In our first class this semester we did an activity in groups where we had to select a post-horror film that interests us and select a scene from the film that we can use to demonstrate post horror. My group chose Get Out (2017), which is one of my favourite horror films, and this was a valuable experience for me as I hadn’t personally thought very much about the themes of the film until this exercise. Another group chose Barbarian (2022) for this exercise, another horror film I quite enjoy, but a film whose themes are quite blatant. In the past when I had looked at get out I had always known there were some vague themes of racism but I had never interrogated them. We selected a scene towards the end of the film where the protagonist, Chris, is being told that he has been selected to undergo a procedure where a white man will take over his body and his consciousness will be suppressed. Something my group found striking was Chris’ reaction to this information, or rather lack-there-of. He sits passively while he learns this, believing that there is no escape and therefore no use fighting back. Throughout the entire film Chris has been ignoring obvious red flags from his girlfriend Rose and her family, and now the worst imaginable thing has happened and the only thing he seems to be able to do is think “I should’ve seen it coming”. This scene and my group’s discussion helped me realise the true purpose of the film; to showcase a horror story in ‘post-racial America’, where although people might think that all the problems caused by racism have been solved, some red flags still can’t be ignored.