not really horror

‘Not Really Horror’: Pushing genre’s boundaries at FrightFest 2016

First published by Sight & Sound While 2014’s Spring, It Follows and The Babadook had little in common apart from their well-earned success, they found themselves being dismissively labelled by some as ‘not really horror’ – an oft-heard expression used to describe (and degrade) the genre’s unruly outliers and inventive misfits. ‘Not really horror’ involves…