Within Dawn of the Dead directed by George Romero there is a multitude of parallels between the film and the seven theses discussed by Jeffery Jerome Cohen within the article Monster Culture (Seven Theses). During the first scene of the movie, a doctor and an interviewer are having a heated discussion on this unexplainable epidemic. The doctor states that this issues has gotten out of hand because the masses have overlooked and underestimated the gravity of the situation. Furthermore, ignoring the issue has caused this catastrophe, and the doctor goes on to say “if we listened…if we dealt with the with the phenomenon properly without emotion, it wouldn’t have come to this”, meaning that if there was just a cold-blooded mentality, the problem would have been resolved. However, this creates a paradox that can be related to what Cohen discusses in his article. The zombies; diseased and infected individuals should be exterminated in a monstrous rationale of emotionless slaughter. This ‘fire with fire’ mentality is just as lurid and morbid as how the zombies infect their hosts. So in reality there is no difference between the zombie and the human. Within Cohens third thesis he describes such dilemmas as “a deeper play of differences, a nonbinary polymorphism at the ‘base’ of human nature” (5). Essentially, the ‘monster’ plays off of human instinct and human nature, because it is created by us. It is the embodiment of us, the vile reality that we turn a blind eye to.