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The Immaculate First Omen Exorcist Believer LongLegs Evil Dead Rise Late Night With the Devil Grotesquerie

9 min readSep 10, 2024

Have you noticed Lucifer is extra popular lately?

Horror congregation, let us commune.

Longlegs, 2024. Photo Courtesy of Neon Pictures.

*be forewarned this will be a random stream of consciousness (while trying to avoid run-on sentences and excessive parentheses because my brain is loquacious AND YES I ENJOYED A LOT OF THESE MOVIES but legitimate critque makes our media better)

In my previous piece, I mentioned how there seemed to be a concerted effort to avoid any and all topics associated with the emerging and ongoing pandemic(s), which you can read below:

Instead of non-avoidance, ‘the devil’ and all his demonic ilk are really really popular in the Hollywood writers’ rooms (for now) and getting cranked out fast at the box office (with varying degrees of quality, thank god more practical effects, and fan-service but we’ll chat about the one that shant be named momentarily). We horror fans have been eating good these past few years. There’s been a beautiful renaissance/homage…

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Dani Bethea
Dani Bethea

Written by Dani Bethea

Horror Sommelier & Pop Culture Pontificator. Prev EIC: We Are Horror. Published: Studies In the Fantastic + Women of Jenji Kohan + Montréal Monstrum Society .

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