A new monster comes in to speak to whichever cultural trauma we’re experiencing,” says horror film scholar Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, PhD.
“A Cannibal in the Berkshires. Idol-Worshipping Hermit Feasts on Reptiles and Human Flesh!” read the headlines of major papers across the U.S. in the Summer of 1879. In the most remote wooded reaches ...