10 Horror Movie Monsters Who Encountered Something Way Worse

Those of us who saw Jurassic Park in the '90s were blown away by the practical and computer-generated effects, the scope of the dinosaur landscapes created on Isla Nublar, and Jeff Goldblum’s chest hair. But we’d be lying if we said these were what we talked about in the aftermath.

The film takes palaeontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill), palaeobotanist Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), and mathematician Ian Malcolm (Goldblum) to an island near Costa Rica, where dinosaurs of every variety have been cloned and roam free. A new attraction for the public – the titular Jurassic Park – is set to open, if only its creator John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) can prove it’s safe. No points for guessing what happens next.

And all this left us with one key interest: our new fear of scaly, human-height geniuses, the velociraptors. 

The most pervasive Jurassic monsters of the film, the raptors stalk Alan, Ellie, Ian, park officials, Hammond’s grandchildren, and anyone else they can get their claws into. But while deadly vicious and truly nightmare-inducing, they aren't ready for the t-rex. The velociraptors go head-to-head with the tyrannosaurus in an epic confrontation at the movie’s conclusion, right in the middle of the visitor centre, and suffice to say, the raptors don’t get signed for the sequel.