Aarcflick

 Horror movies have always used ghosts, vampires, zombies, and the most grotesque monsters imaginable to speak to something personal to the narrator or a larger social issue. Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror was about immigration. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the 1956 film) was about fascism. The Exorcist was about religion. Even Jason Goes to Hell: Last Friday was about familial ties.  That said, while there used to be some balance between subject matter and gore, with emerging filmmakers spending their limited budgets on the latter to at least give audiences some cheap thrills, the rising popularity of so-called "elevated horror" has shifted the balance. We now have low-budget horror films that spend their money "enhancing" their social commentary instead of investing it in gaudy special effects and disastrous visuals. Sure, there are exceptions like Terrifier, Mad God, and Psycho Goreman, but there are an overwhelming number of projects trying to mimic the succ...