Kyle Leitch

Monsters and slashers vote Tory

By Kyle Leitch Illustration By Eleanor Qu REGINA (CUP) — While paying due attention in film class last week, a professor raised an interesting concept that I thought worth sharing. Over the course of the lecture, aforementioned professor suggested that horror films, and, more specifically, the slasher films of the 70s and 80s were representations of conservative political policies, albeit cartoonishly over-exaggerated ones. “Surely, he jests?” I asked my neighbour. “Fuck off,” my neighbour responded, going back to the doodles adorning every margin of every page of his notebook. “It’s okay,” I nodded. “Surely, he jests.” But still, I couldn’t…

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