Not an ideal arrangement, but one that worked well enough until Sir Ralph Richardson’s permanently flummoxed wizard turns have-a-go pensioner and sets up a nice revenge saga for his young apprentice. In a world, the trailer might have intoned, where the dung hovel is the standard unit of social housing, a boy on the brink of manhood is all that stands between a great fire-breathing beast and a rather fey cadre of aristocrats bent on offering up their virgins to the monster. Not to be confused with Dragonheart, Dragonlance or Dragon: The Bruce Lee Storyīefore Peter Jackson gave Sword and Sorcery (for it is they) an irresistibly sexy sheen, this 1981 effort took a proudly cod-medieval stomp through damsel/dragon territory, becoming the lodestone of dark-tinged family fantasy. 🦄 The 50 best fantasy movies of all-time

👽 The 100 best sci-fi movies of all-time 💀 The 100 best horror movies of all-time Written by Tom Huddleston, Adam Lee Davies, Andy Kryza, Paul Fairclough, David Jenkins & Matthew Singer Instead, we focused on all the killer rabbits, killer plants, killer fish, killer clowns, killer aliens and killer giant sandworms – and trust us, that’s a lot on its own. Apologies to Freddy, Jason and Henry from Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, but being monstrous doesn’t make you a true monster. Firstly, no zombies or vampires, as there are simply too many to cull down. So we put up a few parameters in order to narrow the field. Given that long history and nearly limitless forms make putting together a list of the all-time best monster movies a bit overwhelming. They come in many shapes and sizes, but whatever their origin, they’re frequently grotesque, usually mean and always incredibly hard to stop. It goes to show how long filmmakers, make-up artists and special effects magicians have been rooting around in the darkest corners of their imagination, inventing nightmarish beastly beings to scare the heck out of audiences. Think Lon Chaney in a fur mask or Ray Harryhausen’s giant stop-motion lizards, or even the harpoon-wielding insectoid aliens from 1902’s A Trip to the Moon.

Monsters have existed in the movies almost from the moment cinema began.

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