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Hi, I'm Alyssa Wilkinson, sitting in today for Sean Elling.

I'm a film critic here at Vox. I write about movies and about Hollywood, but I also end up talking

to a lot of people about movies, especially horror films. Some people cannot bring themselves to

watch horror movies. Other people are obsessed. But what I find in my conversations is that when horror

films work, it's not just because they make us jump or gross us out. It's because they tap into some

buried unconscious fear. They flip over the rock where the creepy crawlies hide and make us look at them.

We scream, we win, we shutter, and if the movie is good, we come to confront the things we'd rather look away from.

Some horror sticks to rudimentary fears of being haunted by ghosts or stalked by things that go

bump in the night. But other horror manages to tap into the ways in which the world we live in is

its own kind of horror movie. And in Hollywood, no genre has done this better than Black Horror.

I'm Alyssa Wilkinson, and this is the Grey Area.

If you want to talk Black Horror, you call Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman.

She's the vice president and associate provost for diversity inclusion and chief diversity officer

at Northwestern University, where she is a professor of communication studies.

She's written several books on Black Horror and Black Comedy. And along with her co-writer,

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