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
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.