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I'm like 50 years late to this realization because I have avoided horror media for most of my life (I mostly still avoid #horror, but I used to, too). A lot of horror is weirdly (to me) idealistic. If spurned dead lovers, innocent death row executions, tortured children, genocided indigenous communities, aggrieved ecosystems, etc. really could wreak havoc from beyond the grave, cops would never invoke qualified immunity, molesting clergy would choose different occupations, colonizers would become accountants, and abusive parents would throw themselves off cliffs instead of beating their children. There would be a constant force of vigilante justice from the spirit world. It would be capricious, inconsistent, and vicious, but it would have intense effects on our world. I guess some horror is at least partly a lament about the injustice of our world and a wish for a better one, bizarre and violent as the fickle justice there would be. (I find myself pretty interested in literary and film analysis of horror though I have the handicap of not wanting to watch or read the media referred to) #tv #movies #literature #thoughts #noob