Maternal Horror: Exploring the Societal Demand for Perfection
Horror cinema exposes the unspoken terrors of motherhood—films like Baby Ruby (2023) and The Babadook (2014) interrogate the cultural silence around maternal ambivalence, revealing how postpartum depression, paranoia, and identity loss, are pathologized, judged, and ultimately demonized by a society that demands maternal perfection. Horror challenges the cultural demand for maternal perfection by transforming women’s silenced realities into visible monsters.
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