Excerpts from The Monster Show by David J. Skal (thanks for loaning it, Jen): [On Rosemary's Baby , Alien , The Brood , etc.] The accumulated weight of birth-related horror imagery amounts to an undeclared war between the living and the unborn. There may be more to the matter than metaphor; the unconscious likely makes no distinction between geographical invasions and physical violations. Your body is a battleground, a feminist slogan widely popularized in a postmodernist art poster by Barbara... read more
