Top 30 Scariest Movie Monsters of All Time
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Good old nightmare fuel! Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most terrifying monsters in movie history. Our countdown includes monsters from movies “The Thing”, “Pan’s Labyrinth”, “Annihilation” and more! Which of these movie monsters gave you nightmares? Tell us in the comments.
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@Henry.James88
Ай бұрын
👍
@whitleysdollhouse877
Ай бұрын
🦇Count Orlok from "Nosferatu (1922)", I love vampire movies and I would rather date with a vampire🦇🦇
@averyperez1013
Ай бұрын
What about geepers creepers? How can you forget about that?
@averyperez1013
Ай бұрын
Jeepers creepers was the most terrifying movie ever and it was not even on
@Sandeep-ry2qq
Ай бұрын
The anihalation bear gave me nightmares
I was actually worried that alien would not be on here, but that “the plants” joke was smart
@Zurround
Ай бұрын
I posted above that T1000 from 2nd Terminator movie should have at least gotten honorary mention. It was LETHAL and the fact that it seemed impossible to kill as shooting it only slowed it down some and it just kept coming back together was terrifying and Robert Patrick really did a good acting job with it.
@itsbrittanybtch
Ай бұрын
I was ready to comment on the video and be like "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" Glad I finished before doing that. lol
"A contortionist named Doug Jones"... EXCUSE ME, that's legendary, award-winning creature actor Doug Jones! The man is a cinematic treasure!
@diggymac5730
29 күн бұрын
They also disrespected Javier Botet.
Bill Skarsgard did a terrific job as PennyWise.
@leeandramurphy5903
Ай бұрын
Tim Curry was better. They were doing way too much with the new one. Lost interest in the new It in about 5 minutes.
@Emilythematerialgurl
Ай бұрын
Tim curry was better and og it is better
@HunterBiden.
Ай бұрын
@@leeandramurphy5903no
@HunterBiden.
Ай бұрын
@@Emilythematerialgurlnope
@baughjaughes5104
Ай бұрын
I thought he did a good job with what he was given, but there was way too much CGI in his apprecenses. Penny wise is more of a character in the book and mini series rather than a creature , how he is shown in the new one.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The Thing from _The Thing_ takes the forms of the Pale Man, Rexy, and Pennywise over a single night. That’s one nightmare I won’t recover from if I have it.
@luckyeight4148
15 күн бұрын
Imagining a t rex taken over by the thing is terrifying
@addiemunson2119
Күн бұрын
Absolutely
Pumpkinhead scared me for years at a very young age.
@nicholeponiewaz5591
18 күн бұрын
Same here! its the first horror movie my sister and I remember watching. We are in our mid 30s now haha.
@kingjohn455
13 күн бұрын
That and the unnameable
@mikediddy9665
13 күн бұрын
@@kingjohn455 wtf are you commenting about?
i Just realized, Javier Boetet would be perfect to play as The Batman Who Laughs...
Lip stick man is just Darth Maul when he visits a nudist colony.
@SebaRexBASH
13 күн бұрын
IKR
for a second i thought that middle creep in the thumbnail was Darth Maul
@campscudder2541
Ай бұрын
Same
@leeandramurphy5903
Ай бұрын
Me too.
@cxireen2193
Ай бұрын
He was definitely the original design
@gundamw3490
Ай бұрын
XD😂
@itsbrittanybtch
Ай бұрын
Nah, just his crackhead cousin!
i think velociraptors are scarier than t. rexes but thats just me
@Crbennettx
21 күн бұрын
Clever girl
@earlnug198989
20 күн бұрын
Definitely should have been the raptors
@Usedw0tm8
18 күн бұрын
If it makes you feel any better, apparently they were only about as smart as chickens so they weren't as terrifying in reality
@jonathangwilliams6825
18 күн бұрын
Heh. Velociraptor was about the size of a turkey, and covered in feathers. JP got them completely wrong.
@TheOneAndOnlyMrAW
18 күн бұрын
Are you all kidding me? Please explain to me how Rexy got on this list, while the Indoraptor or the Indominus Rex or for god's sake the Mosasaurus is missing??
Pennywise is definitely scary...
@CollinNuding-xr4nz
Ай бұрын
Nah he is all cgi
@user-lc1qw9vd4u
Ай бұрын
He, no, IT looks scarier in the old TV drama version.
