made the mistake of watching vice guide to film about "new American horror", basically costal upper class hipsters trying to politicize horror, btw, horror always had a lot of rightist overtones, but that's another essay and probably the reason why they are appropriating horror,
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Replying to @giantgio
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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