Deciding what a monster is is difficult. Do you consider people who commit monstrous acts? (No.) What about dinosaurs? (Maybe.) Are reasonable aliens, such as aliens or Chewbacca, suitable? (No.) What about Mike Wazowski, Sally and the rest of the creatures from ‘Monsters, Inc’ (maybe)?
The best films about monsters and various monsters and alien creatures have long been the proud home of allegorical narration; superbly designed reasons for the real fears that haunt and control us. In the films below you will see a particularly interesting collection of modern horrors of panic and the technological age.
In constructing this list, we decided to be precise and excluded zombies and vampires, mainly because both genres are good as separate in themselves.
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Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is a well-known journalist / reporter who, according to him, “follows people who don’t want to be followed.” He faces the Life Foundation and, trying to uncover the allegations received by the foundation, is ruining his entire career. Six months later, he again finds himself in the fund, not without the help of one of their leading scientists of the corporation, but during his visit, Eddie meets an alien known as Symbiote.
9. Jurassic World (2015)
Located off the coast of Costa Rica, the Jurassic World luxury resort is home to a host of genetically engineered dinosaurs, including the restless and intelligent Indominus. When a huge creature runs away, it triggers a chain reaction that makes other dinosaurs get angry. Now it’s up to the former military and animal specialist (Chris Pratt), it is time to use his special skills to save the two young brothers and the rest of the tourists from a total prehistoric attack.
8. The Pacific Frontier (2013)
Guillermo del Toro, a Mexican filmmaker, is a brilliant writer, producer and director of horror, fantasy and supernatural films, one of the most talented to appear in these areas since Tod Browning and James Wale in the 1920s and 30s. His best films to date have been shot in Spain, in particular, two subtle Gothic fables filmed during the Civil War and its aftermath, The Devil's Bone and Pan's Labyrinth.
The film tells about giant alien monsters known as "kaiju" that arise from a spatial fault in the Pacific Ocean and leave a trail of destruction. Ultimately, humanity confronts gigantic threats, creating a huge fur known as a huntsman, but over time the kaiju becomes stronger and turns the battle back on its side.
When the growing losses of rangers lead governments to cut funding for the program, the marshal plans one last counterattack against the Kaiju threat: the rangers attack the fault itself in the hope that they can close the crack forever.
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A huge monster attacked the underwater bathyscaphe, which monitored the ocean world, after which it lay at the bottom of the deep basin of the Pacific Ocean along with the entire crew. An oceanographer from China, asks for help from a submariner, Jonas Taylor, who will save the team from a 23-meter-high monster shark.
6. Frankenstein (1931)
"Frankenstein" is a film about the mad, obsessed scientist, Dr. Henry Frankenstein, who creates a monster, taking away parts of the body from dead people. After placing the brain in the head of the monster, Henry and his assistant Fritz are amazed that the experiment is alive. When a monster mistakenly kills Mary, the young girl he meets by the river, the city rebels and seeks to bring the monster to justice. They find the monster and its creator in the old mill, where the monster is trying to kill its creator.
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David Drayton and his youngest son Billy are among a large group of frightened townspeople driven into a local grocery store by a strange, otherworldly fog. David is the first to realize that something is hiding in the fog - deadly, terrifying creatures not from this world. Survival depends on whether everyone in the store rallies, but is this possible, given the human nature? As the mind collapses in the face of fear and panic, David begins to wonder what scares him more: the monsters in the fog or those who are next to him.
4. King Kong (2005)
A remake of Peter Jackson is extremely faithful to his source material, so he repeats many topics about King Kong as a shaggy embodiment of the fury of nature.
Each frame of this film is designed to lure the viewer into a century-old history and catch a fresh sense of excitement, which in the 21st century is a considerable task. The decapitation of dinosaurs and the attacks of arachnids are conceived with boyish enthusiasm, and the scenes between Anna and Kong are performed with youthful tenderness. As an adult, watching the 1933 finale, you can still experience a level of emotional detachment, but Kong is more than an instinctive monster, and Darrow is more than his frightened victim. However, thanks to Jackson's film, viewers experience the reaction of a 9-year-old child to the death of this creature.
3. Frankenvini (1984)
When the beloved dog of young Victor Sparky (which appears in Victor’s home movies about monsters) was hit by a car, Victor decides to bring him back to life in the only way he can. But when a “monster” with a huge neck causes chaos and horror in the hearts of Victor’s neighbors, he must convince them that, despite his appearance, Sparky is still a good faithful friend, who he always was.
2. The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
From his hiding place under a 19th-century Parisian opera house, the pensive Phantom (Gerard Butler) intends to approach the vocalist Cristina (Emmy Rossum). A ghost dressed in a mask to hide an inborn ugliness forces strong hands to give starring star characters key roles, but instead, Christina falls in love with Raul art philanthropist (Patrick Wilson). Horrified at the thought of losing her lover, Phantom concocts a plan to keep Christina on his side, while Raul tries to prevent this scheme.
1. Alien (1979)
Alien mixes science fiction, horror and gloomy poetry into a single whole.
“Alien” is an extremely disturbing space sci-fi horror film about the formidable, unstoppable, carnivorous, fleeing, hermaphrodite demon. A terrible, claustrophobic, action-oriented film without a lot of dialogue contains many stressful moments.
He introduced the dark elements of horror and blood in his traditional manner of science fiction. It was like a series of cheap and obscene films of the “alien monster” of the 1950s, but it had excellent production value, directorial talent and caste.