//Relic Leaves the Crone Behind to Confront Gendered Fears of Aging

Relic Leaves the Crone Behind to Confront Gendered Fears of Aging

If there has been a relatively consistent through-line within the horror genre, it is that there is something uniquely creepy about older people. Elderly women specifically have been portrayed as innately grotesque, their disrobed bodies often enough to provoke a response of guttural unease in the viewer. The 2010s in