Monsters are made by placing external contamination into a foreign body

Evidence

The Invasion, like many zombie films, focuses on the fears of contamination and infection, both strong Gothic sensibilities. The idea that disease and bodily corruption originate from someplace else is often expressed on foreign and alien bodes that threaten our civilization, so “[t] he Gothic underscores the multifold miasmas, poisons, fungi, plagues, viruses, that are out there and able to destroy our individual or collective systemic order.” Placing these disruptions, germs, and corruptions into a strange body is one way that monsters are created, and in films like this, “[h]orror focuses upon the terror of that which is bio-antithetical, bio-illogical, a fear as viable today as it was in the middle-ages or in the imagined Middle Ages of 18th century Gothic literature.” — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 720

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the book’s core thesis: bio-anxiety is one more container for the manufactured Muslim monster, parallel to the demonic and giant figures. — connects to: Deformed bodies can stand as synecdoche for a whole poisoned community — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 152
• DEFINE: Defines a mechanism of monster-creation: displace disease/corruption from within onto a strange body, so the threat is always out there.