Jurassic World: why Hollywood monsters have lost their bite

Now more empathic than ever, could film’s fantastic beasts be doing themselves out of a job?It used to be so simple with movie monsters: they tried to kill us and we tried to kill them back, which worked fine with elemental classics such as Jaws, Alien and Godzilla.

But now we seem to have found a new method for killing movie monsters: empathy, which is spreading through the beast community like a virus.Related: Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte: we owe Jurassic Park a debt of gratitude

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