![]() ![]() We watched everything brought forth, so you don’t have to. After all, the renewed success of Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 thriller Contagion in the early days of the pandemic proved there was an audience for frights that intersected with real world events. ![]() More recently, the rise of filmmakers like Jordan Peele provide comment on the racial prejudices that linger today.Īnd so it was no surprise that when COVID hit the world 12 months ago, horror filmmakers looked at the pandemonium dominating headlines and thought: ‘Hmmmm’. The slasher movies of the 1980s tell us much about the moral panic regarding teenage promiscuity that reigned under Regan rule. 1956’s Invasion Of The Body Snatchers was as much about the West’s fear of communism as it was creatures from outer space. The tattered landscape of America’s Great Depression is seen all through 1931’s Frankenstein. Horror movies have a long, unsettling, even poignant tradition of reflecting societal fears. ![]()
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