'Shiva Baby' Delivers Bagels with a Schmear of Anxiety
Photo: ‘Shiva Baby’/MUBI Horror in the year 2021 looks much different than what we have come to expect from the traditional 1980s slasher movie- blood, guts, and plenty of gore. Instead, filmmakers like Ari Aster and Jordan Peele have ushered in a new era of cinematic, arthouse horror that focuses more on the human instinct than the things that go bump in the night. In this, the expectations of horror have reached brilliant new places- which is exactly why I am labeling Emma Seligman’s‘Shiva Baby’ as the quintessential horror movie for college girls, queer and/or Jewish women, and p...
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