The 32 greatest movie monsters

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The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man terrorizes New York in Ghostbusters

From Greek mythology to Abrahamic religions to comic books, monsters can represent anything a storyteller desires. They can be political or personal, scary or sweet. The only universal truth is that monsters represent something we refuse to acknowledge on the surface, their ugliness and violence exposing a hideousness that lives within us all.

In the long history of movies, filmmakers have been all-too-eager to include monsters in their stories, be it aliens from another world or just animals acting on pure instinct. In celebration of them, here are the 32 greatest movie monsters.

32. The Ram Man (Lamb, 2021)

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The Ram Man stands tall at the end of the horror movie Lamb

31. Gloria (Colossal, 2017)

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Anne Hathaway’s character Gloria grabs hold of her tormenter in Colossal

In Nacho Vigalondo’s 2016 drama, the never-ending battle between kaiju and mecha serves as an explosive allegory for gender politics and male insecurities. In Colossal, A-list star Anne Hathaway plays Gloria, an aimless writer who moves back to her New Hampshire hometown after a breakup. Soon, Gloria learns she is psychically linked to a giant monster that terrorizes South Korea. While Colossal is ultimately more interesting in its premise than its execution, Anne Hathway is reliably engaging as a troubled woman who learns to harness the monster that lives inside her.

30. Cyclops (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, 1958)

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The Cyclops cooks his prey in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

29. The Blob (The Blob, 1958)

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The Blob oozes out of a movie theater in the horror classic The Blob

Modern audiences may laugh at a monster like The Blob. It’s easy to outrun, and how hard is it to scoop it into a giant jar? Still, the terror of an all-consuming alien goo is less about how to survive it than what it stands for. In the 1958 original film starring Steve McQueen, the Blob is a metaphor for communism’s methodical creep in Americana, while in the 1988 remake, its origins as a government weapon explores how people can be destroyed from within. The Blob has no personality and might be the easiest monster anyone can survive. But that doesn’t stop it from being an effective stand-in for all that scares us.

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28. The Monster (A Monster Calls, 2016)

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The Monster protects a young boy in A Monster Calls

27. The Bug (Men in Black, 1997)

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The alien bug intimidates Agent J in Men In Black

If and when mankind annihilates itself from nuclear apocalypse, a creature that will survive is the lowly cockroach. That makes it the ideal form for “The Bug,” the evil alien in Barry Sonnenfeld’s hit 1997 sci-fi buddy comedy Men in Black. Based on the comic book series, rookie MIB agent J (Will Smith) teams with veteran agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) to stop an alien insect from scouting a relic crucial to a galactic war. For a long stretch of the movie, the alien inhabits the body of an abusive farmer, with Vincent D’Onofrio playing a disgusting, walking corpse. The movie shifts into a higher gear when the alien sheds the fake skin to unveil its true self as a gnarly bug monster. Between D’Onofrio’s chaotic performance and the unforgettable final reveal, “The Bug” cements Men in Black as an all-time great high-concept genre piece.

26. Darkness (Legend, 1985)

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Darkness laughs in his dark lair in Legend

25. The Mutant Bear (Annihilation, 2018)

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A mutated bear intimidates in Annihilation

24. Ivan Ooze (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, 1995)

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Ivan Ooze unleashes a spark of lightning on Alpha 5 in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

23. Candyman (Candyman, 1992)

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Tony Todd smolders in his fur coat in Candyman

22. Medusa (Clash of the Titans, 1981)

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Medusa readies her bow in her lair in the River Styx in Clash of the Titans

21. The Babadook (The Babadook, 2014)

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The Babadook scares a mother in her bedroom in The Babadook

In Jennifer Kent’s modern classic Australian horror movie The Babadook, a single mother and widower struggles to raise her young son alone while a strange monster stalks them everywhere. In concert with the movie’s legitimate hair-raising scares crafted through careful atmospherics is the Babadook himself, an inexplicable thing of darkness whose squat body, slender limbs, and top hat foster the feeling of an unholy storybook villain. As a metaphor for all-consuming grief, The Babadook is the rare movie monster whose victims don’t learn how to defeat it but simply learn to live with it.

