Suspecting their house to be haunted, a couple leaves the VCR running overnight. When they wake up, they discover a hair-raising poltergeist ballet on the screen (Paranormal Activity, by Oren Peli, 2007). Once a year, America celebrates the Purge, twelve hours in which all crimes are legal (American Nightmare, by James DeMonaco, 2013). An African-American family is squatted by their shadow doubles, spectral and vindictive doppelgangers (Usby Jordan Peele, 2019)…
