Headcrab zombies in Half-Life. If you can take something cheesy and overdone like zombies and twist it in a way that makes it scary again, you get awesome points. The headcrabs themselves were scary because you knew what would happen if they beat you (yeah, I know, not likely). I like all the creature designs in the old Half-Life because they were ALIEN, obviously weird, strange, not from this dimension. Very well personified. I still think it was a mistake to make the Vortigaunts bipeds with two grasping limbs, it's too familiar a shape.
Everything from Silent Hill. Great horror achieved through inscrutably twisted THINGS whose resemblance to humanity is merely vestigial. Did some strange force make these things? Were they humans who evolved/devolved? And what about the "normal" people you meet? Are they monsters? Also, great use of sound. Every critter came with a uniquely disturbing noise.
I know flying heads are overdone, but the first time you meet them in Doom 3 scared me pretty bad. Where is that crying woman? She says she wants my help? What's wrong with her, maybe I can do something for h---AAH! AAH! SHOOTITSHOOTITSHOOTIIIIIIIT!
Big Daddies and Little Sisters. Her with her little-girl looks and creepy good cheer, so out of place in the city of the strange, then she pulls out a syringe the size of a small dog and you're like ohgodohgodohgod. Him with his grim force-of-nature presence, so strange he makes the Splicers look downright normal.
Everything from Silent Hill. Great horror achieved through inscrutably twisted THINGS whose resemblance to humanity is merely vestigial. Did some strange force make these things? Were they humans who evolved/devolved? And what about the "normal" people you meet? Are they monsters? Also, great use of sound. Every critter came with a uniquely disturbing noise.
I know flying heads are overdone, but the first time you meet them in Doom 3 scared me pretty bad. Where is that crying woman? She says she wants my help? What's wrong with her, maybe I can do something for h---AAH! AAH! SHOOTITSHOOTITSHOOTIIIIIIIT!
Big Daddies and Little Sisters. Her with her little-girl looks and creepy good cheer, so out of place in the city of the strange, then she pulls out a syringe the size of a small dog and you're like ohgodohgodohgod. Him with his grim force-of-nature presence, so strange he makes the Splicers look downright normal.
