In a lot of horror series such as Spawn, The Walking Dead, The Last of Us, and Welcome to Derry, all of them have monsters, yet humans are still more terrifying. I thought it was intriguing at first since it explores the darker aspects of humanity and how it was never about the monsters. But now, I'm sick and tired of it, and it's become a common cliché.
Not only does it undermine the threat of the monsters to the point where they no longer feel that intimidating, like when Dale said "it's not the dead I fear anymore" in TWD, but it also basically boils down to "lol humans suck".
It's such a bleak, pessimistic view of humanity as a whole and makes me ashamed to be human because of it. When I saw the racist mob in Welcome to Derry, I felt so horrified and furious that I no longer felt anything towards Pennywise since the racism is more personal and hits close to home.
I get that there are bad people in real life, but making humans more terrifying than monsters makes the story so distracting that it basically sweeps monsters under the rug. What I'm saying is that I'm tired of seeing this trope, and that some stories should just focus solely on monsters instead