Horror has always played on the potential for beautiful landscapes to be deadly; eco-horror adds the sickening twist that we are implicated in the environmental degradation that is now imminently threatening. The terrors of a world out of control coalesce around pregnancy, the embodiment of an uncertain, and foreboding, future. The camera returns repeatedly to a pregnant woman who has been exposed to radiation. In eco-horror, pregnancy is inherently compromised, a highly vulnerable and potentially deadly experience of interrelation. Through her pregnancy, the woman is herself sealed into a dangerous ecology — a microcosm of her compromised world.

Source: New York Times October 19, 2019 09:00 UTC