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I don't really think the Weeping Angels are scary. I mean, I can kind of understand it with the younger ones who watch the show, but it's like when people say the Dalek's are scary. I just can't make the connection with the Weeping Angels and horror. I'll say their preferred form of execution is, interesting and creative.

derke56 wrote:Ya but Daleks you can try, and if you aim for the eyestalk then you might be able to kill some...

Hence Dalek fleet. Nothing Earth has is going to take out more than a few of them, and the standard Dalek fleet is in the region of 10000ish ships
with wround 1000 daleks minimum on each.

Easy E wrote:Weeping Angels are for pussies. They send you back in time, where you can start a whole new life. Not terrifying at all.

Imposter101 wrote:I don't really think the Weeping Angels are scary. I mean, I can kind of understand it with the younger ones who watch the show, but it's like when people say the Dalek's are scary. I just can't make the connection with the Weeping Angels and horror. I'll say their preferred form of execution is, interesting and creative.

They aren't scary on TV, but the concept of them is just petrifying. One blink, and you're going to be shoved back in time. Besides the issues with disease and any major events like, for example, landing in the middle of the Blitz, there's the fact that you're never going to see anyone you care about ever again, but still have to live the rest of your life knowing that. THAT is why I would hate to be got by them.

Vashta Nerada are up there in 'scary' as you'll never see them coming, and once they have you there's nothing you can do.

The Empty Child is also pretty scary (it's the only Dr Who monster I was ever scared of seeing, rather than actually being attacked by)

Yeah, the Vashta Nerada are much scarier.

Darleks and Cybermen are rather "conventional" bad guys in my mind.

I hope happyjew doesn't find this thread...

From 40k, Parasite of Mortrex.

From anything else, Vashta Nerada. How can you escape a living shadow, which attaches itself to you purely for amusement, before stripping the flesh from your bones? In addition, it will tear through whatever you are wearing, and the more enclosed it is, the greater the likelihood the swarm will utilise your corpse to stalk your friends.

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
The old-school tyranids and their methods.

There was none of this 'turning biomass into a nice stew for the hive fleet to eat', they reworked your flesh, melded you into their walls or turned you into a human lampshade whilst you mewled and cried and gurgled and your sanity fled from your parasite filled, 'improved' body.

The old fluff was pretty hardcore.

Across all media, The Thing gets my vote for similar reasons. Absorption isn't a fun concept.

In Warmachine? Deathjack. Kills you, takes your soul. Even if you kill it, it has a chance to posses you so you rebuild it.

All time? The flea monsters from Cloverfield. Yeesh.

 gunslingerpro wrote:


All time? The flea monsters from Cloverfield. Yeesh.

Those things were great.

Th Thing is a definite. if i suspect, i BURN no matter what.

The Vashta Nerada. Those things are terrifying.

Graboids from Tremors. I was only little when i saw it. I couldnt step on dirt for weeks

40k. all sorts of daemons nids and grey knights
fantasy.

anything else. the Andromeda strain.

When I was a kid the Aliens in V scared the hell out of me. Especially when they peeled off their false human skin.

Out of those, anything that has to do with Slaanesh.

If anything goes? Well...

Ever played a game called Cry of Fear?
There was a certain face that would appear at some point in the game.
Here's a link for more information on it.
Sweet dreams...
http://afraidofmonsters.wikia.com/wiki/The_Face

In 40K, probably an enslaver or any type of daemon (Nurgle or Slaanesh probably) that would possess my body in some way.

In any setting, probably facehuggers in particular, their nasty spindly appendages and their face-rape is a huge no-go for me. The xenomorphs themselves aren't that scary IMO but their egg babies are *shudders*. Other than that probably the infector necromorph or divider (when it's in its separated form) from dead space.

Back when Christopher Ecclestone was the Doctor, the episodes with the Reapers scared the crap out of me, although I was a fair few years younger. Just the idea of these monstrous bats wiping out all life leaving you trapped stopped me sleeping for a few days when I first saw it.

In any setting the scariest monster was from a book calld Firefly written by Piers Anthony featuring a protoplasmic monster who enters peoples bodies through orifices...err...most often the orifices closer to the ground.
I read this book when I was 11 , this may or may not have had an effect on my development.

 Valkyrie wrote:
Back when Christopher Ecclestone was the Doctor, the episodes with the Reapers scared the crap out of me, although I was a fair few years younger. Just the idea of these monstrous bats wiping out all life leaving you trapped stopped me sleeping for a few days when I first saw it.

Really? 12 year old me was really unimpressed by the Reapers, whereas he was terrified by the gas-mask people from the same series.

Oh this? This is just Gristle and Flay from the Iron Kingdoms D20

 gorgon wrote:

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
The old-school tyranids and their methods.

There was none of this 'turning biomass into a nice stew for the hive fleet to eat', they reworked your flesh, melded you into their walls or turned you into a human lampshade whilst you mewled and cried and gurgled and your sanity fled from your parasite filled, 'improved' body.

The old fluff was pretty hardcore.

Can you (or anyone else) provide or point me towards this fluff? I'd enjoy reading it but haven't been able to find any. Was it all in old WD's?

Oldschool tyranid codices?

 Corpsesarefun wrote:
Oldschool tyranid codices?

What edition are we talking?

The worst part about The Thing, is theorizing that you might not know you are one, until someone sticks a hot wire in your blood and your every cell exerts it's will for survival. You ate the wrong can of beans and each of your cells has been quietly replaced with alien cells. You don't even know until your head leaps off your body and grows crazy legs to crawl around. Are you still conscious? Are you still you, and just controlled? Can you think, can you feel? It's absolutely bug nuts terrifying.

The Thing.

The Thing is one of my favorite movies (and creatures) of all time. I suspect I have watched it upwards of 50 times.

Quite possibly my favorite horror flick:

How about the Rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail? It's a bit of a Mindf**ck to see a rabbit decapitate people.... especially when you're 8

40K - would have to be Dark Eldar, being the subject of of a Haemoculus. Literally tortured for eternity. You aren't able to escape, you aren't able to even do anything to kill yourself.

Wider world - The spice spider from star wars. Basically, a being of non-energy. This guy makes glitterstim, the most rarest spice in Star Wars. You can't detect him, he's got no heat, nothing at all like that. He absorbs conventional energy to survive. So if you shot him with anything, he'll just absorb it, and get stronger. Then eat you.

Bullockist wrote:
In any setting the scariest monster was from a book calld Firefly written by Piers Anthony featuring a protoplasmic monster who enters peoples bodies through orifices...err...most often the orifices closer to the ground.
I read this book when I was 11 , this may or may not have had an effect on my development.

When I read that book, I loved the idea of the "professional" monster hunter fromt he book.

Also, I found the monster a bit creepy as well.

 Corpsesarefun wrote:

 Valkyrie wrote:
Back when Christopher Ecclestone was the Doctor, the episodes with the Reapers scared the crap out of me, although I was a fair few years younger. Just the idea of these monstrous bats wiping out all life leaving you trapped stopped me sleeping for a few days when I first saw it.

Really? 12 year old me was really unimpressed by the Reapers, whereas he was terrified by the gas-mask people from the same series.

The gas masks weren't the scary thing, it was the whole "Are you my mummy?" that freaked me out, my Dad and sister started creeping round the house and saying it to me to scare me, including through the bedroom door as I was trying to sleep.