Ariel Powers-Schaub

“Horror films always reflect the world around them, and these films were born from global trauma. Throughout the subgenre, you can see fear of systems failing that our walls won't hold us, and we need to fend for ourselves (however American patriotism is always a safety net). There is plenty of military and police propaganda, and those organizations in the films are almost always heroes, not like the bumbling cops often portrayed in a slasher film.”
― Ariel Powers-Schaub, Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence