• The title character in episode 107- ROBOT MONSTER. You can’t ignore an iconic bad monster.
• The the eye creatures in episode 418- ATTACK OF THE THE EYE CREATURES. If they attack you, just knock the heads off, since they seem to be draped casually on their shoulders.
• The title character in episode 606- THE CREEPING TERROR. The music is scary, I admit, but this is another one of those monsters where the victim pretty much has to actively climb into the monster’s mouth.
• Ortega in episode 812- THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES. Actually seems like a pretty cool guy.
• The title characters in episode 907- HOBGOBLINS. Any monster you can drop kick into the next county doesn’t seem that fearsome.
Honorable mention: MITCHELL. The love scene was monstrous.
Oh and I didn’t include the monster in epiosode 421- MONSTER A-GO-GO because there WAS no monster.
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I don’t believe anyone mentioned the Crawling Eye…a monster that could have easily been defeated by a squirt of lemon juice!
The budget invisible enemies from “Cave Dwellers” deserve a nod as the cheapest monster to produce.
The incredibly vague and lumbering Neptunians from “Invasion of the Neptune Men.” Pointless villains, pointless hero, pointless movie.
Hunchback Fairy or Baba Yaga or whoever it was from “Jack Frost.” I know she’s supposed to be monstrous, but she’s just so weird and incompetent you can’t help but feel a certain charm for the old dame.
I’d have to go with Crenshaw from “Legend of Boggy Creek II” he was scarier and goofier than the real Creatures.
Both monsters from “Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders” The obnoxious reporter and the stupid cymbal monkey.
and how could we forget the guardian (Cecil Fielder thinghs and all) from “Prince of Space”.
Oops that should have read Cecil Fielder thighs and all. Bad typist, bad typist.
Hey Dames, indeed a sad end for Mr. Reynolds, and I agree that the It Lives By Night bat-monster truly was goofy. Despite my love for all things kaiju, I might have to add Megalon from Godzilla vs. Megalon to my list. Unlike the Ultraman series, the monsters in Godzilla movies were generally not goofy, but imaginative. Megalon, on the other hand… a tad goofy. Especially with those rotating, drill-bit claw things.
Babs – from Horrors of Spider Island
The Robot – from Santa Clause Conquers the Martians. And shortly after you have decided that was the stupidest thing you have ever seen:
The Polor Bear – from Santa Clause Conquers the Martians
Goofiest Monster in a MSTed Movie
– Monster A-Go Go: replacement astronaut guy monster.
– Manos Hands of Fate: Torgo!
– Pod People: Trumpy’s “evil twin”
– Horrors of Spider Island: a toss up between the really bad-looking giant spider or the man-spider named “Gary” created when Gary gets bitten by the really bad-looking giant spider.
– Creeping Terror: the eponymous creature that looks like a giant carpet with people under it.
– Robot Monster: Ro-Man!
– Killer Shrews: Dogs dressed in small rugs are hardly a monster, but are very goofy.
– It Conquered The World: The giant pickle was pretty amusing to behold.
– King Dinosaur: Lizards dressed up as dinosaurs wasn’t all that convincing and looked quite goofy.
Most of the best ones have been mentioned…but I’d like to add one. It’s one of those blink and you miss it monsters. In Teenage Caveman there is a lot of stock footage of lizards dressed up a dinos, but that’s not the one I’m talking about.
For a few seconds, I think twice in T. Caveman, we get a quick glimpse of the worst T. Rex of all time. It’s obviously a puppet, and a ridiculous one at that. Talk about special effects by Timmy, second grade. My girlfriend totally lost it while we were watching that one.
Also, I was watching Slime People the other night on youtube for the first time. While the costumes are not the worst made ever, the creatures do look a bit silly and the fact that they run around with spears while able to also make a sophisticated invisible wall…well….
I would have to say that smut baroness in The Sinister Urge. I don’t know what kind of weid getups you would call those.
Torgo and his big knees is right up there too.
The Eye Creatures is another group of lame monster considering that half of them are wearing black turtle necks from Chess King and white Nikes.
The Monsters on Horror at the Beach Party because they look like stuffed too many hotdogs in their mouths and basically salt destroyed them.
