{"id":11072,"date":"2014-05-16T07:50:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T13:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=11072"},"modified":"2014-05-16T07:50:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T13:50:56","slug":"ten-amazing-monster-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=11072","title":{"rendered":"Ten Amazing Monster Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sometimes they\u2019re a metaphor. Mostly they\u2019re just a lot of fun. But the best movie monsters have a way of terrorizing audiences long after they\u2019ve stopped terrorizing their respective villages (or what have you), even the monsters we know don\u2019t exist in the real world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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From a great white shark to parasitic extraterrestrial life forms, here\u2019s a ranking of the Top 10 terrorizing movie monsters.<\/p>\n

10. \u201cGremlins\u201d (1984):<\/b> When gifting your teenage kid a pet, stick to dogs. Because if you buy him an exotic pet from a mysterious Chinatown antique shop that comes with a rule as nonsensical as \u201cnever, ever feed it after midnight\u201d (when does \u201cafter midnight\u201d end?), OF COURSE he\u2019s going to break it. But thank goodness he did, because otherwise we wouldn\u2019t have this gloriously goofy and not-a-little-scary Christmastime horror film about murderous monsters wreaking Yuletide havoc. And just because the film is funny doesn\u2019t mean it isn\u2019t scary; good luck ever watching \u201cSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs\u201d again without half expecting a horde of tiny monsters to claw through the screen and attack you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

9. \u201cJurassic Park\u201d (1993):<\/b> It\u2019s hard to believe this movie was made more than 20 years ago. Not because it makes us feel old, but because a film this special-effects heavy usually doesn\u2019t look so fresh after a couple of decades. But if anyone knows how to use special effects to enhance a story\u2019s telling, it\u2019s Steven Spielberg. And even though he used a mix of animatronics and digital effects when the latter art was in its relative infancy, he made such skillful use of both that the film holds up better than most action films that came out last year. There\u2019s a cautionary tale about playing God wrapped in that billion-dollar-grossing thrill ride, but you\u2019re more likely to spend your time from that first reveal of a Brachiosaurus to the final roar of the T. rex wondering where Spielberg found real dinosaurs.<\/p>\n

8. \u201cGodzilla\u201d (1954):<\/b> The monster has been turned into such a joke over the years \u2014 re-appropriated, remade, turned into a punchline (just Google \u201cBambi Meets Godzilla\u201d) \u2014 that it\u2019s easy to forget that his first appearance in post-WWII Japan was born out of deep pain and fear experienced after the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The special effects may have gotten better, but none of Godzilla\u2019s iterations subsequent to director Ishiro Honda\u2019s introduction captured the monster as a metaphor for the nuclear age in the same way.