Recently, one of the movie channels I subscribe to has had ‘Christine’, one of the most terrifying things to come out of the 1980s, in regular rotation and I always have to stop and watch. The idea of a murderous machine is a terrifying staple of science fiction and fantasy, but adding in the mobility of a car and the psychological tendency of humans to attribute personalities to cars makes for a truly terrifying story. (You even feel bad for poor Moochie, who thought he had it all figured out.) King’s work has always hit a particularly tender spot for me when it comes to the scary, and his most menacing monster antagonists strike a chord of terror somewhere in my being, which leads into today’s blood-chilling query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) has never had as much fear of a vampire or a zombie as for the child actor who played Gage in ‘Pet Sematary‘, asking: What’s the most menacing monster of all to YOU?
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The Xenomorphs from the Alien movies are about the scariest thing I can think of. Everything about them is terrifying.
Child actors. Like Reagan and Ringu girl.
When I was in High School, Freddy Kruger was my personal terror. It didn’t help that I had the Nightmare on Elm Street 2 poster on my door. Fred on a white background with the glove displayed, on a moonlight night was not something to wake up to. Multiple nights I took it down.
Maybe not so much the execution, but the concept of the “It” from It Follows. Just something making a steady, unstoppable beeline for you.