WARNING: Contains SPOILERS for Unwelcome (2023).While Unwelcome eventually turns into a folk horror with comedy elements, for much of its runtime, the horror movie brings back one regrettable, short-lived sub-genre that ruled ‘00s British horror. The horror genre has been through some great trends and is home to some regrettable fads. However, usually, even the most widely-disliked horror trends provide interesting fare for critics and academics to analyze. For example, the “torture porn” trend that caused so much hand-wringing from moral guardians in the mid-‘00s has since been viewed as a compelling and complicated reaction to the violence of the war on Terror and the normalization of state-sanctioned torture post-9/11.
One of CBS' newest sitcoms, Ghosts , features a cast full of spectral characters that each hail from a distinct time period and come with their own unique backstory and death. Though each of the eight ghosts has a wildly different perspective based on their different experiences throughout history, they nonetheless form a sort of family, which is one of the show's greatest charms. After all, being stuck with the same people for all of eternity allows for plenty of time to get to know each other. Ghosts , which is an adaptation of a BBC show of the same name, stars Utkarsh Ambudkar and Rose McIver (who played Liv Moore on five seasons of iZombie ) as Jay and Sam, a young couple who inherit a mansion in upstate New York. To their surprise, however, the house also comes with several ghostly inhabitants, who Sam is able to see after a near-death experience. These are Thorfinn (Devan Long), Sasappis (Román Zaragoza), Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones), Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky...
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