to watch a politically loaded movie in the US you might also head for the horror s(h)elf. The Nightmare in Elm Street series is fantastically political in its depiction of suburban white middle class values and lifestyle, Wes Craven has gone even further with The People Under the Stairs. And one should not forget that Romero's Dawn of the Dead, with the wonderful scene of the zombies banging on the doors of the mall because they remember feelingt happy there when alive.
Tonight I've found another example of this thread. Joe Dante's Homecoming, a TV movie waving between grotesque humour and classic zombie scenes: dead soldiers from the Iraq's war are back in the street of America. Why? They want to vote at the national election, and then rest in peace. But the republicans steal the results and ...
Any suggestion for other titles in this list? comments? I am inclined to think that this thread developed in the 1980s; maybe horror consents to sidestep politically correctness and allow a more radical gaze to be displayed..
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