Welcome to the horror show. Settler colonialism, gender and the horror film.

IMPERIALISM; HORROR films; VIOLENCE; INDIGENOUS peoples; CRITICAL theory

The article analyze horror as a series of stories that challenge, in some ways, but also uphold, in others, those colonial systems of power that expand like monstrous tendrils. It mentions horrors of settler colonial violence, but it also rests on a promise of white settler family and community survival, and the erasure of Indigenous Peoples. It also mentions appropriating Indigenous people and cultures, while critical theory dealing with the genre rarely deals with Indigenous Peoples.