My older sister is in love with the gothic horror of the cartoon and anime world. Of course being the typical younger sister, I followed in the foot steps. I fell face first into the Tim Burton film franchise. The scary horror done so well and the fantastic Johnny Depp acting. In these cases the “monsters” are human in a sense. Edward Scissorhands was a human with well scissors are fingers. The people in the movie depicted him as a monster and in this film, love blossomed. A little cheesey, but yes the misunderstood monster that fell in love with the human and is pursued by the ones that love the human. Sound familiar? Cough cough that vampire zombie movie maybe?

I never really enjoyed the “real life” monsters, meaning the movies with human actors. Yes I am a child for life, but I can only really enjoy the cartoon horror. Anyway continuing on, Sweeney Todd and Sleepy Hollow, hard to swallow but I can appreciate the art of it. Sweeney Todd is neither a fusion or fission monster, in Carroll’s The Nature of Horror, wink wink. In this case it is the well discussed human monster. A murderer for example, in which case Todd is. Disguised as a barber, but murders his clients, psychologically threatening and impure with his multiple cruel murders.

Sleepy Hollow is now a fusion monster in Carroll’s case, a headless horseman, classic. Anyway I believed and Ichabod Crane believed that the headless horsemen was just a typical murderer, a true human. But as the evidence stacked up against that idea, it looked grimmer and grimmer. Of course it was a psycho in the end, and that finishes that.

Truthfully maybe it is the tragic human monster, but those stories are always more moving. The monsters that kill just for the sake of it does not bode well with me.