Good Mourning, Nancy Podcast

We're back! This month your favorite caffeinated ghoul friends tackle 1981's Possession! CW: death by suicide, acts of and thoughts of self-harm, child abandonment, incest, divorce, adultery, war, physical and mental abuse from a spouse, suggestive sexual content. Resources: Possession (1981) Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_(1981_film) Beyond Polish Moral Realism: The Subversive Cinema of Andrzej Żuławski by Michael Goddard https://www.academia.edu/15266526 Extreme Sex Addiction in Shame; Extreme Everything in Possession by J. HOBERMAN https://www.villagevoice.com/2011/11/30/extreme-sex-addiction-in-shame-extreme-everything-in-possession/ Why Was 'Possession' Banned? The History Behind The Horror Cult Classic by Chase Hutchinson https://collider.com/why-was-possession-banned-explained/ Possession is a gross yet masterful take on doppelgängers by Roxana Hadadi https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/22740902/possession-review-horror-movie-doppelgangers Possession: A Marriage of the Natural and the Supernatural by David West https://thetwingeeks.com/2018/10/12/possession-a-marriage-of-the-natural-and-the-supernatural/amp/ Better the Devil You Know: The Double and the Cold War in Zulawski's Possession by Henri De Corinth https://henridecorinth.wordpress.com/2015/07/03/better-the-devil-you-know-the-double-and-the-cold-war-in-zulawskis-possession/ Possession Ending Explained: We Are Makers Of Our Own Evil by DEBOPRIYAA DUTTA https://www.slashfilm.com/1159987/possession-ending-explained-we-are-makers-of-our-own-evil/ Possession (1981) Explained: A Controversial Masterpiece by Stacey Shannon https://www.thisisbarry.com/film/possession-1981-explained-a-controversial-masterpiece/ The Nature of God in Andrzej Żuławski's Possession by Ande Thomas https://www.whatsleepsbeneath.com/archive/possession-zulawski-nature-of-god The Opposing Genres Of Possession by Vincent Bec (they/them) http://filmandfishnet.com/the-opposing-genres-of-possession POSSESSION: Scenes From A (Monstrous) Marriage by Lee Jutton https://www.filminquiry.com/possession-1981-review/ Run From Your Wife: Exploring The Horror of Marriage In Possession and Antichrist https://intheirownleague.com/2019/10/01/run-from-your-wife-exploring-the-horror-of-marriage-in-possession-and-antichrist/ WIHM REVIEW- Possession: Isabelle Adjani delivers an explosive performance as a woman dissatisfied with domesticity by Emily Gett https://screen-queens.com/2019/02/05/review-possession/ “MONSTROSITY AND MISOGYNY IN ZULAWSKI'S POSSESSION” BY EDDIE FALVEY https://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/exeterfilmpg/2017/01/10/109/ Feelings Change: Anger, Fear, and ‘Possession' in Andrzej Zulawksi's Nightmare Divorce by Brian Keiper https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3674282/feelings-change-anger-fear-possession-andrzej-zulawksis-nightmare-divorce/ The nightmare of corporeality in Andrzej Żuławski's ‘Possession': A personal essay by Kris Shin https://www.dailycal.org/2019/10/25/the-nightmare-of-corporeality-in-andrzej-zulawskis-possession-a-personal-essay The Question in Bodies #21: Lectio Infernalis https://www.room207press.com/2018/10/the-question-in-bodies-21-lectio.html?m=1 Abjection & The Monstrous Feminine In AMER & POSSESSION by J. Simpson http://filmandfishnet.com/abjection-the-monstrous-feminine-in-amer-and-possesion Mother's Milk and Menstrual Blood in Puncture: The Monstrous Feminine in Contemporary Horror Films and Late Medieval Imagery by Rachel Frances Sharpe and Sophie Sexon https://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/4274/ TCM on Possession (1981) by Chris Fujiwara https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/86982/possession#overview Isabelle Adjani is Not an Internet Meme by Jacob Trussell https://filmschoolrejects.com/isabelle-adjani-great-performances/?amp Romantic Trauma: Andrzej Zulawski Remembered by Agata Pyzik https://thequietus.com/articles/19750-zulawski-article Possession (1981) Constructing Identities by Style and Substance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8lnMspDIzg

Thank you all for being patient with us while we tighten some loose screws behind the scenes. We'll be back before you know it! Stay subscribed so you don't miss our return! TW: A quote using ableist language to describe mental disorders, a quote containing a twentieth century Italian ethnic slur, mention of a miscarriage, suicidal thoughts, death by suicide, racial injustice, a mention of blackface, religious trauma, sexual abuse and trauma, mentioning depictions of war PTSD, and death, possession, and decapitation. Mention of gun violence. Viral Video of Woman in Tennessee Town Hall Meeting: https://tinyurl.com/Momintownhallmeeting Help us out!: https://linktr.ee/goodmourningnancy Theme song by Lily Leblanc Donate to BLM: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ Donate to Translifeline: https://www.translifeline.org/donate/ Resources: The Exorcist III aka Legion Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exorcist_III Why The Exorcist III remains a fascinating, flawed horror sequel by Anton Bitel https://lwlies.com/articles/why-the-exorcist-iii-blu-ray-review-william-peter-blatty/ Losing My Religion: The Exorcist III by Sean Beattie https://talkfilmsociety.com/columns/losing-my-religion-the-exorcist-iii Dan Owen Film Review of The Exorcist III https://www.framerated.co.uk/exorcist-iii-1990/ Nearly 30 Years Later, Masterpiece ‘The Exorcist III' is Finally Getting Its Due by Daniel Kurland https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3578046/masterpiece-exorcist-iii-nearly-turns-30-finally-getting-due/ “I Believe In Slime And Stink” | The Exorcist III At 30 by Andrew Carroll https://headstuff.org/entertainment/film/the-exorcist-iii-30-year-anniversary-george-c-scott-blatty/ HEAR US OUT: THE EXORCIST III IS A HORROR CLASSIC IN ITS OWN RIGHT by Rafael Motamayor https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/hear-us-out-the-exorcist-iii-is-a-horror-classic-in-its-own-right/ Why 'The Exorcist III' Is One of Horror's Greatest Threequels by Liam Gaughan https://collider.com/why-the-exorcist-3-is-a-good-sequel/ The Devil You Don't Know: Possession, Race, and Innocence in ‘The Exorcist' and ‘Angel Heart' by Noah Berlatsky https://wearethemutants.com/2018/12/20/the-devil-you-dont-know-possession-race-and-innocence-in-the-exorcist-and-angel-heart/ FEAR AND FAITH: HOW WILLIAM PETER BLATTY TURNED HEADS WITH THE EXORCIST III https://vhsrevival.com/2019/06/18/fear-and-faith-how-william-peter-blatty-turned-heads-with-the-exorcist-iii/ The Exorcist III: A Regan-less Affair by CarrieLynn D. Reinhard https://playingwithresearch.com/2014/02/19/the-exorcist-iii-a-regan-less-affair/ Faith, Doubt, and Existential Horror | ‘The Exorcist III' By Jerry Smith https://manorvellum.medium.com/faith-doubt-and-existential-horror-part-3-the-exorcist-iii-84674e64b0ba The Exorcist III 30th Anniversary by Ande Thomas https://www.whatsleepsbeneath.com/archive/the-exorcist-iii-30th-anniversary?format=amp The Exorcist III' at 30: Brad Dourif's Incredible Performance as the Gemini Killer is Legion by Meagan Navarro https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3626468/exorcist-iii-30-brad-dourifs-performance-gemini-killer-legion-aug-17/ I Believe in Death: William Peter Blatty and the Horror of Faith by Samm Deighan from Scared Sacred http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/exclusive-full-chapter-preview-from-scared-sacred/ Death Be Not Proud: A Look Back at The Exorcist III by Anya Stanley https://crookedmarquee.com/death-be-not-proud-a-look-back-at-the-exorcist-iii/amp/ Hell Is Older People: Aging as the Ultimate Cinematic Horror (Alana Prochuk, 2019) https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/aging-as-the-ultimate-cinematic-horror Summer of ‘90: The Exorcist III (Robert C. Cumbow, 2015) https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/summer-of-90-the-exorcist-iii/ Resources:

We're back with Part 2 of our 100th episode! https://linktr.ee/goodmourningnancy You can find links to our resources by going to the previous episode!

It's our 100th episode! CW: A mention of the Cambodian genocide, child abuse and molestation, child death, bullying, a mention of public intoxication, alcoholism in a parent, divorce, a mention of AIDS, a mention of nuclear war, coded incest between a father and daughter, child birth, abortion, gynecology, a mention of cunilingus, sexual repression. Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song:https://www.unpocostudio.com/ Our Podcast: https://linktr.ee/goodmourningnancy Trans Life Line: https://translifeline.org/donate/ BLM: https://blacklives.help/?gclid=CjwKCAjwvNaYBhA3EiwACgndgkZF7ioNx0eziTmN_5P8cfO3uOqkQS_sV1iyFH7QHVITeucd38A8ShoC7YgQAvD_BwE Resources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WdwMD8FhdkYXogMk6PCoNJkdz2_j_F6IDKTO7diY1QM/edit?usp=sharing

