Top 30 Greatest Giant Movie Monsters
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- Опубліковано 16 лис 2023
- These monsters made a BIG impact on cinema. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the Top 30 most awe-inspiring giant monsters to ever grace our movie screens. Our countdown of the greatest giant movie monsters includes The Kraken, The Rancor, Mechagodzilla, The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, King Kong, and more! Who’s your favorite giant monster? Roar about it in the comments!
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Godzilla is one of them
king kong, godzilla, the 50 foot woman and the colossal man
Attack of the 50ft Woman and The Blob (1958) were the first classic monster movies I ever saw. Thank you Monsters vs Aliens
Godzille and king Kong 😛
The King of the Kaiju 😎
Number 1 is a no brainer. He is LEGENDARY and you'd be a fool to say he's nothing short of the absolute best kaiju that has ever existed.
Number 1 and 2 were pretty obvious, so it was trying to place the others
BTW, anybody else notice that Space Godzilla had a mohawk?
Nigga just be quiet
@@seanbigay1042well, the 80's hadn't been gone that long.. 😂
He is called the King of the Monsters after all.
Godzilla is and forever “The Number One, Giant Movie Monster of All Time” all hail to the King 👑
On your knees to the king, the king of the monsters, there can be only one.
@@dellyortega2416 All Hail Gojira 👑✊
Long live the King!
For me it's king Kong
@@nbagod21james11 You don’t belong here then!
No one can top the pinnacle of iconic monsters than the king of monsters himself!
Not a giant in the scale of Godzilla or King Kong, but the Xenomorph Queen from Aliens is just plain awesome.
Yes, she's absolutely amazing.
The Garthog from "Coneheads" should be on the list too.
Some of these monsters are smaller than both Godzilla and King Kong, and there’s even some smaller than the queen Xenomorph
Okay, say it with me now: "Get away from her, you BITCH!!!"
Yep, and Clover should have been a LOT higher on the list.
Godzilla is King! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
... king of the monsters
Second 🏆
How do we know Godzilla is a ‘ he’
It’s a she
Or maybe it turned to they/them😂😂
There’s a reason why Godzilla holds the title in being the King of All Monsters.
Excited for *”Godzilla: -1.0”* ?
@@franciscs1604 You know it!
@@nintendolife25
👍
There can be only One!🦖
Im 38 and when I was a little kid i had all the Godzilla VHS tapes and i loved him and i still get excited to this day when a new Godzilla movie comes out. Godzilla, Aliens, and The Predator were my favorites.
Same❤!
No Giant Movie Monster can ever Dethrone Godzilla!
Loved that the Balrog made the list , think Smaug should've got a Honorable Mention
Over half of the list is from older movies and I agree wholeheartedly with it. They really knew how to make giant monsters back then.
Honorable mentions, The Dune Sandworm, Karathen, Cthulhu (Underwater 2020). Exogorth, Summa-verminoth, Krayt Dragon, Sarlacc, The Meg, Giant humanoids (Attack of the Titans), Smaug and the dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park universe.
Unicron, Devastator and the Mega Elemental as well
And the giant praying mantis. If you have the ants and tarantula you can’t forget the 1957 Deadly Mantis
Good list. Smaug especially should have been on Mojo's list.
Would you really count the dinosaurs from Jurassic park as monsters? Sure in the book they are but the movies make them just like animals in the way they act and hunt.
Godzilla is the true king of the monsters, and truly the hero to us all.
P.S. My other favorites are
1. Gamera
2. Mothra
3. King Kong
4. The 50 Foot Woman
5. Rodan
6. King Ghidorah
You said it.
Excited for *”Godzilla: -1.0”* ?
Yeah... If you've watched Minus One you might drop the last part of your statement lol
Honestly, having done VFX for a long time for major studios, I have to say, when I look at Jason and The Argonauts, remembering watching these movies as a kid, and now seeing them, especially the Talos iron golem sequence.. I am more blown away the older and more experienced i get...
I mean, what is staggering to me is not just the absolutely groundbreaking animation, nor the amazing quality of details on his models that he is generally acknowledged for, but it is also the lighting and compositing when those things were much harder...