Rosdower is a pretty goffy monster also.
The robot from “The Corpse Vanishes” actually gains coolness points by virtue of being in a Rob Zombie video.
My goofiest monster countdown goes a-like so:
1. Creeping Terror. If those carpet samples were living computers, then I’m the Princess of Latvia. And I’m not.
2. The The Eye Creatures. They just didn’t care.
3. The Cookie Monster Fish from “The Horror of Party Beach.” Hot dogs are a sometimes food.
4. The Thing in the Closet from “The Brain (Head?) that Wouldn’t Die.” Eerily similar to the mutant in “Goonies”, I’ve noticed.
5. Ortega. That guy has an interesting backstory, I’m sure. But I’m not sure I want to know what it is.
How about the Screaming Skull? Skulls that attack by having the actor hold it up to their face pretending to struggle are goody.
On a Rifftraxy topic, did anyone else see 300 and feel disappointed that the rhino and elephants lasted all of maybe three minutes total? It felt like a case of something created to make a cool shot for the trailer and then thrown away thoughtlessly.
I wanted to make sure the goofy robots from Undersea Kingdom got mentioned. The riffing associated with them is priceless. Also, who do you think would win in a battle between the Seamonster from the eponymous Godzilla vs. movie and a Gorgon from Teenagers from Space?
Mr. Redwine,
since the Sea Monster is at least a guy in a rubber suit and the Gargon is hapless little crustacean trapped in a snare drum that turns into a floppy shadow lobster [‘Shadow Lobster’ sounds like an emo band], I would have to place my bet on the Sea Monster.
although to vanquish both, I would call in the good citizens of these here United States- maybe with those from Maine and New Hampshire leading the charge- to surround both beasts, armed with bibs and industrial claw-cracking weapons and tureens of yummy drawn butter… I’m from San Francisco, so I’ll bring the sourdough.
now, that’s my kind of ‘Tor-chaa!’
we’d get the National Guard to steam them first with flame throwers or something, of course.
I’m surprised Sampo didn’t pick Horror At Party Beach. :?: :!:
It’s hard to beat the saggy-butted closet monster from “Brain That Wouldn’t Die”. Possibly the greatest example of movie producers not caring ever.
I’d put in a word for the skinny, turtle-necked “Creature of Horror” from “Fire Maidens of Outer Space.” Not only did he look ridiculous, he was about as hard to get rid of as a case of ice-cold beer at a ball game. I’ve seen more threatening monsters in Jane Austen films.
I have to define “goofy” as a combo of lame, unconvincing and downright ridiculous. With that in mind I’d have to go with:
1. Robot Monster – a guy in a gorilla suit with a diving helmet on his head. How do you even come up with an idea like that, let alone film it?
2. Horror of Party Beach: ping pong ball eyes and mouths stuffed with hot dogs. Looks great, film it!
3. The Creeping Terror – a crawling, car-humping carpet.
4. Gargon from Teenagers from Outer Space – another “you gotta be kidding me” monster – at least they could’ve tried to make it look like… well, anything other than a lobster?
5. Solarite from Phantom Planet – I’m hoping the director got a look at it and said “what the hell is this piece of s***?” And the producer said you gotta film it anyway or we’ll go over budget. Sorry, pal.
6. Eye Creatures – as with every other Larry Buchanan film, he just didn’t care.
7. Giant Spider Invasion – please, don’t try to make a giant monster movie if you don’t have the talent or resources; putting phony fur and legs on Volkswagon Beetle just doesn’t cut it.
8. Dr. Z – bad, bad, BAD rubber monster suit.
9. Evil One from Fire Maidens – a guy in a black jumpsuit who goes “Aaarrrr!” – gimme a break.
10. Rubber octopus from Bride of the Monster that simply lays there while its hapless victims pull the tentacles around themselves. Another shining moment for Ed Wood.
