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Personally, I'm a fan of Giant Insects/Arachnids and Prehistoric Survivors (plenty of overlap, there). Just watched Them! again the other night - it rarely gets better than that (and a surprisingly frank look at government coverups as well, down to the Hero FBI Guy ordering a psychiatric hospital to keep a perfectly sane witness locked up, incommunicado, to keep the story from spreading).
Monsters From Mythology confronted in a modern setting would make me pretty happy, too - a pride of griffins attacking hikers in the mountains before moving to the city and nesting on top of skyscrapers, or a hydra terrorizing a small town (at what point do you decide to just turn the chainsaw on yourself?). A gorgon in Oregon, a manticore in a grocery store - that sort of thing.
I'm especially fond of Monsters Who Just Want To Be Left Alone, whether of the Clash With Encroaching Civilization/vaguely-Guardian Of The Wilderness type or the Misfit In Search Of Sanctuary/Fleeing Ahead Of The Human Mob type (the endings of Clive Barker's Cabal and Twilight at the Towers both make me weep). Closely related to the latter are Monsters Who Started Out Human And Changed (And Came To Accept It), like the werewolf couple at the end of the (execrable) Arizona Werewolf, or the werebat (couple, again) from It Lives By Night, or Dagon. Or, well, Boone from Cabal/Nightbreed.
I like walking skeletons, too. A lot. |
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