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A video essay on The Descent (2005) and how it breaks out of the "elevated horror" label by also being a slasher movie. I take a look at the grief horror subgenre that features movies such as Midsommar, The Babadook, and Hereditary.

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Baran, S. A. (2023). Good Grief: Sorrow, Screams, and Silence in the Contemporary Horror Film. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2023...

Breton, Ron. “The Decade of Grief Horror: Reflecting on Shared Themes in the Horror Movies of the 2010s.” Bloody Disgusting!, 23 July 2021, bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3675480/decade-grief-horror-reflecting-shared-themes-horror-movies-2010s/.

Dika, V. (2023). The Stalker Film and Repeatablity. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 40(1), 79–93. https://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2021...

Weaver, A. D., Ménard, A. D., Cabrera, C., & Taylor, A. (2015). Embodying the moral code? Thirty years of Final Girls in slasher films. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 4(1), 31–46. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000006