My top 5 Favorite Classic Monsters!

Classic monsters are what terrified us as children, giving us nightmares and a legacy that spanned decades. This is my top 5 favorite classic monsters from the films and why I love them...


Every loves these guys, they are the sympathetic characters that you root for, horrified of, and weep to. My list starts off with my 5th favorite monster and I will work my way down to what my favorite is.

5. The Mummy

This was the creature that terrified me so much as a child. The undead returning in a crispy gooey ickyness that is after death to wreck havoc. Generally I like the more recent mummy movies (even if they are not the greatest) than the old ones. The old ones have really good make up, but their story doesn't keep me, or the mummy isn't as terrifying to me or even a threat to some people. As a kid this was my number 1 monster, but sadly the mummy does not age well with time.

4. Dracula

The one to start it all, Bela Lugosi as Dracula! Vampires have been in lore for so long that you can say we have overloaded our fiction with the likes. Creatures that walk as humans but turn into bats, that produce fangs and put you under a spell, and drain you of your blood? Yep, that sounds like a nightmare hiding under my bed. As a kid I loved vampires, but with the recent treatment of them today and the way it is gravitating out of being a monster put it lower on my list than if I did this list years ago. In recent decades the terrifying power of the vampire has slowly faded away to produce sexier creatures who love to show off their hairless abs and suck on your neck before divulging into your gooey redness.

3. The Phantom

I didn't start to appreciate this monster until more recently. I always knew the story, but just never considered him a monster. After watching the great silent film from 1925 and the Claude Rains version, I can't help but fall in love with this story. The fact that he was human to begin with really sends a powerful emotion through you, and then he is forced to act like monster from the way he looks or what happens to him really makes him one of the most tragic monsters on my list.

2. The Monster

Appropriately named The Monster in the film Frankenstein, I can't help but feel bad for this guy. Made out of dead body parts to be created as a new man, yet feared and attacked by everyone around him, it's no wonder why he turned out the way he did. Not only is his film one of the best in horror, but I dare say it is up there as one of the most perfect films to watch. Boris Karloff does a chilling performance and made the character iconic for, probably, the rest of time.

1. The Creature

And my favorite monster is The Creature from Creature from the Black Lagoon. It's funny how my top 2 don't even have names, but I guess that adds to the tragicness of these monsters. From the first time I watched this movie I fell in love with it and the monster. He's just a regular creature minding his own business, trying to live, when these scientists come prodding him time after time. Not only that, but the films each progressively make him suffer more. The first one just invaded his home and nearly killed him. The second one he was captured and chained up, while the third one they took his being away, making him a land creature never to return to the water. That is deeply tragic and there can be no other monster whom I love as much as The Creature.

Now that you've read my top 5, tell me what yours are and why.