(S4,E5) Meat Cute: The Fine Young Cannibals of Modern Horror

This week on Pop Culture Boner we look at Bones and All and Fresh, two cannibal horror films that were released months apart and used romance as an angle for their protagonists. If horror reflects what we’re afraid of, what do cannibals mean in 2022? We float some ideas about digital identity, performance and the mortifying ordeal of being known.

You can find a full list of references here:

• Samantha Holland, Robert Shail and Steven Gerrard (2019, Emerald Publishing Limited) - Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film

• Jennifer Brown (2013, Palgrave Macmillan) - Cannibalism in Literature and Film

• Arapitha Bhandari and Sara Bimo (2022, Social Media and Society) - Why’s everyone on TikTok now? The algorithmised self and the future of self-making on social media

• Bones and All (2022)

• Fresh (2022)

• Raw (2016)

You can download the transcript here.