The German Expressionist Nosferatu in 1922, and the depiction of a dragon in Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen in 1924, followed tradition. The 1915 German silent film The Golem, directed by Paul Wegener, is one of the earliest examples of film to include a creature. The first feature-length films to include what are regarded as monsters were often classed as horror or science fiction films. In the modern day, many monster movies have used CGI monsters. Historically, monsters have been depicted using stop motion animation, puppets, or creature suits.
#Monster movie series#
The Godzilla series utilized the concept of a superweapon built by Japanese scientists to suppress him or any of the monsters he fights. The attempts of the humans to destroy the monster would at first be the usage of an opposing military force – an attempt that would antagonize the monster even more and prove useless (a cliché associated with the genre). On the contrary, Godzilla began in this fashion yet as time moved on his reputation quickly grew into that of a cultural icon to the Japanese, as much as Superman is a cultural symbol to America, with a number of films presenting Godzilla as a sort of protagonist who helps protect humans from other, more malevolent monsters. The monster is usually a villain, but can be a metaphor of humankind's continuous destruction giant monsters since the introduction of The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms have for a time been considered a symbol of atomic warfare, for instance. Or the monster is from outer space, has been on Earth for a long time with no one ever seeing it, or released (or awakened) from a prison of some sort where it was being held. The monster is often created by a folly of mankind – an experiment gone wrong, the effects of radiation or the destruction of habitat. In Japanese cinema, giant monsters known as kaiju often take up this role.
#Monster movie movie#
The most common aspect of a monster movie is the struggle between a human collective of protagonists against one or more monsters, who often serve as the antagonistic force.
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