Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. List of Contributors xii
5. Foreword xvi
6. Preface xx
7. Acknowledgements xxiii
8. Introduction: Contemporary Screen Horror in Brazil 1
9. Part 1: The Reemergence of Brazilian Horror in the Twenty-first Century
10. 1 Te Return of Coffin Joe: Embodiment of Evil and Contemporary Brazilian Horror Cinema 25
11. 2 A Time-Traveller’s Guide to a Country of Horrors: A Study of Past, Present and Future Reimagined in Brazilian Cinema 41
12. Part 2: Brazilian “Post-Horror”
13. 3 Hard Labor and Kill Me Please: Key Moments of Middle-Class Horror in Brazil 57
14. 4 Reckoning with the Future: Fear, Resentment and Social Monsters in Neighbouring Sounds 73
15. Part 3: The Curse of Urban Violence in Brazil
16. 5 A Glance Trough the Window: Te Working Class and its Discontents in Te Tenants 91
17. 6 Mormaço, Mould and Malaise: Bodies and Urban Space in Confict 106
18. Part 4: Folk-Horror Brazilian-Style
19. 7 Folk Horror in Unsoul and Te Famous and the Dead 123
20. 8 Azougue Nazaré: Religious Intolerance in a Secular Country 143
21. Part 5: Race, Gender and Brazil’s Colonial Past
22. 9 Plantation Hauntings in Te Devil’s Knot 159
23. 10 Good Manners: Colonialism and Structural Racism in Brazilian Horror Cinema 174
24. Part 6: Social Cannibalism
25. 11 Always Feeding Of the Poor: Sex, Blood and Class Struggle in Te Cannibal Club 195
26. 12 A Cordial Murder: Horror and Social Tensions in Friendly Beast 209
27. Part 7: Teen Horror on Screen
28. 13 Te Joy: Brazilian Teen Horror Fuelled by Boredom 225
29. 14 Te Young Baumanns: Nostalgia, Ruins and Images of a Country in a State of Latency 240
30. Part 8: Tropical Dystopias
31. 15 We are Born in Flames: Living with Ghosts, Revamping Pasts and Futures in Tremor Iê 255
32. 16 Bacurau Flies at Dusk: Film, Viral Cultural Politics, COVID-19, Hauntings and Futures 272
33. Index 291