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Son of Sara Review: Houston Bone’s Sly Satanic Pregnancy Horror

Son of Sara Review: Houston Bone’s Sly Satanic Pregnancy Horror

Son of Sara takes the well worn Satanic pregnancy formula and finds fresh life in it, thanks to Houston Bone’s patient direction and a cast who make even familiar scenes land. Chloe Van Landschoot and Tymika Tafari sell the relationship at its centre, and the film’s quiet change in theme upends the expected ending. An indie horror film that spends its small budget wisely and gets you out in under ninety minutes.

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Re-run of the Repressed  (or why every franchise monster you’ve ever loved ends up as a dog on a leash …) by Philip A. Suggars

Re-run of the Repressed  (or why every franchise monster you’ve ever loved ends up as a dog on a leash …) by  Philip A. Suggars

Philip A. Suggars charts the four phase decline of horror franchise monsters, from the pure terror of Alien: Earth and Michael Myers to the merch shelf and the leash. Drawing on Freud, Robin Wood, and Mark Fisher, he asks why The Thing and It Follows stay frightening while everything else gets a Funko Pop. The domestication of horror monsters, it turns out, is exactly what the culture industry does best.