My Top 10: Monster Movies

Since the early 1930's, the sub-genre of monster movies has managed to keep going and forever breaking new grounds in film technology.
These types of films do not regularly gives amazing new successes, but every so often we get an absolute gem that will never be forgotten.

Monster movies come fro many sources. Some from famous novels, some loosely based from previous events in time. But many come from the brilliant minds of our film-makers.

My top 10 might confuse you as what classifies as a monster movie. To me, a monster movie features one creatures or maybe a certain species. Whether they are dangerous or nice, they are a monster nonetheless.

One movie that missed out but must get an honorable mention is, Cloverfield. The 2008 hit that saw producer J.J Abrams become known to mainstream audiences with this terrific found-footage based thriller.

Here are my top 10, enjoy:

10) The Iron Giant - Like I said in the preview at the top, not all of these monsters will be the villainous type.
An absolute gem of a film from 1999, directed by Brad Bird who has now directed a few of Pixar's greatest features.

9) King Kong (1933) - The first big hit of the monster genre.

It has a film crew that goes to a tropical island for a location shoot where they end up discovering something they did not expect.

I would also recommend the 2005 version of this story.

8) The Terminator - Even robots can be monsters. One of the most popular films from the 1980's, director James Cameron creates a futuristic world looking to be avoided by travelling back in time.

This is where actor Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a global superstar over-night.
For its time, The Terminator was quite a ground-breaking sci-fi action epic and has hardly dated.

7) Terminator 2: Judgment Day - One of the few exceptions to the sequel rule.

Arnie is back as the dreaded Terminator, but this time he is not alone. For the machines, the search for the people that rebelled against the machines must be stopped at all cost.

6) Jurassic Park - Winner of 3 Oscars and one of the most successful films of the 1990's, director

Steven Spielberg gives us a world where dinosaurs have been reborn into the modern age.

When one man's dream is to make a theme park out of it, a preview day goes slightly wrong.

5) Alien - A massive ground-breaker for both the monster and sci-fi genres.

When a vessel receives a distress signal from an unknown planet, the crew do not realise what they will encounter. Until, one of the most gruesome scenes in film history shows the crew what they are now up against.

4) Aliens - This impressive sequel to the Alien franchise sees the only survivor  of the incident in Alien come back to help a colony who have come under attack against the same species that attacked her crew.

An absolute thriller that is cranked up several notches from its original.

3) Monsters, Inc. - A movie with LOADS of monsters could not have been ignored.

One of Pixar's most successful animated epics. In a world where monsters scare kids to power their electricity, one kid manages to enter the monster world. It is up one of the top scarers in the industry.

2) E.T. - The Extra Terrestrial - He is a monster, but there is not a bad bone in this monster's body.

When an alien gets stranded on Earth, it is up to one family kid's to get him back home.

1) Jaws - Winner of 3 Oscars and one of the highest-grossing films of all-time.

The film that put Steven Spielberg on the map, Jaws is also one of the best thrillers in film history.

When a giant great white shark starts to feed on the locals of a small island, a team of locals set out to kill it.