Somehow, Godzilla Minus One does the impossible: it makes it personal. It makes the lizard, an amorphous metaphor throughout its years, the spectre not just of WWII, but of survivor guilt, of grief, of the ghosts of those lost coming back to say 'how dare you move on, how dare you live whilst we have perished.' Not only that, but it made me feel Hiroshima and Nagasaki in a way that, whilst spectacular, Oppenheimer failed to do. Such a fucking good movie.
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I remember that I posted this Moder illustration back when I made it in 2022, but I completely forgot that I also drew a corresponding Ītzpāpālōtl from No One Gets Out Alive, so I'm posting both of them! Both monsters were designed by Keith Thompson. If he's done concept art for a movie, I want to see that movie.
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It's September Fourth. These folks are getting ready!
Old timey movie monsters by Kevin Maguire.
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Aliens vs. Predator by Dave Dorman
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Binging up on some obscure monster horror movies for the spooky season and stumbled upon this bizarre gem: Isolation (2005).
Apparently it's "Alien, but on an Irish dairy farm" and its monster is a mutated cow that is the result of an experiment gone wrong. The creature itself is hardly ever seen: it's shown in its embryonic larval form, but it looks more like a spikey croissant than anything, and once it matures into its full adult form we never get a good look at the creature, only catching glimpses here and there.
Fortunately after some searching it appears @bogleech found a good screencap of the mutant cow spawn thing and well...it's a mess. No wonder it was so hard to figure out what the thing looks like cause it's a vaguely-centipede-like collection of bones that don't even look remotely recognizeable as a cow?
So here's a more bovine-esque take on the creature, a completely-wrong, still-recognizably cattle-like creature that's completely inside out with its skeleton on the outside. The original creature seems to have no visible limbs and instead walks on its ribs so I've incorporated them here but also kept the vestigial inside-out limbs that still resemble those of a cow, as well as the skull-like head based on an actual cow skull.
Isolation has a very interesting premise and a truly unique and grotesque monster but let's be honest: it's kind of hard to take an inside-out cow seriously as something capable of actually hunting down and devouring humans. Why it's even carnivorous is never properly explained, neither of why it reproduces parasitically in a xenomorph-esque way. At least it's absolutely disgusting to look at, which is a plus for any horror movie monster, so it's at least got that.
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Psycho #14 - Skywald, September 1973. Cover art by Ken Kelly.
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Shrieker- Full Color
Still one of my favorite movie monster evolutions
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''Scary Monsters Magazine'', #77, 2011
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