The Plague Is Here: Transcorporeal Body Horror in Epidemic

Stripped to its material essence, ecohorror is a media mode about the frightful dissolution of the apparent boundaries between human bodies and more-than-human environments. In place of an anthropocentric separation of culture from nature, ecohorror makes us aware of the ways human bodies are always frighteningly enmeshed with their environments. One of the primary techniques horror films have used to draw attention to the ecological entanglement of bodies and environments is to center on narratives of biological and supernatural contagion. To take one illustrative example, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897)—along with its numerous cinematic adaptations—is built on a migration