October; one of my favorite times of he year. The only time were we can all dress up as our favorite monsters, ghouls and heros; prance around the streets of our neighborhood and scar the living bah-jesus out of the wee little trick or treater’s -god that’s fun to do-. Another great perk to the Halloween season, is the TV networks playing horror movies all month long, the only season were gore and fright is an ongoing theme. I am a big horror movie fan, each year when the video stores put much of their scary movie titles on sale, I spend many of my hard earned dollars towards beefing up my horror section of my DVD collection.
This brings me to a popular question which is discussed time and time again during the Halloween month. Who is the most bad ass movie maniac to date? A very subjective question, which all depends on your likes and dislikes, but none the less a question which is always great for spine tingling collaboration.
Throughout the years of film we have been introduced to hundreds of horrifying characters who keep us awake at night -I can remember having nightmares for weeks after seeing Fright Night as a child-. So who would you rank as some of the best? Who gave you the worst dreams and forced you to sleep in your parents bed at night? Immediately movie maniacs like Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers and Norman Bates come to mind. But there are so many others who are eligible for the list. Pinhead, Pumpkinhead, or classic monsters such as Dracula, Frankenstein and The Wolfmam.
We need your votes! Who is the best movie monster/maniac, and why do you think so? Post the names and movies of your favorites.
Personally, I’m partial towards Michael Myers from the Halloween flicks. Myers was not some monster dripping with goo or a ghost who couldn’t be stoped on this plain. Myers was a flesh and blood nut job who just couldn’t be stoped, and all he knew was death.
Update:Top 10 list will be created based on your comments and will be posted for Halloween.
p.s damo wants to suck your balls.
i cant remember the name of that movie… it is an old movie cause i remember seeing it when i was but a nut.that hard n hairy maniac still gives me nightmares, to this day i still soak the bed in piss.its a classic brad.
The Burger King is frightening, that wicked grin like he knows you are going to die if you keep eating his food. Come to think of it I have not eaten there since those commercials started appearing.
He’s not quite a movie character, but….THE BURGER KING from the advertisements! Really, I’ll never enjoy a Whopper in peace again.
hey brad, what about that hard n hairy maniac that attacks his victims with a dry root?rendering them helpless. man, they cant top that, thats scary stuff…..
I love “The Cabinet of Dr Caligari”, but Cesare is not so scary… well, the Dr. Caligari is scariest than Cesare.
From Spain I could said that Michael Myers from the John Carpenter’s Halloween is the closest to this idea. Then, one of the nastiest Movie Maniacs is Ed Gein and all of his “sons” (Norman Bates or Leatherface).
We have also some interesting products, The Beast from The Day of the Beast (more Holiday than Halloween) and I like a lot Romeo Dolorosa from Perdita Durango. Alex de la Iglesia rules!
Thanks for the web!
Christopher Lee in THE WICKER MAN
The girls hand coming out from between the j-horror ghost in A TALE OF TWO SISTERS.
Brundle-Fly in Cronenberg’s “THE FLY”
The girl in Audition, during the needle sequence…’tee hee tee hee’ .. Creepy!
The Tall Man from the Phantasm series
The rat from Unknown Orgin (1983)
Michael Myers (Halloween 1 and H20 only)
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Pumpkinhead
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Aparently it was a kids TV thing. Yech!
Weird though. I remember it being black and white.
Hang on – I thought of another, which sparked my absolute fear of dwarves when I was but a nugget;
Has anyone seen a film called ‘The Singing Ringing Tree’? I think its Eastern European or something but theres this weird – hairy – dwarf – child – humonculous – evil – flying goblin thing.
The ‘Judderman’ adverts for Metz ripped it off a while ago. Probably had its roots in German expressionism (See: The Cabinet of Dr Caligari), but very frightening for a kiddy.
If any one knows of this film, please tell me because it’s like one of those ‘did I dream that’ sort of things. Actually, come to think of it – I’ll just Gooooooogle it. :-)
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Fallen is a great film, particularly the music used in it.
Azazel from the Denzel Washington movie Fallen has to be the creepiest villian/monster I’ve ever seen in a movie. They still need to make a sequel to this one.
Jack Nicholsan from the Shining…and those two little twins in that movie. More creepy people. Oh and any person that is a red head! They always freak me out!!!!
Does Cujo count?
Hey Brad, Robert DeNiro has had some scary roles.
Cape Fear
The Fan
Any gangster film he was in
Man I need to get out and get a life or I will end up on your list.
