I see the director for the film "tilt" (see quirky hipster beard open mouth look), and I'm amazed at how insular and myopic these Hollywood types are. You have a protagonist who is a gen x man, divorced, jobless, life falling apart, etc..
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And instead of being another falling down, these directors cheer on the fact that weimerica is falling apart, and that if you are of a certain gender, a certain religion, etc. who find yourself at a cross roads (or dying of opioids) in the rust belt dregs..you can go F yourself.
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Everything is about nazis, Trump, religious people, etc.and these terrible revenge fantasies from the same people who are within the pop culture zeitgeist (ironic). There is no subtlety to film anymore, everything must be a crass political statement, not even a metapolitical one.
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Horror is right-wing? I think you'd have to be more specific. The Evil Dead franchise, maybe, but I always considered the Romero zombie movies progressive. Would make for an interesting article.
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In some respects, but the popularity of the zombie genre is almost implicitly reactionary now a days, alienated people totally unaware of reality, mindlessly consuming, survivors banding together in some doomsday optimist fantasy, I would say zombie films have this odd and rare
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Intersection between Marxist and reactionary critiques of fragile modern society.
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I was thinking of the limousine liberal disdain of regular people, esp. Day of the Dead where it's the woke science people trying to save the day. Will give your comment some thought and rethink the genre. Good stuff!
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Hahaha! Thank you...yes day of the day is probably closer to the left, the military are all violent incompetent fools and the zombie is the revealed good guy.
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