Lost in Translation:The Cultural Problem of Re-imagining our Beloved Movie Monsters

In recent years, Hollywood has returned to its begrudgingly necessary bedfellow, the horror film, in order to finance other blockbuster projects onscreen. While I firmly agree with the BBC’s film critic Dr. Mark Kermode, who, vocally and repeatedly, blames the success of films by Michael Bay (Transformers (2007), Pearl Harbour (2001), Armageddon (1998) etc.) for the lobotomy of intelligent cinema in exchange for special effects and pyrotechnics onscreen, my ire is significantly stoked when such special effects directors cast their eyes onto horror classics in order to recapitalise upon t