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Feeding the Monster

Why Horror Has a Hold on Us

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Feeding the Monster

By: Anna Bogutskaya
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Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh. All monsters need feeding.

Horror has been embraced by mainstream pop culture more than ever before, with horror characters and aesthetics infecting TV, music videos and even TikTok trends. Yet even with the commercial and critical success of The Babadook, Hereditary, Get Out, The Haunting of Hill House, Yellowjackets and countless other horror films and TV series over the last few years, loving the genre still prompts the question: what's wrong with you? Implying, of course, that there is something not quite right about the people who make and consume it. In Feeding the Monster, Anna Bogutskaya dispels this notion once and for all by examining how horror responds to and fuels our feelings of fear, anxiety, pain, hunger and power.

©2024 Anna Bogutskaya (P)2024 W.F. Howes Ltd Art Entertainment & Performing Arts Essays Film & TV Social Sciences Scary Inspiring Zombie

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A Feast for (and sometimes of) the Brain

Jaw-droppingly insightful (quite literally in places) Anna B might be the most effortlessly intuitive writer in modern horror criticism. This is mind boggling analysis, her easygoing wit and charm somehow enabling the delivery of thesis level content as if it were a bedtime (ghost) story. Really excellent, I consider myself schooled by The Final Girl 👏🏻

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