Perhaps they are capitalizing on the current box office success of Paramount’s “Cloverfield” movie, the UK’s Daily Telegraph has come out with a list of the top 10 movie monsters of all time:

1. ‘The Alien’   “Alien”   (1979)

2.  ‘Medusa’    “Clash of the Titans”  (1981)

3.  ’King Kong’   “King Kong”  (1933, 2005)

4. ‘The Thing’  “The Thing”   (1982)

5. ‘Werewolf’   “An American Werewolf in London”   (1981)

6. ‘Rabbit’     Monty Python’s Holy Grail”    (1975)

7. ‘id-Monster’  “Forbidden Planet”   (1956)

8. ‘T-Rex’  ”Jurassic Park”      (1996)

9. ‘Nomak’  ”Blade II”     (2002)

10. ‘Sil’     ”Species”  (1995) 

How could they forget the shark in “Jaws” or Hannibal Lecter in “Silence of the Lambs?”