11 - Ideology and Reaction in Horror

In this episode originally intended to be recorded and released before Halloween, we go over the social/political trends undergirding 90 years of US horror cinema decade by decade. Eilex shares a few frightening Latin American folktales and their ideological basis in colonization, and Jeremy talks about No One Gets Out Alive (2021) and the messages behind it.

James Bell, “US Horror Film and the Capitalist Crisis (1974–1985)”, ep 1 of Prolekult

Mark Steven, Splatter Capital

Susan Sontag, “The Imagination of Disaster”, Commentary Magazine