“Film scholar Carol Clover notes that for the horror film genre, ‘going from the city to the country’ is ‘very much like going from village to deep, dark forest in traditional fairy tales’. The country is a representational terrain ‘beyond the reaches of social law’ and the people who occupy this space are typically ‘surly, dirty . . . and slow’ (…)
“The figure of rural whites lost in the urban space of the ghetto reveals commonsense notions of race and whiteness that invoke a folk or vernacular understanding of race relations that code whiteness as inherently dangerous, willfully ignorant, exaggeratedly stupid, and out of control.”
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