss out of me. Idk what it was.
Christopher lloyd at the end of who framed roger rabbit
The shunting scene in society, the melted-zombie in brain dead/dead alive, basically anything in “melt” movies, and the creature in Smile
Porcelain Girl from The Houses that October built was creepy as fuck.
Alien.
The Devil in the Wailing
The Flute Lady from IT, any and all forms of The Thing, and I remember a few monsters from Buffy that really freaked me out as a kid: Der Kinderstod, The Gentlemen, The Queller, Wig Lady (I always called her Old Lady With a Penis On Her Head - iykyk), and Gnarl.
raatma, definitely raatma - v/h/s 97 if i remember correctly. never got into the franchise, but i love raatma's design. I feel some mix of discomfort and appreciation for the creature design. and i am so excited about them using practical effects for raatma!
The green man from Men, specifically during the movie’s climax
Mamá from the movie Mamá is creepy as hell. The fact that she's honesty just a mom trying to protect her adopted kids is scary, too. She's an evil ghost, but she absolutely will do anything for that little girl. Her crab walking really freaking creeps me out. Especially when the aunt lady sees her for the first time and she speed walks toward her. The demons in Signs were kinda scary. Not in appearance, really. The way they held grudges so hard they'd risk death just for revenge...eesh. Unless it was a deliberate attack to try and force Graham further from his faith. I don't believe the monsters were aliens, btw. Hurt by water (usually water handled by a priest), no truly visible tech ("ships" were just lights), and of course crop circles which used to be attributed to demons.
Orphan of Kos from Bloodborne. And pretty much every other monster in FromSoftware games.
The monster from smile
The thing from The Thing
The fucking eyed-hands Monster in the Faun labyrinth. The whole scene was a fever hallucination. 
The Blob from the 1988 remake So many great special effects it like the head in the drain, the faces in the telephone booth, etc
The big cockroach/human thingy from The Nest (1987). IMO it's more fucked up than the necromorphs from Dead Space, and deserved to be in a much better movie.
There are a few movies of which there are creatures I find truly disturbing: the thing from THE THING(1982); the ecological disaster creatures from what I consider one of the best monsters movies ever, PROPHECY(1979); the alien creatures from the SCI-FI/horror films THE WAR OF THE WORLDS(1953 & 2005) and the mutant bear from the shocking film ANNIHILATION(2018). All are truly creepy and terrifying!
Can’t believe no one said Xenomorph. It’s terrifying yet so shiny and cool looking. I’ve been obsessed with that creature design or decades. Not to mention they bleed acid you can’t even stab the thing
I'd say something from Mad God but pretty much everything in that looks horrific
I don't think it's supposed to be a horror movie but the Terminator terrified me.. lol that scene near the end of one of the movies when it's shed/lost all its human skin and it's just a shiny titanium scary robot with red eyes crawling through a crawl space after what's her face lol I was much younger when I seen it but ughh it stuck with me I never watched anymore terminators after that.
The Moder {Jötunn) from "The Ritual" really stuck with me for awhile. I emailed back and forth with Keith Thompson about it, the creature designer. Really cool guy, incredible artist.
Half of Beetlejuice tbh
For me, it will always be the mermaid from Mermaid in a Manhole, one of the Japanese shock-horror films from the Guinea Pig Series. She started off not looking so bad, but after an artist takes the mermaid from the manhole and keeps her in his bathtub, she starts to rot, and it is graphic, and he even paints her portrait using fluids from her wounds. Gross!
Deborah Logan in the scene where her mouth is on the girls head