He had to light these models so that they fit into the scenes/film plates, and he does such an amazing job, I mean better than many modern films where they have advanced compositing tools, and rendering software, etc. He had to do with with old school negative film projection, and even more amazingly, match the plate's lighting environment using only small lighting rigs to balance lighting levels, quality, etc.. It is such an incredible show of craftsmanship by one guy, a guy who so much of how far we have come is owed to the generations of future vfx people he inspired.. Ie the Dykstra, Ken Ralston's, Dennis Muren, etc ie the founders of ILM, and the first gen of the age of computers vfx gurus, etc..
It was great to see not just one, but multiple entries in this list of his creations... I commend this list for what so many other lists on the internet don't pay homage too... only listing modern monsters.. when his monsters really started it all... not to mention the other greats like Godzilla rubber suit amazingness, and movies like Ants, the Blob... all great to see here..
Absolutely solid list. Even as time goes on, Ray Harryhausen's work will always be legendary.
Just today I saw Godzilla Minus One (2023). The makers loved the original and this movie brought me right back to watching it as a child. SO well done, including even using music from the original Godzilla movie. See it if you're a fan of the original. I don't think you'll be disappointed.
Minus one is the Mater Class for making a Godzilla movie.
My son is crazy about Godzilla. So of course, we had to see Godzilla -1. It was amazingly well done, and it reminded me of the great enjoyment I had watching all the older movies with my dad. We will be buying it as soon as it becomes available.
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I enjoyed it because they didn’t have to create another devastating weapon to defeat him.
King Kong is #2... that's great. Love the original 1933 film and the 2005 remake.
I'm glad that Godzilla took number 1 spot. I'm always team Godzilla all the way, I do like King Kong too but I love Godzilla more!
Solid list. I especially liked the props for Cyclops at number 3. Harryhausen deserved that.
Mothra has always been a favorite of mine since I was a kid. Creature Double Feature every Saturday afternoon on a local channel was and is a fond memory of mine and my husband's.
There was literally no doubt that Godzilla is number 1 on the list of giant monsters, what else is there to say but Long Live The King
Very glad to see Trollhunters get a shoutout on this list. Fantastic (yet underappreciated) movie, especially if you like the found footage genre. "Why you problem make, when you no problem have that you no want to make?" Kills me every time.
Love The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms.
Glad you gave Gamera some time in the spotight!
Nice work!
But of course, fans like me must find nit to pick...just a little:
What about the Ymir from "20 Million Miles to Earth"? Another Harryhausen masterpiece!
Or "Gwangi" from the same great animator?
The obvious solution: Make another video with even more awesome giant monsters!
Thanks for the great fun!
20 Million Miles to Earth kinda gets a shoutout with the number 3 position of the Cyclops. Harryhausen reused the metal armature of the Ymir, chopped the tail off, give it a new skin and the Cyclops was born.
I'm sorry but I cannot stand for this continued Slander against Anguirus. He was the First monster to fight Godzilla (inventing the Kaiju Battle), he is one of Godzilla's oldest allies, and he's one of the most underrated Kaiju in Toho's line-up.
My favorite is Mothra, especially her son Mothra Leo from the Rebirth of Mothra Trilogy.
Freaking _KNEW_ the King of the Monsters was gonna get #1
So did I.
The films:
30: pirates of the carribean 2 (2006)
29: gorgo (1961)
28: godzilla vs spacegodzilla (1994)
27: 20.000 leagues under the sea (1954)
26: pacific rim (2013)
25: rodan (1956)
24: cloverfield (2008)
23: pacific rim (2013)
22: the host (2006)
21: trollhunter (2010)
20: the mist (2007)
19: clash of the titans (1981)
18: the beast from 20.000 fathoms (1953)
17: tarantula! (1955)
16: star wars 3 (1983)
15: attack of the 50ft woman (1958)
14: lord of the rings (2001)
13: jason and the argonauts (1963)
12: godzilla vs mechagodzilla (1974)
11: frankenstein's monsters sanda vs gaira (1966)
10: ghidorah the three headed monster (1964)
9: them! (1954)
8: the blob (1958)
7: tremors (1990)
6: ghostbusters (1984)
5: mothra (1961)
4: gamera (1965)
3: the seventh voyage of simbad (1958)
2: king kong (1933)
1: godzilla (1954)
Thanks bro
Thanks!
