I found Stephen Witty's article, "Monster still alive 183 years later," very interesting. Curator David Schwarts, whose American Museum of the Moving Image hold a two-day Frankenstein festival said, "There's a bit of the creature in all of us." This really stood out to me because everyone knows what it's like to be excluded from something.
What also got my attention was how Witty compared fright films to there eras. Horror films, such as "Night of the Living Dead" and "Last House on the Left," that were made during the late '60s early '70s, are about a society that has fallen into anarchy. Films that were made during the late '70s early '80s involed many erotic vampire setting, which represented the "dark side" of the sexual revolution. Finally, films that were made today involve the fear of our technology being used against us. What Witty is saying is that these films are represented to match our fears, and how they have changed over time.