@SensationalBanana
Ай бұрын
So much better than Tim Curry version, I laughed many times watching the old tv version.
@jacobdiekhuis102
Ай бұрын
He's one of the reasons why I hate clowns my sister made me watch that movie when I was a little kid
@Dx_Hearted
Ай бұрын
The scary monster is a Tax collector
Tim Curry in Legend was the stuff of nightmares. Also Salem’s Lot vampire.
@Andrew-cq7uz
Ай бұрын
And Tim curry in the first it
@HunterBiden.
Ай бұрын
Wrong @@Andrew-cq7uz
@pkvanderzee6226
10 күн бұрын
I put him on my list here showed in the coments..his portrayal of IT..wich in he made people affraid of clowns in the first place and Stephen King found this thing out. Clownofobia was a thing because of the original IT ..and Tim Curry was so great in it
IT deserved an Oscar nomination for Hair and Makeup to make Pennywise
Where's Freddy Krueger?
@ARTPLAYSGAMES86
20 күн бұрын
He's not scary. A guy with knives on his hands? "Oooooo look at me shaking in my space boots"
@Marollo
18 күн бұрын
@@ARTPLAYSGAMES86 The concept of a dream stalker though is very scary, as it is loosely based off of an old mass killing from dreams.
@pkvanderzee6226
10 күн бұрын
I was thinking the same thing therefore I posted my personal list in this coments..
@Alex-hj2jd
8 күн бұрын
@@ARTPLAYSGAMES86 yeah, but Pennywise is on this list and werewolf too.
How did my mother in law not make the list?
@lonehawk3164
16 сағат бұрын
Or my ex- wife 😂
It is always weird for me to hear people refer to Pinhead as a villain. In the first 2 movies (the only ones worth watching tbh), he and the Cenobites are just there to collect those that summoned them. The villains in those movies and the only ones that actually kill are the humans. The only reason he goes after Kirstie is because she literally opened the box
@ludonymous526
Ай бұрын
Well. He and the Cenobites operate on a morality system very different from us humans.
@itsbrittanybtch
Ай бұрын
THISSSSS!!! All of this.
@williamsomerset1250
27 күн бұрын
Agreed @Bigparr. The Cenobites (I also agree the first two films are all I love of the series, although I did enjoy the reboot) are facilitators, nothing more or less. It's only in the third movie that they started making him into what Fred Krueger sadly became with the teasing of the priest and spitting bullets out (my god, that was cringeworthy). To say the original Cenobites are villains is to not understand that they come to deliver the desire that summoned them, and they have been freed from mortal standards of good and evil.
@evelynwalker6670
24 күн бұрын
I agree. The first 2 are the only ones worth watching.
They all float 🎈
@Datboi_23
28 күн бұрын
We all float down here.
@parkerkemball6491
8 күн бұрын
You'll float too.
Glad Jean Jacket made it on the list. The reveal that it’s an alien instead of being piloted by aliens wasn’t just a plot twist, it changed the genre.
@fishfingers4547
24 күн бұрын
Really? I assumed it was just a poor rip-off of the Stephen King story Mile 81, released a mere eleven years earlier.
@nataliegonzalez6962
20 күн бұрын
The plants- I was like this can’t be serious. Lol. I really did laugh out loud.
@darronwilliams4641
15 күн бұрын
It didnt change anything
@wadewilson8011
7 күн бұрын
I never understood what WTF does the purpose of the name in a cloud looking alien jean jacket? Completely irrelevant
How do you put a spider above The Thing ?
@lford1130
Ай бұрын
For real. Frankly, that spider isn’t as scary as anything else on this list.
@kezzmoon8917
24 күн бұрын
Presumably one for the kiddies...😈
@wadewilson8011
7 күн бұрын
Literally why I never subscribed to this backwards ass channel. They have Pumpkinhead at number 30 for Christ sakes.🙄🤦🏾♂️👎🏽
Still one of the scariest movie monsters is the tar man from Return Of The Living Dead, he is horrifying and the creeper from Jeepers Creepers is spooky too
@hollyloomer7667
3 күн бұрын
I was in the 7th grade when my best friend decided to rent this movie. Oh holy bejesus, Tar man was the most terrifying creature I had EVER seen and I was scarred for years after that. I think it helped foster my complete love of the horror genre. But I truly had nightmares for several years after seeing it.
The Grudge is the one that got me as a kid.
When I watched The Conjuring 2, The Crooked Man scared the HECK out of me
The Kraken from Pirates of the Caribbean was scary, too. And Davy Jones? A masterpiece of design nd acting.
Valak as the NUN in conjuring 2 is way more scarier then crooked man
@melt_brain
20 күн бұрын
firstly, it isn't "more scarier", it's just "scarier". secondly, i was able to find a copy of the original "crooked man" fairytale, and let me tell you something: children's illustrators back then need some serious counseling, because that was nightmare fuel. he looked like he was torn limb from limb and put back together with duct tape and twine. it was awful looking at. my joints hurt just from seeing the image. i'll admit, the conjuring films did make him a little funny with that top hat and spectacles combo, but it was still a little creepy nonetheless. reminded me of a more dapper slenderman.
The Mutant Bear is a cross between a stunning mythological being and straight up nightmare fuel.
@melt_brain
20 күн бұрын
for sure. that film was something else. granted, the first time i watched it, i was high as shit, but when i rewatched it sober, my body felt weird. it was almost like just seeing the shimmer rewound my DNA and changed me. hearing the bear snarl and growl as the girl's screams are fused with it literally made my heart fall to my stomach. if you screen record the clip of the bear and bump up the brightness, it's ten times scarier, because you can see the full outline of her skull, some of her fingers mixed with the whiskers, a piece of her ear fused with its ear, along with other stuff. if you also find some original concept art and recordings of what the bear originally was supposed to look like, i think it would have changed the state regulated movie rating. those art styles alone would have made that movie classified as rated R or even unrated. that scene of the bear was supposed to be longer, and it was supposed to be a recurring threat for the girls in the shimmer. natalie portman was supposed to do a full face-off much like with the scene in the abandoned house. obviously, she still survived, but it was supposed to be one of the main villains, along with the shimmer humans that replace her body much like with oscar isaac's character. imagine seeing that bear for the duration of the time they were in the shimmer. i don't think i'd be able to watch it with the lights off.
Scariest thing ever: uncertainty.
@Rose-aye
Ай бұрын
& with the jump scares. You think okay maybe I’m safe & then all of a sudden bam
Pennywise should have been #1 not for the fact its a killer clown who eats children and keeps keeps thier souls alive inside him! It can literally transform into anything it wants! It can be every single monster on this list if it pleases! Also I'm shocked the annabelle demon wasn't on here! 😅
When I was a kid, I was frozen in fear when The Demonters came up
jeeper creepers?
@LSRx51
Ай бұрын
Just look up victor salva and you'll see why.
@Kyleplier
Ай бұрын
🎶Jeepers Creepers, where’d you get them peepers?🎶
@HunterBiden.
Ай бұрын
@@Kyleplierjeepers creepers where'd u get them eyes where'd u get uhm
@wanderingmercurymarauder761
Ай бұрын
@@LSRx51 The real creeper
@xBloodxFangx
Ай бұрын
@@LSRx51doesn’t mean the monster wasnt scary. Separate art from the artist
The Creeper not being on here is an absolute crime
Killer Clowns From Outerspace. God damn that screwed me up as a kid.
@ChibiProwl
Ай бұрын
Ditto.😊 That movie made my younger brother and I fear and hate clowns ever since.😱
@evelynwalker6670
24 күн бұрын
That movie was quite funny. What are you gonna do knock my block off...lol
The way The thing transforms give me lot of Musseum of chills
Freddy Krueger, Art The Clown, Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees???
@josuelrobles6612
Ай бұрын
Monster like creatures. Not slashers
@Ziionn
Ай бұрын
Its Uk what do u expect
@Lamb666
Ай бұрын
@@ZiionnCanada you Schlick
@jhubbard4342
Ай бұрын
Yeah dude the names you mentioned are not Monsters
@xdario10
Ай бұрын
Freddy for sure
No Freddy Krueger??! He killed you when you fell asleep and started dreaming, something you can't avoid doing. Plus he was based off a real life event that Wes Craven read about concerning a young man who said he would die if he fell asleep, then when he did fall asleep, his family heard him screaming and found him dead.
@MsHood1986
Ай бұрын
He's not a monster he's a serial killer slasher films and movie monsters are creature features that are not human.
@sweethartjen
Ай бұрын
@MsHood1986 I have to disagree. Freddy was a human serial killer before the Elm Street parents hunted him down, but then he became a dream demon which should qualify him for the list of scary monsters.
The Predator is objectively way scarier than most of these and it could kill any on the list very easily.
@RandomIllustrator
29 күн бұрын
Even Clover and Pinhead?🤨
@jeffreymarshall172
28 күн бұрын
@@RandomIllustrator easily
I also mean, The brundfly, American werewolf, Death angels
"30 Scariest Monsters of All Time" My Brain: Muscleman: MY MOM! HAHAHAHAHH
The Trauma Demon from Smile and Ozhin from Countdown are scarier than most of the monsters on this list
@melt_brain
20 күн бұрын
you can't be serious, right? you picked some of the most ass films ever. those movies were terrible. one was a terrible attempt at making a snapchat filter real, and the other was something that had been circulating the internet for over ten years. those movies aren't scary. they're a disservice to the horror genre as a whole. the only time i was even remotely scared by the "smile entity" was in the short film that came out before smile, and even then, it was awful. the amalgamation of human and walrus was creepier than that. by a LONG SHOT
@createology274
20 күн бұрын
I didn't say the movies were good. I said the monster designs were scarier than most of what was picked. Also a man walrus that screams a lot is not scary. The lack of a good story/character development in Tusk was the scariest part of it
@meganlee7445
17 күн бұрын
This is a joke, right? This has to be a joke lol
The Jack-In-The-Box from Krampus SCARED me so bad as a kid, that I couldn’t even sleep. I’ve had multiple nightmares involving him. Everytime he was mentioned in these types of videos, I would literally have a panic attack. 😶
The Thing itself isn't an animal mimicking people. It is a collection of cells that one by one infect, mimic, and then replace the cells of a complex organism.
I always thought it was cool that Darth Maul had a cameo in Insidious
Never seen the movie but I’m sticking with the Wendigos from My Little Pony
The Tripods from War of the Worlds. The scene where one rises out of the Hudson River is scarier than a lot of proper horror movies!
The Exorcist is a great religious movie. It made people go back to church.
@olvialee7221
Ай бұрын
I highly doubt that
@leslieannvanhumbeck7630
Ай бұрын
@@olvialee7221 it's true. Google it.
hahahahahaha i knew you'd troll us with "the happening" lmao XD
Great vid
@wadewilson8011
7 күн бұрын
The order is BS.
I didn’t see It Follows in theaters but I did watch it on Netflix. Made me get the shivers down my spine. The whole thing is creative and unsettling.
28:49 You guys got me for real with that one lmfaoooo
I would add Michael Rooker in _Slither_ , and a fun early 80s movie called _The Boogens_ is a blast.
The Crooked Man was terrifying in the RPG Horror game, but the movie made it worse
The crooked man is terrifying considering both his movement and the fact that he looks like the batman who laughs
I don’t know much about HellRaiser but my Uncle Sebastian told me it scared him a long time ago
Thanks for including the awesome Pumpkinhead.
@wadewilson8011
7 күн бұрын
It doesn't deserve number 30. It deserves way better than that..
Finally, The Thing is in the list
220: If all together, it’s a nightmare I won’t get away from
Haha that was a good one with the happening
The thing is number one. Or the bear from annihilation. Anything that takes over and combines with you is terrifying. Are you still in there? You cannot escape something that becomes you.
Those monsters are so scary to me
The babadook is the reason I slept with a night light for months
@darronwilliams4641
15 күн бұрын
Its not scary whatsoever
More than a century later and Count Orlok has never been topped when it comes to vampire depictions. The silent film, the black and white imagery and the eerie performance by Max Schreck created a masterpiece.
@melt_brain
20 күн бұрын
i FINALLY got the chance to watch the full movie, as well as the documentary on the film, and my god, seeing the way Orlock looks gives me chills. he walks around like a little bug, scurrying around with those lifeless eyes that pierce your soul. he was marvelous, and if anyone tries to top him, it would be a huge disservice to schreck. that man is a legend, and we never hear him speak a word.
@wadewilson8011
7 күн бұрын
Give me a break. It is an all-time classic yes. But we've gone way beyond that in the last hundred years. This list was a good list but a crappy order.
Excellent collection
@wadewilson8011
7 күн бұрын
Shitty order.
Scary monsters, but none of them scared me. I guess I was fully immune to them.
great list. the #1 flip was hilarous. ya punked me !
