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Grief Made Monstrous

A run of films where mourning, guilt and the strain of motherhood curdle into something horrifying; watched together they show how far horror can go as a language for grief.

It runs from modern art-horror hits everyone has seen (The Babadook, Midsommar) to von Trier's notorious Antichrist. That makes it emotionally punishing, and better taken one film per night than as a marathon.