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    B-String Monsters That Deserve a Turn in the Limelight
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    10/25/09

    In reply to B-String Monsters That Deserve a Turn in the Limelight
    Not a monster per se, but I think Coyote, the trickster god of many Amerindian tales would make an interesting villain. He'd basically be an Amerindian version of the Joker but with a perverse sense of justice. #moviemonsters
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    10/22/09

    In reply to B-String Monsters That Deserve a Turn in the Limelight
    Egyptian themed monsters never get old either. #moviemonsters
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    10/22/09

    In reply to B-String Monsters That Deserve a Turn in the Limelight
    I like the Lich. Lot's of possibility with that one. The bad beasty in My name is Bruce was sort of a Chinese Lich. #moviemonsters
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    Image of Molesworth Molesworth
    10/22/09

    In reply to B-String Monsters That Deserve a Turn in the Limelight
    Dropbears. #moviemonsters
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    Image of golemnist golemnist
    10/22/09

    In reply to B-String Monsters That Deserve a Turn in the Limelight
    I want to see golems. Lots and lots of golems. And faeries; the scary, take your children away in the night faeries. Also, Elder Gods. #moviemonsters
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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    10/22/09

    @golemnist: I'd be down with faeries in the Celtic sense. Scary, good looking, some evil some good. This sounds like a perfect match. #moviemonsters
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    Image of mipakr mipakr
    10/22/09

    In reply to B-String Monsters That Deserve a Turn in the Limelight
    Always hoped Gargoyles (Disney's Animated) would make it to the big screen. #moviemonsters
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    Image of TheGreenRanger TheGreenRanger
    10/22/09

    In reply to B-String Monsters That Deserve a Turn in the Limelight
    Not that eager to see demon raping and genitalia... But! I am eager to see the Jackalope! The most fearsome...well, sort of fearsome, some people fear bunnies, anyway, the most fearsome creature to ever roam the north american wilderness! GASP! OHHHH! AHHHH! #moviemonsters
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    10/22/09

    @TheGreenRanger: For a really monstrous critter from the tales of the American Frontier the Hodag is a great candidate. It was a voracious predator with a tiny mouth and no teeth. to hunt it spun around like a tornado with razor-sharp claws slamming into a moose or wagon train or whatever. ZzZzZzZinnng!Then the Hodag would slurp up its pureed prey.

    I always suspected that Robert McKimson might have been inspired by those old stories when he created the Tasmanian Devil cartoon character. #moviemonsters
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    10/22/09

    @Grey_Area: Dangnabit!! I've been tring to find a citation for this critter. What I'm thinking of may not be the Hodag. I recall in my distant youth a book of my grandfather's that had all these great stories from the North Woods with Fearsome critters and other oddities like the Hodag, theSquonk, the Axehandle hound, Hidebehind, Splintercat and suchlike.

    It might have been this book: fearsomecreaturesofthelumberwo...    .com/">[www.fearsomecreaturesofthelumberwo....com] Highly recommended for folklore fans and monster lovers of all types.

    And indeed on pg 33 is THE WHIRLING WHIMPUS! Just the monster I was thinking of.
    I wuv my interwebs!!
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    Image of SeeingI SeeingI
    10/22/09

    In reply to B-String Monsters That Deserve a Turn in the Limelight
    The Ringwraiths from "LOTR" were basically litches, weren't they? #moviemonsters
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    Image of mondojohnson mondojohnson
    10/22/09

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    The Wendigo had a star turn in the eponymous film Wendigo (2001). It stars little Dewey from "Malcom in the Middle." #moviemonsters
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    Image of Yellowphant Yellowphant
    10/22/09

    @mondojohnson: Wendigo is an awesome horror movie. Right from the opening scene, where a vacationing family accidentally hits a deer fleeing from hunters and an argument ensues, there's a heavy feeling of dread. The tension builds when when they get to their cabin in the woods, find old bullet holes in the walls and realize that the belligerent hunters are their neighbors down the street.

    Then the whole supernatural angle kicks in. (Or does it? The viewer is left to decide.) I have no problem with how the Wendigo looks. It's memorable and weird.

    It may be cheaply made movie, sure, but Wendigo anything but cheap.
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    Image of rek rek
    10/22/09

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    No love for sea monsters? #moviemonsters
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    Image of SeeingI SeeingI
    10/22/09

    @rek: Hear, hear, we need a really good sea monster movie. #moviemonsters
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    Image of ThinkandDrive ThinkandDrive
    10/22/09

    In reply to B-String Monsters That Deserve a Turn in the Limelight
    Amen to the Wendigo! There was a movie in 2001 starring Jake Weber (of Medium) that very briefly touched on the Wendigo mythos. (IMDB link [www.imdb.com]) It was more suspense thriller than monster movie, but was still a good watch.

    When I was in the Boy Scouts, my father scared us sh!tl3ss with stories of the Wendigo. Sure, they were Americanized-campfire adaptation, but they sowed a real fear of the thing and made the real ledgends that much more interesting now that I'm older.

    Which reminds me, I've got a baby boy on the way. (Makes note to tell him about the Wendigo when he's nine.) #moviemonsters
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    10/22/09

    @ThinkandDrive: Ravenos touched it, and not briefly. As they said, it pops up everywhere. It's cool enough, it just needs a major film.
    It was also in one of the good Fear Itself episodes #moviemonsters
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    10/22/09

    @Dirk Anger: Ravenous remains one of my favorite films of all time, and the Wendigo mythos I think is so disturbingly alluring that I'd eat the flesh of another just to see more of it in Hollywood. #moviemonsters
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    10/24/09

    @Danj3ris: check the Fear Itself episode, it was very cool. Unlike the Supernatural one #moviemonsters
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    Image of bookwench bookwench
    10/22/09

    In reply to B-String Monsters That Deserve a Turn in the Limelight
    There was a fantastic analysis of the wendigo in a book by Margaret Atwood called "Strange Things: the Malevolent North in Canadian Literature". As usual for her, there's a bit of feminist critique in there too, but it's still an amazing and amusing look at the wendigo myth. #moviemonsters
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    Image of pablobowden000 pablobowden000
    10/21/09

    In reply to B-String Monsters That Deserve a Turn in the Limelight
    Rakshasas.
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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    10/22/09

    @pablobowden000: Duck Tales? #moviemonsters
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    Image of Starwatcher Starwatcher
    10/21/09

    In reply to B-String Monsters That Deserve a Turn in the Limelight
    Some good possibilities:

    Tikiloshe

    Pukwudgie

    Adaro (the dark side of mermaid lore--he kills people by shooting fish at them; what's cooler than that?)

    Tikbalang (a crazy-ass lookin' horse monster.) #moviemonsters
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    10/22/09

    @Starwatcher: If somebody wanted to to make a movie with a lees-known monster, he just have to check Supernatural. Dozens of them there.

    Are the fish swordfish? or at least frozen? #moviemonsters
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    Image of Starwatcher Starwatcher
    10/21/09

    In reply to B-String Monsters That Deserve a Turn in the Limelight
    Take your pick from the Monstropedia #moviemonsters
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