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Ok we get it's really expensive to make movies but if you're making a creature feature, maybe put a bit of focus on the creatures? These are our absolute favourite so-crap-they're-funny monsters from the movies.

Sad times that in this era of digital effects, we may never again see a lady in a one-piece run screaming from a bloke in a wetsuit with stuck on ping-pong balls for eyes.

We love you Roger Corman!

1. From Hell It Came (1957)

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This thing, that apparently came from hell, is a wronged prince who's been reincarnated as a vengeful tree stump. So crap is this tree suit that it doesn't even have 'action-eyes' - they're just painted on. Back to hell with you, rubbish tree man.

2. The Keep (1983)

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Is it just us or does the crap demon from Michael Mann's bizarre WWII B-movie look quite a bit like the slightly crap baddie Apocalypse from the latest X-Men movie? He was also accidentally released from an ancient tomb. Coincidence? Yes, probably. This movie is about Nazis who enlist the help of a Jewish concentration camp prisoner (played by Ian McKellen) to help them fight a monster.

3. Mansquito (2005)

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That's right, 2005, when there isn't really an excuse to have a man dressed in a hilariously crap mosquito suit. But then, this is a TV movie called Mansquito, so we're not sure what we were expecting. It's about a scientist and her subject that turn into mutant insects. Course it is. Jazz-hands!

4. Troll 2 (1990)

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A film regularly cited as the worst movie of all time – which doesn't even feature any trolls and isn't a sequel to Troll 1 – would just have to have one of the most hilariously crap movie monsters ever. I mean look at this guy.

5. Unknown Island (1948)

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Picture the way Jurassic Park lovingly brought dinosaurs to life. This film is its opposite, and although it will bring tears to your eyes just like the Spielberg classic, that's due to the pain caused by the terrible shrieks of its rubbery monsters rather than anything even vaguely resembling emotion. Would that this island had remained unknown.

6. Night of the Lepus (1972)

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Some of the best horror plays on things that seem innocuous and everyday, and twists them into the stuff of nightmares. And so we get to Night of the Lepus, where a town is overrun by... giant, carnivorous bunnies! Steel yourself for slow motion footage of rabbits running past tiny model houses and shaky footage of actors dressed in blood-soaked rabbit costumes. If this is what comes of man playing god with our hopping friends, we want out.

6. Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)

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Nuclear testing transformed these humble crabs into giant, intelligent and telepathic monsters that devour and absorb people's minds. This we could live with, but those giant leering, papier mâché faces, buck teeth and that sad sad look in their eyes... These freaks must be destroyed!

7. Octaman (1971)

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Never was there more obvious a case of a man wearing a giant, floppy rubber suit than that of the mutant Octaman. And we've seen Mansquito. This was the first credited film job for future seven-time Oscar-winning special effects make-up master Rick Baker, but he's the only one laughing.

8. The Alligator People (1959)

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More accurately called 'I Married an Alligator', the best thing about the totally impassive reptilian head of the heroine's new husband is watching it sink into the swamp never to be seen again. Though he has made the effort to wear a smart pair of trousers we're pleased to see. In the 1950s, even alligator people knew how to dress.

9. Robot Monster (1953)

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The dread Robot Monster is a gorilla suit with a helmet stuck on top. His mission: to destroy mankind – presumably for the crime of creating Robot Monster in the first place.

11. Killers from Space (1954)

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These cuties are from the planet Astron Delta – they plan to destroy all of humanity using giant insects and reptiles which they have created by radiation. They also plan to outstare you until you surrender...

12. Creature from the Haunted Sea

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But no-one, NO-ONE, not even killers from space, shall outstare the creature from the haunted sea. See the haunted look in his stick-on ping pong ball eyes! He has seen things! Things like Sesame Street, we wonder?

This classic comes from the monster master Roger Corman and it was shot in just five days. And the creature? According to actor Beach Dickerson, he was, "a wetsuit, some moss, lots of Brillo pads. [...] Tennis balls for the eyes, ping-pong balls for the pupils, and pipe cleaners for the claws. Then we cover him with black oilcloth to make him slimy." Genius.

From: Digital Spy