Social commentary
Xenophobia & Fear of the Other in Horror Movies
7 episodes on who gets treated as a threat. The Thing explores what happens when Us vs. Them becomes Me vs. You, The Burbs follows paranoid neighbors, His House takes on immigration, migration and nativism, Dracula looks at xenophobia, Frankenstein at being the outsider and mob mentality, and The Shape of Water at loneliness and the subjugation of the other.
7 episodes · 2019–2021 · 5 guests
