Submitted 4 months ago by Emperor@feddit.uk to movies@lemm.ee
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/10-best-modern-monster-movies/
They are:
I feel like I don’t understand what author understands under a ‘monster movie’ tag. For me, nor The Mist, not Pan’s Labyrinth fit, and Prey, while I def like it, doesn’t focus on the Predator itself as much as other movies in the franchise. I think that pointing out one’s reasoning before the list is essential in these pieces, especially when many of these pieces are written by robots who can’t reason.
The tricky thing is that what constitutes a monster movie is subjective at the edges - I’d Personally not have included Prey or Pan’s Labyrinth (if you want a great GdT monster movie then it’d be his first Hellboy) but I’d say The Mist should be in.
My reasoning against The Mist is that monsters can be replaced with just a natural disaster, say flood (EXPLICITLY BIBLICAL FLOOD FROM GOD, for all our sins!), and it would be enough to roll all the same social and personal drama that was for me the core of the movie. There’s a clever lovecraftian lifehack of never describing your monsters too much, but my pov that it was just a context for all of us to despise this cultist nutjob queen and feeling trapped there with her and other characters.
I won’t usually hold IT over this movie, but I’d put it on the list instead of The Mist since Pennywise is clearly the main attraction of the movie and overcoming it is the goal that’s obvious from the very start.
I’d be interested to hear what makes it fit.
Trollhunter is so good. I rewatched it for Halloween last year and it still holds up.
Shin Godzilla > Godzilla Minus One.
different movies, different objectives here, I wouldn’t compare them like this
I’m not a big monster movie fan, but i thought Cloverfield and A Quiet Place were very very good.
Perhaps you are but don’t know it. If you like those try The Mist and The Host, if you haven’t already.
Was The Mist one of those M.N.S. movies that ended with a big nothing? He had a few that were really good and suspenseful and then he just couldn’t close them. I don’t think I’ve seen the host. I’ll try it.
I decided to look at IMDb’s new “Monster Horror” category (and removed franchise sequels):
Let’s do the top 20:
Definitely feels shakier and misses some bangers.
Emperor@feddit.uk 4 months ago
That’s a hell of a list and I can’t really quibble with it (at least within it’s own remit as I might not include things like Prey). However, I’ll have a ponder and see if I can think of anything they missed.
ech@lemm.ee 4 months ago
It Follows and IT (at least Chapter One) deserve to be in the top 10, imo. Jordan Peele’s Nope. Maybe Hellboy (2004).
Emperor@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Good shout - I’d definitely put Nope and Hellboy on there. Also definitely Slither (2006) and probably Grabbers (2012) and Feast (2005).
I don’t think Monsters (2010) would quite make the cut but would sneak into the top 20.