This month we're discussing David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me! TW: swearing, incest, filicide, rape, murder, drug use and abuse, true crime, child abuse and rape. Join Us: https://linktr.ee/goodmourningnancy Help Out: https://translifeline.org/donate/ & https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ Resources: The Overlooked Importance of ‘Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me' by Katie Coxall https://film-cred.com/the-overlooked-importance-of-twin-peaks-fire-walk-with-me/ Why 'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me' Remains One of the Greatest Prequels of All Time BY LIAM GAUGHAN https://collider.com/twin-peaks-fire-walk-with-me-great-prequel/ In the Closest with Laura Palmer by Alexander O'Connor https://www.gaylydreadful.com/blog/2019/5/27/in-the-closet-with-laura-palmer-pride-2019 The Maligned Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Is Better—and More Important—Than You Know by Julie Muncy https://www.wired.com/2017/05/fire-walk-with-me-retrospective/ DOWN THE SNOWSHOE RABBIT HOLE: THE MAJOR CONNECTIONS BETWEEN TWIN PEAKS AND ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND by Celia Quinette https://welcometotwinpeaks.com/references/alice-in-wonderland-twin-peaks-connections/ Why David Lynch Is One of the Greatest Horror Movie Directors Ever by ASHLEY NAFTULE https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/twin-peaks-fire-walk-with-me-proves-david-lynch-is-a-horror-movie-master-10955426 CRITERION'S ‘TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME' IS A SEMIOTIC FEAST by Garrett Castleberry https://www.popmatters.com/twin-peaks-fire-walk-with-me-2522754227.html Tribeca Film Festival 2022: Lynch/OZ Review by Stephen Silver https://tilt.goombastomp.com/film/lynch-oz-is-a-dynamite-film-essay-about-a-directors-inspiration/ Surrendering Logic in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me by The Criterion Collection https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5050-surrendering-logic-in-twin-peaks-fire-walk-with-me Judging Judy by 25YL https://25yearslatersite.com/2017/08/25/judging-judy/ When The Woman Screams: Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me by Elizabeth Erwin https://wordpress.lehigh.edu/screams/2020/03/19/fire-walk-with-me/ TWIN PEAKS: WHY LAURA MAY NOT BE FEMALE CORPSE EXPLOITATION by ELIZABETH ERWIN http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/twin-peaks/ Why David Lynch's ‘Fire Walk With Me' Is a Masterpiece in its Own Right by Phillipa Snow https://artreview.com/why-david-lynch-twin-peaks-fire-walk-with-me-is-a-masterpiece-in-its-own-right/ Looking Back at Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me by James Peaty https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/looking-back-at-twin-peaks-fire-walk-with-me/ 31 Days Of Feminist Horror Films: TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME by Kate Hagen https://blog.blcklst.com/31-days-of-feminist-horror-films-twin-peaks-fire-walk-with-me-b2f9f5bc0011 How Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Reminds Us Laura Was the One, 30 Years On by Elise Soutar https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/twin-peaks-fire-walk-with-me-laura-palmer/ How Twin Peaks Gave the Beautiful Dead Girl™ Pop-Culture Currency by Anne T. Donahue https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a55039/twin-peaks-beautiful-dead-girl-laura-palmer/ CATCHING UP WITH LAURA PALMER IN TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME by Victoria Large https://www.brattleblog.brattlefilm.org/2017/05/23/catching-up-with-laura-palmer-in-twin-peaks-fire-walk-with-me-5117/ CHANTING OUT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS: MAURA MCHUGH'S FIRE WALK WITH ME by Samm Deighan https://diaboliquemagazine.com/chanting-two-worlds-maura-mchughs-fire-walk/ Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me & David Lynch's Duality http://www.screeningnotes.com/2015/06/twin-peaks-david-lynch-duality.html To All The Grown Up Laura's by Cheryll Lee Latter https://25yearslatersite.com/2017/09/20/to-all-the-grown-up-lauras/

**old lady voice** "Get off the TikTok!" This week your favorite ghouls discuss American Psycho (2000)! CW: Roe v Wade overturned, rape, assault, MAGA and Republicans, Trump, Reagan, Dissociative Identity Disorder, mention of child death and abuse, verbal and physical violence against women, POC, and someone who is homeless, and animal cruelty. Thanks to Lily Leblanc for our theme song! Support BLM: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ Support Trans Lifeline: https://translifeline.org/about/ Support Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/ Support GMN: https://www.patreon.com/GoodMourningNancy Resources for this episode: Women Make Horror (2020). Edited by Alison Peirse. The Ending of American Psycho Finally Explained by Xandra Harbet & Adam James: https://www.looper.com/80476/ending-american-psycho-explained/

This week your favorite ghouls are discussing two kaiju films! Mothra is a an actual goddess and Hedorah... well, let's say she's got some toxic tendencies. Oh and Godzilla is totally gay. In fact, all the kaiju are gay. We're here for it! Content Warning: menstruation, menstruating while trans, possible hints of body dysmorphia. BLM: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ TLM: https://translifeline.org/ Resources: Mothra: A Love Letter by Victoria Potenza https://www.cinema76.com/home/2019/6/7/mothra-a-love-letter Why are so many people so obsessed with Mothra? What's so cool about her? Answered by Barney Buckley https://www.quora.com/Why-are-so-many-people-so-obsessed-with-Mothra-Whats-so-cool-about-her MOTHRA IS THE ONLY GIRLBOSS THAT MATTERS Chingey Nea https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/mothra-girlboss-queer-icon Why Mothra Remains the Queen of the Monsters by Up From the Depths https://youtu.be/-zG0Cn-E8zU Godzilla: King of the Monsters – A History of Mothra by Don Kaye https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/godzilla-king-of-the-monsters-mothra/?amp Mothra: Yin to Godzilla's Yang by Robert Ito https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/movies/mothra-godzilla-king-of-the-monsters.html No, Seriously: Mothra as a Feminist Icon by Matt O'Connell https://doctoroffisticuffs.wixsite.com/moconnell/post/no-seriously-mothra-as-a-feminist-icon Mothra vs Godzilla (1964) Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothra_vs._Godzilla Godzilla vs Mothra (1964) Review by Tim Cook https://lalafilmltd.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/review-godzilla-vs-mothra-1964/ There Goes Tokyo: Mothra vs Godzilla (1964) https://horrorflora.com/2018/01/12/there-goes-tokyo-mothra-vs-godzilla/amp Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964) Review by Paul Aronofsky https://godzillavs.net/2021/05/28/mothra-vs-godzilla-1964/amp/ 'Godzilla' was a metaphor for Hiroshima, and Hollywood whitewashed it by Kimmy Yam https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1236165 An Analysis of Postwar Japan and the Japanese Nuclear Consciousness Through Godzilla Films by Nalvic https://nalvicreviews.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/an-analysis-of-postwar-japan-and-the-japanese-nuclear-consciousness-through-godzilla-films/amp/ https://archive.org/details/mothra-vs.-godzilla-japanese-version-criterion-collection https://archive.org/details/godzilla-vs.-hedorah-japanese-version-criterion https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2311286/#:~:text=The%20incidence%20of%20chronic%20obstructive,is%20known%20as%20Yokkaichi%20Asthma. Hedorah Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedorah Godzilla vs Hedorah (1971) Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_vs._Hedorah Japan's Green Monsters: Environmental Commentary in Kaiju Cinema by Brooke McCorkle Okazaki and Sean Rhoads: 2017058867, 9781476663906, 9781476631349. https://dokumen.pub/japans-green-monsters-environmental-commentary-in-kaiju-cinema-2017058867-9781476663906-9781476631349.html Godzilla vs Hedorah (1971) Criterion Collection https://www.criterion.com/films/30102-godzilla-vs-hedorah When Godzilla Found His Hippie Heart Battling A Smog Monster by Brad Gullickson https://filmschoolrejects.com/godzilla-vs-hedorah/?amp Godzilla Is a Radical Environmentalist by Daniel Oberhaus https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/kz7w9w/godzilla-is-a-radical-environmentalist Godzilla: evolution of a monster BY LAU KA-KUEN AND ADOLFO ARRANZ https://multimedia.scmp.com/infographics/culture/article/3012245/godzilla/index.html?src=social 50 YEARS LATER: ‘GODZILLA VS. HEDORAH' IS STILL A RELEVANT ENVIRONMENTAL MESSAGE By Stephen Rosenberg https://www.horrorgeeklife.com/2022/04/01/godzilla-vs-hedorah-retro/ Guest Review: Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster (1971) by Andrew Price http://commentaramafilms.blogspot.com/2015/04/guest-review-godzilla-vs-smog-monster.html?m=1 Godzilla vs Hedorah (1971) for TCM.com By Pablo Kjoseth https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/813030/godzilla-vs-hedorah#overview

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This week your favorite ghouls discuss the gothic horror/romance film, Crimson Peak (2015)! linktr.ee/goodmourningnancy CW: Abusive relationships, matricide, child death, incest, murder of a parent, death of a parent due to sickness, poisoning, mensuration, rape, mental health and illness (specifically BPD), mentioning of the womb as "female" via a quote. BLM Resources: https://tinyurl.com/nhe4zsr7 Trans Lifeline: https://translifeline.org/ Resources: The ghost is just a metaphor: Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak, nineteenth-century female gothic, and the slasher by Evangelia Kindinger https://necsus-ejms.org/the-ghost-is-just-a-metaphor-guillermo-del-toros-crimson-peak-nineteenth-century-female-gothic-and-the-slasher/ Crimson Peak – a gothic romance that takes us back to the feminine early days of horror By Chloe Germaine Buckley https://theconversation.com/amp/crimson-peak-a-gothic-romance-that-takes-us-back-to-the-feminine-early-days-of-horror-49396 Crimson Peak is a loving homage to the Gothic by Mary Angela Rowe https://seventh-row.com/2015/10/21/crimson-peak-is-a-loving-homage-to-the-gothic/ Modifying the Gothic: Gender in Crimson Peak by Khara D. Luckancic https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2135&context=gs_rp Crimson Peak is a Breathtakingly Beautiful Subversion of Gothic Romance by Leah Schnelbach https://www.tor.com/2015/10/19/crimson-peak-guillermo-del-toro-gothic-romance-horror-movie-review/ Guillermo Del Toro on the True Gothic Romance of ‘Crimson Peak' by Michael Calia https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/guillermo-del-toro-on-the-true-gothic-romance-of-crimson-peak-1444664197 Why Guillermo del Toro's 'Crimson Peak' Is About the Horror and Ecstasy of Creating Art by Vinnie Mancuso https://collider.com/crimson-peak-explained/amp/ Big Vampire Energy: modernizing the women of gothic horror in Crimson Peak by Lauren Miles https://www.thefinalgirls.co.uk/bloody-women/crimsonpeak PIANO KEYS TO THE HOUSE: CRIMSON PEAK, THE GOTHIC ROMANCE, AND FEMININE POWER http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/piano-keys-to-the-house-crimson-peak-the-gothic-romance-and-feminine-power/ Ghosts are Real: Digital Spectatorship within Analog Space in Crimson Peak written by Patrick Brame https://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/ghosts-are-real-digital-spectatorship-within-analog-space-in-crimson-peak/ Crimson Peak Wiki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_Peak A Feminist Guide to Horror Movies, Part 8: Beware of Crimson Peak by Holly L. Dear https://msmagazine.com/2015/10/28/a-feminist-guide-to-horror-movies-part-8-beware-of-crimson-peak/ ‘Crimson Peak' Is Not the Feminist Triumph Guillermo del Toro Thinks It Is By Judy Berman https://www.flavorwire.com/543883/crimson-peak-is-not-the-feminist-triumph-guillermo-del-toro-thinks-it-is Beyond the Bechdel Test: Sex and Symbolism in ‘Crimson Peak' by Jordan Ecarma https://www.paradoxreview.com/2015/10/26/20151024beyond-the-bechdel-test-sex-and-symbolism-in-crimson-peak/ Is “Crimson Peak” the Feminist “Rebecca”? By Tori Link https://xuengl359.wordpress.com/home/final-projects/is-crimson-peak-the-feminist-rebecca/ Crimson Peak director Guillermo Del Toro shares 13 points of inspiration https://ew.com/article/2015/10/16/guillermo-del-toro-crimson-peak-inspiration/ Crimson Peak: not as feminist as promised https://thetastefulgoth.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/crimson-peak-not-as-feminist-as-promised/ The Bechdel, Russo, and Race Test: Crimson Peak by Noelle Connell https://feministelizabethan.com/2015/10/17/the-bechdel-russo-and-race-test-crimson-peak/amp/ They thrive on the dark and the cold': Evil females, femininity and feminism in Guillermo Del Toro's "Crimson Peak" (2015) by Marine Galine https://www.academia.edu/29003621/They_thrive_on_the_dark_and_the_cold_Evil_females_femininity_and_feminism_in_Guillermo_Del_Toros_Crimson_Peak_2015_ Monstrous Domesticity – Home as a Site of Oppression in Crimson Peak by Emilia Musap https://www.sic-journal.org/Article/Index/468

