Monster Mash. Lesson with Kat

A monster is a distortion of something that has a normal, non-threatening form. The monstrous form is threatening and disturbing because it is beyond the pale of what we consider normality. A monster is a deformation of what we consider normal and there and theresafe. 

Baron Samedi- master of the dead

A spirit. Live and let die played jeffrey holder. Zombie movie craze is an interpretation of the aging of human society. No one escapes the indignities of old age physical decrepitude and death. 

Ghost- American horror story hotel. Inspired by the hotel. Unfinished business. Why are they here? 

Warewolf: hybrid. Cartesian dualism, I think there for I am. Separating of the body and the mind. in its human form it is interiorised. Seen as an other alien threatening the social collective. Negative of a normailised social identity. 

Vampires. Nosferatu: symphony of horror. vampire count orlock. rat creature, long teeth, claws, long ears, the portrayal changes. powerful, good looking, How did the red eyes and fangs happen. the original thoughts were for the vampire to go to london to infect with the vampiric virus. The hunger the lust. David bowie in a vampire film. Elegance and privilege. Live forever. Consumer. Consuming and vampires sucking the life out of the living. These are compared. 

What do you fear? death, ageing, through the vampires we are projecting virus's terrorism. Interview with the vampire. Aids desease. lust and sexual desire leads to desease. vampires lust will lead to death. 

Terror, war, economic crisis. just as atomic anxiety infused cold war era-pop culture. 

These vampires are viruses incarnate. pandemic and vurge of extinction, guillermo del toro.

9/11 reaveled our weakness's death destruction and invasion of breaches of security our powerless to control others. Twilight. fear of ageing. interest in plastic surgery. Read a text from monster culture. Read list. 1d 

I found this class really interesting, as I have never looked at monsters in this way before. I understand a little more about how I will create my characters and there back story.