HONORABLE MENTION for Trumpy – he really can do stupid, magical things…! https://www.mst3kinfo.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif
1. Creeping Terror – The carpet monster. One of the all-time bad movies!
2. Creeping Hand – The Creeping hand. Joel’s skit which questions what a little hand could do was right on!
3. Robot Monter – Ro-Man. Is he a gorilla? Or a robot? Such a great episode! What a goofy movie.
4. Night of the Bloodbeast – The Parrot-like monster. Polly want a cracker?
5. Human Duplicaters – the Hummel-headed robots. Joel was right, just brush their heads and they crack up!
Maybe they were more lame than goofy, but I’m still surprised no one mentioned the leaders of the Moon Men who were against Hercules. Woodsy Owl seemed mysterious and menacing as he apparently conjured the sandstorm and Rock Lords, but after Herc shoves him over, it dawns on you just how silly it was that he seems to be the ONLY Moon Man. And after Queen Selene comes into existence for a whole minute, looks around, then decomposes, we’re left wondering just what these Moon Men came so close to accomplishing even more than the motives of the Pod Persons. In that context, goofiness accomplished!
The Creeping Terror seems to be winning the vote for GoofiEST though, and I’ll gladly go along with that. When the prop guys just stitch together whatever garbage they have lying around, declare it a monster, and give it the ability to compell townsfolk to just crawl in to their doom, the terror is acheived.
Oh, and in “The SCREAMING Skull”, I’ll also specifically vote for the cheap title-effect skulls that came lunging out of the background during the finale, even though I can’t say if they really count as monsters seperate from the title skull. The actual skulls we see thoughout the film seem to posess a quiet dignity that belies the stupid movie they’re being used in, out-acting the cheap plaster skulls lined up by that snake in Cave Dwellers.
Thomas K. Dye ( #3 ) Re “The Solarite in 902-PHANTOM PLANET. Richard Kiel’s the biggest star in that film…” Beg to differ. Francis X. Bushman ( Sessom ), in his day, was huge. And was still well known enough in the late fifties to be name-checked on I Love Lucy.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0124279/bio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_X._Bushman
Here’s another one. The pacifist alien Blob Monster from The Space Children.
the crawling hand- I mean come on! It was eaten by a cat! What kind of monster is defeated by a cat?
What’s a discussion about silly monsters without mention of Megalon, of “Godzilla vs. Megalon” fame? Of course, Megalon’s silliness gets totally overshadowed by Jet Jaguar and Godzilla’s insane run-and-jump kick move from the same movie. Supposing he was the only monster starring in his own movie. Would that get him more recognition on this thread?
I second the nomination for “Mitchell.” Joe Don Baker is a real-life monster; I think that can be agreed on.
Does John Agar count?
The first one that came to mind was the hot dog monster from “Horror of Party Beach”, then the Creeping Terror comes in a close second. Any monster that can entice women just to jump into their clutches is a goofy monster.
One I haven’t seen mentioned is the “head” from “The Thing That Couldn’t Die” (though not technically a monster) is a pretty goofy mute with bad acne.
I’m going to go with the mutants from “Horror of Party Beach;” any monster whose facial expression cries “Does anyone love pickles as much as I do?” is more goofy than words can say. And Ryan, #56, “You spell it S-A-N-T-A C-L-A-U-S, Hurray for Santy Claus!”
The Unearthly – Tor Johnson as Lobo.
Santa Conquers the Martians – Torg the robot.
The Creeping Terror – Yep, he’s the title character and Mike says it best, “Great, the alien’s going to be goofy.”
Beast of Yucca Flats – Tor Johnson as the Beast (though him playing the mom would have been even goofier). Flag on the moon.
Night of the Blood Beast – Costume recycled from Teenage Caveman, IIRC.
Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell – While Troxartas really isn’t a monster, he’s goofy enough.
The Undead – Billy Barty as “Good old-fashioned nightmare fuel.”
Werewolf – Sam the Keeper, goofier than all of the pathetic werewolves combined.
It Lives by Night – The were-ape, er- bat.
Honorable mention (from Rifftrax): Plan 9 From Outer Space – Tor Johnson as Inspector Henry Clay (zombified). He NEVER blinks!
Yes, I’m a big fan of Tor Johnson.
Dyne (#79):
Sorry, but you’re mistaken. In “Creeping Terror” Mike says, “I was afraid the alien was gonna be goofy”.
