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Which monster scares you most, human/non-human


Broadly speaking, there are two main types of monsters that frightened me as a kid:

1. Human or humanoid monsters, from Karloff's Frankenstein's monster, to evil small humanoids like nasty leprechauns, the Mummy, humanoid/bipedal aliens, possessed or trance-programmed humans, humans taken over by non-human entities or parasites, headless ghosts seeking revenge, humans transformed into monsters deliberately or accidentally, vampires, werewolves, etc.
(I'm not counting purely human _psychological_ monsters like the Saw guy or Hannibal Lecter.)

2. Non-human monsters, from the Blob-types, to ghosts/phantoms/banshees, demons, non-humanoid aliens like Lovecraftian entities, the Alien Xenomorphs, the creatures from "Slither", the alien in Carpenter's The Thing and its "prequel", the locust-aliens from the two Quatermass films, the Fiends from Fiend without a Face, etc.
(I'm not counting dinosaurs, the Black Lagoon creature, sea monsters, King Kong for the biased and personal reason that they fascinated, rather than scared, me.)

How about you? Do you have a class of monsters that tend to frighten you more easily than other classes? Or genres of monster tales that push your fear button more than others ... ?

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brandanman, thanks for your reply. I tend to agree that the unseen kind of monster packs a huge scare factor :)

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Dolls are good ... there's an island, so famous I can't remember its name ;)
... a sort of cemetary for discarded dolls ... dolls in the bushes, dolls in the trees ... I think Ghost Hunters or some similar show did a program on it ...
Also, nice comment about radio, which leaves almost everything to the imagination ...

:)

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By and large the human/oid creatures seldom bothered me. I guess to me it felt like I could find an answer to them because they had human qualities which I understood.

The non-human kinds creeped me more, simply because they defied what I knew to be physically possible. The oil slick blob from the Creep show Probably scared me the most, just because it defied most logics that I knew. Also viruses, plagues etc., the unseen dangers, were pretty scary because I always felt you never had a fighting chance.

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I'm quite the horror movie buff so I'm pretty numb to most "scary" monsters. But when I saw Poltergeist as a kid, that freaking clown scared the tar out of me. Even now, when I watch it, I still get a bit of the wiggins from it.



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