SlaverTickler said:
In my opinion the scientest was the monster because he created life and then didn't take proper care of it."Frankensteins Monster" was just a big infentile creature who was judged based on his "Monsterouse" apearence. Dr Frankenstien and the villagers were the real EVIL in that movie.
This is actually generally accepted to be the main point of the original
Frankenstein novel by Mary Shelley. In the book, the 'monster' is actually inherently good, and intelligent as well: he learns literate English by secretly watching a family in a cabin, and in return he helps them out by leaving huge amounts of firewood at their door. It is his rejection by his creator, and by small-minded humans who take one look at him and decide he's an abominable creature of evil, that actually
makes him turn murderous. In fact, he only kills people who are close to Dr Frankenstein, in a conscious attempt to punish the latter for creating and then abandoning him.
I've never seen the original movie, so I can't judge on that, but several generations of Hollywood bastardisations turned the story into a simplistic morality play: 'Don't go tampering in God's domain, or you may create evil monsters who will then turn on you.' In fact, in many versions the monster becomes evil because he is made from pieces of 'bad people', often by accident. This reduces him to a mindless automaton driven by his bloodthirsty biological nature--a far cry from the sensitive, passionate creature of Shelley's complex and thematically rich novel, brought to life in a grotesque form, left to fend for himself by a selfish, short-sighted creator unconcerned with how he will survive or learn to operate in human society, and then persecuted for his appearance.
You are absolutely correct--it was Dr Frankenstein who was the monster, at least until the movies watered down and corrupted the story.
As for ghosts and witches, neither are monsters. I had a witch for a girlfriend once--the only woman I've yet gotten a chance to tickle extensively. She wasn't a monster--at least until she broke my heart.
And ghosts usually don't even interact with people, let alone do bad things to them. They usually just kind of walk by, or appear and disappear, and if the person who sees them gets scared, that's the person's lookout! Unless you're referring to poltergeists--I'm not sure whether those are considered ghosts or not. Even most of those are generally harmless, if I'm not mistaken. The image we as a culture have of evil, destructive spirits (
Poltergeist,
The Exorcist, and so on) can pretty much be traced back, through some intermediate form or another, to one story: the 'Amityville Horror' of book and movie fame. And I think it makes a lot more sense to class that as a daemon than as a ghost--I've read the original book and seen a documentary on the real-life incident, and everyone involved talks about whatever it was much more like a daemon than a ghost.
Of course, the whole 'classic monsters' concept is to a great degree a matter of pop-culture ideas derived from Hollywood movies, so perhaps it's unfair to point out that Frankenstein's creation, witches, ghosts, and poltergeists are not
really monsters, since we're not talking about
reality anyway. We're talking about modern myths created in the cinema. In that context, anything that's portrayed as a monster has claim to be considered a monster.
Personally, though, I've always found all these old movie monsters rather boring, and not scary at all. (If I had to pick one I like, it'd be vampires.) I much prefer modern monsters like Michael Myers, the aliens of
Alien, genetically engineered dinosaurs (another movie monster that was no monster at all in real life), or the mysterious 'presence' of Death in the
Final Destination movies. This is probably in large part because of my age; already by the time I was born the classic werewolf- and vampire-movies were 'old' and 'primitive in their effects'. If I'd been born in another generation, they'd be the cutting edge to me.
Oh, well. Vive le difference. As long as movies are made where people scream and die, all will be well.
Everybody loves Vampires, they’re totally the most stylish of demonic creatures…. With the possible exception of the succubus 
