Day #12 of the 30 Days of Halloween Meme

[shadowkat]

This is Day #12 of the 30 Days of Halloween Meme

The prompt is Favorite monster in a film, book or television series (can be a favorite, doesn't have to be the favorite).

I like shape-shifters - in particular were-lions from the Kate Daniels series by Illona Andrews

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[petzipellepingo]

Matthew Clairmont from "A Discovery of Witches".

[cactuswatcher]

Totally amorphous, with its own song and a movie with Steve McQueen in his first leading roll. It's The Blob.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK5jyVCdXwc

[cjlasky7]

"Beware the Blob": Burt Bacharach's Forgotten Masterpiece

(Well, no. But it is a fun novelty tune from when he was just getting started. Great sax riff.)

This was my runner-up choice, for exactly the opposite reason of my first choice. The Blob has no motivation or intelligence--its only instinct is to consume. The shot of it oozing out through the entrance of the movie theater is all-time classic.

https://youtu.be/nqZ86pJkz-M

[wendelah1]

Frankenstein's monster from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternate roles as Victor Frankenstein and his creation in Frankenstein, filmed live at the National Theatre.

We saw this, with Miller as Dr. Frankenstein and Cumberbatch as the Monster. It was fantastic.

[cjlasky7]

"Brundlefly" from The Fly (directed by David Cronenberg)

What's appealing about Jeff Goldblum is that you can see his mind working, processing the world through its off kilter sense of Zen master coolness. Goldblum could rhapsodize about the colors on a butterfly's wings and then the gravity well of a black hole and make you see the connection.

The tragedy of Seth Brundle in The Fly is that his brilliant mind, his ability to see the invisible workings of the forces around him is used against him. Once he discovers the source of his transformation, he is acutely aware of what he's losing moment by moment and of the horror he is about to become.

That he can describe his nightmare in terms of the parable of Zuangzi and the butterfly only makes it worse. Because the dream is over. The insect is awake:

https://youtu.be/mSRdIRv4eIo

Seth's deterioration has been seen as a metaphor for Alzheimer's disease or AIDS. Both are valid. It's an expression of the primal horror of watching your sense of self slip into oblivion.