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Monsters you have found creepy but others haven't
Originally Posted by CoalHillJanitor:
“Tom Baker.”
“Tom Baker.”
Actually... that's a great post. When I was young I always found the Doctor creepy. All of them. Indeed, I considered it one of his character traits. He was the hero, yes, but he wasn't Mr Cuddles. I'm not sure I'd have found any of the modern Doctors creepy. Ecclestone was a bit sharp at times, and you know you shouldn't give him too much crap but maybe a little too blokeish to really be creepy, Tennant is your friend's older brother that your sister fancies and Matt Smith is your imaginary friend.
Capaldi potentially has a creepy look so I hope that trait does resurface.
Jon Petwee's face in the opening credits sequence is creepy as hell.....
And doesn't even really look much like him, how did they manage that?
And doesn't even really look much like him, how did they manage that?
Peg dolls - maybe not scary, but certainly creepy creatures from nightmare. And very immaginative too.
The Kandyman. I know he's one of those things that gets mocked, but I always found him very creepy. I love "The Happiness Patrol", one of my favorite Seventh Doctor stories, but I do admit that it was failed in terms of sets designs and costumes. If those aspects of the story were done better, I'm sure the Kandyman could have come terrifying.
The Fendahl.
I saw someone describe it as a woman in gold with eyes painted on her eyelids just swishing her arms about.
But I found her quite intimidating. There's something quite eerie about strange eyes.
I saw someone describe it as a woman in gold with eyes painted on her eyelids just swishing her arms about.
But I found her quite intimidating. There's something quite eerie about strange eyes.
Originally Posted by CoalHillJanitor:
“Tom Baker.”
“Tom Baker.”
http://www.tom-baker.co.uk/assets_cm...strange_cu.jpg
When Miss Evangelists revealed her distorted uploaded face to Donna in Forest of the Dead' I actually had nightmares. It really played on my mind. Much like the evil elves in The Polar Express. Demons' the lot of them.
Originally Posted by wizzywick:
“When Miss Evangelists revealed her distorted uploaded face to Donna in Forest of the Dead' I actually had nightmares. It really played on my mind. Much like the evil elves in The Polar Express. Demons' the lot of them.”
“When Miss Evangelists revealed her distorted uploaded face to Donna in Forest of the Dead' I actually had nightmares. It really played on my mind. Much like the evil elves in The Polar Express. Demons' the lot of them.”
I remember Miss Evangelista's reveal being really creepy.
And I agree with The Polar Express. It's such a cool concept for a film but the characters all suffer from 'uncanny valley'. They look slightly off.
For me though, I found the monster in 42 to be quite creepy. I think it was the only time that we've seen The Doctor properly fearful for his life for more than a brief scream-at-Daleks scene in NuWho.
And farting gags aside, the concept of the Slitheen is very creepy and freaks me out. Skinning humans, including children in SJA and wearing skins as suits.
Originally Posted by Abomination:
“I remember Miss Evangelista's reveal being really creepy.
And I agree with The Polar Express. It's such a cool concept for a film but the characters all suffer from 'uncanny valley'. They look slightly off.
For me though, I found the monster in 42 to be quite creepy. I think it was the only time that we've seen The Doctor properly fearful for his life for more than a brief scream-at-Daleks scene in NuWho.
And farting gags aside, the concept of the Slitheen is very creepy and freaks me out. Skinning humans, including children in SJA and wearing skins as suits.”
“I remember Miss Evangelista's reveal being really creepy.
And I agree with The Polar Express. It's such a cool concept for a film but the characters all suffer from 'uncanny valley'. They look slightly off.
For me though, I found the monster in 42 to be quite creepy. I think it was the only time that we've seen The Doctor properly fearful for his life for more than a brief scream-at-Daleks scene in NuWho.
And farting gags aside, the concept of the Slitheen is very creepy and freaks me out. Skinning humans, including children in SJA and wearing skins as suits.”
Agreed. I found the monster in 42 very creepy, particularly the way it reduced people to shadows, and Ten's agony and terror in that (very underrated IMO) episode was harrowing.
I find the Adipose quite freaky - the image of poor Stacey dissolving into the little horrors was pretty disturbing IMO.
All of them very effective though and I'm looking forward to some hopefully very scary villains in Series 8.
