Check out this fun page from National Lampoon Presents Peekers and Other True Facts (1982) called Carried Away by Bill Moseley which featured 10 photos of movie monsters carrying off woman.
Click image to MONSTER-SIZE it!Movie monsters today don't seem to be carrying off the ladies like they use too. Maybe modern monsters have to go through some sort of sensitively training.
Anyway there are a ton of these "monster carrying woman" shots as you might have guessed, and after quickly leafing through my personal collection of horror movie books I've come up with a few more...
As you can see this monster carrying off a woman goes way back to the silent era with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Man Made Monster 1941
I love old horror movie trailers, and to make this post more exciting (thanks all you busy YouTubers) I've included a few trailers. Now you can see the monster carrying a woman action if you watch the trailer for The Atomic Monster, aka Man Made Monster...
Robot Monster 1953
From Hell It Came 1953
Here's a trailer for From Hell It Came ...
The Alligator People 1959The above picture seems to only be a publicity photo. Judging from the trailer below the monster in the Beach Girls and the Monster only attacks the girls...
Yeah "Frankie" is no longer carrying the woman, but I had to include this second shot from The Horror of Frankenstein for obvious reasons.
You're welcome fellas. (FUN FACT: That's David "Darth Vader" Prowse as the Creature.)
Now that you've seen those pictures, and if you watch the trailer below, maybe you'll be like me and wonder why they didn't feature this actress and her gravity defying breasts more prominently in the trailer (look fast at the 1:36 mark). It could only have helped ticket sales.
Dracula vs. Frankenstein 1971
This mush faced creature has to be the ugliest Frankenstein monster ever, and Dracula is kinda unconventional looking too if you view the trailer below...
Movie posters also prominently feature this iconic image...
Captive Wild Woman 1943
This movie is confusing. Is it a about a mad scientist who turns a girl into a ape, or is it about girl who has a psychic bond with animals? Whatever it's about, it doesn't look like any gorillas are carrying away women from what's in the trailer below...
Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster 1965
"See the kidnapping of the Earth maidens for the love starved slaves of a sterile planet!" shouts the announcer in the trailer below. (FUN FACT: Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster is also known as Mars Attacks Puerto Rico. Which is a damn good title too if you ask me.)
Robots also got in on the carrying away women act too (the "Ro-Man" from Robot Monster doesn't really count as a robot because I think he's more monster than machine)
The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951
Forbidden Planet 1956
Robby the Robot never carries anyone in Forbidden Planet, but it still makes for a cool looking poster.
Demon Seed 1977
Just for the edification those budding movie buffs out there, with all these robots walking away with hot women in their arms, the first time a machine actually impregnates a woman is in the Demon Seed.
Giant insects (or arachnids if you're gonna get technical) get the ladies too (well, at least on the posters).
Giant insects (or arachnids if you're gonna get technical) get the ladies too (well, at least on the posters).
Tarantula! 1955
Missile to the Moon 1958
The giant moon spider in Missile to the Moon is twice the playa his earthbound cousin is.
The Wasp Woman 1959
Since turnabout is fair play here's one poster where the guy is getting carried away. But this scene only happens on the poster, and the poster artist takes great liberties on what the "wasp woman" actually looks like as you can see from the trailer below...