作为好莱坞电影诸多群像中的一类，尤其是在最典型且受欢迎的好莱坞类型片科幻片、魔幻片、恐怖片和惊悚片中，“怪物”形象一直有着自己独特的魅力和重要的作用。从1910年托马斯•爱迪生公司制作了首部《科学怪人》默片始，形形色色的“怪物”形象开始称霸大银幕。从好莱坞影史上的票房成绩来看，前一百名的票房排行中，怪物题材电影或者说怪物形象在影片中占据重要地位的电影达到了41部。而且怪物形象在世界范围内还引发了一个怪诞且有趣的现象：一方面是对于越来越多形形色色的怪物形象苛刻的学术批评，一边是电影观众对于电影中的怪物形象和怪物衍生品狂热的追捧。如此种种都说明好莱坞电影中的“怪物”形象不应仅仅被看做附属于电影神话英雄主角的“他者”而被忽视，实际上“怪物”作为广受大众欢迎的电影主角，因为它所拥有的独特的审美价值、反映的电影受众的观影精神心理、折射的社会现实的集体无意识而成为研究电影文化的重要和典型案例。在美国，关于好莱坞电影的典型类型片——恐怖惊悚片以及其中的怪物形象及其所代表的文化内涵和相关的受众研究方兴未艾。而在中国，关于电影中的“怪物”形象研究还凤毛麟角不成体系。作者即希望能通过从电影奇观的角度对好莱坞电影中的“怪物”形象的类型谱系的梳理、以及从电影神话的角度分析电影中的“怪兽”形象与受众产生了怎样的精神映射，填补这一研究领域的空白，为进一步研究开辟新的角度。电影中的怪物形象承担着制造好莱坞电影奇观、营造电影白日梦、投射电影观众精神心理状态的重要作用。甚至在很多影片中，怪物的形象更加深入人心、更加历久弥新。本文即将目光投射在好莱坞电影中形形色色不一而足的怪物形象上，一方面梳理电影“怪物”形象发展史，解析电影怪物形象的滥觞、变化和发展。利用国外较为丰富和前沿的理论成果定义分类电影中的典型怪物形象并从历史的角度上解析它的变化和变化产生的原因。另一方面，本文试图利用电影精神批评分析方法，从全新的角度分析电影银幕怪物形象对电影观者的集体无意识的唤起，分析人类热衷于怪物电影的深层文化原因以及电影梦如何与电影怪物形象融会贯通。

In Hollywood movies, the images of the "monster" has always had its own unique charm and important position. Since 1910, the Thomas Edison company made the first Frankenstein silent film, all kinds of the "monster" images began to dominate the big screen. In the top 100 Hollywood film at the box office rankings, monster movies have reached the number of 41. There is an interesting and weird phenomenon, two extremely different words occurred at the same time; more and more critical opinions about the images of the "monster" appeared, on the other side, the "hysteria" popular are in the crowd. All this suggests that in the Hollywood film the "monster" image should not only be attached to the movie hero myth "the other" status and neglected, in fact, the "monsters" as a popular movie star, also has unique aesthetic value, reflect the social reality of the collective unconsciousness. In the United States, about the typical Hollywood movie genre - terror thriller, the researches of the monsters and represented by the cultural connotation and the audience of related never stopped . In this article, the eye projection in Hollywood movies and monsters of all stripes, on the one hand carding film history of the "monster" image, parsing movie monsters, change and development. Using relatively rich and frontier theoretical achievements define and classify the typical monsters in the movies from a historical perspective on the causes of change and parse it; On the other hand, this paper tries to use film criticism analysis methods, from the perspective of the new movie screens monsters to arouse the unconsciousness of the painter and the audience, analysis human keen to transform nature and change the deep cultural reasons of life and how the dream movie and movie monsters achieve mastery through a comprehensive image.