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Podcast: Pop DNA
Episode: The Blackening (2022) and The Cabin in the Woods (2011) | Summer "Camp"
Description: In this meta horror commentary edition of Summer "Camp" we are talking about The Blackening and The Cabin in the Woods!
Discussion points include how The Cabin in the Woods has aged over the past decade-plus and how we feel about its messaging now, The Blackening's unexpected hopefulness and positioning within both the meta-horror and the Black film spaces, and how both films take a classic, even cliched, horror premise and turn it on its head.
We also talk about this particular type of horror setting and why it's so pervasive in the genre, as...