10 Most Destructive Movie Monsters

From inhuman, shapeless beasts to modern-day, radiation hungry dragons...

Movies and monsters have a decades long love affair. From the earliest version of Dracula in Nosferatu, to the more recent wave of CGI-created behemoths, audiences have loved watching a menagerie of deadly creatures wreak havoc on terrified populations. But as the monsters have become bigger and more fantastical, so they have also become increasingly destructive. It€™s not enough to kill one person; modern monsters need to be capable of destroying whole cities, maybe even whole worlds! Spectacle is king when it comes to monsters, and the big screen provides the perfect way to safely experience the annihilation of towns, cities and civilisations. In the 1950s and 60s, the nuclear age pointed to unknown terrors created by science; a trend that has continued into modern day. And, as modern SF has taught us, the vastness of space still holds unknown lifeforms €“ we cannot be alone, and not everything out there is going to come in peace. And that€™s before we even consider that the vastness of the oceans still hold unseen forces ready to surface to wreak havoc on our lives! But who are the big hitters? Who are the most destructive, the most odd or the most downright influential monsters of cinema? From inhuman, shapeless beasts to modern-day, radiation hungry dragons, here are ten of the most destructive and memorable monsters from the motion pictures€
 
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