The suburbs emerged after WW2 to further enmesh white petty bourgeois and wealthier elements of the white working class into the imperial capitalist system. White flight was an opportunity; it offered these comfortable white cohorts a chance to become property owners and to escape the increasingly Black and Latine urban cores, which they associated with crime, violence and poverty.
Your Freddy Kreugers, your Friday the 13ths, your Stranger Things are all that violence coming back to pierce the suburban facade of homogenous safety. They're expressions of white petty boug' (and labor aristocracy's) fear of The Other, and a warning that the world past Elmdale Lane is hostile and best left unexplored.
Idk if this is how it was meant, but I interpret these things more as "holy shit look how fucked up the suburbs are". I watched the Twin Peaks prequel movie recently (without having watched the series lol) and
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Laura says Bob/Leland has been coming through her window to rape her since she was 12, and of course nobody has done anything about it.
The baddies are "supposed" to be external I guess, but the way they are depicted is these background forces of evil that come up every year or so to do a murder. The call is coming from inside the house, you know?
Michael Meyes comes from the Burbs. Freddy lives in people's dreams. The gremlins come from a racialized foreigner but definitely mock the noias of suburbanoids. A lot of them, especially the more self aware ones, have multiple layers.
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