The accessibility and mass appeal of filmmaking has long attracted politically minded artists. This has been more-true for Horror than any other genre. This talk will sift the muck and gore of b-movies and block-buster slashers to identify the political anxieties that stalk our nightmares, and will make the case that the history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of monsters.

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