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The Trouble With “Elevated Horror” (opens the original)
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Starting some time in the last decade or so, we’ve all run into the dreaded phrase “elevated horror.” Sometimes it meant A24. Sometimes it meant horror movies too-obvious in their treatment of grief, trauma, race, motherhood, or family dysfunction. Sometimes it just meant horror movies that critics decided to gush about after looking down on horror for so many years. But for horror fans, the phrase always carried an implicit insult: if this new horror was elevated, what did that make regular hor
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