welcome to watch mojo and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
scariest cgi movie monsters
for this list we'll be looking at the
freakiest and most disturbing monsters
made out of computer generated imagery
we will also be including monsters that
were created from a combination of cgi
and motion capture warning a spoiler
alert is in effect did any of these
creatures give you nightmares let us
know in the comments below
number 10 clover cloverfield
while the monster's name was never
revealed in the first movie it has since
come to be known as clover a fascinating
found footage style movie cloverfield
plays out kind of like an american
version of godzilla
a massive creature emerges from the
atlantic ocean and begins wreaking havoc
on the streets of new york city nothing
is known about this creature it just
emerges one random night and wreaks
massive havoc the unknown makes clover
all the scarier as does its relative
lack of screen time tension builds and
builds and is intermittently broken by
brief glimpses of the monster who stomps
through the streets on four spider-like
legs imagination fills in the rest
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number nine imotep the mummy this
brendan fraser-led adventure film is a
remake of the 1932 original and it's got
the advantage of computers on its side
are you sure you want to be playing
around with this thing it's just a book
no harm ever came from
reading a book industrial light and
magic created the mummy using a
combination of cutting-edge digital
effects and motion capture the first
stage of the mummy was entirely digital
depicting a decayed corpse that had been
lying dormant for three thousand
it's a good years
protecting much over me there's a ship
of batteries over his flag it's quite
grotesque complete with long rotted
sinew and muscles perhaps the scariest
iteration of the mummy is in its final
stages in which is stuck between decay
and full regeneration this allows the
filmmakers to work some creative magic
like having imotep eat a scarab that's
crawled through his neck and into his
cheek
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number eight grendel beowulf i have
drunk
nothing
yet
but i will kill your monster
you will kill the monster did you hear
that
grendel will die costing an
extraordinary 150 million dollars
beowulf boasts awesome computer
animation director robert zemeckis
filmed live action actors on a massive
soundstage and used their motion capture
to create digital counterparts there was
another beowulf i heard tell of
who challenged brecker the mighty to a
swimming race out on the open sea chris
bin glover provided the mocap and facial
reference for grendel a disgusting and
deadly creature grendel's true nature is
ambiguous in the epic poem but the movie
depicts him as a towering humanoid
monster with unimaginable strength
the physical design of grendel is
nauseating as he appears half rotten
with exposed organs and goopy flesh
gross yes but it certainly fits the epic
and otherworldly tone of the story
number 7 moda the ritual props to the
design department for this one while the
ritual came and went in the fall of 2017
without much buzz the physical design of
moda may forever remain iconic
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in this film four friends go hiking in
northern sweden and eventually come
across a dangerous cult who worship the
deity moda moda is a yotan ambiguous
godlike creatures from norse mythology
moda's status as something otherworldly
is immediately apparent as it looks like
a cross between a moose a human and a
horse
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found nestled within dangling human arms
are two beady yellow eyes and staring
into them does not make for a pretty
picture whatever the heck motor is its
physical design is equal parts
horrifying and utterly captivating
number six guermul the host released in
2006 the host is a south korean monster
movie directed by bong joon ho the man
who would eventually give the world
parasite it went on to become a massive
hit which is in large part thanks to the
wonderful design of its creature
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inspired by a news article that a bong
had read the guomul or monster in korean
is some type of mutated amphibious
organism that attacks people near the
han river
it's certainly a creepy monster looking
much like a giant tadpole with
human-sized teeth it was created through
a combination of cgi animatronics and
modelling and their variety helped give
it a more realistic appearance
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number five the dementors the harry
potter franchise introduced in the
prisoner of azkaban and appearing
sporadically throughout the rest of the
series the dementors are the ghostly
guards of azkaban prison
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these are truly terrifying creatures
especially for young adult cinema they
suck the very happiness out of those
they attack and have the ability to
consume human souls through their mouths
they appear as little more than floating
black cloaks but their human-like mouths
and massive claws promise something far
more sinister underneath
the harry potter franchise is loaded
with memorable villains but the
dementors are arguably the most iconic
their nightmarish appearance combined
with their thematic link to depression
have long made them notable monsters of
cinema and literature
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number four the mutant bear annihilation
the concept behind this movie is that a
small group of scientists enter
something called the shimmer the shimmer
is a mysterious alien force that
randomly appeared on earth and began
mutating the animals within its confines
it's exactly the same as the flowers
look at the teeth
concentric rose
something here is making giant waves in
the gene pool most of the mutations are
appalling but the worst of them all is
the bear the bear's face has completely
withered away leaving behind an exposed
skull with an open nasal cavity but even
worse are the human elements involved
the bear has human teeth and a skull has
been grafted on the side of its own it
also mimics the deceased cass's voice
with a blood curdling scream
literally everything about this mutated
creature can induce nightmares
number three the t-rex jurassic park
t-rex
you said you've got a t-rex uh-huh
say again
we have a t-rex it's not an exaggeration
to say that steven spielberg helped
change the very fabric of blockbuster
cinema while cgi had been used before
jurassic park this movie helped
popularize the technique welcome
to jurassic park
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suffice to say audiences in 1993
couldn't believe what they were seeing
the t-rex is the undeniable star of the
show
it was made with the help of
cutting-edge cgi and a massive
animatronic that weighed nearly 18 000
pounds while the cg portions look a
little dated today they still have the
capacity to both terrify and amaze
jurassic park brought our boring biology
textbooks to thrilling life and everyone
loved the t-rex how could you not
number two the death angels a quiet
place the death angels are death infly
some of the scariest movie monsters in
recent memory hailing from a distant
galaxy the alien monsters are very tall
and lanky and move around with
incredible agility
outrunning one of them is simply out of
the question their heads are also quite
revolting as retractable armor plates
hide exposed muscle
perhaps worst of all is the very idea of
these creatures they attack anything
that makes noise and they pounce with
unbelievable
speed and ferocity
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survivors are forced to live in complete
silence even when the monsters aren't
physically present their danger is felt
and acknowledged and there's nothing
scarier than that
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number one
shelob the lord of the rings the return
of the king peter jackson made the epic
to end all epics with the lord of the
rings and one of its battles was nothing
short of cinematic monster magic as
aragorn and crew are dealing with
sauron's army in minas tirith frodo and
sam are battling a giant spider named
shelob
inside
spiders are certainly not a new type of
cinematic villain but shelob is
different her layer is horrifying filled
with walls of sticky webs and the bones
of long decayed corpses
her size is immense and she moves with
both devastating speed and deadly
silence she nearly gets the best of both
hobbits but sam is able to puncture her
stomach with sting
shelob is a fantastic cgi creation and
she still looks convincingly terrifying
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