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The ‘Death Mother’: Horror’s most unnerving villain

  • Written by Kerry Hegarty, Associate Professor of Film Studies, Miami University
imageToni Collette, right, and Milly Shapiro in 'Hereditary' (2018).IMDB

Horror films draw us into a world where our deepest anxieties are laid bare. They illuminate the darker recesses of the human psyche – ones that we often prefer to ignore.

And some of the most unsettling things we can imagine, it seems, are not zombies or aliens or demons, but...

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