Over the last 12 months, the silver screen and television have exploded with cannibal content.
which is based on Camille DeAngelis’s 2015 novel, deploys cannibalism to explore the all-consuming potential of romantic love, the long arm of unspoken family ties, and the need to nourish yourself in a depriving, neglectful world. It’s reminiscent of Kohda’sa book that gestures at vampirism without ever using the v-word, in Lydia’s constant, unintelligible hunger, her absent mother, and her confusion of sex and food.and low-key unhinged disaffection, cannibalism speaks our language.
Women’s bodies have been a site of horror, doubly so if your female body happens to be trans, disabled, BIPOC, or old. Horror belongs to women, and not merely because a woman, Mary Shelley, invented the genre on a rainy afternoon in 1818. Horror belongs to women because we understand, on a gut-punch level, how it feels to be viewed as a monster—as well as how it feels to be reduced to body parts, to breasts and thighs, to butts and bellies.
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