20. Bruce the Shark (Jaws, 1975)

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The shark attempts to eat a fisherman in Jaws

One of the most menacing monsters ever in movies earned its everlasting mystique thanks to some irony. During production of Steven Spielberg’s 1975 summer epic Jaws, which tells of a man-eating great white shark killing New England beachgoers, the prop shark (nicknamed “Bruce” after Spielberg’s lawyer) kept breaking down. To get around its malfunctioning, Spielberg chose to depict the shark onscreen as minimally as possible. The result is an atmosphere of inescapable dread that wholly defines Jaws, an anticipation of death and destruction that’s always lurking below. Coupled with the simple matter that the shark in Jaws is just a feral creature minding its business, Spielberg’s masterwork exists to say that mankind always yields to the cruelty of nature.

19. Pazuzu (The Exorcist, 1973)

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Pazuzu takes control of Reagan in her room in The Exorcist

18. Red (Us, 2019)

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Red holds gold scissors in Us

In Jordan Peele’s sophomore horror film, the writer/director reinvigorates our fear of doppelgangers as ill omens with a masterful Lupita Nyong’o doing double duty as the movie’s “final girl” and monster. In Us, a population of doppelgangers called “Tethered” live far underground, in anticipation for the day they rise to the surface. The leader of the Tethered is Red, a double for a woman named “Addy” who unlike other Tethered can speak (albeit with great difficulty). Nyong’o earns her place in the canon of all-time great movie monsters in her role as Red, her striking white eyes and guttural voice creating an embodiment for the uncanny valley. Without giving too much away, let’s just say Addy’s meeting with Red takes on a different meaning when, at the end, you find this instance of a home invasion is not all that it seems.

17. Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th Part 2, 1981)

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Jason Voorhees stands tall in Friday the 13th Part III

One of the defining slashers in history is Jason Voorhees, whose towering physical size contrasts with an almost childlike personality and curiosity. A deformed child who drowned due to the irresponsibility of hormonal camp counselors, Jason’s mother first serves as the main villain in the franchise’s first installment while Jason himself rises to prominence in the sequel. Jason Voorhees was not the first slasher in movies, and arguably comes off a bit too derivative of another masked killer, Michael Myers. But Jason’s regretful backstory, superhuman abilities, and iconic vintage hockey mask have made him one of the most versatile killers around.

16. Gozer the Gozarian, the Terror Dogs, and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man (Ghostbusters, 1984)

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Gozer the Gozerian threatens the Ghostbusters in front of his domain in Ghostbusters

15. Pennywise the Dancing Clown (IT, 2017)

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Pennywise appears in front of an old house with a red balloon in IT

14. The Amphibian Man (The Shape of Water, 2017)

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The Amphibian Man is fed eggs in a facility in The Shape of Water

13. T-1000 (Terminator 2: Judgement Day, 1991)

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The T-1000 stands in a bright red factory of fire in Terminator 2: Judgment Day

12. Sadako (Ring, 1998) and Samara (The Ring, 2002)

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Samara crawls out of her TV in The Ring

11. Jean Jacket (Nope, 2022)

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Jean Jacket looms over a desert in Nope

In Jordan Peele’s breathtaking sci-fi horror Nope, a giant alien nicknamed “Jean Jacket” first takes on the camouflage disguise of a cloud before evolving into its final form, a billowy, balloon-like monstrosity that evokes God’s angels as they are described in the Book of Ezekiel. A devouring entity who sustains on organic matter, Jean Jacket is most frightening when Jordan Peele takes audiencesinsideits digestive system, to bear witness to people’s hysterical final cries as they are slowly consumed. In most monster movies, victims who are eaten are usually safely dead before they’re swallowed up. (See: Jurassic Park.) But in Nope, victims have time to comprehend what’s happening and are powerless to stop it. It’s truly scary to consider one’s imminent demise when a merciful quick death is impossible to be granted.

10. Alien Xenomorph (Alien, 1979)

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The Xenomorph roars in the dark in Alien

9. The Wolf Man (The Wolf Man, 1941)

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The Wolf Man stalks a forest at night in The Wolf Man

There are countless werewolves in movie history, but all of them howl at the honor of Lon Chaney in The Wolf Man. One of the most important figures in the Universal Monsters, the Wolf Man remains arguably the definitive werewolf in cinema even if his successors are more animalistic in their interpretations. Very primitive special effects of Hollywood Golden Age filmmaking simply cannot derail the surviving atmosphere that surrounds Chaney’s Wolf Man, whose hunt for living meat under moonlit skies is an image that endures today.

8. The Predator (Predator, 1987)

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The Predator alien stands in a smoky jungle in Predator

It’s the perfect killing machine, an alien who hunts and kills for sport. Of course, only Arnold Schwarzenegger is strong enough to fight him one-on-one. In John McTiernan’s action classic, Schwarzenegger leads an elite military rescue team in South America, only to encounter an otherworldly presence deep in its jungles. Originally envisioned as a rat-like creature, the Predator got a serious makeover during production to become the bug-like hunter with fangs and dreadlock hair we know it today. The most striking thing about the Predator is that, unlike most other movie monsters, this one is highly intelligent, being of an unknown species with unknown technology. Despite the abundance of sequels, there’s still little we know about them – only that they can bleed, so you can kill it.

7. Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street, 1984)

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Freddy Krueger taunts a teenage girl in her neighborhood in A Nightmare on Elm Street

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The Pale Man awakens in his lair in Pan’s Labyrinth

A synthesis of Guillermo del Toro’s imagination and Doug Jones inhabiting the scariest role of his career is “The Pale Man,” a physical representation of del Toro’s condemnation against a greedy elite. In this dark fairy tale set during Francoist Spain, a young girl named Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) enters a secret world of magic and monsters, including an encounter with the eerie “Pale Man.” A slender ghoul whose eyes are in his hands, del Toro’s metaphor is that of institutional greed. The selfishness of men comes from all they can see and touch. They lord over riches for themselves, forbidding anyone else to enjoy it; they rather let it sit untouched than share with those who hunger for it most.

5. King Ghidorah (Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, 1964)

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Ghidorah fights Godzilla in his debut movie Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

4. Dracula (Dracula, 1931 and Horror of Dracula, 1958)

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Dracula greets Renfield in the classic film Dracula

3. The Monster (Frankenstein, 1931) and the Bride (Bride of Frankenstein, 1935)

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Frankenstein’s Monster greets Bride in Bride of Frankenstein

Whatever side you land on in the never-ending debate around Frankenstein’s name, there’s no denying that a powerful, half-dead humanoid made up of disparate people’s remains is one of the most enduring monsters of all time. A metaphor for the dangers of unchecked science, Frankenstein (or rather, Frankenstein’s Monster) is best remembered through the performance of Boris Karloff in the 1931 feature Frankenstein. A few years later, the sequel Bride of Frankenstein continued the story in which both Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive) and his creation attempt to create a suitable mate, resulting in the Bride (Elsa Lanchester). The tragedy in both movies is that Frankenstein’s Monster is woefully misunderstood, being an individual capable of gentleness but is immediately met with hatred and hostility due to his immoral origins. That the one person who could feasibly love him, the Bride, is immediately terrified of him and instantly dies with him (“We belong dead!”) makes of the most moving tragedies in monster movies.

2. Count Orlok (Nosferatu, 1922)

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Count Orlak walks on a ship in Nosferatu

1. Godzilla (Gojira, 1954)

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Godzilla stomps his way to Tokyo in Gojira

Rising from the oceans to punish mankind for its unforgivable nuclear arsenal is Godzilla, a uniquely Japanese icon whose roars and stomps shake audiences worldwide. Recognized as the “King of the Monsters,” that title did not come easily but remains well-earned. From his first appearance in Ishiro Honda’s 1954 film Gojira, Godzilla has since spawned one of the most commercially successful and thriving monster movie franchises in the world, with his canon introducing other memorable beasts like Mothra, Rodan, Gigan, as well as featuring King Kong. Despite his grim reminder of its suffering from atomic decimation, Japan has fully embraced this radioactive lizard to serve as a pop culture ambassador. Godzilla has been a villain and a hero, sometimes all at once. All hail the king of the monsters. May he always reign supreme.

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