the loss of what made monsters unique

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What happened to werewolves who were rational people during the day, and a few nights out of the month were rabid animals with the intelligence of man (like psychopaths), of vampires who were blood sucking corpses who looked down on the masses (like the elite of society), and witches who were people who gained power from Faustian bargains, and would do ANYTHING for more power (like sociopaths)? To dragons who were engines of destruction that couldn't be reasoned with or sated (like the madness of war from the perspective of civilians caught in the crossfire). 

Now what we have are just misunderstood minorities with way cool super powers. It's like they transplanted the premise of the X-Men into the classic monsters. 
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Yeah, you are right about that... those monsters have basically just become the X-Men. Most of them just have totally awesome powers with no drawbacks or serious weaknesses but society hates them for no reason. Except the original takes were a lot more interesting since people had VERY GOOD reasons to hate and fear them.

I don't mind trying to give something a new spin but sadly those start to crowd the market right now. The reason is simple: Twilight made a lot of money and people like money so we get more books and movies like Twilight.

There are still good interpretations of those classic monsters, I would like to point you towards "Let Me In" (or try the original movie: Let the Right One In) for a decent modern take on vampires. Not the greatest movies of all time but if we had more of these, there would be no reason to complain.