Tag: Class Allegory

Some stories are about class whether they admit it or not; the best ones admit it with style. This tag collects reviews of films and fiction built on class allegory: upstairs, downstairs, and the machinery between them.

1970s

Blood for Dracula (1974)

June 6, 2026

Paul Morrissey reimagines Dracula as a dying aristocrat starving for virgin blood in a changed world. The film's central joke is also its central tragedy.

2020s

The Invitation (2022)

June 6, 2026

A promising gothic premise about a sinister aristocratic family hiding a Dracula secret, sanded smooth for mass appeal. The film's fatal flaw is its caution.

2010s

Get Out (2017)

May 19, 2026

Jordan Peele's 2017 directorial debut. Daniel Kaluuya at his white girlfriend's parents' house.

1940s

Meet John Doe (1941)

May 19, 2026

Meet John Doe is Frank Capra's 1941 American political drama about a newspaper columnist who invents a fictional everyman who threatens to commit suicide on Christmas Eve in protest against social injustice, and who must then find a real person…

1960s

The Apartment (1960)

May 19, 2026

An ambitious insurance clerk lends his apartment to executives for their affairs, until he falls for the boss's mistress at Christmas. The Apartment is Billy Wilder's 1960 American comedy-drama about an ambitious insurance company clerk who lends his Manhattan apartment…

1990s

Candyman (1992)

May 19, 2026

Bernard Rose adapts Clive Barker's story about a graduate student researching an urban legend that summons a hook-handed killer. Candyman is Bernard Rose's 1992 American supernatural horror film adapted from Clive Barker's short story 'The Forbidden', depicting a graduate student…

2000s

Tokyo Godfathers (2003)

May 19, 2026

Satoshi Kon directs the story of three homeless Tokyo residents who find an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve and search for the parents. Tokyo Godfathers is Satoshi Kon's 2003 Japanese animated film depicting three homeless Tokyo residents, a middle-aged alcoholic…

1980s

Trading Places (1983)

May 19, 2026

Trading Places is John Landis's 1983 American comedy depicting two wealthy commodity brokers who place a one-dollar wager on whether a homeless con artist and an Ivy League executive can be switched places without either knowing about the experiment, with…

1980s

They Live (1988)

May 19, 2026

A drifter discovers sunglasses that reveal the wealthy elite are alien creatures controlling humanity through subliminal messaging. They Live is John Carpenter's 1988 American science-fiction horror film depicting a drifter who discovers sunglasses that reveal the wealthy elite are alien…

1970s

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

May 19, 2026

Survivors of the zombie apocalypse take refuge in a suburban shopping mall, in George Romero's social satire sequel. Dario Argento financed the Italian co-production and supervised the European cut that runs approximately fifteen minutes shorter than Romero's preferred American version.