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Films involving a monstrous (and probably secret) ancestry for one or more characters, analogous to Lovecraft's stories involving characters discovering that they (or their children) are hybrid descendants of fish-men, ape-men, Ghouls, aliens, grotesque faeries, and other monsters.  The ancestry need not be from a literal (non-human) monster - it can just as easily involve the (at least, to the character) horrific discovery that he/she is descended from witches, cannibals, or otherwise comparatively human or otherwise mundane "monsters".

Lovecraft evidently found horror in the idea of discovering an impure bloodline (perhaps an Anglo-Saxon bloodline "tainted" with the blood of other "races"), and expressed this fear of "corruption" through miscegenation through the mingling of humans and animals and alien monsters, and the theme recurs in many of Lovecraft's stories ("[[Shadow Over Innsmouth (fiction)]]", "[[Pickman's Model]]", etc.)


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