6 Non-CG Movie Creatures That Will Give You Nightmares

Since the inception of CG into science fiction, fantasy, and horror films, movie creatures and creature design has taken a hit. That statement is not meant to disrespect any of the current slew of very talented CG artists out there today, but there is just something unnatural about shiny, CG monsters. They never have a real sense of physics to them. They always just ends up feeling like Roger Rabbit to me. Like someone carefully mixed animation and real acting to try to make one, fluid experience.

Remy Carriero

Published: Sep 16, 2014 12:08 am

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Xenomorph – Alien

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I fully realize this creature’s fear impact has lessened each time a shitty game or shitty movie gets made with them or related to them, but let’s flash back to the first Alien movie for a second, shall we? Before they were full-on action films, and before they left space and found space jails and clones. Let’s talk about when it was one alien hunting down on group of people and taking them out, one by one.

What was amazing about Alien is not only the sick H.R Giger design, but the fact that when you think about it, the creature is just Jason Vorhees in space. A relentless killing machine that is almost all but unstoppable. While the sequel wasn’t terrible, nothing can quite compare to that first film and the terror that the Xenomorph filled the viewer with.

Before that, space monsters had all been kinda 1950’s-esque and meh. Alien forever changed that.

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