ST304 Modern Eco-Horror and Folk Horror

Area X: Annihilation, book and film

VanderMeer's novel and Garland's film as the decade's central eco-horror, and their kinship with the Green.

About 180 minutes.

Reading for this lesson

Required Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer the whole novel

Short.
Required Annihilation (2018) Alex Garland (writer and director) the whole film
Recommended "Ecohorror Special Cluster: Living in Fear, Living in Nature" Stephen A. Rust and Carter Soles the introduction

Re-read from ST204.

Library
Recommended The Saga of the Swamp Thing #47: "The Parliament of Trees" Alan Moore (writer), Stan Woch (art) the whole issue

For comparison with Area X's transformations.