In Cohen’s seventh thesis “The Monster Stands at the Threshold… of Becoming”, he says that “Monsters are our children” (Cohen). This relates to the movie “Dawn of the Dead” because in the beginning, when everyone was at the news station and the news anchor was talking with a doctor, the doctor said, “every dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them. It gets up and kills. The people it kills get up and kill!” The doctor then went on to say, “A dead body must be exterminated. Either by destroying the brain or severing the brain from the rest of the body.” The news anchor replied, “you must be out of your mind!” and the doctor responded “this situation must be controlled before it’s too late.” The doctor understands that these things aren’t human and they kill only to feed. Other people, like the news anchor, don’t see it that way. They see those things as still being people and that, if the doctors worked hard enough, they could find a cure and everything would go back to normal. They don’t want to accept that they could turn into one of those things, and when they do, they would be killed. The monsters used to be people and they still look like people, and those who are still living feel a connection with them and they can’t bring themselves to kill one, because they would have never killed a person before. In the middle of the movie, the person on the television says, “Are these cannibals?” No, they are not cannibals. Cannibalism in the true sense of the word implies an inter species activity. These creatures cannot be considered human. They prey on humans.” This is the major difference between humans and these things (zombies). Even though they still look very similar, zombies are very different from humans. They are the dead who are now the undead.