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I figured out why I hate most horror tropes: Harmful messages and stereotypes about mental illness, disability and trauma (hexbear.net)

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Scary asylums! Creepy disfigured people! People being punished for 'not moving on and letting their trauma control them'! Violent and dangerous 'crazy' people! Poverty coded scary old women who must be a witch!

While asylums are less common horror locations these days, it still doesn't stop the genre from using pop psychology to frame itself as deep while simultaneously expousing harmful messages. Usually written by people with very shallow understanding of the themes they're employing for cheap scares at the expense of some of the most marginalized groups.

Also this might be cringe taste but some horror I actually do like are Jordan Peeles movies, because the themes of those are things like "Wow racism is horrificly dehumanising" and "Animals should be respected."

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[–] Ophrys@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

I'm generally a fan of bleak stories so where're a few horrors I really enjoy. (His House was a great haunted house story where the true horror lies in being a political immigrant in/to the uk).

I think ND people can be a really good and thought provoking aspect in horror without it being straight up ableist as fuck (as for any other medium), sadly it's really rare.

on a side note, I recently read Manifest Delusions by Michael R. Fletcher, which plays in a world where people who have delusions will see them manifest irl, like a pyromaniac will create fire, a sociopath will become an asshole of a king, etc. I don't know how to feel about it, I liked it but it felt kinda icky ? Idk I thought the concept was original at least.