Which monster?

[charliesmum]

I was flicking through channels this morning, and stumbled across this movie that came out in 1981 (and amazing how '70's the early 80's were. More on that another time). The movie was called Full Moon High, and was a 'comedy' i.e. bad, low budget, no-name type movie that tried to cash in on the whole 'Porky's' phenomenon.

It occured to me then that there were quite a few Werewolf movies in the 80's - Not tons, but a few, so then I thought, hm...I wonder if Werewolves were the monsters of the 80's, and then Vampires were the monsters of the 90's and now Zombies are the monsters of the oughties

I have no research or real evidence to back this up, but it kind of works, when you think about it.

We have Teen Wolf in the 80's, and Buffy in the 90's, and several zombie movies over the last few years. Yeah there's overlap, but still...

Werewolves are generally consisdered to be unable to control themselves. Vampires are usually completely in control, and zombies are in control but single-minded.

Do you think one could reasonably posit that each monster represents fears or hopes of that particular decade?

And what monster do you think will be in the teens? Frankenstein? Ghosts? Banshees? Demons?

Comments

[placeboweek.livejournal.com]

Werewolves were definitely an 80s thing, but I feel like vampires are perpetually popular, albeit different versions. The nineties seemed to enjoy more classic vampires, whereas now it's all about teen vampires (I guess there's some overlap with Buffy on that).

I'll be glad when zombies aren't as popular. Frankenstein seems too specific to ever be popular again, sadly.