Monster movies tend to transcend genres.

In the story, a mysterious mist envelopes a town carrying a whole slew of dangerous monsters with it.

The animosity between the supermarket factions grows, and they often come to blows with one another.

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Being attacked incessantly by a demonic entity is actually kind of preferable to facing the horrors of war.

She even goes so far as attacking the couple to try and get her young back.

In this one, the subtext about humans being the real monsters is pretty on the nose.

Thomas Jane stands next to his jeep looking into the mist

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The two end up falling in love, though they cannot physically communicate.

But the creature is shown to be very gentle and emotionally intelligent.

Except the girl is actually not human whatsoever, and is secretly a vampire.

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If not, then it’s definitely one of the most famous.

But let’s be honest, how was he supposed to react?

Who wouldn’t flip out in that situation?

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It’s pretty clear who the real villains in this story are.

The key difference here is why.

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Ingvar walking hand-in-hand with a tiny humanoid lamb in Lamb

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Elisa pressing her face against a water tank with the Amphibian Man in it in The Shape of Water

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Hogarth sits on the ground in the woods as the Iron Giant crouches down to speak to him

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Lina Leandersson as Eli, a girl covered in blood in ‘Let the Right One In’

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Frankenstein’s monster (Boris Karloff) peers through the bushes in 1931’s ‘Frankenstein.'

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King Kong atop a skyscraper takes down a helicopter in King Kong (1933)

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Godzilla is seen in a close-up from 1954’s ‘Gojira’ (Godzilla)

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