human vs. monster theme

A struggle between person and monster is featured. Monster, here, means a grotesque version of man or animal of a sort that typically only exists in stories.

Notes

Use "human vs. beast" if the struggle is with a relatively ordinary animal.

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StoryLevelMotivation
ldr2019e1x05 choice An archeology expedition came face to face with the original Dracula, who turned out to be a huge grotesque monster, and only one of many at that.
ldr2019e1x18 choice The story revolves around a platoon of Red Army soldiers hunting down a hoard of gruesome ghouls deep inside the Siberian wilderness.
ldr2019e3x02 choice A shark-hunting expedition on the high seas took a grim turn when, in the midst of a ferocious nighttime storm, a giant man-eating crab monster forced its way aboard and claimed the ship's hold as its lair. The remainder of the story concerns the rest of the crew's fight for their lives.
ldr2019e3x05 choice The Green Berets fought a monstrous, mechanically enhanced, grizzly bear.
ldr2019e3x08 choice The soldiers battled hostile, spider-like creatures. The two survivors Coulthard and Harper ultimately faced Lovecraftian horror of unclear origin.
movie: 28 Days Later (2002) choice The four survivors were left to fend for themselves in a Great Britain overrun with roving bands of zombies.
movie: 28 Weeks Later (2007) choice Everyone fended for their lived when a zombie outbreak came to the safe zone in London.
movie: Alien (1979) choice The grotesque Alien creature stalked and killed various Nostromo crew members.
movie: Mosquito (1994) choice Man-sized, mutant mosquitoes were going around a state park sucking the blood out of everyone.
movie: Night of the Living Dead (1968) choice The story is about a group of people who did their best to survive when the dead started to walk.