hard to overstate the impact the "zombie apocalypse" genre had on normalizing the idea of mowing down or driving through crowds of unarmed people as self-defense. remember how popular zombie shit was four or five years ago? it went straight to conservatives' lizard brains 1/9— knife wife (@ComradCapacitor) August 31, 2020
I'm glad they made the point that this is not how the genre has always been. Early Romero stuff had some fantastic politics for the time.
Horror has always had a whole lot of marxist influence. Marx loved his vampire analogies.
There’s a whole podcast dedicated to analysing horror from a marxist lens: Horror Vanguard.
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