The outer space influenced hyper intelligent ants in Phase 4 that played mind games with some scientists before deciding to keep a couple people as pets were quite goofy.
So was pitch from Santa Claus. Is this really the best minion Satan could send to take over the earth? The homicidal grandma in A Touch of Satan made me laugh as well. But to her credit she committed several murders despite the fact that a high wind would have blown her into the next county.
For some really goofy theology it’s hard to beat Soultakers. Who did the soultakers work for and why? The metaphysics in this movie were so confused and inconsistent that they were rejected by L. Ron Hubbard for being to silly before he went with the whole Lord Xenu and the Thetans thing.
The exploding dinosaur puppets in Future war were plenty goofy, the way they could only be killed by empty boxes thrown by Jean Claude Gosh-Darn and his sidekick Sister Mary Vehicular Homicide.
I’d also like to nominate Gamera, a flying flaming Godzilla sized turtle that could only seem dignified when facing foes like tongue-of-death Baragan or knife head Guiron.
And for sheer goofy it’s hard to beat the Neptune Men who made the Chicken Men of Krankor look super compitant and sophisticated by comparison
Man, this list would be gigantic, so I’m just gonna state the goofiest: The Creeping Terror from The Creeping Terror. I think all the reasons why this thing is so goofy have been explained, so I’m not gonna beat a dead carpet. (zing) :roll: :mrgreen:
Honorable mention: the MutAnt from This Island Earth. Wicked cool design, but practical it ain’t. :razz:
This one actually took alittle time for me to decide, and most have already been mentioned , but mine are:
– The lobster shadows from “Teenagers From Outer Space”
– Trumpy and all of his look-alikes from “Pod People”
– Torgo from “Manos” is a natural choice.
– The aliens from “Laserblast” were more cute than scary.
– Tor Johnson in any MST movie he was in; perhaps “The Unearthly” moreso because he was given goofy lines to recite.
the Slime People
Mr B Natural scares me and is definitely goofy.
The puppety exploding dinosaurs from Future War were utterly ridiculous, and the cyborgs were nearly as inept and funny, especially Robert D’Zar, whose Cyborg talent was headbutting the shirt off of Daniel Bernhart…
but Krankor’s guardian monster was great too… if you can get him to turn a couple of 360s, he was dead to rights!
I’d nominate the security guard from “Werewolf” who manages to keep his hands at 10 and 2 despite his lycanthropic transformation.
Also like the wrestling thugs passed off as vampires in “Sampson vs. the Vampire Women.”
Boy, I guess CC pulling the Sandy Frank films did have an influence, because I would have expected “Time of the Apes” here. Not that I’d know, since I don’t remember seeing it . . .
I’d like to cast additional votes for that unfortunate mutant, Arch Hall, Jr. from Eegah!, as well as undercover sea turtle/children’s book author, Ernest Borgnine from Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders.
Maybe I missed it, but how can anyone not mention the “the guardian” in Prince of Space. Remember, the large, lumbering mutant in heavy pancake make up and overalls.
What about the anthropomorphic trees from “Jack Frost”? Do they count as monsters?
Basically, weren’t they ALL pretty goofy?
All are goofy but one: The most terrifying, disturbing, nightmare-inducing creature of them all.
Coleman Francis.
I think he qualifies as goofy.
Goofiest monster: The Narrated Creeping Carpet
Scariest monster: Mr. B (Un)Natural
I don’t count Uncle Scrotor. From what I’ve read about THIS ISLAND EARTH it was a decision from the uppity-ups at Universal to include a “monster” in a film that didn’t need it. Scroty was a deliberately “bad” monster from a bunch of justifiably peed-off movie-makers.
You might remember that the FORBIDDEN PLANET lobby cards have Robby as the girl-carrying menace, even though he’s totally benign in the film and Walter Pidgeon actually mocks the stereotype at the start of the film. Apparently, they had better luck than the first film in keeping the idiots away from the plot.
I vote for the monsters of Horror At Party Beach. “So… Radiation has a sense of humor?”
The mutated ‘Protozoa’ from HORROR AT PARTY BEACH! Their appearance was summed up when Tom remarks “So..radiation has a sense of humor.”
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