Conclusion: Consuming Gothic and Its Discontents

Abstract

The conclusion highlights the parameters of food and horror in contemporary film, and signals the symbolic nature of this connection. Food horror emerges as bound up, explicitly or implicitly, with modes of political economy and forms of cultural organisation. Confirming that the Gothic proves an effective medium to unravel larger cultural and social structures in relation to consumption, the conclusion underlines the importance of ‘food horror films’ when thinking about such conceptual fields as the body, socio-economic structures, and identifies the appeal of ‘consuming Gothic’, as connected to the appeal and fear of our own morality.