The sinful maternal: motherhood in possession films

Acknowledgments

Introduction. It comes from inside: horror, home, and possession

Chapter 1. Possessed by pregnancy: "Rosemary's Baby" Chapter 2. Puberty as Hell: "The Exorcist"

Chapter 3. The house remembers: "The Amityville Horror"

Chapter 4. Danger all around: "Insidious" and "Insidious: Chapter 2"

Chapter 5. Mother as exorcist: "The Conjuring" and "The Conjuring 2"

Chapter 6. Traumatic motherhood: "The Babadook"

Chapter 7. The Devil's promise: "The Witch"

Chapter 8. Matrilineal legacy: "Hereditary"

Conclusion. Motherhood revisited

Notes

Works cited

Index.