My family was into movies, really into movies, As a kid I was into scifi movies and the special effects that go into them and I would watch the classic ones on WOR-TV Chiller Theater and then read in the magazines about the ones coming to the theater. Starlog, Cinefantastique and Famous Monsters of Film Land were my sources and I knew that The Dark Crystal was coming and I knew it would be groundbreaking. Jim Henson was a master of storytelling and of unique visual effects. I would see The Dark Crystal 5 times in the theater and see more details each time I watched.

The Skeksis were an avian reptilian race that represented the dark side of human nature, imagine if dinosaurs had not gone extinct and formed a society of raptors. They saw only short term greed rather than a long term comfortable life. Their clothing was ornate and different from one character to the other and Skeksil was the most interesting, second in line to the throne and annoying as heck he was hated by all of his kind. He came up with a plan to stay young forever but it required harvesting other creatures life force to do so...it was pretty dastardly. See the Dark Crystal if you have not, it was Henson's masterpiece before he died way too early. Then check out the Age of Resistance series that came out on Netflix.

A monster head-shot from a Kofi stream of them by artist  Dirty-Bird

I always get a slot in her Monster streams and then have to think of which monster would be fluffy enough to be in my gallery of fluff.