The 10 best giant movie monsters, including Godzilla

Monster movies have always been a staple of global cinema, as we imagine giant terrors the size of skyscrapers to terrorize our cities and stand in for real-world problems that plague us every day.

As we look at the history of monster films, we remember the ones who stand to us roughly shoulder-to-shoulder, the vampires, reanimated dead, the Predator and The Thing. However, there are also those who tower over us as all we can do is either run or fight.

Let’s rank the 10 best giant movie monsters, from those who have an entire film series dedicated to their austeure awesomeness to those who crept around in the depths of some of our most beloved movies.

With Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire hitting theaters, this is as good a time as ever to rank the big monsters in our movies (and in our nightmares).