The end is nigh! Or is it? This week your favorite ghouls discuss 28 Days Later! Trigger warnings: sexual assault, rape, Black character tropes, death by suicide, heteronormativity, deadly viruses, pandemics and epidemics, child death, parental death, HIV Aids. Visit Our Website(s): https://linktr.ee/goodmourningnancy BLM & TLM: blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ & translifeline.org/donate/ Resources: 28 DAYS LATER AND THE ENDURING POWER OF FRANKENSTEIN By DAWN KEETLEY http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/frankenstein/ “JUST LIKE THE MOVIES”: THE NON-DIEGETIC HORROR OF THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/non-diegetic-horror-of-the-coronavirus-outbreak/ The Failure of a Pseudo-Christian Community in a Nation-State in Crisis: 28 Days Later by Karl E. Martin https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol18/iss2/6/ The Human Project: utopia, dystopia, and the black heroine in Children of Men and 28 Days Later by Jayna Brown https://www.academia.edu/29993104/The_Human_Project_utopia_dystopia_and_the_black_heroine_in_Children_of_Men_and_28_Days_Later Some Kind of Virus: The Zombie as Body and as Trope by JEN WEBB AND SAM BYRNAND https://www.academia.edu/14417113/Some_Kind_of_Virus_The_Zombie_as_Body_and_as_Trope Family Splatters: Rescuing Heteronormativity from the Zombie Apocalypse by Kate Cady & Thomas Oates https://www.academia.edu/28457275/Family_Splatters_Rescuing_Heteronormativity_from_the_Zombie_Apocalypse What's really terrifying about 28 Days Later by Laura Akers https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/whats-really-terrifying-about-28-days-later/?amp 28 Days Later (2002): The Evolution of Selena by LKEKE35 at Geeking Out About It https://tvgeekingout.wordpress.com/2017/10/30/28-days-later-2002-the-evolution-of-selena/ The Transatlantic Impact of 9/11 by Lindsay Clutterbuck https://www.rand.org/blog/2011/09/the-transatlantic-impact-of-911.html 28 Days Later: The Inspiration For The Rage Virus Explained by Michael Kennedy https://screenrant.com/28-days-later-movie-rage-virus-explained/ 28 Days Later: 10 Ways Danny Boyle's Masterpiece Changed The Zombie Genre By Nathan Sharp https://screenrant.com/28-days-later-danny-boyule-best-zombie-movie/ ORIGIN OF HIV & AIDS from Avert.org https://www.avert.org/professionals/history-hiv-aids/origin 28 DAYS LATER: When Dreams Meet Reality | Horror Explored by Ryan Hallinger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DHcfpm-eIQ 'In a Heartbeat' (28 Days Later) | Video Essay (2018) by FSD Productions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3vhfsUskqc 28 DAYS LATER: A Return To Normality | Video Essay by willismakesmovies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T2E99fAQGg 7 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About 28 Days Later by CineFix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaFDX2A6tng

You haven't seen, let alone heard of the film Cherry Falls (2000)? Well, you're in for a treat! This is arguably the LAST 90s TEEN SLASHER movie! Its the end of an era and we're here to talk about tropes turned on their heads, virginity, asexuality, and kissing your mom on the goddamn lips (WTF!!!??) Trigger warnings: violence, sex, sexual language, rape, murder, child abuse, (possible ) transphobia, pedophilia, school shootings, and incest. Visit Our Website(s): https://linktr.ee/goodmourningnancy Buy Cherry Falls (2000) from Shout Factory: https://tinyurl.com/bdd6jfej BLM & TLM: blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ & translifeline.org/donate/ Listen to Horror Queers: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-queers/id1449041559 Resources: The Real Story Behind ‘Cherry Falls' by Trace Thurman https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/340 0027/story-behind-cherry-falls/ WHY CHERRY FALLS AND ITS FINAL GIRL ARE STILL RELEVANT NEARLY 20 YEARS LATER By Emma Fraser https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/why-cherry-falls-and-its-final-girl-are-still-relevant-nearly-20-years-later?amp Best Horror Movie You Never Saw: Cherry Falls (2000) by Eric Walkuski https://www.joblo.com/best-horror-movie-you-never-saw-cherry-falls-2000/amp/ The Butchered Remains of CHERRY FALLS (2000) by Paul Ferrell https://scriptophobic.ca/2020/07/07/written-in-blood-cherry-falls/ The Progressive Feminism of 90s Slasher Films Lives on Today by Adam White https://i-d.vice.com/amp/en_uk/article/ywe8wg/the-progressive-feminism-of-90s-slasher-films-lives-on-today A Case Study Into Horror: Structuralism and Feminism in Horror Films by Georgina Howlett http://themediaadventures.blogspot.com/2015/01/a-case-study-into-horror.html?m=1 "Hymen Holocaust": 'Cherry Falls' and the Myth of the Sacred Virgin by Amy Roberts https://clarissaexplainsfa.com/blog/2019/2/23/cherry-falls-sex-equals-death-horror-trope REEL GENDER: EXAMINING THE POLITICS OF TRANS IMAGES IN FILM AND MEDIA by Joelle Ruby Ryan https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_etd/send_file/send?accession=bgsu1245709749 A Timeline of Transgender Horror by Logan Ashley Kisner https://aninjusticemag.com/a-timeline-of-transgender-horror-90d707b71e2d Why Now is the Time to Revisit Cherry Falls by Nat Brehmer https://wickedhorror.com/features/retrospectives/why-now-is-the-time-to-revisit-cherry-falls/ How Cherry Falls Became The Most Expensive Made For TV Horror Movie Ever by Matt Morrison https://screenrant.com/cherry-falls-movie-controversy-cost-budget-explained/amp/ The Past Comes Back to Haunt Cherry Falls (2000) by Kim Morrison https://www.ghoulsmagazine.com/articles/mother-of-fears-column-cherry-falls-2000 https://www.morbidmuch.com/2015/05/a-forgotten-slasher-cherry-falls.html?m=1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Falls

Merry Christmas, Happy Solstice and Joyous Holiday to one and all! This month your favorite ghouls are discussing avant-garde and new wave queer cinema director, Curtis Harrington's Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972). Grab yourself a gingerbread man and eat up this deliciously campy hagsploitation Christmas film! Trigger warnings: child abuse, child death, Vietnam War, fat shaming, and menopause. Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com BLM & TLM: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ & https://translifeline.org/donate/ Resources: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972) by She Blogged by Night (Stacia) https://shebloggedbynight.com/2016/whoever-slew-auntie-roo-1972/ When the Woman Screams: Who Slew Auntie Roo (1971) https://wordpress.lehigh.edu/screams/2020/02/17/who-slew-auntie-roo-1971/ A Look at Joan Crawford and the Gay Icon Phenomenon by Sara Clements https://medium.com/@saraclements/a-look-at-joan-crawford-and-the-gay-icon-phenomenon-b8172f20e3e0 Why Gays Fell In Love With These Original Shock Queens By Anthony Uzarowski https://www.queerty.com/why-gays-fell-in-love-with-these-original-shock-queens-20160123 Retro Review: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? By Dana Vargas https://www.macabredaily.com/articles/retro-review-who-slew-auntie-roo Who Slew Auntie Roo? Review by Nathaniel Thompson for TCM https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/95729/who-slew-auntie-roo#articles-reviews Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972) Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoever_Slew_Auntie_Roo%3F Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971) Review by Michi https://randommoviemusings.com/2019/09/24/whoever-slew-auntie-roo-1971/amp/ A PRIMER FOR THE UNEXPECTEDLY AWESOME HAGSPLOITATION HORROR SUBGENRE By Rebecca Pahl https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/a-primer-for-the-unexpectedly-awesome-hagsploitation-horror-subgenre?amp 10 Grand Hagsploitation Horror Movies https://filmschoolrejects.com/best-hagsploitation-horror-movies/?amp THE HAGSPLOITATION, GRAND DAME GUIGNOL & THE PSYCHO-BIDDY HORROR SUBGENRE by Wynn https://mubi.com/lists/the-hagsploitation-grand-dame-guignol-the-psycho-biddy-horror-subgenre ‘Hagsploitation': horror's obsession with older women returns by Anne Billson https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2018/jan/18/hagsploitation-horrors-obsession-with-older-women-returns Psycho-biddy: Gender in Horror Films Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_horror_films MENOPAUSAL MANIACS: A HAG HORROR WATCHLIST https://rue-morgue.com/menopausal-maniacs-a-hag-horror-watchlist/ Dollar Double Feature: Christmas Horror: Rabid (1977) and Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? By GG Graham https://wickedhorror.com/features/editorials/dollar-double-feature-christmas-horror-rabid-1977-and-whoever-slew-auntie-roo/ Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana – Tragic Gay Icons https://josephsciambra.com/judy-garland-marilyn-monroe-princess-diana-tragic-gay-icons/ Why Do Gay Men Historically Adopt Female Stars as Their Icons? By Trevor Martin https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-do-gay-men-historical_b_3895070/amp http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/hereditary-grief-and-motherhood/ Maternal Horror Films: Understanding the ‘Dysfunctional' Mother https://the-artifice.com/maternal-horror-films-dysfunctional-mother/ When Santa Was a Woman: 5 Christmas Histories You Want to Know By Sivan http://www.revivingherstory.com/rhblog/2014/12/16/when-santa-was-a-woman-5-christmas-histories-you-want-to-know Who is the Celtic Mother Goddess? http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/opinionated-celtic-faqs/mother/

