In the movie Frankenstein, Henry Frankenstein is the creator of the monster in the movie. Henry isolates himself in his lab away from his fiancee and family. While his friends and family believe that his whole experiment is irrational and unsound, Henry defends his experiment. He believes that he could train the monster despite it’s abnormal appearance, even after the doctor from his previous university tells him that the monsters brain is that of a criminal. Soon Henry is taken away from his laboratory and the monster is abandoned.

It is clear that in the movie Henrys creation is not at the same mental level as the other characters. However the way in which can it is treated varies because of the appearance from which it was born. In some moments it is handled with aggressiveness because it is seen as something difficult to handle and understand. They tempt the monster with fire, hit it, and lock it up. They believe that it does not have the capacity to understand things on the same level as the doctor, a baron, or scientist.

When the monster escapes the laboratory, he soon wanders into a backyard and a little girl invites him to play. She is gentle and kind, paying no attention to the unusual features. She shows the monster how flowers float in a pond and soon it picks her up and throws her into the pond, expecting her to float. The monster was just created and so what is common knowledge is not known yet. The monster carries that same innocence that the girl approached with.

I feel that the movie Frankenstein applies the topic of disability to the social model of disability. The social model of disability explains that people who have disabilities are not accounted for in society. There many not be accessible resources provided or a basic effort to understand. People who would be considered “normal” in the movie, such as Henry Frankenstein, the doctor and the people in the village only see the monster as a threat. The monster has been dismissed by society but could have had that chance to be the great creation that Henry Frankenstein claimed it was, if Henry only had a patience and understanding to work with the monster instead of abandoning it. In society people may be quick to dismiss those with disabilities as incapable, in constant need of aid or unusual.

I think that horror as a genre has endured for many years because it is predominantly seen as a form of entertainment. It is in a way somewhat fun to be “scared” because what is shown in a horror movie might not be completely true and will only give a feeling of being scared for a short while. In some cases it may even be seen as an aesthetic. Some people in general just enjoy seeing the way a horror movie is filmed and the music that is attributed to each one. I see what the comedian Phil Wang is saying with horror movies being a western privilege. The sense of fear can be recognized as a form of entertainment because of the fact that the constant fear that people face with war, oppression, famine and immense poverty in many countries may not be commonly present in western areas.