Cloverfield creature and its origins

(Credits: Far Out / Paramount Pictures)Monster, alien or something else: where did the ‘Cloverfield’ creature come from?Modern franchises feel increasingly – and frustratingly in many cases – obliged to painstakingly explain every aspect of their respective mythologies, something that wasn’t on the minds of the Cloverfield creative team when their monster movie stomped into cinemas in January 2008.Found footage was already on a downward slope by the time the film came along, but putting a kai...

Monstrousness Lurking Inside Motherhood

English teachers, myself included, like to correct people who conflate Dr. Frankenstein with his monster, but recently I’ve started to consider the possibility that the misnomer speaks to a fundamental equation of artists with monsters. Jenny Ofill introduced the term "art monster" in her novel Dept. of Speculation. Shortly after having her first child, the novel’s nameless narrator reflects on the path she might have taken, were it not for motherhood: My plan was to never get married. ...

Zombies (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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