Well-executed horror is always right-wing, and that's why Lovecraft still gets ripped off to this day. A monster is a foreigner and a raider. A ghost is an unattended past. They're breaching your day-to-day existence and bringing a new order onto it. In leftist thought, foreigners, iconoclasm, and revolution are all good things. That's why their horror feels so fake.
How many haunted house stories begin with a family that has some fracture that isn't being addressed, and the ghost is banished when the family is mended?
I haven't seen Don't Breathe, so I can't comment on that specifically, but it sounds like a rape thing. Feminism tends to be classified as left-wing since it allies with leftists and uses a lot of leftist strategy, but it's really just some combination of opportunistic and schizo - there's a reason why it's considered the politicization of women's neuroses.
There's a Jekyll and Hyde dynamic between feminism and patriarchy. They believe the "patriarchy" (the powers that be) are okay with rape. So, they demand (and are granted) that men/the state/institutions take even more responsibility for women's safety, rather than taking on any for themselves, and in doing so, make themselves less safe. Then, as women are now less safe, and have no agency of their own, the patriarchy is enabling rape, and feminism is the one fighting it, when they themselves are the one making themselves less safe.
All that's just to explain how feminists believe that they, solely, are against rape, and that depictions of rape as bad are therefore feminist. That's one of two reasons I sometimes hear for horror movies being feminist, and the only one that fits what I'm guessing you mean.
Well-executed horror is always right-wing, and that's why Lovecraft still gets ripped off to this day. A monster is a foreigner and a raider. A ghost is an unattended past. They're breaching your day-to-day existence and bringing a new order onto it. In leftist thought, foreigners, iconoclasm, and revolution are all good things. That's why their horror feels so fake.
Well-executed horror is always right-wing, and that's why Lovecraft still gets ripped off to this day. A monster is a foreigner and a raider. A ghost is an unattended past. They're breaching your day-to-day existence and bringing a new order onto it. In leftist thought, foreigners, iconoclasm, and revolution are all good things. That's why their horror feels so fake.
How many haunted house stories begin with a family that has some fracture that isn't being addressed, and the ghost is banished when the family is mended?
I haven't seen Don't Breathe, so I can't comment on that specifically, but it sounds like a rape thing. Feminism tends to be classified as left-wing since it allies with leftists and uses a lot of leftist strategy, but it's really just some combination of opportunistic and schizo - there's a reason why it's considered the politicization of women's neuroses.
There's a Jekyll and Hyde dynamic between feminism and patriarchy. They believe the "patriarchy" (the powers that be) are okay with rape. So, they demand (and are granted) that men/the state/institutions take even more responsibility for women's safety, rather than taking on any for themselves, and in doing so, make themselves less safe. Then, as women are now less safe, and have no agency of their own, the patriarchy is enabling rape, and feminism is the one fighting it, when they themselves are the one making themselves less safe.
All that's just to explain how feminists believe that they, solely, are against rape, and that depictions of rape as bad are therefore feminist. That's one of two reasons I sometimes hear for horror movies being feminist, and the only one that fits what I'm guessing you mean.
Insightful and well said