Happy Belated Thanksgiving! This month your favorite ghouls are discussing Remi Weekes's debut film, HIS HOUSE (2020). Lots of trigger warnings here, kids. In this episode we have discussions on survivor's guilt, trauma & PTSD. This episode also contains discussions on domestic abuse, forced assimilation, sexual assault and rape, violence against women, kidnapping, death by drowning, child death, miscarriage, and unlawful imprisonment. --- GMN Links (including merch!): https://linktr.ee/goodmourningnancy --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- BLM & Trans Lives Matter: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ & https://translifeline.org/donate/ --- Resources: His House Review by Odie Henderson https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/his-house-movie-review-2020 “WE LOST HER WHEN WE CROSSED THE SEA”: HIS HOUSE REVIEW by Dr Mark Fryers http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/we-lost-her-when-we-crossed-the-sea-his-house-review/ ‘His House' Review: Remi Weekes' Thrilling Debut Sees the Immigrant Experience as a Horror Movie by David Ehrlich https://www.indiewire.com/2020/10/his-house-review-netflix-1234595382/amp/ ‘His House' DP on Framing the Horror of the Refugee Experience By Jazz Tangcay https://variety.com/2020/artisans/news/his-house-cinematographer-captures-horror-1234819650/amp/ His House Is a Ghost Story About a Global Horror by RICHARD LAWSON https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/10/review-his-house-is-a-ghost-story-about-a-global-horror/amp Film Analysis: His House (2020) Movie Explained – A Refugee Horror Fable https://culturalhater.com/his-house-2020-explained-horror-film-analysis/ ‘His House' Subverts our Expectations in Haunting Portrait of Emigration and Trauma by Jamila R. O'Hara https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/1/22/his-house-review-article/ His House Review by Anton Bitel https://lwlies.com/reviews/his-house/ Remi Weekes on Why 'His House' Is a Very British Horror Movie by Tom Nicholson https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/film/a34519644/remi-weekes-interview-his-house-netflix/ Strange Country: His House (2020) by Adefisayo Adeyeye https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2021/01/06/strange-country-his-house/ ‘His House' and the Horrors of the UK Immigration System by BY JOHN MENICK https://www.frieze.com/article/his-house-and-horrors-uk-immigration-system ‘His House' Review: A Haunting, Out of the Past by K. Austin Collins https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/his-house-movie-review-netflix-1082540/amp/ https://youtu.be/jSWQPjs9PGI https://youtu.be/wZ7HEcDek5A https://youtu.be/I4d8FYoLNUY

Abbey is back from maternity leave! This month we're discussing everyone's favorite Halloween film (don't deny it!) Trick 'r Treat (2007). Specific triggers for this episode: child death, menstruation, having or not having children, post-partum depression, caring for the elderly, vaccines, autism, elders in peril, and children in peril. There are also sirens going off in the background at one point which may be upsetting for some. --- BUY SOME MERCH: https://goodmourningnancy.myspreadshop.com/ --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: Don't Disrespect Halloween Tradition in TRICK ‘R TREAT (2007) by Paul Ferrell https://scriptophobic.ca/2020/10/27/written-in-blood-trick-r-treat/ Time Traveling Critic: Trick r Treat (2007) Review by Michael Henley https://www.google.com/amp/s/ttcritic.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/trick-r-treat-2007/amp/ 10 TRICK ‘R TREAT FACTS FROM DIRECTOR MIKE DOUGHERTY by Michael Walsh https://www.google.com/amp/s/nerdist.com/article/trick-r-treat-facts-director-mike-dougherty/%3famp 31 Things We Learned from Michael Dougherty's ‘Trick ‘r Treat' Commentary by Rob Hunter https://www.google.com/amp/s/filmschoolrejects.com/31-things-we-learned-from-michael-doughertys-trick-r-treat-commentary/ Patiño's Lores and Myths in Film: Trick ‘r Treat (2007) by Chris J. Patiño https://www.google.com/amp/s/lewislitjournal.wordpress.com/2020/10/29/patinos-lores-and-myths-in-film-trick-r-treat-2007/amp/ Underrated & Overlooked: Trick 'r Treat (2007) by Roisin Gordon http://www.purplerevolver.com/movies/movie-reviews/128369-underrated-%26-overlooked-trick-%5Cr-treat-%282007%29.html How 'Trick 'r Treat' Became an Unlikely Halloween Classic by Miles Raymer https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en/article/8gkdpk/how-trick-r-treat-became-an-unlikely-halloween-classic-1027 POST 9-11 HORROR FILMS REVEAL COLLECTIVE ANXIETIES ABOUT CHILDREN by Gwen Hoffman http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/post-9-11-horror-films-reveal-collective-anxieties-about-children/ https://youtu.be/-f6WboYCakE https://youtu.be/rt3axYnfICQ https://youtu.be/CWqyXO7Z95c https://youtu.be/i8RRAXNb3gE On Autism In Horror by Douglas Laman https://www.fangoria.com/original/on-autism-in-horror/ What Horror Movies Taught Me About Autism by Sarah Musnicky https://www.nightmarishconjurings.com/2019/04/19/article-what-horror-movies-taught-me-about-autism/ Double Rainbow: Autism and Horror by Caroline Narby https://www.bitchmedia.org/post/double-rainbow-autism-and-horror-feminist-film THE VICTIM FIGHTS BACK: REVENGE AGAINST THE BULLIES by Mr. Bones https://morbidlybeautiful.com/victim-fights-back/ Little Bursts of Fright: The Horror Anthology Is Having a Heyday by Erik Piepenburg https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/movies/horror-anthology-monsterland-welcome-to-the-blumhouse.amp.html The History of Anthological Horror https://thedarkpictures.fandom.com/wiki/The_History_of_Anthological_Horror The Strange History of Anthology Horror by Sara Century https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-strange-history-of-anthology-horror%3famp https://youtu.be/zZvOqtwG33k Gender Bashing: TRICK ‘R TREAT and The Sexually Confident She-Wolf by Anya Stanley https://www.dreadcentral.com/editorials/283324/gender-bashing-trick-r-treat-and-the-sexually-confident-she-wolf/ https://youtu.be/Gv_i0AsEfQg

Trigger warning: We discuss serial killers, choking, and cannibalism later on in the episode. Greetings, Ghosts and Ghouls! GMN is back...well...kinda! Abbey is still on maternity leave but Gracie has a "ghost" host this week! Kate MF Sculley! This week they're talking about the beautifully problematic thriller, Perfume (2006)! Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com BLM: blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ TLM: translifeline.org/donate/ Resources: The Scent of a Woman: Perfect Misogyny in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Heather Addison https://www.google.com/amp/s/brightlightsfilm.com/the-scent-of-a-woman-perfect-misogyny-in-perfume-the-story-of-a-murderer/amp/ Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind, an Analysis on Symbolisms and Undertones by Lee Custodio https://owlcation.com/humanities/Perfume-the-Story-of-a-Murderer-an-Analysis Perfume Review by Neil Miller https://www.google.com/amp/s/filmschoolrejects.com/movie-review-perfume-the-story-of-a-murderer/ Serial Killers, Literary Critics, and Süskind's Das Parfum by Damon O. Rarick https://www.rmmla.org/assets/docs/Journal-Archives/2000-2009/63-2-2009rarick.pdf Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (In a Nutshell) http://anutshellreview.blogspot.com/2007/01/perfume-story-of-murderer.html Genius of scents by David Lamble https://www.ebar.com/arts_&_culture/movies//227819 Redheads, Beware by The Institute of Art and Olfaction https://artandolfaction.com/redheads-beware/ 18th-Century Quest: Perfume: the Story of a Murderer by Kendra http://www.frockflicks.com/18th-century-quest-perfume-the-story-of-a-murderer/ Scent psychosis. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Victoria O'Rourke https://www.google.com/amp/s/vouijaboard.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/scent-psychosis-perfume-the-story-of-a-murderer/amp/ Perfume: Story of A Murderer - Reader Response Criticism by Cocky Film http://cockyfilm.blogspot.com/2016/12/perfume-story-of-murderer-reader.html?m=1 http://punkguru.com/perfume-the-story-of-a-murderer-by-patrick-susskind/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Rammstein/comments/b8capq/the_book_that_is_said_to_have_inspired_till_to/ https://ultimatepopculture.fandom.com/wiki/Perfume:_The_Story_of_a_Murderer https://youtu.be/MpPCfxyEpIQ https://youtu.be/6kP7cTlHPuY

Greetings, Ghosts and Ghouls! GMN is back...well...kinda! Abbey is still on maternity leave but Gracie has a "ghost" host this week! Carolyn Gerk! This week they're talking about Rose Glass's depressing religious-horror film, Saint Maud! Check out Carolyn's Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/VelvetHandDesigns Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com BLM: blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ TLM: translifeline.org/donate/ Resources: Rose Glass's first short film: https://player.vimeo.com/video/173031270 Review: the perversity of religion through the eyes of ‘Saint Maud' By Jason Scott https://bsidesbadlands.com/saint-maud-horror-film-2021-review-essay/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_and_coping_with_trauma#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20most%20common,in%20religious%20or%20spiritual%20practices.&text=Some%20common%20experiences%20where%20people,sickness%2C%20and%20near%20death%20experiences. The Rapture of Saint Maud by vfdpixie https://www.google.com/amp/s/viewfromthedark.ca/2021/02/12/the-rapture-of-saint-maud/amp/ Saint Maud' writer-director Rose Glass on the devilish details you may have missed by Alison Foreman https://www.google.com/amp/s/mashable.com/article/saint-maud-ending-explained-hidden-details%3famp Saint Maud Is Wholly Terrifying by Ryan Larson https://www.google.com/amp/s/consequence.net/2021/02/film-review-saint-maud-a24/amp/ https://youtu.be/DfMvW5FKcBk https://youtu.be/OY2mv30anpA https://youtu.be/mXyG3kcIsb4 https://youtu.be/5SG7c8ziVoU https://youtu.be/OY2mv30anpA https://youtu.be/UwPEuKAWW90 https://youtu.be/SbcS9jYTtBE https://youtu.be/rXK13fySI4E SAINT MAUD DIRECTOR ROSE GLASS TALKS THE DEVIL IN THE DETAILS by Lindsey Romain https://www.google.com/amp/s/nerdist.com/article/saint-maud-rose-glass-interview-a24-horror/%3famp Nursing Unacted Desires: Saint Maud and William Blake by Sammi Gale https://whynow.co.uk/read/saint-maud-and-william-blake/ Visions of Saint Maud by Jason Whittaker https://zoamorphosis.com/tag/saint-maud/

