It’s annoying because horror movies have allegories already, but they could be about bigger things than the trauma of them. I read someone trying to defend modern horror movies like this by saying Night Of The Living Dead is about the trauma of racism. No, it’s about racism itself, not the black character’s trauma from it. The fact that so much modern horror is filtered through a single person’s emotional response to bigger topics every time really homogenizes things to a degree I don’t appreciate.
Yeah I think you’re into something with the individualistic aspect of a lot of modern horror — it’s all become quite solipsistic when there used to be something more social about it? But then you could say that e.g. Get Out fits into either category I guess.
The other thing I’m not a huge fan of is the way some movies will use trauma to ‘elevate’ the horror, when the whole point of the genre imho is to diminish trauma/general badness into something we can laugh at or get a thrill out of. It’s the difference between making entertainment for traumatized people and making traumatainment for sheltered people.
It’s annoying because horror movies have allegories already, but they could be about bigger things than the trauma of them. I read someone trying to defend modern horror movies like this by saying Night Of The Living Dead is about the trauma of racism. No, it’s about racism itself, not the black character’s trauma from it. The fact that so much modern horror is filtered through a single person’s emotional response to bigger topics every time really homogenizes things to a degree I don’t appreciate.
Yeah I think you’re into something with the individualistic aspect of a lot of modern horror — it’s all become quite solipsistic when there used to be something more social about it? But then you could say that e.g. Get Out fits into either category I guess.
The other thing I’m not a huge fan of is the way some movies will use trauma to ‘elevate’ the horror, when the whole point of the genre imho is to diminish trauma/general badness into something we can laugh at or get a thrill out of. It’s the difference between making entertainment for traumatized people and making traumatainment for sheltered people.