The film starts with a scene where a fictional news anchor is interviewing the character Dr. It is most likely to be human.The 2007 film “I Am Legend” is a sci-fi action movie where scientist Robert Neville (played by Smith) believes he may be the sole survivor in a plague that kills most people and transforms others into zombie-like creatures (, here ). Throughout the movie, he is battling to find other survivors and find a cure. In conclusion, both films show that to kill one’s own kind is inevitably monstrous and further, that the real monster of the future, even in a world full of monsters, is not the one that is excluded by society but the one that excludes itself. This is very similar to the monstrosity shown in Daybreakers, where the monsters by feeding upon themselves or other vampires ‘kill’ their own kind. Its human protagonists, considered monsters on Earth, are transported to an alien world and the contrast to the indigenous inhabitants causes them to be humanised in this world of monsters.Yet, the end of the film reveals a monster seemingly worse than all those they have encountered so far - the human monster. In contrast, Predators by Nimrod Antal (2010) differentiates within the category of what is considered human. Resultantly, the more they disobey societal rules the more monstrous they become, changing from their normal nearly-human form into large bestial bat-like creatures. Consequently, the vampires have to monster-ise other monsters to create a stable society, and to do so they abject those that do not follow the new forms of social prohibition. Daybreakers by the Spierig Brothers (2009) follows this motif but the vampires remain as structured as they were in their human lives humans are just a source of food and not the abject other.
Cinematic adaptations of the novel repeat one side of this motif where the human being is portrayed as being monstrous not because of the in-human acts that s/he commits, but because of his/her difference to the monsters around him/her. Texts such as Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend (1954) show a dystopic future where humans are in decline, and a race of mutants, or what were once considered monsters, are now in the majority.
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