Greetings, Ghosts and Ghouls! GMN is back...well...kinda! Abbey is still on maternity leave but Gracie has a "ghost" host this week! Amber Knapp! This week they're talking about Wes Craven's underrated, post-9/11 hit, RED EYE! Check out Amber's horror blog: https://anotheroneforthefire.com/ Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com BLM: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ TLM: https://translifeline.org/donate/ Resources: RED EYE: CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST CLASSIC? By Thea Lim https://shamelessmag.com/blog/entry/red-eye-contemporary-feminist-classic The King of Horror's Secret Feminism By Andi Zeisler https://www.thecut.com/2015/09/king-of-horrors-secret-feminism.html Wes Craven's RED EYE Interview by Andrea Chase https://www.killermoviereviews.com/interview/craven-wes-red-eye/ Red Eye (2005 American film) Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Eye_(2005_American_film) HEAR US OUT: RED EYE IS ONE OF WES CRAVEN'S BEST WORKS, AND WE SHOULD NOT FORGET IT by Joel Meares https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/hear-us-out-red-eye-is-one-of-wes-cravens-best-works-and-we-should-not-forget-it/ HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO RED EYE, WES CRAVEN'S UNDERAPPRECIATED GEM by Carly Lane https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/happy-anniversary-to-red-eye-wes-cravens-underappreciated-gem ‘Red Eye': Wes Craven's Overlooked High-Altitude Thriller Turns 15 by Meagan Navarro https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3627944/red-eye-turns-15-wes-cravens-overlooked-high-altitude-thriller-aug-19/ Red Eye: TV Tropes https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/RedEye Why Red Eye Is One Of Wes Craven's Best Movies by Matt Jamieson https://hiddenremote.com/2015/09/01/red-eye-one-wes-cravens-best-movies/ CABIN PRESSURE : WES CRAVEN'S ‘RED EYE' by Neil Young https://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/reviews/cabin-pressure-wes-craven-s-red-eye-7-10/ Strictly Coach Class: Red-Eye by Robbie Freeling https://www.indiewire.com/2005/08/strictly-coach-class-red-eye-225489/ Why Wes Craven Mattered to Horror Fans by Greg Cwik https://www.indiewire.com/2015/08/why-wes-craven-mattered-to-horror-fans-58773/ A Salute to Horror Master Wes Craven's Lesser-Known Films by Vrai Kaiser https://www.themarysue.com/a-salute-to-horror-master-wes-cravens-lesser-known-films/ My Business Is All about You- The 15th Anniversary of Red Eye https://anotheroneforthefire.com/2020/03/17/my-business-is-all-about-you-the-15th-anniversary-of-red-eye/ In light of the Hollywood abuse stories, Red Eye deserves a second look by Rachel Montpelier https://www.google.com/amp/s/culturess.com/2017/11/29/light-hollywood-abuse-stories-red-eye-deserves-second-look/amp/ Terror in the Air! (Airplane Horror and Terror Films) -- IMDb list Terror in the Air! (Airplane Horror and Terror films) - IMDb Passengers Behaving Badly: The Real Reason We Freak Out on Planes Passengers behaving badly: The real reason we freak out on planes. - The Washington Post Plane Crashes Stroke Psyche's Deepest Fears Plane Crashes Stoke Psyche's Deepest Fears - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) List of Entertainment Affected by the September 11 Attacks List of entertainment affected by the September 11 attacks - Wikipedia Four Forms of Terrorism: Horror, Dystopia, Thriller and Noir Four Forms of Terrorism: Horror, Dystopia, Thriller, and Noir (uiowa.edu) How Terrorism Modified The Horror Movies (PDF) How terrorism modifed the horror movies? (researchgate.net)

It's the season 9 finale! This week your favorite ghouls are discussing Ari Aster's sophomore film, Midsommar! We're officially on maternity leave! We'll be returning in a few months! Stay tuned! --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- BLM: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ Trans Lifeline: https://translifeline.org/donate/ Stop Asian Hate: https://anti-asianviolenceresources.carrd.co/ --- Resources: Midsommar has a deeply trans narrative hiding in plain sight By Emily VanDerWerff https://www.vox.com/culture/21307689/midsommar-trans-review-ending-spoilers Blood and Tears and Potions and Flame: Excesses of Transformation in Ari Aster’s Midsommar By Sandra Huber https://framescinemajournal.com/article/blood-and-tears-and-potions-and-flame-excesses-of-transformation-in-ari-asters-midsommar/ Monstrous Womanhood and the Unapologetic Feminism of ‘Midsommar’ by Caitlin Kennedy https://screen-queens.com/2019/07/13/monstrous-womanhood-and-the-unapologetic-feminism-of-midsommar/ How Midsommar Brainwashes You by Acolytes of Horror https://youtu.be/gr2j0o_B2mw Is Midsommar a Feminist Fable? https://www.varsity.co.uk/film-and-tv/18054 Midsommar is the Perfect of Recapitulation of Female Rage by Alexandra Tsuneta https://medium.com/v-a-l-l-e-y/midsommar-is-the-perfect-recapitulation-of-female-rage-cf7b22d3e8eb Midsommar Is Queer and Camp, Actually by Juan Barquin https://dimthehouselights.com/2019/07/midsommar-is-queer-and-camp-actually/ Midsommar, Orgasm, and the Terrifying Feminine by Savina Petkova https://www.girlsontopstees.com/read-me/2019/8/15/midsommar-orgasm-and-the-terrifying-feminine Midsommar’s “Happy” Ending, Explained by The Take https://the-take.com/watch/midsommars-happy-ending-explained Midsommar Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsommar Ari Aster on Midsommar, Cathartic Endings, the Director's Cut, and His Favorite Films https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPGaPTdno10 Ari Aster Discusses the Director's Cut of Midsommar | Scary Movies XII https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uXyRg9iAEs Midsommar’s eerie paintings by Karen Han https://www.polygon.com/2019/7/18/20696442/midsommar-paintings-art-spoilers-a24 . 'Midsommar': Study of grief in psychedelic folk horror story by REYZANDO NAWARA https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2019/09/16/midsommar-study-of-grief-in-psychedelic-folk-horror-story.html Divine Absence in Horror Films by Nick Ripatrazone https://imagejournal.org/article/god-alone-divine-absence-in-horror-films/ The Architecture of Horror: Space, Light, and Atmosphere in Ari Aster’s Hereditary and Midsommar by Raymond De Luca https://brightlightsfilm.com/the-architecture-of-horror-space-light-and-atmosphere-in-ari-asters-hereditary-and-midsommar/#.YKKB73dKiu4 https://www.reddit.com/r/Midsommar/comments/cfaxxg/birthday_significance/ The Scariest Part Of ‘Midsommar’ That Nobody’s Talking About by Ali Hinnman https://thoughtcatalog.com/ali-hinman/2020/02/the-scariest-part-of-midsommar-that-nobodys-talking-about/ The many meanings of bears in Christian art by Daniel Esparza https://aleteia.org/2019/10/30/the-many-meanings-of-bears-in-christian-art/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uthark_theory https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thrillist.com/amphtml/entertainment/nation/midsommar-is-harga-real https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueFilm/comments/cz82f2/did_anybody_else_feel_the_director_cut_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Midsommar/comments/btxywc/the_hårga_song/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228759479_Fungi_Folkways_and_Fairy_Tales_Mushrooms_Mildews_in_Stories_Remedies_Rituals_from_Oberon_to_the_Internet

"OW! My tit!" This week your favorite ghouls discuss the misunderstood horror gem, Jennifer's Body! --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- BLM: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ TLM: https://translifeline.org/ --- Resources: How Jennifer’s Body went from a flop in 2009 to a feminist cult classic today By Constance Grady https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/10/31/18037996/jennifers-body-flop-cult-classic-feminist-horror https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/louispeitzman/jennifers-body-diablo-cody-karyn-kusama-feminist-horror https://www.indiewire.com/2020/09/megan-fox-jennifers-body-feminist-1234589224/ https://teodoreljic.com/2020/07/24/my-better-half-has-bitten-me-revisiting-jennifers-body/ https://filmdaze.net/jennifers-body-at-10/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/movies/megan-fox-jennifers-body.html https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210406-jennifers-body-the-real-meaning-of-a-sexy-teen-flick https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3585802/jennifers-body-10-years-later-karyn-kusamas-feminist-revenge-film-ahead-time/ https://www.them.us/story/jennifers-body-film-cult-status https://anatomyofascream.wordpress.com/2017/07/04/in-defence-of-that-kiss-jennifers-body-is-the-queer-love-story-ive-always-wanted/ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/12/30/harper-vanity-2020/ https://magdalene.co/story/jennifers-body-underrated-feminist-horror-film https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/medusa-turn-patriarchy-into-stone Female Friendships in Horror by Flick from Here Be Lesbians https://medium.com/@frosemartin/female-friendships-in-horror-515c38d82995 https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210406-jennifers-body-the-real-meaning-of-a-sexy-teen-flick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBibuyc2AXQ

This week, your favorite ghouls discuss the gonzo, 80's horror flick: Blood Diner! Guest starring Alison Peirse, author of the books After Dracula, Korean Horror Cinema, and Women Make Horror! --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- BLM: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ TLM: https://translifeline.org/ ---- Research: https://www.google.com/amp/s/swampflix.com/2017/02/11/blood-diner-1987/amp/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Diner https://www.google.com/amp/s/birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/10/03/the-savage-stack-blood-diner-1987/amp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGjE1todHOE https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbr.com/blood-diner-cult-classic-dark-comedy-halloween/amp/. https://366weirdmovies.com/14-blood-diner-1987/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/cineccentric.com/2020/10/08/blood-diner-and-the-american-art-of-excess/amp/ http://ecofilmmediaenvironment.blogspot.com/2020/07/blood-diner-1987-and-jennifers-body.html?m=1 https://www.screenslate.com/articles/meat-movie-dirty-lookss-bradford-nordeen-blood-diner https://otherworldlyoracle.com/dark-goddesses-list-descriptions/ https://femalevillains.fandom.com/wiki/Sheetar_(Blood_Diner) https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3445809/celebrating-sheetar-30-years-blood-diner/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/1768545/hinduisms-kali-is-the-feminist-icon-the-world-desperately-needs/amp/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dali_(goddess) https://www.thoughtco.com/what-were-mythological-cannibals-119920 https://deep-focus.com/blood-diner/

Wow... sorry that this is a week late... but it was worth it! At least, we think so! Topics of discussion: The Triple Goddess, Triangles, Toxic Masculinity and Complacency, Female Monstrosity, and Re-Writing Fairytales. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: PBS's MONSTRUM: Hansel & Gretel by Dr. Emily Zarka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_ywuNEEiVE&t=302s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretel_&_Hansel https://www.google.com/amp/s/flipscreened.com/2020/02/05/review-gretel-hansel-2020-is-a-story-about-female-power-and-witchcraft/amp/ SYMBOLISM IN GRETEL & HANSEL: THE DIVINE FEMALE AND THE NUMBER THREE by Dawn Kurtagich https://www.dawnkurtagich.com/blog-1/2020/9/8/symbolism-in-gretel-amp-hansel-the-divine-female-and-the-number-three. How 'Gretel & Hansel' puts an empowering feminist spin on the Grimm fairy tale (exclusive clip) by Ethan Alter https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.yahoo.com/amphtml/entertainment/how-gretel-hansel-puts-an-empowering-feminist-spin-on-the-grimm-fairy-tale-exclusive-clip-160919907.html Oz Perkins’s Gretel & Hansel is a surprisingly feminist take on the disturbing old fairy tale by CHANDLER LEVACK https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/reviews/article-oz-perkinss-gretel-hansel-is-a-surprisingly-feminist-take-on-the/ https://bastlovesmew.medium.com/gretel-and-hansel-and-modern-feminism-17cebc024405 “Rethinking fairytales as feminist fables is rescuing them, not ruining them” by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/04/rethinking-fairytales-feminist-fables-tales-stories https://www.google.com/amp/s/citizendamepod.com/2020/02/05/gretel-hansel-searches-for-freedom-in-monstrosity/amp/ http://apimohanathas.weebly.com/critical-theory-and-fairy-tales/feminist-literary-criticism-present-in-hansel-ad-gretel https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/303069954.pdf https://testkitchen.huffingtonpost.com/grimm/ https://time.com/5772677/gretel-and-hansel-movie/ http://www.michelepolak.com/3003spring2014/Weekly_Schedule_files/Kuykendal%20.pdf https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_and_Sister https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Juniper_Tree_(fairy_tale) https://allthatsinteresting.com/hansel-and-gretel-true-stor https://m.imdb.com/title/tt9086228/trivia Gretel finds her power Posted by Suzanne Rath http://www.depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/gretel-finds-her-power https://knowyourarchetypes.com/devouring-mother-archetype/ Shamanic Initiations: A hidden Theme within the Fairy Tale of Hansel and Gretel by Franco Bejarano https://www.cabinetdesfees.com/2011/shamanic-initiations-a-hidden-theme-within-the-fairy-tale-of-hansel-and-gretel/

"I'm not crazy! I'm possessed!" This week your favorite ghouls discuss GOTHIKA! --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: https://www.google.com/amp/s/nerdist.com/article/black-final-girls-slasher-films/%3famp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ign.com/articles/2003/04/24/gothika-production-start%3famp=1 Gothika: What The Anima Sola Tattoo Means (& Why It's Important) by Steven Cuffari https://screenrant.com/gothika-movie-anima-sola-tattoo-meaning-importance-explained/ GOTHIKA : NOT ALONE (Review) https://reelisticviews.com/gothika-review-a-nerve-racking-narrative/ Why Gothika Exposes The Hidden Thoughts of Every Black Woman Who’s Ever Experienced Mental Illness by Janiera Eldridge https://www.graveyardshiftsisters.com/2017/03/why-gothika-exposes-hidden-thoughts-of.html?m=1 Gothika: What The Horror Movie's Title Means by Brynne Ramella https://www.google.com/amp/s/screenrant.com/gothika-movie-title-name-meaning-explained/amp/ https://afrohorror.libsyn.com/105-gothika African American Women's Beliefs About Mental Illness, Stigma, and Preferred Coping Behaviors by Earlise C. Ward / corresponding author* and Susan M. Heidrich** https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2854624/ Black Women Are Facing an Overwhelming Mental Health Crisis by Lynya Floyd https://www.prevention.com/health/mental-health/a33686468/black-women-mental-health-crisis/ The Mental Health Cost of Being a Strong Black Woman (Interview with Mia Kirby) by Josephine Gurch https://hogg.utexas.edu/mental-health-cost-of-a-black-woman Movie #4 and #5 – Gothika and Candyman by Muds McGee https://www.google.com/amp/s/mudsmcgee.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/movie-4-and-5-gothika-and-candyman/amp/ https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/114422/update-gothic-feminism-representation-gothic-heroine-cinema https://lithub.com/for-gothic-heroines-haunted-houses-are-always-too-big/ https://crimereads.com/gothic-romance-domestic-noir/ The Madwoman In The Attic: How “Mad” Was Bertha Mason In Jane Eyre? By Ismat Ara https://www.google.com/amp/s/feminisminindia.com/2017/07/21/bertha-mason-jane-eyre/%3famp https://lithub.com/reading-jane-eyre-while-black/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Mason http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/bronte/cbronte/cho10.html https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/the-figure-of-bertha-mason https://www.google.com/amp/s/screenrant.com/gothika-movie-title-name-meaning-explained/amp/ "The Monster Never Dies": An Analysis of the Gothic Double in Stephen King's Oeuvre by Heidi Strengell https://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/spring_2003/strengell.htm https://editions.covecollective.org/edition/were-wolf/double-gothic-fiction https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ByronicHero https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MadwomanInTheAttic https://www.google.com/amp/s/culturenotebook.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/themes-and-tropes-in-gothic-literature/amp/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Sargasso_Sea https://www.mhanational.org/black-pioneers-mental-health https://www.thegothiclibrary.com/african-american-writers-of-gothic-literature/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/40027383?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents http://diningwithdana.net/black-characters-in-gothic-fiction/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/2903332?seq=1 https://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/388/gothika.html

"Just so you know... the words 'just' and 'cramps,' they don't go together." This week your favorite ghouls discuss Ginger Snaps (2000)! --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Services: If you or someone you know is struggling, please refer to the following resources. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255  National Alliance on Mental Illness: 1-800-950-6264 National Sexual Assault Hotline (RAINN): 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) Crisis Text Line: Within the US, text HOME to 741741 --- BLM: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ TransLifeLine: https://translifeline.org/ --- Resources: Women Make Horror (2020). Edited by Alison Pierse (https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/women-make-horror/9781978805118) https://www.google.com/amp/s/blindfieldjournal.com/2019/12/05/feminist-flashback-were-girls-gone-wild-in-ginger-snaps-2000/amp/.. http://jeunessejournal.ca/index.php/yptc/article/view/54/75 https://www.google.com/amp/s/wearethemutants.com/2020/10/08/sister-lovers-the-curse-of-queerness-in-ginger-snaps/amp/ https://journals.sfu.ca/thirdspace/index.php/journal/article/viewArticle/nielsen/176 https://www.google.com/amp/s/randomcrusader.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/ginger-snaps-horror-genre-and-kick-ass-feminism/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/feministperspectives.tumblr.com/post/133135396462/ginger-snaps-a-feminist-horror-movie/amp https://morbidlybeautiful.com/ginger-snaps-feminist-horror/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Snaps_(film) https://urge.org/ginger-snaps-get-out-and-my-search-for-feminist-horror-films/ http://courses.washington.edu/freudlit/Delarmente-Ginger%20Snaps.htm https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1066&context=honorscollege_theses http://cleojournal.com/2014/12/03/bloody-fun-the-menstrual-horror-of-ginger-snaps/

I'll just DIE if you don't listen to this latest GMN episode! This week your favorite ghouls discuss the original 1975 film: The Stepford Wives. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- BLM: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ Trans Lives Matter :https://translifeline.org/ --- Resources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stepford_Wives https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stepford_Wives_(1975_film) https://www.google.com/amp/s/ew.com/movies/2017/10/23/the-stepford-wives-1975-history/%3famp=true https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/91401/the-stepford-wives#articles-reviews?articleId=194000 https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/91401/the-stepford-wives#trivia https://www.filmcomment.com/article/our-bodies-our-selves-the-stepford-wives/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-26/in-the-stepford-wives-no-woman-gets-out-alive . Group Psychology and Crowd Behaviour in Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives By A. Alshiban. Published 2019 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/marriage-30/201202/we-need-slow-domesticity-movement%3famp https://www.webmd.com/beauty/features/stepford-syndrome https://spectrumculture.com/2012/10/21/re-makere-model-the-stepford-wives-1975-vs-the-stepford-wives-2004/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/horrorfilmhistory.com/wp/the-stepford-wives-1975/ https://www.ctmq.org/movie-review-the-stepford-wives/ https://the-take.com/film/page/the-stepford-wives . https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/journeys.dartmouth.edu/dist/1/1435/files/2018/05/The-Stepford-Wives-As-A-Product-of-Second-Wave-Feminism-1vjdort.pdf https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC32folder/stepfordWives.html https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/melodramaresearchgroup/2016/02/25/summary-of-discussion-on-the-stepford-wives/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thehaughtyculturist.com/literature/stepford-wives-book-ira-levin-themes/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburban_Gothic#:~:text=Suburban%20Gothic%20is%20a%20subgenre,the%201950s%20and%201960s%20onwards.

(!!!!) TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE & SUICIDE Check your horoscope! We predict you'll love this episode about the pre-code slasher film, Thirteen Women (1932). --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Black Lives Matter: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ Trans Lifeline: https://translifeline.org/ --- Resources: THIRTEEN WOMEN (1932): THE SLASHER THAT STARTED IT ALL by DAWN KEETLEY http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/thirteen-women/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/crackedrearviewer.wordpress.com/2018/06/09/forgotten-horror-thirteen-women-rko-1932/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/satinyourlap.com/2020/11/09/thirteen-women-1932/amp/ https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=821 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Women https://www.ravenousmonster.com/featured-article/thirteen-women-dark-history-first-slasher-film/ http://www.oh-the-horror.com/page.php?id=1986 http://www.themoviewaffler.com/2012/02/pre-code-retrospective-thirteen-women.html?m=1 https://www.google.com/amp/s/variety.com/2008/film/awards/few-female-ensemble-films-1117987564/amp/ http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/pre-code-corner-13-reasons-why-you-should-watch-thirteen-women-tonight/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/paulascinemaclub.com/2012/03/20/thirteen-women/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/nitratediva.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/thirteen-women/amp/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peg_Entwistle https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/imperfect-spirituality/201504/4-ways-the-power-suggestion-can-change-your-life%3famp https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-are-horoscopes-still-thing-180957701/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/how-americans-came-to-embrace-meditation-and-with-it-hinduism-90081 https://instructure-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/account_18750000000000001/attachments/2007254/Historical%20Timeline%20of%20Hinduism%20in%20America.pdf?response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3D%22Historical%20Timeline%20of%20Hinduism%20in%20America.pdf%22%3B%20filename%2A%3DUTF-8%27%27Historical%2520Timeline%2520of%2520Hinduism%2520in%2520America.pdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAJDW777BLV26JM2MQ%2F20210125%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20210125T205331Z&X-Amz-Expires=86400&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=26e45f1ca894f3cd10ae87ecb6a8ba621531085608f3b7468137e4e250d26cc1 https://mashable.com/2014/12/06/astrology-women/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_astrology#Modern_Hindu_astrology

This week we're taking a much needed vacation to Isle Nublar and visiting JURASSIC PARK! Topics of discussion: How Are The Men Represented? How Are The Women Represented? The Use of Color to Tell A Story, and The Anti Capitalist Message in Jurassic Park! --- BLM: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ Trans Lives Matter: https://translifeline.org/donate/ --- Thank you to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: Clever Girl: A Feminist Interpretation of Jurassic Park https://www.google.com/amp/s/storgy.com/2018/06/07/clever-girl-a-feminist-interpretation-of-jurassic-park/amp/ https://paleontologyworld.com/entertainment/‘jurassic-park’-inherently-feminist-interpretation https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313603741_Woman_Inherits_the_Earth_Deconstructing_Jurassic_Park_as_an_Early_Text_in_Third-Wave_Feminism https://addi.ehu.es/bitstream/handle/10810/30078/TFG_Ayerbe.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y https://youtu.be/5hCuv16pzjs https://www.jstor.org/stable/4316764?seq=1 https://www.stylist.co.uk/long-reads/jurassic-park-ellie-sattler-laura-dern-feminist-hero-90s-kids-films-movies-dinosaurs/218543 https://www.jurassicoutpost.com/jurassic-world-breeding-males-and-females/ https://www.sfu.ca/wwest/WWEST_blog/depictions-of-women-in-stem--ellie-sattler.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.denofgeek.com/movies/jurassic-park-10-things-you-might-have-missed/%3famp

Well, looks like 2021 actually kinda sucks...SUCKS! Get it!? This week your favorite ghouls are discussing the 2019 teen vampire flick, BIT! --- Music by Lily LeBlanc: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Maines https://www.vulture.com/2019/08/bit-movie-the-story-behind-brad-elmores-vampire-film.html https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2020/04/movie-review-bit-2019/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/reviews/3567493/review-bit-intersectional-feminist-vampire-movie-didnt-know-needed/ https://awfj.org/blog/2019/06/10/bit-review-by-alexandra-heller-nicholas/ https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/20/18542843/intersectionality-conservatism-law-race-gender-discrimination https://offscreen.com/view/feminist-spaces-in-horrific-places https://medium.com/@emilie.pichot/radical-intersectional-feminist-horror-films-c072f2ca492 https://morbidlybeautiful.com/reel-review-bit/ https://flipscreened.com/2020/04/28/review-queer-vampire-film-bit-2019-is-unafraid-to-sink-its-teeth-into-feminism/ https://medium.com/the-reckless-muse/intersectional-feminist-transgender-vampire-film-bit-is-more-activism-than-entertainment-f83a6c2bd931 https://nofspodcast.com/review-vampy-queer-horror-bit-stakes-a-claim-in-feminism-and-transgender-inclusion https://medium.com/an-injustice /a-timeline-of-transgender-horror-90d707b71e2d http://fourteeneastmag.com/index.php/2019/01/18/blood-bodies-and-binaries-trans-women-in-horror/ https://www.glaad.org/2008/10/23/negative-images-of-transgender-people-in-film-explored

Happy New Year and GOODBYE 2020! This week your favorite ghouls are reading some silly New Years Creepypastas! --- Music by Lily LeBlanc: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Black Lives Matter: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ TransLifeLine: https://translifeline.org/donate/

Happy Holidays! This week your favorite ghouls discuss Michael Dougherty's 2015 Christmas film, Krampus! --- Music by: Lily LeBlanc --- Resources: The Strange Appeal of Christmas Horror by Richard Newby https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/why-christmas-horror-movies-appeal-audiences-1171409 Krampus Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus “Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film & Television” Edited by Paul Corupe and Kier-La Janisse. Horns for the Holidays: The Krampus Conquers North American Horror Film by Paul Corupe (pg. 307) How Krampus, the Christmas ‘Devil,’ Became Cool by Becky Little https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/12/151204-krampus-movie-christmas-demon-santa-holiday-folklore/ 12 Slays of Xmas: "Krampus": Viewing "Krampus" through a psychiatrist's lens by Anthony Tobia, M.D. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/views-through-the-psychiatrist-s-lens/201812/12-slays-xmas-krampus Is Krampus Becoming Too Commercial? https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2013/1205/Is-Krampus-the-Christmas-demon-becoming-too-commercial The Story of Krampus: The Original Bad Santa https://www.vice.com/en/article/vvdp53/the-story-of-krampus-the-original-bad-santa-pulled-from-german-folklore How Krampus Became A Very Scary Christmas Tradition https://www.sgvtribune.com/2016/11/28/how-krampus-became-a-very-scary-christmas-tradition/ Meme Analysis: The Secrret History of Santa https://youtu.be/kuQS_rvp_Ng He Sees You When You’re Sleeping: The Psychology of Christmas Horror Films https://www.thefilmagazine.com/he-sees-you-when-youre-sleeping-the-psychology-of-christmas-horror-films/ Understanding What Makes Behavior Modification Work https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/comparatively-speaking/201810/understanding-what-makes-behavior-modification-work%3famp

I saw ye! Yer fond of me podcast! This week your favorite ghouls are joined by Kate MF Sculley to talk about Robert Egger's sophomore film, The Lighthouse! --- Music by Lily LeBlanc: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: How Robert Eggers Built a 19th-Century ‘Lighthouse’ That Could Shine for 16 Miles by Bill Desowitz https://www.indiewire.com/2019/10/the-lighthouse-robert-eggers-period-production-design-1202184244/amp/ What the hell did 'The Lighthouse' even mean? By JESS JOHO https://mashable.com/article/the-lighthouse-robert-eggers-meaning-explained-ending.amp 'The Lighthouse,' 'The Witch' and the Horror of Robert Eggers by Richard Newby https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/heat-vision/lighthouse-explained-how-it-connects-witch-1250507 ‘The Lighthouse’ Ending Feeds Myth and Symbolism to the Birds By Vinnie Mancuso https://collider.com/the-lighthouse-ending-explained/?amp What Is ‘The Lighthouse’ Really About? By Dani Di Placido https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2020/04/20/what-is-the-lighthouse-really-about/amp/ The Lighthouse explained: the meaning behind the images and symbolism in the gripping new film by Ross mcIndoe https://inews.co.uk/culture/film/the-lighthouse-explained-the-meaning-behind-the-images-and-symbolism-in-the-gripping-new-film-395464/amp ‘The Lighthouse’ is a darkly funny and harrowing examination of masculinity by Sydny Long https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2019/11/the-lighthouse-is-a-darkly-funny-and-harrowing-examination-of-masculinity The Lighthouse: A Hypnotic Nightmare About Masculinity by Matt Taylor https://thepopbreak.com/2019/10/15/the-lighthouse-a-hypnotic-nightmare-about-masculinity/ The Lighthouse Review: Madness in the Fog https://thespool.net/reviews/movies/2019/10/the-lighthouse-review/ ‘He Sort Of Wants A Daddy’: Decoding The Homoeroticism In ‘The Lighthouse’ by Matthew Jacobs https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5da9c888e4b0e71d65b801ae/amp The Lighthouse Shines Bright with Wild Performances by Dafoe and Pattinson by Joe Lipsett https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/10/film-review-the-lighthouse/amp/ The Lighthouse: New England Dread Meets Greek Myth by Mark Judge https://lawliberty.org/the-lighthouse-new-england-dread-meets-greek-myth/ The Lighthouse: the myths and archetypes behind the movie explained by Rosie Fletcher https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-lighthouse-the-myths-and-archetypes-behind-the-movie-explained/?amp 'The Lighthouse' is an Amazing Descent into Madness by Anna Collins https://www.34st.com/article/2019/11/the-lighthouse-robert-pattinson-willem-dafoe-robert-eggers The Lighthouse Ending Explained: Lovecraft, That Mysterious Light and More by Nick Limon https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10/20/the-lighthouse-ending-explained The Lighthouse’ Spoiler Review: “A Promethean Tragedy” by Ernesto Valenzuela https://fullcirclecinema.com/2019/10/29/the-lighthouse-spoiler-review/ The Lies of The Lighthouse (2019) by Acolytes of Horror https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yllMFY1Mb08

This week your favorite ghouls are discussing another Rob Zombie film... The Lords of Salem (2013)! Topics include but are not limited to Nathaniel Hawthorne and the History of Salem, Women and Bodily Autonomy, The Lords and what they represent, The Power of Music, and Female Trauma in Rob Zombie movies. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Black Lives Matter: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ TransLifeline: https://translifeline.org/ --- Resources: ‘Sisters United’ Feminist Nostalgia, Queer Spectatorship and the Radical Witch Politics of Rob Zombie’s The Lords of Salem by Ben Raphael Sher from New Queer Horror: Film & Television Studies https://www.amazon.com/Queer-Horror-Film-Television-Studies/dp/1786836262 https://filmschoolrejects.com/18-things-we-learned-from-rob-zombies-the-lords-of-salem-commentary-80525a0013b8/?amp https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lords_of_Salem_(film) https://screenrant.com/rob-zombie-lords-salem-movie-meta-twist/amp/ https://screenrant.com/lords-salem-movie-production-problems-explained/amp/ https://amazingstories.com/2013/08/lords-of-salem/ https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-lords-of-salem-2013 https://listverse.com/2017/06/20/10-songs-that-have-killed-in-real-life/amp/ https://otherworldlyoracle.com/music-magick/ https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/05/ominous-curses-and-dark-mysteries-of-the-musical-world/ https://medium.com/@alexandralanders/feminism-in-rob-zombie-s-the-lords-of-salem-e1ba76ecada2 https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3482490/revisiting-lords-salem-rob-zombies-hocus-pocus/ https://robzombie.com/2013/05/sheri-moon-zombie-on-the-lords-of-salem-a-very-female-driven-cast-which-is-something-you-dont-see-very-often-in-films-these-days/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3623780/prop-forces-darkness-women-sentinel-lords-salem/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/filmschoolrejects.com/the-lords-of-salem-five-years-later/%3famp https://robzombie.com/2012/09/rob-zombie-talks-about-casting-older-actresses-in-the-lords-of-salem-women-sick-of-playing-the-mother/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nylon.com/rob-zombie-movies-female-trauma/amp

"The horror is history..." This week your favorite ghouls discuss Oprah Winfrey and Jonathan Demme's film version of Toni Morrison's prize winning novel, Beloved (1998). Topics include but are not limited to The horrors of the past: slavery, trauma and ghosts, Southern Gothic horror, mothers and daughters, and sisterhood. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilyleblanc.com --- Resources: Beloved (1998 Film) Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloved_(1998_film) Beloved: The Best Horror Novel the Horror Genre Has Never Claimed by Grady Hendrix https://www.tor.com/2016/02/18/beloved-the-best-horror-novel-the-horror-genre-has-never-claimed/ Black Horror Rising BY TANANARIVE DUE https://uncannymagazine.com/article/black-horror-rising/?fbclid=IwAR2_acNtT-tCRsQ30f17jrzuTVmYpCsio-wGvAIkX2Nm5mHQyI55UaviH7E Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’: A Gothic Classic of Black Horror Media by Donyae Coles https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3578911/toni-morrisons-beloved-gothic-classic-black-horror-media/ “Should ‘Beloved’ Be in the Black Horror Film Canon?: An interview with two Black women horror creators, Tananarive Due and Robin R. Means Coleman” by Juliana Ukiomogbe https://zora.medium.com/should-beloved-be-in-the-black-horror-film-canon-7e523a419c90 AFRICAN AMERICAN FOLKLORE, MAGICAL REALISM AND HORROR IN TONI MORRISON NOVELS by Sumiko Saulson https://mochamemoirspress.com/uncategorized/african-american-folklore-magical-realism-and-horror-in-toni-morrison-novels/ Horror in the 90s: The Southern Gothic by Ashlee Blackwell https://www.graveyardshiftsisters.com/2014/01/horror-in-90s-southern-gothic.html The Horrors of Remembrance: The Altered Visual Aesthetic of Horror in Jonathan Demme’s Beloved by Ellen Scott https://www.colorado.edu/gendersarchive1998-2013/2004/09/01/horrors-remembrance-altered-visual-aesthetic-horror-jonathan-demmes-beloved Slavery, Human Cruelty, Survival, Horror, Maternity and Rememory : Translating “Beloved” to the Screen by Matty Stanfield https://mattystanfield.com/2015/07/25/slavery-human-cruelty-survival-horror-maternity-and-rememory-translating-beloved-to-the-screen/ African American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Places by Maisha L. Wester https://books.google.com/books?id=wmKKOzK422QC&q=Beloved#v=snippet&q=Beloved&f=false Searching for Sycorax: Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror by Kinitra D. Brooks https://books.google.com/books/about/Searching_for_Sycorax.html?id=F3BADwAAQBAJ Mother/Daughter Relationship: Psychological Implication of Love in Toni Morrison’s Beloved https://www.ajol.info/index.php/lwati/article/view/46583 “Analyzing Relationship of Sethe and Denver as Mother and Daughter Relationship in the Novel Beloved Written By Toni Morrison” by Debora Tambun https://www.google.com/amp/s/deboratambun.wordpress.com/2012/11/09/analyzing-relationship-of-sethe-and-denver-as-mother-and-daughter-relationship-in-the-novel-beloved-written-by-toni-morrison/amp/ ''Motherlove was a Killer:'' Mother-Daughter Relationships in A Mercy and Beloved by Chrysa Titi https://www.academia.edu/11978901/Motherlove_was_a_Killer_Mother-Daughter_Relationships_in_A_Mercy_and_Beloved Mothering Violence: Ferocious Female Resistance in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, and A Mercy by Amanda Putnam https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.5406/blacwomegendfami.5.2.0025.pdf?ab_segments=0%252Fbasic_SYC-5187_SYC-5188%252Fcontrol THE RETURN OF THE SISTER: SISTERHOOD AND BLACK FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY IN TONI MORRISON'S "BELOVED" by Su-lin Yu https://www.jstor.org/stable/44325441?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Among Women: Toni Morrison's Mothers, Sisters, and Daughters. By Hazel Ruth reames Caillouet https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7469&context=gradschool_disstheses

This week your favorite ghouls discuss the cult classic: Carnival of Souls! Topics of discussion: shared consciousness, dreams, The Man and how he relates to Mary Henry, and women and driving in horror films. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com TranslifeLine: https://translifeline.org/ BLM: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ --- Resources: Carnival of Souls (1962) TCM http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/70341/Carnival-of-Souls/articles.html How Obscure Horror Film 'Carnival of Souls' Influenced Everything You've Ever Seen by Justin Morrow https://nofilmschool.com/2016/10/how-carnival-souls-bridges-art-house-and-horror 5 Lessons on Making Low-Budget Horror From Cult Classic 'Carnival of Souls' by Greg Cwik https://nofilmschool.com/2016/08/5-lessons-making-low-budget-horror-cult-classic-carnival-souls Dead in the Water? Dream and Reality in Carnival of Souls by Peter Wilshire https://offscreen.com/view/carnival_of_souls Carnival of Souls (1962) - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Souls Carnival Of Souls: The Strange Story Behind the Greatest Horror Movie You’ve Never Seen by Joshua Winning https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/carnival-of-souls-the-strange-story-behind-the-greatest-horror-movie-you-ve-never-seen/?amp Carnival of Souls: “Thinkin’ Like That, Don’t It Give You Nightmares?” By Kier-La Janisse https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4143-carnival-of-souls-thinkin-like-that-don-t-it-give-you-nightmares So Different in Daylight: On the Masterful “Carnival of Souls” by Brian Tallerico https://www.rogerebert.com/streaming/so-different-in-daylight-on-the-masterful-carnival-of-souls October Film: Carnival of Souls Analysis by Culturedarm.com https://culturedarm.com/october-film-carnival-of-souls-analysis/ Carnival of Souls (1962): Dead in the Water by Nitrate Diva https://nitratediva.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/carnival-of-souls/amp/ CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962) - Review by Frank Collins https://www.framerated.co.uk/carnival-souls-1962/ 'Carnival of Souls': The movie that inspired 'Insidious' is the spookiest, weirdest, and maybe greatest horror film you've never seen by Owen Gleiberman https://ew.com/article/2011/04/07/carnival-of-souls-the-original-insidious/?amp=true

This week your favorite ghouls discuss The Haunting (1963). No, not the one with Catherine Zeta Jones...NO not the Netflix one... we're talking about THE OG black and white goddess of a film! Topics of discussion include but are not limited to: Queer Coding, Houses the kill, the neo-domestic, and depression. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com https://translifeline.org/ https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ --- The Haunting of Fun Home: Shirley Jackson and Alison Bechdel's Queer Gothic Neodomesticity by Jill Anderson https://www.academia.edu/32669290/The_Haunting_of_Fun_Home_Shirley_Jackson_and_Alison_Bechdels_Queer_Gothic_Neodomesticity Elegant Chills: The Haunting by George E Turner https://ascmag.com/articles/flashback-the-haunting-1963 Terror, suspense, and the power of suggestion in The Haunting By Farran Smith Nehme https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/1208-terror-suspense-and-the-power-of-suggestion-in-_the-haunting_ Synæsthetic Specters: Haunting Hill House on the Silver Screen by Elizabeth Mullen http://www.imageandnarrative.be/inarchive/Images_de_l_invisible/Mullen.htm Queer & Now & Then: 1963 by Michael Koresky https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/queer-now-1963/ The Haunting of Shirley Jackson by Laura Miller https://lithub.com/the-haunting-of-shirley-jackson/ When Buildings Kill: Sentient houses in fiction and film by KEITH EGGENER https://placesjournal.org/article/when-buildings-kill/?cn-reloaded=1 THE HAUNTING 1963: 10 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW By Kayleigh Marie Edwards https://www.spookyisles.com/the-haunting-1963-facts/ How Robert Wise Manipulated the Ghosts of Hill House for The Haunting by Meagan Navarro https://www.vulture.com/2018/12/the-haunting-door-scene-how-it-came-together.html Topographical Terrors in the Ghost Film: Mediating Space and Place in Robert Wise's 'The Haunting' by Conrad Aquilina https://www.academia.edu/4694574/Topographical_Terrors_in_the_Ghost_Film_Mediating_Space_and_Place_in_Robert_Wises_The_Haunting The Haunting (1963) Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunting_(1963_film) WHY “THE HAUNTING” HAUNTS ME STILL by Jon Farr https://www.bestmoviesbyfarr.com/articles/the-haunting/2018/10 HALLOWEEN HORROR: THE HAUNTING (1963) by Anders Bergstrom https://3brothersfilm.com/blog/2017/10/27/halloween-horror-the-haunting-1963

"Hey, Coraline... how about you leave your mom alone for one got dang minute!" This week your favorite ghouls (who also happen to be moms... can ya tell!!??) are discussing Laika's amazing gateway horror film, Coraline (2009)! --- Donate to BLM: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ Donate to Translifeline: https://www.translifeline.org/donate/ Thanks Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: An eye for an I: Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and Questions of Identity by David Rudd http://ubir.bolton.ac.uk/218/1/emcs_journals-1.pdf The Grass Isn't Always Greener on the Other Side: Coraline's Journey to the Other Side by Isabella Martinez https://dsc.duq.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1030&context=first-class The Key is in the Mouth: Food & Orality in Coraline http://www.longwood.edu/staff/miskecjm/380Coralinekeeling.pdf Examining the Works of Neil Gaiman: Children Don’t Need Their Literature Dumbed Down by Thomas Byrne https://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/ojs/index.php/tlg/article/view/544/484 Psychosocial Development in Coraline https://droverreview.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/drvol1201809henderson.pdf Why Were You Born?: An Analysis of the Anti-Feminist Implications of the Film Adaptation of Coraline https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296486285_Why_Were_You_Born_An_Analysis_of_the_Anti-Feminist_Implications_of_the_Film_Adaptation_of_Coraline "Something Very Old and Very Slow": Coraline, Uncanniness,and Narrative Form by Richard Gooding https://www.academia.edu/1533907/_Something_Very_Old_and_Very_Slow_Coraline_Uncanniness_and_Narrative_Form_ Coraline and “The Other Mother” Narrative by Louisa https://louisaleontiades.com/coraline-by-neil-gaiman/ The Maternal Narcissist by Louisa https://louisaleontiades.com/the-maternal-narcissist/ Problematizing the Ideal Homely Mother in the Movie “Coraline” by Wilful Wordiness https://www.google.com/amp/s/wilfulwordiness.wordpress.com/2018/10/20/problematizing-the-ideal-homely-mother-in-the-movie-coraline/amp/ Why Was Wybie in Coraline (2009)? by The Princess and the Scrivener https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ4GTaSfuB0 RE: Wybie in Coraline (2009) & 10k Subscribers by The Princess and the Scrivener https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMH0dPMPawk

This week your favorite ghouls are discussing the South Korean hit, Train to Busan! Topics include but are not limited to: Seok-Woo's two foils, Covid-19 & pandemic response, and the social commentary in Train to Busan. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: Train to Busan (2016). