Essay On Movie Monsters

Movie monsters; they kill off our favorite characters, haunt our dreams, and somehow keep coming back from the dead in the sequels. These monsters come in many different shapes and sizes, from human, undead, spirits, and extraterrestrial. Love them or hate them, monsters are undoubtedly the most important part of our favorite horror movies. Although their origins, appearances, and motives may frighten us, without them there is no story, no one to fear, and no one to run from. What makes these monsters so terrifying? In Horror and the Horror Film author Bruce Kawin defines three different types of horror villains. The first one just being monsters, Kawin says a monster is “A dangerous and repulsive creature, perhaps deformed, perhaps gigantic,

Frankenstein’s science creation in the movie Frankenstein is a universally known monster. Although this creature is scary and murderous, you can’t help but to feel bad for him trying to get along in a world that he does not belong in. This lab creation looks like a monster, when people see him they shutter. The creature even sees his own reflection in the water and scares himself. The unnamed monsters height is colossus and face looks dreary. At first glance the monster created in Dr. Frankenstein’s lab may seem like thoughtless killing machine, but he soon starts to show more human characteristics. After being torched by the lab assistant of Dr. Frankenstein, the creation fights back and flees the lab. The monster soon meets a little girl who teaches him how to play. In this scene you can see that the monster is capable of learning and feeling. The monster gets carried away with the game of tossing flowers and tosses the little girl into the water, which results in her drowning. You can see that the monster is sad and distressed knowing that he has done something

Billy Loomis appears to be an ordinary teenager, he has a girlfriend, a group of friends, goes to parties, and becomes the town slasher. Whenever Billy is killing he wears a popular Halloween costume that anyone can buy. This makes it hard for the police to track down who the killer is. Ghost face uses a hunting knife to kill by slicing his victim’s throats or stabbing them. These killings didn’t start at random, Billy Loomis had his first kill exactly one year before he started slashing around town. He had discovered that his girlfriend’s mother Maureen Prescott was having an affair with his father. This set Billy into rage, blaming Maureen for his parent’s separation and his mother leaving his father. Billy then got his friend and loyal accomplice Stu Macher to help him murder