The burgeoning of film as a medium positioned Black people as monsters, as aggressors to the often white status quo. Get Out, a 2017 film written and directed by Jordan Peele, recontextualizes the position of one marginalized group in the horror genre by centering their story arc. RELATED: The Aesthetics of Fear: Dissecting the Roots and Rage of Modern Black Horror From monsters to psychological terror, to social commentary, and slashers, horror has inspired sub-genres that inform what a given society may find as a threat to their existence-the uncanny. Historically, those beings have been metaphors for marginalized communities or individuals equated to outsiders, not to mention the unique sub-genres of horror that these stories create. The film dramatizes red-scared fears and lands on a denouement concerned with the state of the world birthed from those fears. George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead involves similar sensibilities to its horror narrative.
Films capture the collective fear of an audience by manifesting those fears into a being.
The horror genre has linked itself to problematic tropes since its creation. Representation on screen for marginalized communities has often been marred by stereotypes and tokenism, especially involving films that fit tightly into their respective genres.
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