10 Most Ridiculous Monster Movies Of All Time

From the moment Colin Clive shouted “It’s alive!” in James Whale’s Frankenstein, monsters have been part of the cinematic landscape, but not every creature is fortunate enough to live on in our memories the way Boris Karloff’s monster does.

Who can forget the goblins in the awkwardly titled Troll 2, who wear rubber masks and burlap sacks and worship a bug-eyed over-actor in a lousy make-up job? Their sole purpose in life is to lure unsuspecting tourists to the town of “Nilbog”, force them to consume contaminated food and eat them once they’re transformed into green gloop.

It’s a living. I guess.

Then there’s the walking tree monster in From Hell It Came, who’s less likely to inspire chills than a succession of bad puns (“What a sap!”, “Surely knot” etc). Played by a former wrestler in a rubber costume whose chicken wire frame often came loose and cut into his skin, this creature is so memorable that the filmmakers should’ve brought him back in a sequel, but they were unwilling to branch out.

There have been plenty of monster movies that, for all the wrong reasons, are worth seeing. Here are 10 of them.

Little more than a feature length episode of Scooby Doo, Shriek Of The Mutilated’s plot involves an academic who recruits four students (including two girls who resemble Daphne and Velma) to accompany him on a “research expedition” that involves searching for a Yeti in (where else?) upstate New York.

After ignoring a Dire Warning from a Creepy Stranger, the group drive to an Isolated Cabin in a van with flower decals on the side, encounter a Weird Housekeeper and are chased by a monster, whose appearance causes the bookworm to fall and lose her glasses. Naturally, they set a trap for the monster. Naturally, it fails.

The monster is eventually revealed to be the academic in a shabby costume, and in this R-rated version he also turns out to be a cannibal. You see, his plan was to lure the kids to the cabin, kill them and devour them, which – spoiler alert – he does.