Whether it's a ghost, alien, demon, deranged killer, creature, or anything else that horror writers have conjured, they're all monsters.
He is a kid, but also a kind of killer, a creature trained to lock with others in bouts of fist, knife, and otherwise; pressing their faces down into the suffocating mud, he is champion and satisfied.
Here's a finding that will gratify monster-crazed children everywhere: Roughly 505 million years ago, giant killer shrimp ok, shrimplike creatures called anomalocaridids prowled the ocean gobbling up any soft-bodied prey that wandered across their path.
This is in contrast to presentation of the secondary feature, The Manster (1962), which mainly focused on the carnie-show aspect with its "two-headed monster" and "Invasion from outer space by two-headed creature killer".
A wide range of creatures, from killer whales to nightingales, demonstrate the Lombard effect — and, according to a recent paper in Behavioral Ecology, some fish do, too.
It has been claimed that house martins bear a resemblance to another charismatic creature: the killer whale.
The sides of his personality — sociopath and family man, scientist and killer, rational being and creature of impulse, entrepreneur and loser — are not necessarily as contradictory as we might have supposed.
If she does formally enter the race, as expected, she will have to face being branded as a baby-killer and a creature of spendthrift Washington, DC.Mrs Hutchison insists that "it's very important that we don't build a party around an issue [abortion] that is so personal, on which even families disagree".
But even then, a few people remembered the danger in her soul, as well as the mad romance in her eyes, when she played one of the young killers in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (made when she was 18 and still one of her great performances).
Another Mephisto is an angel who helps God in the construction of the universe, and in the creation of orcas (killer whales) and giant sea mammals, creatures dear to me since my Puget Sound childhood.
