Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Impossible Womanhood and Postfeminist Hegemony in Peirce’s Carrie and Bertino’s The Strangers

Chapter 3 Like Son, Like Father: Tracing the Male Possession Narrative Through Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense , Koepp’s Stir of Echoes , and Wan’s Insidious and Insidious: Chapter 2

Chapter 4 Family Horror, Media Saturation, and the Phenomenon of True Crime in Derrickson’s Sinister

Chapter 5 Returning to the Archaic Mother: Collet-Serra’s Orphan , Muschietti’s Mama , and Flanagan’s Oculus

Chapter 6 Conclusion