Published in 2024
204 pages
Ariel Powers-Schaub is a writer, podcaster, and film critic. She is a true believer in the cultural value of such films as SAW, HOSTEL, FINAL DESTINATION, HOUSE OF WAX, and more. She has channeled her expertise, passion, and research into a new book, Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence.
What is this book about?
Torture porn, shock-for-shock’s sake, violence that doesn’t serve the plot, and characters you hate – what was going on in the 2000s in horror cinema? And why were audiences hungry for it? Millennial Nasties takes a critical but appreciative look at an oft-ignored subset of horror. This book dissects the English-language horror films of the 2000s and the cultural events they were responding to. Processing tragedy and war throughout the world, keeping pace with films from other countries, and swinging wildly away from the safe horror of the 1990s, the 2000s brought grisly kills and shocking gore to cinema audiences and home viewers. Films once dismissed as torture porn, their nasty slasher friends, and the remakes of this era have found a new home, and that home is a subgenre called Millennial Nasties.
Foreword by Zoë Rose Smith, founder and owner of Zobo With A Shotgun and EIC of Ghouls Magazine.
