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Movies unite their audience as one collective intellect and one psyche thus allowing researchers to consider all audience as one individual. In other words analysis of a film is also analyses the collective psychology too. Just as the human physiology human psychology is alike too and moves through the same psychological development stages. So Freud described five stages of child development. Two of these periods, the oral and, puberty periods, will be used to explain the symbolic expression of two cinema figures: The vampire and the werewolf Monsters in the mental mind originate from the visions and fantasies of the childhood psychology. Visually children create their monsters in childish style however since the intellectual and aesthetic capacity develops in the course of time these monsters develop too. Both in character and visual form their development and complexity goes to such extend that some becomes archetypal in character and becomes property of culture, folklore and even property of the complete humanity. Vampires and werewolves are also within the monsters of such manner. They tell much as a psychological metaphor of the human nature. A metaphor of such nature is the psychosexual and psychosocial stages of the childhood development. Also it should be noted that until now such perspective is mostly neglected by the critics and analysts of the horror genre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]