11 Grotesque But Creatively Sophisticated 80's Monsters Explained in Detail

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Do they still exist?

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This channel got more mojo than WatchMojo.

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If WatchMojo actually found the time to be bothered to do some research they might still be around ;-)

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@@frankboogaard88 They are still around, and they still have more subscribers than this channel.

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Pretended I wasn't aware they cared

[@deathdefying1472]

Man the 80’s really had some crazy monsters!!

[@aquariandawn4750]

Cocaine is a helluva drug

[@garthdavis4320]

We had it good back then.

[@stevenmorris2234]

It’s so cool I love it!!!

[@stevenmorris2234]

Except for Tetsu The Iron Man. That movie was sickening with that one scene. Which I rather not say.

[@shallendor]

It was a great time to be a teen!

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You folks are the most forgiving reviewers I've ever seen!

[@eXistenZ1864]

Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a love letter to Cronenberg, the director was a big fan of him. This movie is a classic!

[@johnryder1713]

They wanted Donnie and Gretchen to be watching CHUD in Donnie Darko in the cinema but it couldn't be determined who owned that movie and it was Evil Dead instead

[@shainewhite2781]

Love 80's Sci-fi Horror films!

[@shikniwho7215]

those movies can be really fun but it can also be super weird, a lot with dark humor and also really love to add creature noise into thing like Robot Cop's mech...

[@brpadington]

I love how good practical effects still look good years later while CG always looks cheesy.

[@scilin8679]

I'm always ranting about modern movie cg effects and how they just look so fake compared to old school practical effects, my co workers are sick of it heh

[@Red1Green2Blue3]

idk, many of them look terrible too

[@brpadington]

@@Red1Green2Blue3 A good practical effect will always look good. Bad ones still exist.

[@Agonis100]

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[@niganeherin3365]

I’ve always loved creature flicks. The Relic and The Thing are my favorite aside from Aliens and Jaws.

[@kellyschiller8166]

Read The Relic....

[@jeffumbach]

8:10 something hard to spot on the Rawhead Rex costume is the second set of inner jaws like a Xenomorph from Aliens, but as they don't extend out they're only visible in a few brief close-ups.

[@shikniwho7215]

a lot of movie try to be the next Xenomorph and The Thing back then.

[@punce]

Those are actually just the teeth of the actor in the suit.

[@paulforder591]

The 80s horror movies were original for their time--and often underrated. The one I'd like to see is "Q--The Winged Serpent (1982) for its stop--motion effects. 😁🎥

[@IWasaTeenageTeenWolf]

I swear the Gargoyles look like the predecessors for the Feast Beast.

[@iamgreg3834]

Kinda seems like the whole idea was ripped off from it honestly...

[@ColorfulHelices]

@@iamgreg3834 big agree. Basically the exact same

[@iamgreg3834]

@@ColorfulHelices in fairness. All the feast movies are basically parodies anyways. But yes. Some stark stark similarities haha

[@christopherengel7436]

Being a child of the 80's I've seen most of these "gems". Don't get me wrong I have varying degrees of love for them. Personal favorites- Leviathan-that monster was gross, The Hidden- bizarre alien & underated, Q!-a masterpiece, the monster almost looks real! with a great eclectic cast Richard Roundtree & David Carradine! Plus the Mafia! and Aztecs (or Mayans I forget), and Iron Man. There is nothing I can say. Except WOW! Everyone who watches this list should watch it at least once.

[@NakedSnake85]

Thanks Marvelous videos🤗 I get so many great movie recommendations from these lists.

[@DarkJesterCyn]

Anyone else notice that Marv from Home Aline (Daniel Stern) was in more than one of these creature flicks?

[@meganmisaki4429]

I always thought Raw Head Rex always looked kinda like the Rock 😅

[@antonkovalenko364]

I love Rawhead Rex the movie, but the description laid out by Clive Barker in the story..... 😉

[@ryuusaki7309]

Sweet ya give good recommendations time to watch

[@wolfwing1]

deadly spawn is one of those movies I wondered if it really existed, I watched it years ago, but never found it again :>

[@darkone666]

My childhood, loved it.

[@admyregryphn9005]

I feel like the Feast Creatures were inspired by Gargoyles! The design similarities are hard to ignore!

[@tonyisgolden5136]

I think this is a pretty decent list.

[@jermainewilliams7108]

I Love ❤️ the Classic 80’s 90’s & 00’s Creature Feature Movies ✊🏾✌🏾❤️🥷🏽🦸🏾‍♀️🪐🌌🌎

[@yoda908]

I see alot of inspiration of Firebrand in the design of the gargoyle.

