I really need your help.
I need movies, Tv shows, animes, cartoons, hentai, anything; even books or comic books ANY media where monsters/creatures/demons/robots/mutants/deformed people/whatever else is the main character or very close to the main character. Characters you would conventionally expect to be antagonists are instead the protagonists.
Like in district 9; the commercial makes you think it's going to be another aliens vs. man it was but the aliens were the ones the film tricked you into rooting for. When ever a alien died it would kinda make you cringe, but when a human did it would make you giggle. That sense of role reversal is what I am looking for.
Obvious picks would be movies like Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Frankenstein, The Elephant Man, ET, The Iron Giant, and Hellboy. Other lesser known ones are No Such Thing, Toxic Avenger, Mask, The Fly, Enemy Mine, Nightbreed, Fur, and Little Monsters.
The kind of movies that I am NOT looking for are ones like Interview with the Vampire, Ghost, and Let the Right one in, basically anything with attractive "monsters" they are not monsters if they look hot. Or anything with just mental monsters like American psycho and Funny Games. Bascially I want the character to be a outcast or "monster" because of grotesque appearance and not a mental state; no matter what category they fall under- human or subhuman.
Anything you can think of will help. Thank you for reading all that.
Movies
Freaked
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
The Incredible Melting Man
The Man who Laughs
Swamp Thing
Freaks
Hogfather
Beatlejuice
Edward Scissorhands
Alien
I-Robot
Bicentennial Man
Lady in the Water
Transformers
The Dark Crystal
Labyrinth
The Never-ending Story
Monkey Bone
The Goonies (sloth)
Star Wars
The Lord of the Rings (gollum)
Harry Potter (a LOT of characters sorta fit that idea)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Where The Wild Things Are
Pan's Labyrinth (the odd characters/creatures are not all bad, just strange)
Men In Black
x men
Shrek
Harry and the Hendersons
ALF
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
TV
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
Star Trek
The Munsters
The Adam's Family
Invader Zim
Gargoyles
Futurama
Being Human
3ed rock from the Sun
Animes
Macross Frontier
Bakemonogatari
Blue Gender
Martian successor Nadesico
kemonozume
Angel Densetsu
Akumetsu
Shamo
Parasyte
Ichi the Killer
Fire Candy
Tokyo Akazukin
ergo proxy
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Spirited away
Akira
Fullmetal Alchemist
Death Note
Appleseed
Books
Phantom of the Opera
The Metamorphosis
Abara
Song of Ice and Fire series
>>2
I don't know about Tetsuo, other than the drill-penis scene and the opening scene there was nothing really guro about it. Freaky movie though.
>I don't know what guro is.
The entire film is saturated with the erotic grotesque. The transformation is entirely physical, he is raped by that vacuum cleaner woman, there is a lot of sexual tension between the machinist and Tetsuo... seriously, 'not guro'? Learn what guro is, please.
I've heard good things about Sweeney Todd and Edward Scissorhands. Both are supposedly fairly dark, sort of like the more recent Brothers Grimm movie.
As for anime... the first thing that comes to mind in terms of role reversal is Death Note, but it's not exactly the most thought-provoking series on the market, and it's already been played to death at this point. I can't think of many others that are that explicity off the top of my head, except for perhaps Excel Saga, but that's more of a comedy for the most part. It's absurdist, like a less coherent Fooly Cooly.
>>5
Anything by Tim Burton is a moronic pop-goth trope along the same lines as all of his work. Only thing I can forgive is his tribute to 1950s B-movies with 'Mars Attacks!'
>>>6 I hate Tim Burton. Am I cool yet?
The only thing moronic about Tim Burton is the fanbase of angsty teenagers who worship his cock. They however, are not the work he produces which is generally pretty good.
I mean, come on, dismissing Sleepy Hollow as moronic?
>>11
Well, it wasn't total crap, no. I prefer some of his other movies, but I get what you mean. Personally I really like Tim Burton.
