20 GREAT Monster Movies NOBODY Talks About
The creature features that deserve more love.
Over the years, monster movies have given audiences some of the best films of all time, as well as some of the worst. Jaws, Alien, and more recently Godzilla Minus One sit at one end of the spectrum, with the likes of Sharknado, Sharknado 2, all the way through to the aptly titled The Last Sharknado: It's About Time at the other.
With such a wide breadth of quality ranging from the revered to the reviled, there is a lot of middle ground. Within that vast no man's land, too many great outings either get forgotten about, are barely noticed in the first place, or are criminally underappreciated.
There are international gems that struggled to amount to the kind of widespread acclaim they deserved, strong efforts that have been lumped in with others of the same perceived ilk, and those that may have been overshadowed but are no less in their own achievements and merits.
With a cinematic landscape that has consistently grown to be more and more saturated, and with certain efforts lessening the reputation of the creature feature, it is too easy to miss something good, something worth watching, and something worthy of appreciating.
20. The Evil Within
If the goal for a movie is to leave a lasting impression on audiences long after the credits have rolled, regardless of the reason, then The Evil Within should be considered a great success, even if it doesn't get the recognition it deserves.
After going through a true, 15-year-long developmental hell, the film finally released in 2017 and was certainly polarising, thanks in no small part to its themes and portrayal of, as the name would suggest, an intrinsic evil growing and taking over its main character, Dennis (Frederick Koehler).
There are plenty of words that could be used to describe The Evil Within. It is utterly harrowing, disturbing, chilling, and genuinely terrifying, but arguably its greatest testament would be to call it unique. It may not have got the desired critical reception upon its release, but to produce something genuinely unlike anything else in this cinematic era is something that should be applauded.
Though not a monster movie in the traditional sense, the outing did feature Michael Berryman as the Cadaver, an incredibly creepy manifestation of evil within Dennis' mind. No, he wasn't real, but he did represent what Dennis quickly began spiralling towards, and there can be no denying that he was as unsettling as any good film monster should be.