Their hideous appearance and scary behavior became integrated in our lives and culture. It is difficult to imagine our world without monsters. Conclusion: cultural, social and political contextĥ.3 Comparison between book and film adaptation

“ The monster always escapes” – The return of the undeadĥ. In conclusion, both films show that to kill one’s own kind is inevitably monstrous and further, that the real monster of the future, even in a world full of monsters, is not the one that is excluded by society but the one that excludes itself. This is very similar to the monstrosity shown in Daybreakers, where the monsters by feeding upon themselves or other vampires ‘kill’ their own kind. Its human protagonists, considered monsters on Earth, are transported to an alien world and the contrast to the indigenous inhabitants causes them to be humanised in this world of monsters.Yet, the end of the film reveals a monster seemingly worse than all those they have encountered so far - the human monster.

In contrast, Predators by Nimrod Antal (2010) differentiates within the category of what is considered human. Resultantly, the more they disobey societal rules the more monstrous they become, changing from their normal nearly-human form into large bestial bat-like creatures.

Consequently, the vampires have to monster-ise other monsters to create a stable society, and to do so they abject those that do not follow the new forms of social prohibition. Daybreakers by the Spierig Brothers (2009) follows this motif but the vampires remain as structured as they were in their human lives humans are just a source of food and not the abject other. Cinematic adaptations of the novel repeat one side of this motif where the human being is portrayed as being monstrous not because of the in-human acts that s/he commits, but because of his/her difference to the monsters around him/her. Texts such as Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend (1954) show a dystopic future where humans are in decline, and a race of mutants, or what were once considered monsters, are now in the majority.

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