Theme: Children's Monster Movies

Children’s Monster Movies are similar to standard Monster Movies but for several key differences. In these, the protagonists are children (usually around or before adolescence). Unlike the regular monster movie, where the monster of the show threatens the social order, the threat here will usually be more intimate – a neighbourhood, at most a town.

Children’s Monster Movies will often subvert familiar tropes such as having the monster be misunderstood and feared by others but befriended by the children and often will involve plots where they are struggling to save the creature.

Others can be light knockabout items involving the Famous Monsters or works featuring cuddly adorable versions of monsters as heroes.