11 Famous Movie Monsters: Quick Facts

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Poster for the 1931 film Frankenstein featuring Boris Karloff as the monster, with dramatic portraits of Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, and John Boles, and the tagline The Man Who Made a Monster.

Boris Karloff as Imhotep stands over Zita Johann lying in a sarcophagus in a scene from the 1932 film The Mummy, with Egyptian statues and wall art in the background.

Lon Chaney, Jr., as a werewolf in The Wolf Man (1941).

A human brain preserved in formalin, displayed in a clear glass jar labeled Homo, showing detailed surface folds and anatomy.

Colin Clive and Dwight Frye operate laboratory equipment beside the bandaged monster, played by Boris Karloff, lying on a table in a scene from Frankenstein (1931).

white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)

Lock Martin and Michael Rennie in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Italian movie poster for The War of the Worlds shows alien spacecraft attacking a city with beams of light, explosions, and fleeing people, with the title La Guerra dei Mondi in bold red and yellow letters.

Poster for Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

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