This is great, we are putting together quite a list.
Are there others out there?
I definately think the whole family from House of 1000 corpses was very scary!!!!! And I also agree with Kevin Spacey from Se7en(great movie by the way), but along those lines, im going to have to add Jigsaw from SAW. He was just plain creepy. *shudders*
How about automobles? There was Christine, and the truck from Spielbergs ‘Duel’. I don’t think I ever saw that movie ‘The Car’ frm the late 70’s.
Another thing is that viruses can be pretty scary stuff. There was Outbreak and 28 days later, but then again in that movie you become a zombie after being exposed.
Nothing is scariest than ventriloquist dummies. Maybe clowns, like that one from “It”.
Heh, how about Dr. Satan from House of 100 Corpses. Or Captain Spalding. That movie was just one bih homage to all the horror films that have gone before.
Also must mention the crazy girl from Audition, and the ‘force’ from Evil Dead I and II.
Great guys, keep them coming. I will be putting together a top 10 list for Halloween, and I want it all to come from The Movie Blog readers.
Without any doubt the most fearsome, nightmareish, universal bad dude has got to be the one and only PINNHEAD
Ahhhhhhhggggghhh
Sadako!!! definately Sadako from the Japanese version of Ring.
She moves all horrible ‘cos she had all her bones and joints broken before being dumped down a well in some woods-tries to claw her way out – losing fingernails on the way – and that scary f***in’ eye!
I still have trouble watching TV late at night on my own and Im 33!!
I think Leatherface (texas chainsaw) is pretty nasty too. Pure physcotic – but id rather play with him than Sadako.
im not scared of him now but when i was small i have the worst fear of chuckie from childs play idk just that evil grin with those blue eyes and red hair always got me :p
Speaking of possessed dolls, there is that clown doll in Poltergiest. But that was the only scary part in that movie for me.
Leather Face is a good one. What about the lady in Play Misty For Me. That was one psycho gal.
You guys are on the right track.
How about the possessed dolls from Trilogy of Terror or Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Masacre (new or old – I love’m both-?
She was certainly scary enough to keep people from seeing Swept Away.
Well Crackerjack, I was going to say Madonna.
Good stuff Terry, funny list. How about Rosanne Barr in anything she ever did? Does it get more gruesome and scary?
Jack Nicholson in The Shining
Mickey and Mallory in Natural Born Killers
and I couldn’t resist:
Jar Jar Binks
George W. Bush in Fahrenheit 9/11 (sorry if I offended anybody lol)
That chick from the Ring may be the worst. She comes through the tv. I spend alot of time infront of the tv.
As for truly scary imagine if you will, William Shatner walking slowly toward you carrying a larger carving knife and “singing” Time is on my side.
Terry,
you are right on! Kevin Spacy’s character in Se7en was tops, and The Thing is actually listed as on of the scariest movies of all time -personally I like seeing Kurt Russell in that huge beard.
Now the chick from the well in the Ring was truly a creepy character. I tried to freak out a ex-girlfriend so much when that was on TV, that I even freaked out myself.
Good Job … and keep’m coming, I plan on compiling a master list for Halloween.
oh, thought of more:
– Nosferatu
– Kevin Spacey in Se7en (and maybe Christian Bale in American Pyscho if we can list serial killers)
– That creature in John Carpenters ‘The Thing’
– And maybe those girls in The Ring and The Grudge, they were kind of creepy.
“The Halloween mask is good, I would be a bit scared if Shatner was chasing me too.”
More scared if he started to sing too.
Ooooooo; Hannibal, I forgot about that one. That’s a good one Brian.
[ pretty stupid to forget about Hannibal, I’m ashamed. ]
No one said anything about Hannible Lecter yet? He EATS people. If that’s not scary, than you don’t know scary.
The head vampire from “Near Dark”
The Halloween mask is good, I would be a bit scared if Shatner was chasing me too.
Halloween 1 & 2 are at the top of my list for horror movie scars! Michael Myers is truly creepy and mysteriously fast. I swear, you could run away and get two block ahead of him, but then turn around there is he is! The music alone creeps me out to this day….
How about Glen Close from Fatal Attraction, she was one scary monster. lol.
Absolutely Terry. I must agree Regan was pretty messed up, and I was thinking Jaws myself -it happens to be my favorite movie- but I wanted to save that for something else.
Does Alien, ‘Bruce’ from Jaws, or the possessed Regan from The Exorcist count? These are three of the most frightening movies ever made IMO.