Thanks
I cannot believe that I only have seen *four* of these flicks. 🤦🏾♀️
Oddly enough the thumbnail is from monarch an Apple TV exclusive
I maybe the only person who prefers King Kong over Godzilla but at the end of the day I love both of them
I agree. Without Kong, you would have never had Godzilla.
I think there's quite a lot of people that like Kong more than Godzilla. And I agree all credit is due to Kong. But I still thing that Godzilla deserves the number one spot. He's always been:
1) A bigger threat.
2) A more terrible and haunting force of nature.
3) A more famous and widely exposed cinema image.
4) A more unique and visceral experience.
5) A deeper and more tragic narrative meaning.
King King is a Giant Gorilla, and his stories have always played to both the fearsome nature of that, but also the sympathetic angle, the humanity behind it. King Kong is ultimate an outsider, an animal whose feelings and tragedy invite the audience to empathize with the situations he finds himself in. Godzilla, though, is the very price of the hubris of humanity itself. He is all our worst natures, invoked and punished in the most raw and visceral retribution. He is destruction incarnate, the unstoppable wrath of a world that's simply too big for any of us. Be it the unfathomable oblivion of the Nuclear Bomb itself, the haunting will of the souls of war's tolls, nature's balance personified, or the will of the people of Earth to resist the strange and alien... almost every incarnation of Godzilla is emblematic of a force, a concept, hell-bent around its indomitablility, the stark reality of its being. Where Godzilla dwells, the nightmares of humanity have been realized, and man must either suffer its consequence, or cower and pray for its protection.
Godzilla isn't simply The King of Monsters because he's big or bad... he's the King of Monsters, because he embodies the most Monstrous of ideas. He transcends his physical threat, and roars from the fathoms of true existential terror.
Whats cool about Trollhunter (2010) is that the secretary general of NATO and former prime minister of Norway Jens Stoltenberg has a cameo at the end of the movie saying that "Norway has trolls" 🤣
Good times when he still was prime minister. Now not so much.
@@vladdracul5072 Are you from Norway like me? 😁
@@metern I wish I were, but I have only been visiting Norway for the last two decades.
@@vladdracul5072 Well, you are welcome when you want to come again 😉.
I know Mothra came in at #5, but she's still my favorite.
War of the Gargantuas has the most amazing battle. The military sets up a defense to take out the Gargantua and it works, until another one shows up. Plus the maser cannons had just wonderful animation, with the drawn-in beams seeming to cut down trees due to carefully timed squib detonations.
Thanks for another good shift watchmojo!
Great list, for me and going past 30 Giant Movie Monsters I'd also add: Gigan (Godzilla movies), Megalon (Godzilla), Gnarfle the Garthok (Coneheads), Dark Overlord of the Universe (Howard the Duck), Colossal (2016 Colossal), Alien Queen (Aliens), Great White Apes (2012 John Carter), Yew Tree Monster (A Monster Calls), Bull or Alpha Dragon (Reign of Fire), Octalus (Deep Rising), Demon Lord (1987 The Gate), Ebirah (1966 Ebirah, Horror of the Deep), Orga (Godzilla 2000) and Smaug (The Hobbit).
Absolutely solid submissions as a continuation to this already great list.
@@tanukiyay I appreciate that. thank you.
I was hoping Hedora (the Smog Monster) would have been on this list. That one absolutely terrified me when I was a kid.
Impossible, you can not gush over Ray Harryhausen enough!
Godzilla, 70 years and still kicking ass
A giant beast I think is missing from this list is the Original and only male dragon from the 2002 film Reign of Fire. A truly fearsome beast.
One I feel was forgotten was Shelob. The giant spider in LOTR Return of the King. She should be on the list
The narration is perfectly placed. Well done.
I saw the original Mothra as a child on an old black and white TV set and she is my favorite, along with the story itself. I also love the Mothra song.🦋🎶
A few monsters I would include:
Super8's alien
Xenomorph Queen
Sandworm
Chtulu
The one the guardians of the galaxy battled at the beginning of the second movie
This was a great list!!!
