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Post by ck100 on May 9, 2020 5:17:08 GMT
Terminator 2
Jurassic Park
I mean outside of any CGI stuff.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on May 9, 2020 5:32:49 GMT
Anything with Ray Harryhausen
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Post by Prime etc. on May 9, 2020 5:47:37 GMT
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1931
King Kong 1933
Lifeforce
Predator
Alien 3 Lance Henricksen head
Jurassic Park not the cgi ;D
Mortal Kombat Goro
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Post by janntosh on May 9, 2020 5:57:50 GMT
The Thing
Gremlins
Alien and Aliens
Jurassic Park and The Lost World
The Fly
Hell most of Stan Winston and Rob Bottin’s stuff
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Post by James on May 9, 2020 22:16:38 GMT
The Fly and The Thing are the obvious answers. Some others:
The Blob (1988)
A Nightmare on Elm Street series
An American Werewolf in London
The Howling
Beetlejuice
Alien/Aliens
80s horror movies tend to rule in this department.
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Post by darksidebeadle on May 9, 2020 22:40:40 GMT
The two peaks of practical effects (and all effects) were in 1982
The Thing (for creatures)
Blade Runner (for world building)
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Post by mstreepsucks on May 10, 2020 1:32:59 GMT
Dune, i'm sorry.
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Post by twothousandonemark on May 10, 2020 3:20:07 GMT
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Post by maxwellperfect on May 10, 2020 3:38:18 GMT
Dagon
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Post by Captain Spencer on May 10, 2020 4:43:54 GMT
The Exorcist
Videodrome
Fright Night
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Post by stefancrosscoe on May 10, 2020 9:39:35 GMT
God, that first terminator endoskeleton, it just gives me the absolute chills, and when it slowly rises out of the flames, just as Sarah and Kyle finally believe they have covercomed this seemingly unstoppable beast, only then to meet up with this absolute nightmarish looking thing of hell, that is, well one of the truly most frightening and creepy movie scenes or shots I have ever seen, nor probably ever will. However, I sure do love some of the sketches or drawings that James Cameron did earlier on, I think back when he had his "dreams" during the filming of Piranha Part II (1981), and where said of having a fever dream, of this futuristic metallic beast that rises from the flames, and he then picked up his pencil or pen, and began what would later on become:    I mean, if Arnie was not truly a menacing and down right scary figure in the first place, to have chasing after you, then suddenly you have this creature, now people laugh and feel sorry for the Terminator movies, but back in the days they used to scare the living crap out of people.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on May 10, 2020 9:52:18 GMT
 Maybe not all up there with the very best of the best. However, the slowly "painful" and intense creepy transformation that of Eddie Quist in the first The Howling (1981) film, has to be up with the most disturbing and unsettling movie scenes of the 80s horror genre, and I just cannot believe so many people often critize it, because it is "too slow" or "too long". I guess they rather like their trashy cheap looking CGI stuff, that takes up 5 seconds of screen time, with absolute no tension nor atmosphere at all, so they can continue on looking down to their phones, every other second. But I would gladly take a 30 minutes werewolf transformation of people doing their very best with what they got of using practical effects, any day, or time, to hasty CGI effects.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on May 10, 2020 9:57:33 GMT
The Blob (1988) is also another great one, terrific special effects, truly gruesome and disgusting at times, and the victims deaths, look so painful and horrible also. 
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Post by janntosh on May 10, 2020 16:54:11 GMT
the animatronics in The Lost World are even better than the first
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2020 17:33:34 GMT
Maybe not all up there with the very best of the best. However, the slowly "painful" and intense creepy transformation that of Eddie Quist in the first The Howling (1981) film, has to be up with the most disturbing and unsettling movie scenes of the 80s horror genre, and I just cannot believe so many people often critize it, because it is "too slow" or "too long". I guess they rather like their trashy cheap looking CGI stuff, that takes up 5 seconds of screen time, with absolute no tension nor atmosphere at all, so they can continue on looking down to their phones, every other second. But I would gladly take a 30 minutes werewolf transformation of people doing their very best with what they got of using practical effects, any day, or time, to hasty CGI effects. That is still the creepiest werewolf transformation I've seen.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on May 10, 2020 18:42:32 GMT
What kind of makes it even more disturbing, is the fact that the character of Eddie Quist is not exactly mr. nice guy himself, and that in return, makes it just the more unsettling, because his potential victim, Karen White, so very well knows about his evil backround.
And then to stand face to face with such a monstrous creature earlier on in human form, then get to see his real animal form, that must have been completely devasating for poor Karen.
However, she would later on end up as a very sweet looking "puppy", at least compared to that of Eddie, if I am not mistaken? Which I guess was a way to show that the beast or wolf would somehow become a more extreme version of how ones different personality stood out, and Karen was just a very sweet woman, while Eddie, well the very opposite of that.
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