“Be afraid… be very afraid.”
It takes more than a brooding and blunt tagline to make a menacing movie monster – ask the master of body horror David Cronenberg, who delivered the scares promised by that unforgettable phrase (actually coined by producer Mel Brooks) with his intensely gooey study of spiced human/fly metamorphic consequences in his brilliant The Fly remake. It was a world away from the tediously bad B-movie fly head and claw terror tactics of the original.
But what of the creature creations which failed to hit the mark? Those unashamedly bad rubber suits that ruled the fore in the 50s, those ridiculous unscary and unreliable mechanical monsters that kept breaking down in the 70s and the even less tangible CGI cartoon creations that have been unleashed in recent times.
Let us present to you seven of the worst and least scariest cinematic creations (additional wetter suggestions are, as always, most welcome)…
