Behind the Scenes: The Liminality of Essay Crafting (Spotlight: Darkest Margins)

“Dementia in Dimensions: Trapped Between the Horrors of Cognitive Disease and Death” is the latest published essay from Jessica Rose in Darkest Margins: 24 Essays on Liminality and Liminal Spaces in the Horror Genre edited by Matt Rogerson and released by 1428 Publishing Ltd. This essay analyzes elderly aging in horror films and how physical space elevates the allegories present in the liminal space of bodily decline. The three films I use to support the notion that elderly figures are easily villainized because they are harbingers of not only death, but the loss of one’s self are The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014), The Visit (2015), and Relic (2020).