A Plague Upon Our Palates: Examining The Cannibal as Metaphor for the Ongoing Pandemic

Raw (2016). Photo courtesy of Petit Film/Wild Bunch.

The new horror kids on the block aren’t alright. They are traumatized, not just because of the killers trying to get them — no that’s still applicable — and plenty of them are back to the good old days of being the distributors of blood-soaked justice (see the rebooted Scream franchise) or righteous cool weapon-wielding dispatchers of…