Toxic masculinity is a fuck, the standard of fearlessness and dominance that patriarchy demands you uphold is unattainable, accept and embrace your fear as part of yourself.
I agree. Horror as a genre has been progressive most or all of the time.
Even in the 80’s, when they butchered promiscuous teens, the point was that the teens were the heroes!Laurie Strode from the original Halloween is one of my favorite protagonists in fiction. She’s relatably and realistically terrified of Michael Myers, but when the kids she’s babysitting are in danger, she throws herself into harm’s way to protect them, makes good use of improvised weapons (a knitting needle and a bent coathanger), and fights off Michael twice.
You might like the Horror Vanguard podcast. It’s a left political look at all kindsa horror films, and it takes an honest joy in analysing them more seriously than most of them were intended to be.
analysing them more seriously than most of them were intended to be
Extremely up my alley, I’ll check it out!
Also this episode and this older one of the revolutionary left radio podcast has Jon from Horror Vanguard as a guest and explaining his overall outlook on the topic.
I live alone and have to be in a certain mindset for a legit spooky movie, but it’s my favorite genre for how it can pull me all the way into a story.
Hereditary is my all time spookiest. it scared the crap outta me so bad I couldn’t sleep for 36 hours and I kept the lights on in my room while I was sleeping for like 2 nights after lmao.
shit got in my head. I still have a visceral response to the A24 logo in trailers, like an “oh shit” tense up, all these years later.
Indie horror video-games have a whole sub-genre that is basically just horror about having shitty minimum wage jobs and shitty, unsafe living arrangements due to poverty.
This was a huge vibe in FNAF which made it so disappointing to learn that the creator is a chud.
there’s a really good book about this (more so movies than video games, but i think the analysis is largely the same) Capitalism Hates You by Joshua Gooch.
basically horror films CAN be a tool to explore how fucked capitalism is, especially the more modern, elevated horror films (get out, hereditary, we’re all going to world’s faire, etc.)
”Bro I could totally take Jason”
