Monster Movies Where Humans Are the Real Villains

Everyone loves watching some big and scary creature wreak havoc on the world in one action movie or another. But how many of these creatures wreaking havoc are doing so out of actual malice?

Here are some of our favorite monster movies where humans are actually the ones to blame.

Godzilla

There are dozens of iterations of Godzilla in the cultural zeitgeist that show him causing a general sense of destruction to humanity, or to other monstrous creatures that have secretly awoken somehow. But all roads lead back to the origins of the character. Godzilla is the tragic result of human experimentation with atomic weapons.

He was technically already alive, living dormant in the sea, but the rapid, violent tests awoke and provoked him. I know that if I were taking the best nap of my life, and a bunch of fire ants kept biting me, I’d want to find and destroy the nest so they’d stop bugging me. Why shouldn’t the king of the monsters feel the same way? Instead of having him team up with King Kong, who is secretly wielding Thanos’ Infinity Gauntlet, we should have probably partaken in some real reflection into how our species really got here.

King Kong

‘King Kong’Credit: Warner Bros.

Speak of the devil…or giant gorilla. King Kong is another character that we have seen brought to the screen so many times, and if we’re going off of the themes of the original film, the poor guy was perfectly happy just chilling where he was. If the greedy American filmmakers hadn’t shown up, disrupted everything, then continued to try and shift the blame when the creature retaliated, there would have been no conflict whatsoever.

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