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The horror genre is a fantastic litmus test for seeing the overall fears and anxieties of specific eras, like how the invasion of the body snatchers highlighted the red scare of secret communist spies in the 1970s.

With that in mind, I think that the late 2010s and early 2020s have seen a massive rise in something I call "bureaucratic horror", in which the horror stems from working a dead-end office job that treats people like disposable cogs in a corporate machine, with the business itself so large and domineering, that it seems like a Lovecraftian, cosmic horror monster to those forced to work within its domain.

With the middle-class shrinking, office jobs have become emblematic of an almost bygone era. Office jobs are boring and tedious and very few people would dream of becoming an office worker. However, for decades, these jobs offered a type of stable, comfortable, job security that is becoming unfathomable for most young people. Office jobs are viewed as dredge work, which characters harbor open disdain for but there is an inability to quit, due to the allure of a consistent income.

Bureaucratic horror plays on the tension that stems from the resentment and hatred for office jobs, while also dangling a monetary reward just out of reach, and thus these stories portray workplaces as bastions of horrifying scenarios in which the characters must play their part in this capitalist system, no matter what, and that's terrifying.

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SEVERANCE (2022—) 1.03 | In Perpetuity 

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Severance 1.09 | The We We Are

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i can’t stop thinking about a comment i saw on a video once where someone said the only reason they gave helly the dance party was to get pictures of her happy. head in my hands

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girlchains

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BURT & IRVING Severance Season One

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BURT & IRVING Severance Season One

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severance watercolor sketches

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Hey I’m not over that tiny 10 second subplot in severance that had a woman undergo severance just so she wouldn’t have to feel the pain of childbirth. The thought of a woman existing with no idea of who she is or where she is just to give birth and then never see the child again and essentially die until this woman has another kid is like. The most terrible horror story I can comprehend

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Hell is just the product of a morbid human imagination. The bad news is whatever humans can imagine they can usually create. SEVERANCE (2022-)

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SEVERANCE (2022– ) created by Dan Erickson

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"Forgive me for the harm I have caused this world. None may atone for my actions but me, and only in me shall their stain live on. I am thankful to have been caught, my fall cut short by those with wizened hands. All I can be is sorry, and that is all I am."

Severance (2022-) 1.03 - In Perpetuity dir. Ben Stiller

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SEVERANCE SEASON 2 Coming to Apple TV+

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It is August. My life is going to change. I feel it.

1. raymond carver | 2. big fish (2003) | 3. emily brontë | 4. niall mcdiarmid | 5. pj harding, noah cyrus | 6. niall mcdiarmid | 7. ilya kaminsky | 8. call me by your name (2017) | 9. mary oliver | 10. norwegian wood | 11. sylvia plath

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oh, here we go again.

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The real problem with books-turned-movies isn’t “omg they didn’t include every single word in the book” it’s “omg they completely overlooked the main theme, threw out any significant allegories, took away all the emotional pull, an turned it into a boring action movie with a love triangle in it”