[@kellyschiller8166]

The nest was SICK!!!

[@shallendor]

C.H.U.D. 2 is a good horror comedy! Bud the CHUD forever!

[@dfailsthemost]

Super entertaining. Still remember first seeing it late at night. Fun movie.

[@amymartineau4351]

Bud the C.H.U.D was awesome.

[@Popcultureguy3000]

@@amymartineau4351 THEIR NOT CHUD’s, THEY’RE ZOMBIES!! It never should have been called Chud 2.

[@amymartineau4351]

@@Popcultureguy3000 Well maybe not but that is what they named so. Still a funny entertaining movie.

[@snakehandler87]

💚 deadly spawn and c.h.u.d. 💚 and all these really..love this channel, great for nostalgia feels

[@beccawilson1368]

Q was a favorite as a kid, so was razorback. (i live in arkansas home of the razorbacks) basketcase and chud were scary as heck. (i watched a lot of B grade horror movies as a kid)

[@crimsonstorm34]

The witch from the 1986 movie "House" not on this list? What about the humans with the stuff in them in the movie "The Stuff"?

[@dubblbarrlbuttrscotch7011]

It's pretty well known that Clive barker hated how rawhead rex turned out

[@Medicgames94]

Does anyone here remember the closet monster? From the movie Monster In The Closet that was pretty good

[@DavidRoarty]

the creature in Monster in the Closet was played by Kevin Peter Hall(Without Warning, Predator 1 & 2, and Harry and the Hendersons)

[@robertjcarr123]

Basket case and razorback are both great film's and of course I love C.H.U.D

[@robertlewis78]

Bruh that roach movie tho looks insane 😭😭😭

[@biker944]

I love 80s monsters

[@billcox8870]

I had a lot of fun watching 1980s horror movies.😁👍

[@matthewzablocki5310]

Q also has a plume of feathers around its neck near the head. Hence the name Quintzelcoatal the plumed feathered serpent.

[@mydasdriver]

Even Clive Barker said Rawhead Rex was terrible and not worth watching!

[@SwankyKitteh82]

The movie poster for The Nest was great on its own, lol.

[@hailmammonmoments7568]

‘Q-the winged serpent’ is painfully dated, but the premise is so simultaneously brilliant and absurd that I’m still hoping for a reboot. 😅

[@jorgealbertorodriguezvilla8773]

Los mejores monstruos están en las buenas películas de los 80's

[@kennethmarks886]

I love every one of these movies, the nest scared the fuck out of me as a kid. Especially when that chicks father started mutating into the wereroach. I love that movie. The deadly spawn, raw head rex, chud, the terror within.. These or all great creature movies, the hidden was awesome, I love leviathan, it remindes me of the thing, and harbinger down, a lot. Razor back is a great nature horror. That pig made me and my little brother shit as kids. I wish they would do something on the kindred, that was a pretty good monster movie.

[@TheSudsy]

@8:36 Pure Teror? who missed that spelling mistake?

[@williamwhitman4889]

Being a cult classic is underrated and overlooked.

[@tamsmith6751]

Its a shame that Rawhead Rex didnt look like the monster in Clive Barkers wonderful story.

[@natedorney7032]

The golden age of Tom Savini's work in the special effects and creature business.

[@chaoscommentary2179]

I’ve never heard of gargoyles I’ll have to check it out

[@imagineeye3953]

Imma watch some of these today.

[@claydogmadman7843]

Back when practical effects was a thing... I still wish it was...

[@RSK412]

That homo aquaticus movie looks like a piece of its dna ended up in RESI 2.

[@Emulous79]

Funny how Razorback was filmed in the Year of the Pig: 1983.

[@LordMalice6d9]

In Chinese Astrology yes.

[@Emulous79]

@@LordMalice6d9 You think that was deliberate? Seems a massive coincidence.

[@StumpyJoeTV]

I think it's pronounced Koz-MAH-tose. Love the show BTW

[@kellyschiller8166]

Saw it, the cat.made me cry

[@toothlessrick3970]

Take a closer look at the cast in C.H.U.D., you gotta have a few horror movies in your resume.

[@Tue_]

Q Q is a bit far fetched - why would people have issues finding the nest of a giant monster, or why would anyone stay at any rooftop after knowing something like that existed.

