Monster Movies About Trauma
Trauma Wearing Monster Masks
The genre trappings here—werewolves, vampires, zombies, alien invasions, haunted houses—are almost never the real threat. Look closer and each film is actually about a parent protecting a child, a family secret finally surfacing, or a person's own grief and guilt curdling into something monstrous from the inside. The creature or killer is usually just the shape that unresolved damage takes so the story can stage a fight against it.
