Atun Shei Films directed a horror movie, called the Sudbury Devil. The genre can highlight societal fears and act as a cultural symbol of that, which this movie does well, with the added layer of some very interesting historical literacy. It uses a theme of scars from past (King Philip's War) affecting how New England conquered its frontier with witchcraft and satanism. By extension, it’s a commentary on settler colonialism and religiosity. So let’s thoroughly interrogate the Sudbury Devil, both its setting and meaning.

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Bibliography
Emerson W. Baker, A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015). https://amzn.to/41m5Ks3

Daniel Richter, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003). https://amzn.to/2MVhWJ4

Peter Silver, Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America (New York: W.W. Norton, 2008). https://amzn.to/3jAr8VI

Richard Slotkin, Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860 (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1973). https://amzn.to/2KIdn8n

Douglas L. Winiarski, “‘Pale Blewish Lights’ and a Dead Man's Groan: Tales of the Supernatural from Eighteenth-Century Plymouth, Massachusetts,” William and Mary Quarterly 55, no. 4 (October 1998): 497-530.
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