[@neslihankurum4852]

Super

[@straightpower4139]

I miss the 80s

[@matteodeswattenne6377]

23:07 ok that's def. Jhon Goodman, is no one taking about that?

[@rebellworldwide1776]

C.H.U.D was the fucking bomb!!!!

[@te9591]

0:48 what film?

[@twilightgardenspresentatio6384]

Raw head Rex is just a rip off from “massive head wound Harry”

[@kellyschiller8166]

Y'all gotta Google a picture that my boyfriend sent me . Alien in the toilet, saying this is why you come out of the chest, made me laugh my ass off...

[@Unaccounted2]

Why do the gargoyles look like Ron Pearlman

[@Alexey_Mikhaylov]

Well, now I know where Warhammer Oblitirators came from X)

[@bryankirchmeier-fw3ug]

I mistook Tetsuo: The Iron Man for a movie from the 1950's.

[@kylecurry577]

There are quite a few b-cult classics in this group of horror/ sci-fi movies ...!

[@leighbelk769]

The way they’re called sophisticated makes me imagine them all sitting at a table and drinking tea while speaking in British accents.

[@Nickc86]

I don't see how anybody can not automatically assume the thing when looking at the Leviathan

[@paulforder591]

You wouldn't be related to Arthur Crabtree, who directed Fiend Without a Face (1957)?

[@Nickc86]

@@paulforder591 maybe down the line but I don't know her

[@mr.hidden5790]

@ nicholas -loved both movies but never thought to link the two. after a quick look at the 2 monsters once again , i can see how you draw that conclusion

[@antonkovalenko364]

"I know you've been through hell..." "Been? Bitch, we're still here!"

[@jesseslack2089]

LOL underrated line from Leviathan....

[@paulforder591]

So many underrated 80s horror movies here. C.H.U.D. was well-handled, even though it was shot on a low budget. The trick is knowing how to use what you have to your advantage & pull it off.

[@amazingdoorbob5458]

Sad we never got a true sequel to it. I know Chud 2 exists, but it's nothing like the original. It feels like it was supposed to be a sequel to Night of the Living Dead, and they just slapped Chud in it when they couldn't get the rights to NOTLD.

[@pickford3152]

@@amazingdoorbob5458 chud 2 should be burned lol... it’s horrible! Chud is one of the most underrated horror movies ever

[@cloudrat7]

Finally someone acknowledged Deadly spawn..lol.

[@mauricerobinson3184]

I thought I was the only person who saw that movie for decades. Now I'm waiting on someone to review the abomination.

[@casualsuede]

I still have this movie on vhs.

[@leviroch]

You can watch it for free on KZbin. . . And those teeth were amazing

[@moolate127]

When would Rawhead Rex and sophisticated ever appear in the same sentence?

[@erikramaekers63]

Stan Winston was a genius but The Creature from the Black Lagoon still looks great after 66 years.Q and Razorback are terrific

[@kellyschiller8166]

Q was amazing!!!

[@kellyschiller8166]

Razorback scared the fuck outta me because it's based on a true story...

[@michaelcoffey1991]

@Marvelous Not the video we need but the video we fans all deserve. As always Thank you to the @Marvelous Videos Staff for all the niche genre love and the fandom for what we all enjoy.

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Take a shot everytime she say, "believe us when we tell you".

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[@KageCasanova]

1:02 Gargoyles - The Terror Within (1989) 3:41 Homo Aquaticus - Leviathan (1989) 6:18 Rawhead Rex - Rawhead Rex (1986) 8:45 Deadly Spawn - The Deadly Spawn (1983) 11:17 INTEC Cockroaches - The Nest (1988) 13:28 Alien - The Hidden (1987) 15:28 Q.Q. - The Winged Serpent (1982) 17:29 Razorback - Razorback (1984) 19:30 Metal Fetishist - Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) 21:06 Belial Bradley - Basket Case (1982) 22:37 C.H.U.Ds - C.H.U.D.

[@erikramaekers63]

Thanks

[@marinakaiser7639]

Hey thanks now i can watch them too😁👍

[@marinakaiser7639]

Basket Case i think i know that movie

[@travisthornton7614]

The Boogins was left out probably for good reason. Between C.H.U.D. and The Boogins I lost a ton of sleep and got myself band from scyfi/horror movies as a young teen.

[@skittles074]

The cat from "the uninvited" was a killer of my child hood.lol

[@crimesforkibble6912]

Razorback is so good I wish shout factory would release a collectors edition

[@megmucklebones7538]

Haha, I remember basket case when I was young. Freaked me right out. Wow, I used to look at these horror films in the local video store, especially Chuds. Good old times.

