Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.
I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.
I have lived in the monster and I know its insides; and my sling is the sling of David.
We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.
Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.
I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
Demons, chaos, dragons - all of them are different incarnations and representations of our idea of death in 'Dark Souls.'
We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us.
The beauty of the original monster movies is that you were able to relate to every single character, or even to treat their monstrosity as an emotional metaphor.
