I have loved monsters since i was kid. I remember as a kid reading stories about monsters all sorts like movie monsters like the Mutant in this island earth or so called real mosnters like bigfoot or the Chupacabra or even the jersey devil. The love of monsters didn't die as i got older it grew up with me when i was teenager and later it was vampires. That's how i got into buffy. I still love monsters to this day. If there is anything with monsters in it chances are i will read it or see it or whatever. Monsters will always be interesting to me. I wonder is that a geek thing or that just me?

Naw, I too nearly always support the monster in a movie or TV show, or comic book or what have ya. Goes back to the days of REal Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and so many other shows and movies, I think, as well as amazing shows like The Storyteller, And the Storyteller: Greek Myths. Hell, if one remembers, the original King Kong was one of the earliest movies to have audiences cry for the monster, and not the hero. Peter Jackson says that it was the film that made him want to be a director.

Blame it on my childhood, but the monster always appealed to me. The reasons why is fairly simple, I was pretty much always an outsider, and the monster was the very definition of the misunderstood outsider, who was going along on instinct and his/ her nature. Always, and I mean always, annoyed me when the supposed hero would kill the creature. Ticked me off.
Grew up in the 80's when the monster was making a comeback, along with spectacular makeup effects that made the creatures so real we could practically smell their breath.
Great time to be a kid.

I too loved the storyteller. too bad the jim henson hour didn't last course alot of the things we like don't last long.

I think thats why i like the monsters to me the outsider thing i could relate to that.

I like the classic Universal & B movie monsters myself.

One of my favorite monster movie was the segment in Creepshow with the monster in the box. That was a great episode. I actually got to have my picture taken with it at Horrorhound.

I do enjoy a good monster movie, but I have always been a huge fan of mutant animal movies. It can be any kind of animal dog, rats, sharks, lizards, alligator, crocodile, spiders, etc. animals attacking humans is always a great plot

Yep you gotta love mutated animals.


what do you think of critters?

Yeah, genetic experiment gone wrong, or a supernatural entity, or a soulless killing machine, a cyborg/ robot who goes against his programmer/ designer...

When man screws up, it is often so wickedly cool.

thats cause the story never gets old it's what happens when we mess with stuff we shoudn't.

Well, that is somewhat of a stigma in Hollywood movies, and alot of fiction, the idea of going into places 'we should not go.' Or doing something 'we should not do.' Yet if we did not go against the grain, science, including medicine, would not evolve to the level it has. There are vaccines and treatments we can obtain, nowadays, that our ancestors would have killed for, notably for diseases that would kill them, or render them somehow disabled. I mean, look at cataracts, a condition that would have left one blind decades ago, with no hope of a cure. Now a very simple operation, involving a one night stay in hospital, can cure this condition.

When I refer to a mistake being made by man, I was referring to the mistakes of books or movies like Jurassic Park, where the scientists think they have control over the dinosaurs, but discover how foolish they have been, by overlooking certain areas (the frog DNA, for example) or problems, as well as ignoring the scrupulous members of the team, or the simple question of 'What if the power went out?' When Hammond, in Jurassic Park, says that 'we asked ourselves if we could, but never asked if we should', is a rather ignorant statement from a supposed man of science. OR the idea that man can create life from dead material, yet fail to realise that the creature will have intelligence, feelings, emotions, and dreams. Dr Frankenstein assumes himself to be greater than God, and that is his downfall. He is not omnipotent, he is a mortal.

even before jurassic park there was west world where robots went crazy and killed people.

Yes, and Frankenstein was written well before that.

But it is interesting that you brought up Westworld, since who wrote both Jurassic Park, and Westworld, as well as directing the latter? Michael Crichton.

Since Michael trained as a doctor, it is surprising to see how much against science he is.