Look, I get it.
It’s incredibly expensive to make movies.
With a lot of indie directors focusing on substance, instead of over-using special effects,
or blood and gore.
However, some movies lack the budget and the quality, and the result is usually something
so bad, it’s good, and then it’s bad again.
Even better, usually these so bad they’re good, they’re bad movies contain monsters
that are oh so ridiculous, and that is exactly what I want to discuss.
So today on Top 5 Scary Videos, I’m going to be counting down our list of the Top 5
Strangest Horror Movie Monsters.
Let’s jump in.
5 The Laundry Machine - The Mangler Directed by the legendary filmmaker Tobe Hooper
who blessed us with Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Mangler was released back in 1995 and
follows a series of gruesome accidents that lead an officer to believe that a laundry
machine is possessed by a bloodthirsty demon.
Now, from the off this film was destined for greatness considered it’s based upon the
Stephen King's short story of the same name which appeared in his inaugural short story
collection called Night Shift.
Unfortunately, The Mangler fell fast and it fell hard, which hurts to say considering
who was involved in the movie.
But this film was truly, truly terrible.
I mean, a giant industrial laundry machine is possessed by a demon...and then eats people.
Ridiculous, right?
It also stars Robert Englund who plays a character who literally feeds people to the laundry
machine in order to serve the devil -- why would Freddy Krueger stoop so low?
I have no idea.
But honestly, this movie is ridiculous, perhaps the most ridiculous on our list, and that’s
saying a lot, especially considering what’s coming up on our list.
4 The Stuff - The Stuff Oh, The Stuff.
I almost forgot this movie even existed, but god bless Top 5 for bringing it back to me
in the best way possible.
The Stuff, directed by Larry Cohen, follows several railroad workers who discover a yogurt-like
white substance bubbling out of the ground.
Now, of course, folks begin to try this substance, which is absolutely delicious and quite possibly
lethal.
I mean, it is lethal, that’s literally the entire plot of the film.
Now, what we quickly discover is that The Stuff is actually a living, parasitic, sentient
organism that gradually takes over the brain of the people who ingest it; it then mutates
those people into zombie-like creatures, before consuming them from the inside and leaving
them as literal empty shells.
Fun times.
Now, The Stuff is part satire, part goofy horror, which is something you should definitely
know going in because this film is utterly bizarre, and unlike any other film on our
list...scratch that, unlike any film I’ve ever seen.
It’s goofy, but that’s what makes it so great, and The Stuff might just be the weirdest
movie monster to ever grace our screens.
3 Belial - Basket Case This 1982 horror is a Top 5 favorite, and
one I have mentioned a handful of times on this channel, specifically when discussing
Belial -- a character we’ll get to in a few short moments.
Basket Case was directed by Frank Henenlotter and follows Duane Bradley who arrives in New
York City with a locked wicker basket.
What’s inside?
Well, it just happens to be his deformed conjoined twin brother, Belial -- with the two having
been surgically separated at an early age against their will -- with Belial deeply resenting
being cut from his normal-looking brother.
The twins then seek revenge against the doctors who separated them.
Now, it is Belial’s appearance that is truly haunting, I mean, he definitely isn’t a
supermodel, not even close -- and not only that, but his homicidal tendencies don’t
make him a great dude either.
Now, although the movie is a classic 80’s horror, meaning, it’s campy and ridiculous
funny -- this film is actually genuinely scary in some places -- and quite simply, Belial
is the scariest monster we have on our list, when it comes to looks that is.
2 The Death Bed - Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977)
Now, our other numbers were insane, but this is by far one of the strangest horror movie
monsters I have ever encountered in cinema, and it comes to us from Dead Bed: The Bed
That Eats.
Released back in 1977 and directed, produced, and written by George Barry, this horror flick
follows the story of a demon who fell in love with a woman and conjured up a bed on which
to make love to her.
The women ultimately died during the act, and in his grief the demon wept tears of blood
which fell on the bed and caused it to come to life.
Shook.
Now, here’s where it gets spooky.
While the demon rests, the bed’s evil is contained, but, once every ten years the demon
will wake, giving the bed power to physically eat human beings.
Not only does the bed eat its unsuspecting victims, it literal dissolves them into green
foam.
Now, if anyone is interested, I will happily detail for you all the bed’s Breakfast,
Lunch, Dinner, maybe even Dessert.
You want that?
Well you’re getting it anyway.
For Breakfast: A young couple making love on the bed.
Lunch: Three women who stumble across the home.
Dinner: One woman who gets snared in the sheets and eaten.
Desserts: Is a death, but the death of the bed itself.
Shocker I know.
Now, I don’t want to detail too much more, because this film is honestly worth a watch.
It just might make you have some trust issues with your own bed.
1 Brain Monster - Fiend Without A Face (1958) Directed by Arthur Crabtree and released all
the way back in 1958, Fiend Without A Face is absolutely insane!
This horror, sci-fi follows invisible atomic monsters who attack a U.S. Armed Forces base
as well as the local residents.
Worse still, these atomic monsters feed on atomic power and then steal human brains and
spinal columns to use as bodies in order to multiply.
If you hadn’t guessed it already, the screenplay written by Herbert J. Leder was based upon
Amelia Reynolds Long’s 1930 short story “The Thought Monster” which was originally
published in the March 1930 issue of Weird Tales.
Now, if you’re into classic 50’s horror movies, then I highly recommend Fiend Without
A Face -- though the description may something different, the film does actually take itself
seriously, and is a very solid horror movie -- for the 50’s.
Now, what makes this film absolutely terrifying, yet equally nuts, are the Brain Monsters.
Monsters that are quite literally comprised of brains and the missing spinal cords stolen
from their victims.
Their spinal cords have become flexible, even sprouting tendrils.
Not only that, but these mutations have also allowed the brain-spine monster to move incredibly
quick -- even leap distances -- with each creature having also developed a pair of small
eyes at the ends of extended eye stalks.
Horrifying!
Well, there we have it!
Do you guys agree with our list?
Were there any movie monsters that we missed?
Leave us all your thoughts and feelings in the comments down below and perhaps we can
do a part 2.
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