When it comes to movie monsters, most people think of the classic scary bloodsuckers or the flesh-ripping werewolf, maybe even the brain-hungry zombies. All of these monsters have one thing in common: they are designed to scare audiences and get the adrenaline pumping during a horror film.
Monsters can be anything from the neighbor next door to a slimy space alien, but monsters can sometimes turn out good. From the monster hiding under a child's bed to a pond-scum encrusted eco-activist, sometimes it turns out that horror movie monsters aren't so bad after all. Here are a few that defy their tropes.
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When repeat offender Kylie is sentenced to house arrest, she is remanded to the custody of her mother and forced to stay in her home — a home that is also inhabited by a malevolent spirit. Initially, Kylie is convinced there is an intruder in the house after she is grabbed in the basement; however, she soon starts to think that there is in fact a spirit haunting her family's house.
The truth of the story is a lot stranger when it turns out that Kylie's clinical psychologist is actually a murderer and the «ghost» is a harmless, if somewhat strange, man named Eugene who lives within the walls of the house. It turns out Eugene has lived in the house since before a set of horrific murders happened and is simply extremely shy.
By all definitions, Edward Scissorhands, the main character in the movie of the same name, is a monster. Created in a spooky castle-like mansion cloaked in darkness high on a hill in a colorful suburban neighborhood, Edward was never finished. Living alone for years after the death of his «father» (Vincent Price), Edward is discovered and pseudo-adopted by cosmetics
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