iβm not going to call myself βthe friend whoβs too wokeβ or hedge around my opinion because this is my deeply considered belief: horror literature is the theater of disgust, and the disgust that drives the vast, vast majority of classic horror media from the 1890s-1940sβdracula, jekyll and hyde, king kong, nosferatu, the mummy, universal frankenstein, the wolf man, cthulhu, and moreβis the exact disgust that drove the worldwide tide of violence in the 1930s and 40s, a tide that has never fully receded, and you have NO business adapting a piece of classic horror media if you arenβt willing to put in the work to identify what is portrayed as disgusting in that property and enter into some form of dialogue with it. if you donβt want your movie to be βaboutβ race or class or gender or sexuality or ability, youβre free to choose a source material that isnβt already about that, but unluckily for you giant hypersexual apes do not exist in a vacuum






















