Occult films often link their nefarious demonic forces to marginalized people—common tropes include Indigenous graveyards, witchy women consorting with devils, evil bloodsucking ambiguously Jewish foreign vampires. Horror is often horror about marginalized, erased, dispossessed people whose existence or memory threatens a white, patriarchal, colonial status quo. Bad conscience and fear of revolution haunt occult films.  […] The post Fear of revolution haunts occult films appeared first on Chicago Reader.