It has become a cliché to say that we are living in “challenging, uncertain times.” Between the erosion of progressive movements and the rise of the far-right, economic collapse, climate change, and something called COVID-19, these past few years have been largely defined by catastrophe. In order to cope with our collective dread about the future, film audiences have enthusiastically (and perhaps, surprisingly) embraced horror as their genre of choice. A similar phenomenon occurred in the 1970s, when there was an uptick in horror film production amid social unrest about the Vietnam War. Horror, it seems, helps us to cope with our fears and fascinations, and to explore the challenges of our times — perhaps even moreso than other film genres. On the heels of #MeToo, rollbacks to reproductive rights, and a widespread return to radical feminism, horror may finally be making a feminist turn, as new films look to expose our anxieties about gender in 2020.