[@aquariandawn4750]

I miss Friday night at the video store

[@nitrokid]

I don't know if anyone remember laser disc? It's a huge ass CD that was a thing for a while back in the 90s 😂 I've seen some good 80-90s horror films during that phase.

[@stark5679]

I remember vcr's being really expensive. We used to rent one from the video store for the weekend. Goodtimes. Miss just browsing thru the aisles of movies and games as a kid

[@makeitsonumberone1358]

Yer with my dad picking a couple of vhs videos to view, seeing all the horror film covers scaring the hell out of me lol

[@nockieboy]

Pure teror? Pure typo more like.

[@paulforder591]

I saw The Deadly Spawn (1983) on video about '89, and it was very different from any sci-fi/horror flick I've ever sat through. The multi-headed/mouthed hydra-like creature was innovative back then. 🙀🙀🙀

[@jeffumbach]

I waited so many years for it to finally be released on DVD.

[@DavidRoarty]

The Deadly Spawn has been available on Shudder since last year(July 1st, 2022) and facebook there are rumors of it getting a 4K Ultra HD Bluray DVD release for later this year according to efx artist John Dods that worked on the film

[@byrons8956]

I liked ‘The Hidden’ and having Claudia Christian (Babylon5) in it makes me like it more. “The Winged Serpent’ reminds me of something Ray Harryhausen would have done. ‘Basket Case’ was just a weird one. Unfortunately, I did watch the ‘C.H.U.D’ sequel.

[@Propanus]

Believe us when we tell you. Honestly the script writing is abysmal.

[@ministryofwrongthink6962]

How tf is The Fly not in this list??

[@bryankirchmeier-fw3ug]

Your chapters include the Gargoyles from The Terror Within, but you didn't include that in the actual video.

[@michaelbarnes7351]

1984 was a great year for scifi.

[@yeoedwin1619]

Apart from classic monsters like Aliens, Mother Alien, Predator, Gremlins, Critters. How about Xtro?

[@darleneg.dejarnettejr.1812]

Yes please bring back the 1970s and 1980s movies

[@chrispetritsch4959]

Believe me when i tell you that far from being preposterous,the creature in Razorback is the most realistic of these ludicrous 80's movie monsters! Do you even know what preposterous means?!

[@bailsanon7467]

so much "believe me when i tell you".

[@conalcochranh3274]

This channel is easily the best of its kind on KZbin, so I don't understand why it hasn't more subscribers. Top marks for every video.

[@terryweir8352]

Love all things monstery!! 😀 😀 🐲🐲 I remember all of these movies, The Thing was a great movie as well, with Kurt Russell!! 😀 😀 🐲🐲 Stay Safe everyone at Marvellous Videos!! 😀 😀 😷

[@matthuck378]

Leviathan is The Thing, but in water and worse in every way.

[@nicholassudov2299]

You can catch Japanese Iron Man with a magnet big enough.

[@BrandonHex]

Oh come on. CHUD 2: Bud the CHUD was freaking hysterical.

[@Popcultureguy3000]

It had a lot of obvious, stupid jokes, and obnoxiously catchy song that commits the cardinal musical sin of just being *the same damn sentence, repeating over and over again!* I only ever laughed at the “that is one *DAMN* ugly barber” line, since the line reading was delivered so well.

[@emirokaliptika]

80's ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️today movie monster like shit 2021 👎👎

[@frankboogaard88]

Look closely at the face of the Gargoyles in The Terror Within and tell me that is NOT Ron Perlman's face it was based on ;-)

[@5265vic]

It is Ron, with a little Eye makeup and lipstick.

[@tsunamityphoon6932]

Razorback is genuinely one of the only horror films that actually scares me lol

[@digimon916]

Wow. Metal fetishist looks crazy. Wouldve been if the studio put out a mech/gore anime live action being that there were so many during the latr 80s and early 90s

[@charthers8903]

Awesome recommendations as always

[@infinitesix9875]

Awesome list👍I own every one of these movies. The 80s 90s rocked.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🙏🌍

[@easyeagle2]

Alien was 1979, but Aliens was in 1984. Why did you leave this out? One of the most scary monsters ever conceived.

[@4411825]

Probably because it’s so well known and acclaimed!

[@jamespope7669]

Aliens came out in 1986

[@fishfinger11]

@@jamespope7669 Was just about to say that lol