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The horrors of ‘Scream 6’ and ‘Evil Dead Rise’ reflect pandemic confinement and contagion in cities

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par Chris Corker, PhD Student, Humanities, York University, Canada

The pandemic changed our perception of space so that places we usually take for granted suddenly fell under heavy scrutiny.

Seeing the world from six feet of enforced social distancing, restrictions, closures and hygiene protocols redefined our daily haunts.

Horror is a genre of extrapolation in which potential danger becomes certain death; it feeds and gets fat on worst-case scenarios. As film commentators have noted, the…

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