Wearing the Antlers: How Yellowjackets Builds and Breaks Folk Horror
Yellowjackets is more than survival horror—it’s a modern folk tale where trauma becomes ritual, and the forest demands blood. In this post, I explore how the show subverts folk horror tropes, toys with real occult symbolism, and challenges us with a nihilistic worldview where salvation is survival and redemption is control. Why do we root for characters who’ve become monsters? And what, exactly, are they serving?
