Top 10 Monster Movies you've gotta see!

[Nilly_Chipples]

Source:Movies.com (http://www.movies.com)

THE 10 MONSTER MOVIES YOU GOTTA SEE

Hugh Jackman vampire-hunting vehicle Van Helsing, out this week on DVD, wasn't exactly hailed by critics as an intellectually stimulating piece of cinema, but it did have lots of monsters. The monster movie dates back to the early days of Hollywood, and most of the great ones were produced in the 1930s and early '40s. Van Helsing's special effects are all CGI, but revisiting some beastly B movies reveals that a guy in a rubber suit can be just as (if not more) effective at eliciting scares. In honor of all this monster mayhem, the Cinema Files is counting down 10 luminaries of the genre. Just to clarify, our definition of "monster movie" calls for a plot centered on a horrific creature that doesn't exist today in the real world — i.e., no giant sharks (Jaws), dinosaurs (Jurassic Park), or the like. And we're not counting zombies, either, because that topic really deserves its own list. Stay tuned …


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My great grandfather is in the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

[NealT]

I WAS the Creature...

Really!

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No seriously, he was Antonio Moreno. He played in a number of movies. that was one of his last.
A picture of him in his later years, about the time he made Creature can be found at The Masquer's Club (http://www.masquersclub.org/scrapbook.htm) , he and Gloria Swanson can be found on a page that says that though many think of Valentino as bing the "founder of the Latin Lover Persona", it was actually, Moreno (http://www.hispaniconline.com/hh03/mainpages/culture/film.html). a picture of his home then when he lived with my great grandmother, whom I named Gia for Tony and Daisy Moreno's Home (http://www.silentsaregolden.com/homes/hometonymoreno.html) then, and as it looks now