It is BIZARRE to me when people say that horror isn’t inherently political. I’m not organized enough to put things together meaningfully right now, but ASIDE from queerness being very intricately inter linked with the horror genre because at some points it wasn’t ALLOWED to exist anywhere else, horror is about what people in a period fear which is INHERENTLY political. Vampirism as a fear of sexuality particularly in relation to women in the 1800s, Texas chainsaw massacre as the fear of the rural lower class especially in the wake of many losing their jobs to further industrialization. MANY of the universal monster movies having queerness encoded both as a way of queer expression and as an expression of cultural fear and discomfort towards them. Fear is one of the things most preyed on by politicians, the biggest cogs in that machine, and beyond that, horror is expression of the conflict between what a society deems normal and abnormal in a moment. I don’t know if I’m making sense or explaining this well and lowkey I’m just yapping but like…yeah. The horror preoccupation with AI. Alien and the whole plot being rooted in corporate greed and possible profit over or at the expense of human life. Yeah. I’m yapping.