A still from ‘Them’
Horror is meant to entertain so are the makers using black trauma for entertainment? Or using horror as a metaphor?
The poet was right about too much suffering making a stone of the heart. Little Marvin’s horror anthology,
Them, is proof of the truth of the line from WB Yeats’
Easter 1916. How much punishment can the Emory family take from their racist neighbours and the malevolent spirits in their home before the viewers become comfortably numb?
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