Status Updates From Little Horrors: How Cinema'...

Only managing to read on the bus now cos my attention span is so shot but oh maaaaaannn-
Started talking about how the mad scientist making a baby in a lab and the pregnancy horror are both about control and responsibility and GUILT
I do have beef with the liberal use of the r slur throughout though :(

Finally actually made some progress with this, (so far covered birth, family, nature and science) but still reads like it's exploratory and fully develops the ideas from each film mentioned. My favourite theory so far is that a big part of the 'guilt trip' that horror films aim for is to warn us about unconditional love (if you clone your dead kid and love the killer kid that comes back did you really love your kid☹️

Just starting but I reeeally like this one- all about how the point of horror is making the viewer see themselves where they don't want to, not scaring them, and that killer kids are a good way to make us feel guilty for identifying/sympathising with predators, (as payback for us not being guilty for our predation in real life)