Theme: Human-Animal Hybrids

Human-Animal Hybrids refer to humans that have some characteristic of an animal. This is different from Animal Transformation where humans transform into animal form, the most common of these being the werewolf. As the name suggests, hybrids exist somewhere between human and animal where it is usually a permanent condition.

Human-Animal Hybrids are common in mythology and folklore with figures such as the centaur, the faun and the various animal-headed gods of Ancient Egyptian Mythology.

The horror film features assorted hybrids created by Mad Scientists, the most notable being the Beast People created by Dr Moreau in H.G. Wells’ The Island of Dr Moreau (1896), which has been multiply filmed. The Fly (1958), featuring the merging for a human and a fly after a teleportation accident, created a brief fad for animal hybrids in the late 1950s.

Another source of hybrids is in the Superhero Film, which features various superheroes and super-villains with animal characteristics, the most well-known of these being Spider-Man.