Lights Out: The Semiotics of Partying by Yashven Jayabalan

Trick or treat? The contemporary quasi-ritual play and the commemoration of Halloween. To dress up as either a slutty witch or Ghostface from Scream. Why do we submit to this tradition? Why am I here writing this while dressed as Barry Keoghan from the Midsummer party in Saltburn and why did I spend two hundred…