What about the entity in Midnight from 2008? Every time it knocked, I nearly wet myself!! That was quite a scary episode. Especially when Lesley Sharp screamed, "It's coming for me!"
At times I had to put a cushion in front of my face. It was like the very first time I saw the Daleks. I saw them when I was ten, in a repeat on BBC2. Scary as hell!!
I would say it's possibly the scariest episode of DW since 2005 up to now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp2OKgTJX9E
Especially when Lesley Sharp screamed, "It's coming for me!"At times I had to put a cushion in front of my face. It was like the very first time I saw the Daleks. I saw them when I was ten, in a repeat on BBC2. Scary as hell!!
I would say it's possibly the scariest episode of DW since 2005 up to now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp2OKgTJX9E
Another vote for the Kandyman. And I wasn't that young at the time. 
Same season, Ian Reddington as the Chief Clown in TGSITG. Brrrrr. Then again, I know Clowns freaking people out is not uncommon.
Brilliant performance.
Edit: Admittedly not technically a Monster.
Same season, Ian Reddington as the Chief Clown in TGSITG. Brrrrr. Then again, I know Clowns freaking people out is not uncommon.
Brilliant performance.
Edit: Admittedly not technically a Monster.
Originally Posted by Abomination:
“I remember Miss Evangelista's reveal being really creepy.
And I agree with The Polar Express. It's such a cool concept for a film but the characters all suffer from 'uncanny valley'. They look slightly off.
For me though, I found the monster in 42 to be quite creepy. I think it was the only time that we've seen The Doctor properly fearful for his life for more than a brief scream-at-Daleks scene in NuWho.”
“I remember Miss Evangelista's reveal being really creepy.
And I agree with The Polar Express. It's such a cool concept for a film but the characters all suffer from 'uncanny valley'. They look slightly off.
For me though, I found the monster in 42 to be quite creepy. I think it was the only time that we've seen The Doctor properly fearful for his life for more than a brief scream-at-Daleks scene in NuWho.”
I remember getting a text from a friend during that episode. "Is the Doctor going to regenerate??" My mind knew he wouldn't, but my heart was still in my mouth. They absolutely nail it, those scenes are chilling. 42 comes under flack for being a bit of a runaround, but I think it's a very good run-around. Pacey, with what I think is the first use of All The Strange Strange Creatures, outside the Lazarus trailer. Never lets up, absolutely nails the mortal terror - but still finds time for moments of personal reflection. The silent ejector pod is perfectly judged. All the arc stuff works, too - among the first flashes of a series 5 type thing, where the plot is explicitly threaded through the stories, rather than little words you happen to catch like "Torchwood" and "Medusa Cascade."
Catchphrase doesn't quite work, and there's some very sketchy genre lines - I seem to remember a younger girl (Abbie Learner?) who gets some really thankless victim dialogue towards the start. But I think it's a cracking episode, and Chibnall's best.
I know when I was really young and I used to watch Doctor Who on and off, that two Season 17 monsters scared the life out of me. One was Scaroth, especially when he pulled his human mask off, and the other was Erato from The Creature From The Pit.
At the time it looked like a very frightening green blob, now it just looks like a huge....well, you get the idea!
Just shows how much things have moved on since then!
At the time it looked like a very frightening green blob, now it just looks like a huge....well, you get the idea!
Just shows how much things have moved on since then!
Originally Posted by The_Judge_:
“"Hey, who turned out the lights?"”
“"Hey, who turned out the lights?"”
Originally Posted by daveyboy7472:
“I know when I was really young and I used to watch Doctor Who on and off, that two Season 17 monsters scared the life out of me. One was Scaroth, especially when he pulled his human mask off, and the other was Erato from The Creature From The Pit.
At the time it looked like a very frightening green blob, now it just looks like a huge....well, you get the idea!
Just shows how much things have moved on since then!
”
“I know when I was really young and I used to watch Doctor Who on and off, that two Season 17 monsters scared the life out of me. One was Scaroth, especially when he pulled his human mask off, and the other was Erato from The Creature From The Pit.
At the time it looked like a very frightening green blob, now it just looks like a huge....well, you get the idea!
Just shows how much things have moved on since then!
”
Scaroth, the Vashta Nerada suit creature and the reveal of Miss Evangelista all share a common idea of being something we expect to be a human being, even someone we've already come to know, and then suddenly turning out to be... not.
That makes for good creepiness.
