You run from them, wheel in terror and dream about them only in nightmares— this is the core of what the word monster is all about. Through story telling monsters have had a great impact on what we believe in, are scared of and how it has influences people. By using literature, history and later on the big screen too, monsters have been used to demonize and discharge beings that exist outside of a normal household—something that is the complete opposite of us. Going into depth and discussing how limitations for what a monster can or cannot be have been dismissed and have been rethought through the steady modern interpretation through screenwriters and directors. The original monsters such as Dracula, Werewolf, and Zombies have taken on new …show more content…
An article written by Games Radar reflects on this by quoting that Schumacher says, "Vampires are hot,” he says. “They’re the only erotic monster. Frankenstein’s not hot." With this conceptualized foundation for vampires the new attractive vampire stuck and went on to influence many more remakes of the monsters in Vampire Diaries, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and more. The teenage girl aimed movie series Twilight then released and depicted vampires as being more sulky than scary. Vampires are being seen as more in touch with their feelings—like not wanting to behave like a vampire; killing to drink blood, going to school and not whimpering from the sunlight, having relationships etc. In an article written by the Irish Examiner, Dr. Magdalena Grabias says that vampires are, "they're looking for love, expressing a romantic need to find a soulmate in a better world, trying to find their way in the human universe and trying to oppose their own demonic natures by fighting hard to overcome their demonic natures." While old school vampires such as Dracula, "were unashamed blood-suckers, who were never afraid to kill and never concerned themselves with such human ‘nonsense’ as morals and ethics, a repulsive supernatural creation, ugly, dangerous, completely alien, decrepit, deformed and with long