Thank you for the update, WatchMojo..!! Jason and the Argonauts (1963) is an awesome movie to watch. 🤣
My favorite is Shin Godzilla. Minus One was amazingly awesome, but Shin just has that horror factor the other versions lack. Plus we never got to see just how far "Evolution Incarnate" could go...
The giant mantis from The Deadly Mantis should have been included in my opinion. Not as #1, but someplace on the list anyway.
I loved Godzillas son Godzuki when I was a kid. I just couldn't get enough of him. It was adorable how when he tried to breathe fire like his dad it just came out as a puff or ring of smoke.
Manilla
One of My all time Favs when I was a kid was The Valley of Gwangi, Another Ray Harryhausen Classic!
Great Collection of Monsters
Thanks for the visit
Next year marks Big G's 70th birthday. Just as iconic as Mickey Mouse, Mario and The Rock.
I never noticed, watching it as a kid, but how did the Blob ever catch anyone? It was so slow! 😂🤣
I felt like Bruce the shark should have been on this list
How about the cat from The Incredible Shrinking Man?
A very informative video on giant cinematic monsters indeed.
There's also Smaug, The Meg, the Alien Queen, Indominus Rex, Hulk, Exogorth and Lizzie from Rampage.
Do you remember the white buffalo from the movie with Charles Bronson "The White Buffalo"? Was a great monster in its own right and a fantastic movie by Dino De Laurentiis
@G0Chiefs Haven't seen that one yet but just looked it up and the White Buffalo monster is pretty impressive! Will have to add this movie to my watch list.
The Garthog from "Coneheads" should be on the list too.
Guess they can't squeeze in every monster.
I have no problem with Kong and Godzilla being #2 and #1. It’s apples and oranges between those two. Kong came first, which is important, but Godzilla has more films. If two could share a #1, all is fair in Godzilla and Kong!
It bothered me as a kid the Cyclops killing the Dragon. I liked the dragon.
Thank you very much
Interesting
spiders and ants yet no Starship Trooper Archies? Those bugs are some of the best!
This is a very good list
6:28 note: this colossal 300ft horrifying abomination was just a BABY!!!!
I love Godzilla, but my favorite movie monster is a tie between The Monster from The Id and Kothoga. I wish someone would remake Forbidden Planet, Relic is fine. 😉
I'm glad you put Gorgo in the list besides Gamera and Gamera is my most favorite
I love that the giant squid from 20000 leagues is included here, just a small correction though: Capt. Nemo is the antagonist in that film, even if he is quite sympathetic.
LONG LIVE THE KING OF THE MONSTERS AT #1! 👑🎌🏯🗽🏢🎬🎥☝
Perfect timing, considering the newest Toho Godzilla Movie, Godzilla: Minus One, is coming to American theaters December 1st. WHOO!!!!
Given the name of this list, Dune's Sandworms should have merited a spot in there and a good case could be made for the T-Rex (and pals) from Jurassic Park
Godzilla will always be the king of the monsters. Having said that, he, Kong and Gamera make up what I like to call the Trinity of Kaiju.
You should have played the Godzilla song, Go go Godzilla. Brandon Tenold has taught me on his UA-cam channel that the scariest thing in a Kaiju movie is the Kenny from the Gamera movies.
Awsome list but the sandworms of Dune are massive compared to those of Tremors. Also, one of the biggest monsters on screen that's rarely talked about is the giant meteor dwelling monster that almost at the Millennium Falcon.
Very entertaining list.
Godzilla is my favorite monster out of them all I do love the other giant monsters like Mothra, King Kong, Gamera, behemoth, Troll, Space Godzilla, etc. But King that ranks beyond all of them is definitely Godzilla. Nobody will never dethrone him not in 30 years not even a 100 years.
I personally love Gor Gor who is known to the fans of the band GWAR...
Lol,I have got to say King Caesar from Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla movies is the most adorable (besides Mothra),giant monster/puppy looking,lol,in the Godzilla movies, lol!!!😂I truly hope and pray that you are all blessed out there!!!❤😂
After watching Return of the Jedi I had to sleep with the light on ,the Rancor scared the crap outta me(still does to this day)😮😮
I'd rather attempt to vanquish a Rancor then attempt to narful a Garthog.
