10 Embarrassingly Poor Horror Movie Monsters

Part of the fun of classic, pre-CGI monster movies comes from knowing that the creature is actually an actor in a suit frolicking around a sound stage.

And, as a recent WhatCulture list showed, the delightfully ridiculous history of Kaiju movies is stuffed full of wacky characters, including insect gods, giant grumpy lobsters, and robotic alien dinosaurs.

Believability is not exactly a priority for movies like this. After all, complaining that a Kaiju doesn't look 'real' is a little like complaining that there's too much shouting on your Extreme Noise Terror record. What did you expect?

But the Dino De Laurentiis remake of King Kong from 1976 proves that there is a line somewhere. A line where lighthearted fun becomes uncharismatic tedium; a line where a good time becomes a hard time.

This version of King Kong discovers this mysterious threshold in the act of crossing it. The line is a dot to Kong.