Day # 23 of the 30 Days of Halloween Challenge

[shadowkat]

This is Day #23 of The 30 Days of Halloween Challenge

The prompt is Scariest film or television monster - provide a film clip or television clip featuring that monster.

Playing my Buffy card for this one...although I've kind of removed the rules. I'm tired of rules. I'd make a horrible teacher, or disciplinarian, I hate enforcing them, and tend to forget them if they aren't logical. I have a lot of rules in my workplace. Government agencies love rules.

ETA - I take that back - there is one rule - no spider creatures! I'm arachnaphobe - nothing with spiders.

Mine is the Gentleman from Buffy - in case you can't see the vid below.

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Comments

[cjlasky7]

Your thing is spiders; my squick point is the violation of the human form, watching it morph into something unrecognizable. That's why I can barely watch The Fly (either version), and the "chest buster" scene in Alien always hits me on a (heh) gut level.

But since I've covered the Fly in previous posts, and others have claimed Alien, let me just say two words:

The Thing.

https://youtu.be/M2o2FRwn_hg

But, since I really really love Alien, I just want to post this as a tribute:

https://youtu.be/y-sBROXalU4

[shadowkat]

I'm surprised that your squick point is the violation of the human form. (As an aside, the spider thing is more of a phobia than a squick point. Violation of the human form and body horror - is a major squick point of mine - it's why I have not been able to watch most Croenberg films. I think I've only been able to watch three of them - and they weren't horror movies. It's also why I've never been able to watch the Fly - I can't. I've tried, and given up. Also there's a scene in Poltergiest that is really hard to watch - it's cut from most of the television viewings. It was not cut from the version in the movie theater - unfortunately.)

Ah..you picked "The Thing" - I considered it, but I've never made it through it either. I remember a friend of my parents or an uncle telling me how the old black and white film - The Thing scared him to death.

For someone with a major squick factor - you've actually watched a lot of films that make you crazy.