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Was it director George Romero that truly set the stage and comparisons and made the zombie craze popular asI took a couple of days to consider my choice because I was stuck on the 'What Monster scared you as a kid?' criteria. For me, 'kid' is anybody before they hit 13. There were a few monsters that scared me before I reached adulthood, for instance James Carpenter's The Thing, but the criteria knocks those out of the running in my opinion.
Then there is the definition of monster itself. My all-time horror movie remains The Exorcist. Some people label Regan as a classic monster. I have said so in the past as well but I do not always see Regan as the monster in that film. I see her as The Devil personified. A.K.A. evil incarnate. Many movie monsters commit evil acts but Satan does what comes natural, lol.
Zombies did not have anything on The Blob. Zombies ate brains. They might eat your flesh if it was part of their diet. Glutenous zombies might even eat your entire body but then it takes itself out of the terror equation because it would be too full to move again.
The Blob? Oh. It will squeeze itself through plumbing to get you. It will slime underneath a door or window sill. "Well, it is just goo right, DE?" Yeah. Sure. It was goo that if even a drop of it stuck to your clothes or skin, you are dead. Forget dead. It would spread over your entire body. Afterwards, it would immediately dissolve everything. Flesh. Bones. It did not care. The more it ate, the larger it grew. Plus, it had the capability of moving FAST. One second, it is resting fifty yards away. The next second. Well. You are lunch by then.
Cold was its only weakness. Freezing turned it inert.
Just typing all this brings back fond memories. Excuse me while I go stuff a beach towel underneath my office door now.
it is in today's era Z-movies ?
I'm not familiar with Zombies before his era, (pre-Night of the Living Dead) and I strongly assumed he took it to a vastly new, blood gore-fest level and standard.
- Romero's 1978 Dawn of the Dead just flat out took me out by shock and fright so much that I simply could not sleep
the next following nights after I saw it.
- I didn't see the Exorcist until it many years after it appeared the theaters because there was much unbelievable
massive hype and fright about the Exorcist that I was not allowed to see it at my very young (vulnerable ?) age.
- Jaws' Ben Gardner's chewed up boat scene that scared the living heck outta Cooper - was my one most memorable, solo scene that shook me up all night too.
- Besides the previously mentioned movies I posted earlier, these following movies were also ones that I found the most
most chilling during my young early years growing up.
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