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More Most Underrated Stop-Motion Monstrosities of All Time

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Stop-motion monsters didn’t end with the classics. In this video, we’re diving into more underrated stop-motion creatures from movies and television, from prehistoric dinosaurs and radioactive beasts to tiny demons and bizarre alien insects.

These handmade monsters were animated frame by frame, and many of them still look incredible decades later.

Timestamps
0:00 – Intro
0:36 – The Lost World (1925) – The Dinosaurs
1:46 – The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) – The Rhedosaurus
2:41 – Fiend Without a Face (1958) – The Brain Creatures
3:43 – The Giant Behemoth (1959) – The Paleosaurus
4:39 – The Outer Limits (1963) – The Zanti Misfits
5:39 – Caveman (1981) – The T-Rex
7:03 – The Gate (1987) – The Demon Lord
8:20 – Willow (1988) – The Eborsisk
9:16 – 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964) – The Loch Ness Monster
10:30 – Coneheads (1993) – The Garthok
11:27 – Outro

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20 Comments

@SirBootis Creator 6 months ago Pinned

Correction on The Zanti Misfits: As pointed out by a commenter, Al Hamm actually animated the creatures, not Jim Danforth.

@Dream_winds83 6 months ago (edited)

The 2 headed dragon transformation in Willow was gnarly.

@Dangerdudegames 6 months ago (edited)

7:35 i love how it says “left” to make sure we understand that he’s not the demon lord

@WilliamWorkman-wg1ib 6 months ago (edited)

"Caveman" was beyond stupid, but the movements on that chubby T-Rex are fantastically fluid and full of personality. That fall!

@MZ-tq3dv 6 months ago

That two headed creature from willow always gave me the creeps, actually all the monsters in that movie did especially the hounds.

@loke72 6 months ago

Stop motion felt som special back when i was a kid. CGI has given us some fantastic monsters but still there is something magic about the work stop motion artist did/ do...

@iksarguards 6 months ago

The two headed dragon from Willow is such a stand out design with its deformed heads and shark jaws.

@raydunakin 6 months ago

"The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" was my favorite giant monster movie when I was a kid and has always had a special place in my heart!

@evanhughes7609 6 months ago

9:00 Lucas really had it in for the critics when writing Willow. The lead evil henchman, played by Pat Roach, was 'General Kael', named after film critic Pauline Kael.

@helenj4902 6 months ago

There’s always a charm with stop motion ❤️

@coolthings_1 6 months ago

My dad showed me Willow when I was a kid, and I remember being both terrified and blown away by the dragon
Flash forward today and it still blows me away, Phil Tippett is an absolute legend.

@jedibasschoke8909 6 months ago

Always loved the Garthok in Coneheads. Phil Tippett is the main man!

@Rigel_Chiokis 6 months ago

You brought back some good memories from my childhood. I remember watching The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms and loving it. It was based on a short story by Ray Bradbury, of the same title, but a later reprint renamed it The Fog Horn (it was the fog horn on the lighthouse that brought the creature from the sea).

The Zantis Misfits scared the heck out of me; I was maybe 8 to 10 years old when I was watching The Outer Limits.

It was all of those old movies I watched as a kid that led to me doing my own stop motion animation in my teen years when I bought a super 8 movie camera.

@dansweda712 6 months ago

When done right, I love this type of special effects, even more so than today's CGI. Stop motion gives creatures a type of unnerving presents of something we've never seen before. Love the work in the movie The Gate!