Nightmare on Elm Street was crowdfunded. Texas Chainsaw Massacre was a money laundering scheme. we should go back to funding horror movies this way big budgets are doing nothing for them

So, so much horror is about exploring real world anxieties (personal, communal, social) through a supernatural lens. And your deeply buried fears and societal anxieties have no obligation to be unproblematic. That's the genre. And while it can and should be *part* of an analysis, it really shouldn't be ALL of it.

not to sound pretentious but it makes me kinda sad when i see people dismissing body horror as just "eyes (or maybe teeth if you're feeling creative) in places where eyes shouldn't be" because it has soooooo much more potential than that. like what about extra body parts, multiple limbs or even heads. fusions. splices. chimeras. grotesque transformations. corruption and infection that gradually spreads and mutates the body until it can no longer be concealed. parasites that change their host's behavior and even appearance. possession. the undead and the reanimated corpse. come ON people!!!