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Failures in privatised care starkly illustrate the inevitable failure of neoliberalism Geoff Davies The failures of privatised child care and aged care have starkly illustrated…

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INTERVIEWER: People usually use [the term “elevated horror”] to refer to A24’s movies, horror that’s very heavy on the metaphorical. Hereditary, Midsommar, movies like that.

JOHN CARPENTER: I have no idea what you’re talking about.
From the AV Club’s interview with legendary horror film director, John Carpenter.

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Honey? We need to talk.

I wanted 15 Thornhill Road to be perfect for us. We’ve put so much into this move, and I think that we wanted it to work so badly that we’re pretending nothing’s wrong. But the signs are all there.

The howls from the basement. The bloody child’s handprints on the bedsheets. The face that appears for a split second in the bathroom mirror and makes a deafening sound whenever we look up from washing our faces.

Honey. I don’t think our haunting is elevated.