Hostel, Turistas: The would outside America is a depraved hellhole full of sadistic criminals

The Green Inferno, The Ruins: Indigenous people are unreasoning bloodthirsty savages

The Wicker Man*, Midsommar: Pagan religions are barbaric cults of human sacrifice (this one has been used to justify imperialist wars as far back as ancient Rome)

Drag Me To Hell: It's about a literal fucking gypsy curse

*The original. The remake is reactionary for its cartoonish misogyny

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I always kinda root for the elder cosmic monstrosities in Lovecraft stories- "You know what, Cthulhu, do step on these racist WASP assholes and their entire civilisation"

    • FinalFantasy_8_Disc2 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      All of humanity in Lovecraft are descendants of an alien slave race, which is kinda of a cool, weird subversion of the racial superiority humans feel against each other and animals. That's right, I'm saying it: Lovecraft was woke, actually.

      • Florn [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        This was from At the Mountains of Madness, right? Insofar as there's a canon.

        • FinalFantasy_8_Disc2 [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          Yeah. I think he might have continued it in some of his later works he co-wrote like Curse Of Yig, but my memory's hazy on that.