Between Vampire movies and Werewolf movies I will go with Werewolf movies I just like them better.

Long live Dracula, the prince of Darkness...

LOL LOL thats funny tom-tom what you said ( Long live Dracula Prince of darkness) LOL its funny because Dracula is dead. But I know what you mean.

dracula
creature from the black lagoon
the mummy

the creature from the black lagoon is definately the coolest looking.

i read somewhere that someone once found the costume in the studio garbage and rescued it ..

how could would it have been to have found that ?

I have to say Cezar (even though he's not a monster) from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, or Nosferatu.

I think the guy who designed the suit for thecreature from the BlackLagoon was Bud Westmore andJack Kevan the actors/smimmers who played the Creature were Ben Chapman Ricou Browning and Don Megowan. The Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954 Revenge of the Creature 1956 The Creature walks amoung us 1957. Lets not forget that The Creature from the BlackLagoon was Universals 1st horror movie that was filmed in 3D.

Its also cool that it apeared in the right era...the 50's scifi/atomic horror bomb.

Lets not forget the 1st of the Atomic monster movies The Beast from 20.000 Fathoms in 1953. A movie that is said to be inspired by either Ray Bradbarrys book titled the Foghorn or Willis o Brians 1925 movie The Lost World a movie where a Dinosaur gets lose in london and causes some trouble. Ray Harryhausen who worked on The Beast from 20.000 Fathoms is a movie about a giant Dinosaur who makes its way to NY and attacks ConyIsland. The name of the Dinosaur or the name of the species was the Rhedosaur or Rhedosaurus. Godzilla was made a year later in 1954 along with THEM giant ANT movie.

The Lost Wolrd with brontasorous was pretty good. the 50's was also home of the Phantom movies....The Phantom Planet, Phantom From 10,000 Leagues, Phantom From Space..ect
What I think killed this era was William Castle's House On Haunted Hill (1958), it gave supernatural horror a new fan base.