@watchmojo I can't believe you left the graboids from Tremors off of this list!
All black eyes and all white eyes are always the scariest
Pazuzu and the Thing creeped me out so much that I didn’t sleep until it was light outside.
Meg Mucklebones from Legend (1985) should be on this list. She scared the hell outta me as a child, I had nightmares about her for a very long time 😅
Pennywise is pure evil one.
@SamTheNerd1
Ай бұрын
People are also forgetting is it can transform into literally anything it wants! It could be any monster on this list! Pennywise should be #1
The spider from Lord of the Rings looks a lot like Aragog from Harry Potter, but I agree the Dementors are way scarier than Aragog.
I knew The Ritual monster was going to be on here. That thing just sticks in your brain forever.
Guys,...I'm glad you added more, but all you did was added 10 more, then copied and pasted from the Top 20. No offenses, but that's kind of lazy.
😂😂😂 you get me there!! " number 1......the plants" 😂😂😂😂
The crooked man use to scare the hell put me when i was younger
The Plants! You got me so good, Watch Mojo!
The Exorcist actually made people faint and throw up.
The shrews in Killer Shrews had me hiding under the covers until daylight.
I thought Clever Girl was much more scary than Text, but I'm just glad JP is on the list! Also, nice twist ending 🤣😂🤣😂
Going to be honest, I almost mistaked the Lipstick-Face Demon for Darth Maul
I first saw American Werewolf In London when I was about 8 years old, back in the 80s! It is still in my top 5 movies of all time!!
Pinhead isn't scary, is just gothic dark 😅
Great List! For a bonus, I'd like to add Ben Affleck's wife on Gone Girl..... Pretty terrifying if I say so...
It was because of the Babadook I always kept my mouth tightly shut at night
What about the Tooth Fairy from Darkness Falls? That movie ruined late night car rides. "Don't go into the dark! Stay in the light!"
Ok, you got me with the plants joke lol...
Werewolves (large dogs), Bears and sharks are the staples of fear that usually stick with me outside of the theater. The concept of Death from Final Destination has also always disturbed me.
Julian Beck as Kane from Poltergeist II should have been in here. The fact that Beck was sadly dying from cancer but he turned in a great and very creepy performance that is to this day very creepy and scary.
No monster instilled in me more intense drain trauma than the Blob. That's a really terrible monster.
@MeliesCinemagician
Ай бұрын
It creeps, and leaps, and glides, and slides across the floor, right through the door, and all along the wall. A splotch, a blotch, be careful of the Blob!
@uniquelybeautiful5633
Ай бұрын
Me too lol. I still think about that movie when I'm at an open drain lol
@dreamguardian8320
29 күн бұрын
If I were you, I would just watch the 1958 version of the Blob. The 1988 version was really hard to watch, because nobody likes seeing anyone or anything showing its food while eating it.
So glad Moder was on here. It's a genuinely unique and scare creature and the movie as a whole was a very pleasant surprise. I'm so sick of hearing about The Blair Witch Project, it's marketing was incredible yes, but it wasn't that good a movie after that. You had me at that last one LOL.
Well, Rexy, Nofesratu vampire, The palw man, The Bear monster, The fish monster from Host, etc
I’m gonna be honest, I’m surprised the creeper from Jeepers Creepers didn’t appear on this list tbh
Worth mentioning: The Unnameable, Sil from Species, Rawhead Rex, The Reaper from Blade 2, Nemesis of Resident Evil Apocalypse, Gremlins, Critters,
Pumpkinhead is one of my favorite movies. I watch it every year
I'd add the creature at the end of Smile, it was pretty damn creepy and some of the creatures in The Void. But I agree with The Xenomorph from Alien being #1.
You almost had me with that fake out.
Javier Botet is an incredible creature actor. He was also the leper in IT, and a Wight in GoT.
Video idea, the top 30 dumbest movie monsters ever. For example the killer tire from rubber, the plants from the happening
Wow! A nod to Pumpkinhead, it scared the hell out of me as a kid. I'd say it is in the top 5 for me.
The scene in Aliens where the elevator behind Ripley opens still gives me nightmares.
The Xenomorph is not only scary but also pretty cool
The troll from Cat's Eye scared me so bad when I was real little. Always scared at bed time when the lights would go out that I'd see it climbing up onto my bed.