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In an article published by The New York Times, Shaila Dewan affirms that: “the idea that horror movies reflect, or even caricature, society's collective anxieties is nothing new”. However, horror movies serve not only to exploit (and somehow even “exorcise”) the deepest daily fears of many, but also to pointedly empower rhetoric devices such as metaphors, diversions and transfers. In this course we shall explore this idea through the work of classic and emergent filmmakers