Using horror as social commentary is not a new concept. With films like "Get Out," "Sinners," and "The Substance" receiving widespread acclaim and dominating the box office, it seems the genre is the hub for original storytelling as well as delivering a message relevant for today's times.
When asked why that is, filmmaker Ryan Prows explained, "I feel like [horror] movies are the movies that sit under your skin... the last thing I would want to do is make a soap-boxy, preachy, [film]. So yeah, it was always just like, how do we couch it, make something palatable, make something fun that, you know, we can kind of go farther than you would maybe be allowed to do if it was just like a straight up drama."
