The Consumption of Human Sanity
             The full moon is set high but all of its light is shrouded in the blanket of night. Sounds of screams and freight are the only things heard with the deep dark shadows. The suddenly the impossible happens as from dimness emerges something that was thought to have only appeared in the darkest of nightmares. A beast of half man, half wolf, approaches aggressively, then all sudden silence. In many horror movies the use of transformations is commonly used to represent the evils hidden within. This evil may be exposed as what some may describe as a mental Illness, or as an actual physical transformation. A transformation which is required for the evil to seep from within its skeletal prison. That all of us has this in us but not all of chose to accept it.
             In many horror movies we have learned that a beast lurks within all of us. Only a few of us allow this beast to escape though. For some it is just an immense amount of anger that just builds until it has no where else to go except out. When this happens the consequences are dire. However, others are just born and grew up embracing this beast within. Hiding their insanity while acting normal and never allowing other to even catch a glimpse of the horrors they are capable of. Unless they want you to. Hannibal Lector is a great example of a man cloaking his inanities; No one is capable of looking beyond his mask of kindness and sophistication. Hannibal used his wit and very powerful gift of persuasion to lure his victims in to close and trap them in his web of deceit. Then when they let down their guard he attacks and feasts on their flesh like a savage animal. This proves that the horrors that lurk within us are deeper and darker then ever imagined. "The shadow represents the dark side of our nature" (Beast 783).
             The belief of human transformation has been "one of the most popular horror subgenera and what we call...