Photo: Universal Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection Spoilers ahead for the plot and ending of The Woman in the Yard . There are two reasons why the meme of Jamie Lee Curtis saying “trauma” took off. First, because she said it funny — has the word ever been pronounced “trow-ma”? And second, because it captured a very real trend in contemporary horror, where the monster is a metaphor for our lead’s repressed emotions, buried grief, and, yes, trauma . This concept was not invented by Blumhouse’