It’s that prescience – often wrapped in a package that can range from freaky to silly to just straight-up gross – that makes monster movies so immortally popular. Quite the opposite: most of the time, movie monsters exist as stand-ins for very real issues, whether it’s the climate crisis, the threat of nuclear annihilation or, in the case of Arnie’s aforementioned arch nemesis, a deep-seated fear of human anatomy. But that’s not to say cinematic beasts can’t tell us something about the world we actually live in.
Instead, they live their monstrousness out loud, leveling skyscrapers, terrorising small-town teenagers or hunting Arnold Schwarzenegger in the jungles of Central America. Only, the monsters of celluloid don’t often bother disguising themselves as powerful producers or casting agents. Like Hollywood itself, the movies are crawling with monsters.
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