In the reading for today, Peter Biskind highlights the vast array of horror/Science Fiction movies that poured out of studios in the 1950s.  Some of these were alien invasion movies with weak ties to horror film history, but others, suggesting links to Frankenstein, centered on monsters brought into being by scientific experiments.  As we’ve discussed, monsters carry a range of potential meanings in their otherness. What is at least one way that Biskind offers us to think about monsters, specifically in the 1950s?  Below are posters from two monster movies from the decade.  What kinds of threats and what sort of appropriate responses to the monster do one or both posters suggest?