How Scare Me’s horror stories reflect Fred and Fanny's conflict
While the scary tales Fred (Josh Ruben) and Fanny (Aya Cash) tell each other in Shudder 's Scare Me might seem disconnected from the main plot, their ideas actually tell us a lot about their characters and growing conflict. WARNING: This article contains spoilers for Scare Me Fanny Fanny's wildly successful debut novel Venus looks to continue the zombie subgenre 's tradition of using the undead for political commentary. From the drug-addled abridged version we're treated to, we learn the zombie plague only affects women in the novel. Is the corpses return from the grave to menace women metaphorical for the dusty patriarchal values which seek to undermine Fanny's success? Fanny's first off-the-cuff story in the cabin centres on a young girl who attempts to kill her grandfather, but ends up killing his dog by accident and earning his ire from beyond the grave. At its heart it's a story of generational conflict - with a daughter trying to rid herself of her c...