Menacing Environments: Ecohorror in Contemporary Nordic Cinema by Benjamin Bigelow (review).

"Menacing Environments: Ecohorror in Contemporary Nordic Cinema" by Benjamin Bigelow explores the emergence of Nordic horror cinema as a counternarrative to the seemingly perfect and happy Nordic societies. Bigelow focuses on the subgenre of ecohorror, which critiques the Nordic countries' environmental exceptionalism and blurs the boundaries between society and nature. The book provides close readings of several Nordic horror films, highlighting their dystopic and threatening portrayal of the Nordic region. Bigelow argues that these films serve as a dissident voice, exposing the hollowness of Nordic ecohumanist environmentalism and challenging popular idealizations of life and politics in the Nordic region. [Extracted from the article]