In a world, the trailer might have intoned, where the dung hovel is the standard unit of social housing, a boy on the brink of manhood is all that stands between a great fire-breathing beast and a rather fey cadre of aristocrats bent on offering up their virgins to the monster. Not to be confused with Dragonheart, Dragonlance or Dragon: The Bruce Lee Storyīefore Peter Jackson gave Sword and Sorcery (for it is they) an irresistibly sexy sheen, this 1981 effort took a proudly cod-medieval stomp through damsel/dragon territory, becoming the lodestone of dark-tinged family fantasy.
? The 50 best fantasy movies of all-time ? The 100 best sci-fi movies of all-time ? The 100 best horror movies of all-time Written by Tom Huddleston, Adam Lee Davies, Andy Kryza, Paul Fairclough, David Jenkins & Matthew Singer Here are the best monster movies of all-time. You’re monsters, but you’re not monsters, if you catch our drift.) Instead, we opted for all the killer rabbits, killer plants, killer fish, killer clowns, killer aliens and killer giant sandworms.
(Sorry, Freddy, Jason, Michael and Henry from Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. Secondly, no ‘humans are the real monsters’ stuff. There are simply too many, and those warrant lists of their own.
Obviously, in putting together this list of the best monster movies ever made, we had a lot of options to choose from. Others are uncomplicated beasts that desire to kill either for food or just for the fun of it. Some are manifestations of their designers’ deepest hang ups or emblematic of the biggest fears of society at large. Cinematic monsters come in many shapes and sizes, from amorphous blobs to giant apes to Swamp Things.