We already had a thread for films with Leftist themes, but what about horror films? Any good ones you can think of?
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Landon Nelson
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Mason Torres
dawn of the dead is literally communists vs ancaps
Austin Ortiz
They Live
Caleb Kelly
Original Godzilla, unedited.
Ayden Johnson
Is Godzilla actually good? I've never watched it because I assumed it would just be some Japanese guy in a suit knocking over cardboard boxes for an hour.
Brandon Cooper
Capitalism.
Kayden Rivera
The original is low-key one of the best Japanese films ever made.
This explains it pretty well.
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Grayson Gonzalez
The Green Room. Of all the movies I've watched it's the only one that nearly gave me an anxiety attack.
Cooper Perry
Is horror, along with western, the least susceptible film genre to criticise capitalism? If so, why? Is horror counter-revolutionary?
Samuel Morgan
Leave western alone you massive fag.
James Murphy
Sorry to Bother You.
Carter Young
M8…
It's bleak af, the effects are actually incredible, overall a definite monument of the genre.
Night of the Living Dead came to mind right away, too, although it's certainly not as on-the-nose.
To OP:
I dunno. Halloween III, C.H.U.D, Cannibal Holocaust (if it counts properly).
Connor Bell
How do you figure? Yes horror can often have socially reactionary aspects(Slasher cliche of you fuck you die, only the virgin survives, etc), but what about the genre makes it predisposed to reactionary themes? Same for western. I guess sometimes it can idealize colonialism and rugged individualism, but it has lots of films to the contrary, The Searchers, Duck You Sucker, and even a whole genre of westerns made in the Soviet Union referred to as Osterns.
Evan Watson
100% this and Videodrome
Owen Scott
Genocyber, easy
Andrew Perez
Have you seen the remake of the most recent Magnificent 7? It is literally anti-capitalist.
Ayden Sullivan
Also tbh, while a smidge campy: Daybreakers. A CEO literally launches a famine to drive up blood prices so he can create a monopoly. As it is very critical of the MIC.
Connor Bennett
"anti-western" or "revisionist western" inb4 revisionists out REEEE is literally a genre
Elijah Hughes
Jaws was one of Fidel Castro's favorite films. Zizek talks about it in Pervert's Guide to Ideology.
Jonathan Cook
Im surprised nobody brought up Alien yet.
The Yutani Corporation is the epitome of Capitalist fuckery.
Adam Morales
Glad I'm not the only one! I also liken the self-feeding vampires to capitalism itself.
Brayden Wood
The Careful Masacre of the Bourgeoisie
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Blake Ward
Yup. Burk the Joo was ready to sell everyone out for some shekels.