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A review by claire_fuller_writer
Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us by Anna Bogutskaya
4.0
This wasn't what I was expecting. Maybe that's my fault for not researching it enough before buying it, or maybe it's the marketing, but I didn't realise this was only TV and film horror, and not fiction (it's certainly not clear from the jacket), and I didn't realise that not only was it really only the past ten years of TV and film, but it is very much aimed at a Millennial audience (which I found rather odd: 'Leatherface and Freddy Krueger have been given new takes, but they don't belong to us; they're boomer monsters.' Why exclude some of your potential audience?). Having said all that, once I realised was it was, rather than what it was not, I enjoyed it. I liked its feminist eye, I liked how Bogutskaya divided the sections up, and brought things together. I liked it when I knew a film or a TV show from the last ten years (which was often), and I liked it when I didn't (my list of what to watch is now enormous).