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Institutionalized Horror

by Mugino
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Horror, a genre uniquely named for the viewer’s psychological response, is antithetical to rules of propriety, perhaps even more so than the most lowbrow of comedies. Fart jokes don’t elicit as much shock and revulsion as a dismemberment (at least not before all screens are equipped with smell-o-vision). Aside from reflecting contemporary mores by exploiting and violating them, horror movies also capture the sociopolitical anxieties of their time.

Mental illness and the institutions that treat it — despite decades of reforms in psychiatric care — continue to suffer the indignities of horror cliches. Given...


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