Favorite monster

[rocklobster]

I think deep down, we all like to be scared. Otherwise, horror movies wouldn't be so popular. So what's your favorite monster?
Here are some of mine:
Weeping Angels (I'm never looking at a statue the same way again)
Manticores
Basilisk (or cockatrice)
Griffins
Frankenstein's monster (note: he never had a name)
The Cryptkeeper (he had some great stories to tell, didn't he, boys and ghouls?)
The Vaultkeeper (almost as good as the Cryptkeeper)

[Atria35]

I don't find Frankenstein's monster to be that frightening - I pitied him 95% of the time.

Dracula, though, he's scary.
Reavers from Firefly. Terrifying.

[Xeno]

I don't find Frankenstein's monster to be that frightening - I pitied him 95% of the time.

I have to agree. I always found the real monster in that story to be the regular humans and not the creation.

Anyway, I'd have to say the Weeping Angels and Night of the Living Dead-era zombies.

[Broly Ultimatrix]

Alucard just because of what he is in retrospect to vampires of today and zombies to name the normal monsters i am afraid of mostly for their damage output and nigh immortality. I do have to say Diclonii from Elfen Lied also scare me because most of them arn't just powerful and such but are also a tad sadistic and vengful which makes for a brutal death at their vectors.

[armeck]

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[ChristianKitsune]

Monsters that I find awesome and adorable in some cases:
Dragons
Griffins
Were Wolves (Were anythings actually)

Monsters that terrify me:
The Angels from Dr. Who
Zombies

[K. Ayato]

I don't really consider dragons, vampires, or werewolves as monsters. I see them more as misunderstood. Granted, it'd be frightening to encounter a member of either group with clear intents to hurt me.

That being said, I think the following are quite terrifying:

Vashta Nerada (Knowing any shadow might be a swarm in disguise is quite unnerving)
Saturnyes (aka the Vampires of Venice)
Nazgul
Reagan MacNeil

[Vilo159]

I am rarely scared by monsters, I always end up fascinated by the context theyre in and I get distracted from the scary part. Like zombies, I find more of a fascinating thing to study than scary. And mythical creatures are generally awesome in some way or another, so thats not a problem. If it is scary to me, its usually just the context and not the monster. The scary ones are the ones with no context, no reason, nothing to quantify, no rhyme or reason to them, just there for the sole purpose if being terrifying. I can't think of any good examples right now, though... hallucination-type things, maybe, if that helps. The Silence from Doctor Who, there we go! I havent actually seen the show, but I've been told about it, and it sounds like something I'd be afraid of.
That being said, things from horror video games are always terrifying. They always make them absolutely terrifying, you always have amnesia or something and you never know what exactly your doing and its never got any context other than scary.
Edit: And urban legend things, theyre like that a lot! Like Slender Man and myths like that.

[Wolfsong]

My favorite monster...is my elder brother.

Hehe! Actually, zombies and things don't bug me much. What gets to me, however, are vampires.
...so why ever did I play Castlevania?

[SierraLea]

It's funny, because I've looked at all the traditional monsters and there's something super cool about each of them!
I have to say my favorite monsters are dragons. There's so many different types, and different authors can portray them totally differently. I actually gave a speech on the subject once!
I don't know if you can really call them monsters though. Traditionally, sure, but modern writers tend to give them more character than just mindless instincts.
One monster I sincerely am freaked out by is Golemn from the lord of the rings. I don't care who he was before, that character freaks me out!

[Vilo159]

give them more character than just mindless instincts.
One monster I sincerely am freaked out by is Golemn from the lord of the rings. I don't care who he was before, that character freaks me out!

*Gollum
If Gollum is anything in the whole world, he's definitely not a creature running on mindless instincts. He's not a monster, he's a dynamic character, sentient and all. But I will give you that he can be considered freaky.
That said, I agree with the first half of your post wholeheartedly.

[K. Ayato]

Try watching Criminal Minds. There's a different class of monster right there.

[Oddood198]

Ooh, there are some good ones named here. Nazgul, heck yes.

Spring-Heel Jack is a figure that has recently caught my attention, quite a mystery, that one, very interesting to anyone with an active imagination.

BEN. From the Majora's Mask creepypasta. Reading that at midnight in pitch blackness... Excellent. And I haven't even played the game.

[PatchOfSerenity]

Vampires
zombies
demon like monsters in Dark Souls...they really freak me out.

[Atria35]

demon like monsters in Dark Souls...they really freak me out.

After looking that up, I am quite sad that I don't own a PS3 and cannot play this game because it looks AMAZING. And quite scary, indeed.

[Psycho Molos]

I submit Black Lantern Firestorm, now known as Deathstorm. He's one sadistic entity and still exists after Blackest Night because of his link to the Firestorm Matrix. As the corpse of the now ressurected Ronnie Raymond, he has the experience of that incarnation of Firestorm and during one memorable moment, encountering the pair then currently being Firestorm (Jason Rush and Gen Hewitt), he separated the pair and then forced Jason to merge with him, forcing the formula for table salt from his conciousness and used it to turn Gen into table salt, making Jason watch the murder.

[Mr. SmartyPants]

Humanity.

"We stopped being afraid of monsters under the bed when we realized they were inside of us."

Or as Ivan Karamazov puts it: “I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”

[Neane]

After looking that up, I am quite sad that I don't own a PS3 and cannot play this game because it looks AMAZING. And quite scary, indeed.

You should check out Demon Souls instead, it is not as forgiving as Dark Souls.

Also, Mr. SmartyPants beat me for my favorite monster. Other than that...the only one that actually scared me was that monster that appears in that Hurricane episode of X-files.

[Yuki-Anne]

Humanity.

You stole mine. Humans scare me more than anything else.

[anlptgtsg]

Godzilla.

[sailorsaturn]

Slender Man has been the only fictional monster that has really scared me. I sometimes fear monster in movies and books and such, but only for the character's sake.
My second most feared monster (Which I don't really fear at all) would be the sister from the Doctor Who Episode, Family of Blood. At the end of the episode the brother says something along the lines of "He trapped my sister in a mirror, every mirror. If you ever see something move behind you in a mirror - even for just an instant - it's her, it's always her." I see things move behind me when I know nothing is there ALL the time so I think of her often.

[Michael Lance]

Like Mr. Smartypants said, "the monster within" has to be my favorite concept of all when it comes to monsters.

[Zeldafan2]

Godzilla.

This.

[DaughterOfZion]

Dagre from the webcomic The Meek is pretty freaky looking not to mention pretty insidious.

As for monsters from regular mythology, I've always liked the Jersey Devil for some reason.

[HetalianKatana4]

The weeping angels. Freaky but I love their design and concept

[Wolfsong]

I wanted to add Weeping Angels to the list.
Brr...

[Okami]

Dogman.

[rstewart424]

Zombies are really the only things and I don't really know why. I guess it just freaks me out because they can come in hordes.

[KnightOfFive]

Godzilla
Hollows(In Bleach's first season specifically)
Dracula(especially if played by Christopher Lee)
Hormunculi(Fullmetal Alchemist)
Rakshasa(generally creepy, especially in Kolchack: the Night Stalker)

[AdriTan]

I see I'm not the only one who immediately thought of weeping angels when they read the title! Weeping angels are my all time favorite!

And I have to agree with sailorsaturn when it comes to the girl from the family of blood. Seriously that's pretty darn creepy especially since I'm sure most people have had that feeling of seeing something in their mirror in the corner of their eyes