How does one make a creature with animal intelligence seem creepy?

Parasites.

>>52051370
Yeah, parasites are pretty creepy. A decent suggestion. Anything that hijacks a creature's control over its own body, really. Give the animal cordiceps-like mind control fungus.

>>52051341
Leeches, Mosquitos, Spiders, Centipedes etc.

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Start with this.

>>52051341
>How does one make a creature with animal intelligence seem creepy?
It's a person, and that person is a cannibal.

>>52051341
Make them look humanish, they dont even crouch beyound a sortof hunter stalk. Then when you get close they scream and you get swarmed.

>>52051655
Animal intelligence.

Alternatively make them encounter it all too early. Make them have to scare off a dire bear. Then make them enciunter it later. With the same scar.

>>52051699
>Animal intelligence.
Which is why the dude is creepy. That and the cannibalism thing.

Creepiness is what you get when something is between about 4/5 and 9/10 normal; picking up on that little bit that just isn't quite right.


Cat: small, walks on four legs, chases mice, scratches furniture, scales; creepy

Dog: big, loves you, chases balls, barks at mailman, head tracks you even when walls between; creepy

Human: one head, two arms, ten fingers, two legs, ten fingers; creepy

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>>52051341

Maggots that start off as spores.
When you inhale, the eggs hatch and maggots fead on your insides.

You periodically cough up maggots and blood. They eventually eat through your interior wall and get into the blood stream. They travel to the brain, eyes, etc. There comes a point when they end up in your eyeball, squirming around. Doesn't matter if you close your eyes, you still see and feel them.

Be thankful I didn't choose a serious pic.

>>52051341
Basically just take any of the existing super creepy animals out there and scale them up to human size.

>Some jungle cats like ocelots have been observed mimicking baby monkeys to lure adults; make it a full size tiger who's "roar" sounds like a crying child

>Cuckoos will leave their eggs inside the nests of other birds, causing those parents to work harder to feed a much larger, hungrier, and angrier child, to the detriment of their real kids; make it a changeling, but instead of being all weird and elfy it just grows and grows and grows, with no sign of stopping or becoming smarter, until one day it gets on all fours and runs away squealing like a pig

>Lots of bugs will lay their eggs inside their prey and paralyze them so they'll stay alive and leave fresh food for their babies when they hatch; this ones pretty self-explanatory

>>52051370
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>>52051615
These. Also making it virtually indestructible aside from very specific circumstances.

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>>52052058

Make it swarm. Hordes of bugs are disgusting.

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>>52051341
Vaguely human appearance, but just enough differences that it comes off as a poor mockery of a man. Its humanoid appearance fools you into thinking it may be nonaggressive or even capable of reason, but its clearly nonhuman features fill you with a vague sense of unease and sense to protect yourself from it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-LWlMCIgPA

>>52051341
I was stalked by a polar bear once. Just the knowledge that something deadly is actively hunting you should be enough to creep most people out.

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>>52051341
multiple creatures but its not revealed that the whole town was infested until the first one was killed.

or creepy things wanting cuddles yet clearly not a creature to give them to