I love this top
Missed my favorite Ray Harryhausen beast from 10 Million Miles To Earth. I don’t know what his name was but his final battle against the African elephant was Epic.
Damn right Godzilla is #1, he is called King of the Monsters for a reason after all. Just a quick note about Kong though, he has never actually beaten Godzilla. They have fought twice with the first battle ending in a draw and Godzilla winning in the last movie only for the human protaganists to revive Kong later so that he could help take down Mechagodzilla. The two left with mutual respect for each other afterwords which is good because considering what they will be up against in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire they may need to put their differences aside and team up again.
Once Godzilla, ALWAYS GODZILLA🀄️🀄️🔥🔥🔥
Awesome list, I think that the main big bad kaiju from pacific rim uprising should’ve at least made it to the honorable mentions list
This might be obscure to most, and I'm sorta not surprised it isn't on here, but there was a movie that haunted my childhood, and from what I have seen, a lot of other people's childhoods, but the giant turtle from The Bermuda Depths should be on this list somewhere. I remember seeing the only Rankin-Bass live action movie on late night TV when I was a kid, and it scared the hell out of me at the time! For years afterward, I scoured the internet just trying to find the name of the movie so I could watch it again as an adult. The only thing I could remember from it to identify it was that Burl Ives was in it and Connie Selleca. So thank God I discovered IMDB! I did end up finding it online and watching it again, as well as other rare and hard to find movies from my childhood.
Carl Weathers never stood a chance!
Before I even press play, if Godzilla ain't 1 this WHOLE list whack!!!!!
I feel like you could've done an honorable mention for the octopus from It Came from Beneath the Sea
The sand worms from Dune, they may not get many scenes but they were very impressive. To bad rhey didn't make the list though.
Maybe in a top Sci-Fi monster list, they'll get another chance.
You already know who *NUMBER 1* is! 🔥😎
What about the alien queen from “Aliens”? She is iconic!
I saw Godzilla in 1956 with Raymond Burr. I have been a fan ever since and I am 77 years old.
Whether or not this is a worst to best list, the fact that Graboids made the top 10 list make me so happy. Lol
The Graboids were scary but good to watch. I just wish they did a better job with the sequels.
@@dreamguardian8320 Lol yeah the sequels did get more and more cheesy, but I still enjoy them. They always give a little bit (like Easter eggs or references) for people who stayed around.
Godzilla #1, King Kong #2, you did the right thing WatchMojo.
Sometimes I picture Godzilla battling it out with the other movie monsters like the giant Ants from Them!, Xenomorph,Tremors, etc
'Them' is one of the best monster movies ever made! I loved it as a kid! 'Creature Double Feature' anyone? There is, of course only one king and that will always be Godzilla!!!! Too bad that Smaug and 'The Smog Monster' didn't make the list, though. I also love Gamera and Mothra but my favorite will always be Rodan!
Surprised that Might Joe Young wasn't on here.
After Godzilla, Gamara was the best.
Yes, it is, I love gamera even more.
BIG G is the real deal no 🧢
He can take on anyone, anytime in an one on one battle and will come victorious no matter what kaiju he's facing
I do wish they would make more Godzilla with Mothra and King Caesar fighting bad monsters(maybe like Cloverfield big guy?)movies!!!Maybe just me,but that sounds kick butt!!!lol,hope and pray that you are all blessed and happy out there!!!❤😂🌈🥀🏵🌺🌻🌼⚘🌹❤
Ray Harryhausen creations were everywhere in the 60's and 70's, I still love a little-known western called "In the Valley of the Gwangi". Cowboys & Dinosaurs !!!!
Can you top 10 decepticon transformers pretty please?
You showed him in Godzilla vs. the Cosmic Monster but I wish you had mentioned him at least by name: King Caesar
that's a pretty BIG list!!!😮
You said it.
would have loved to see the clip of Kong shoving a tree down the throat of godzilla xD
Ending of “The mist” is just danngg man
He's the king of monsters for an obvious reason! ❤❤❤
Donald Trump in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. Has to be the biggest monster in any film 😂😂😂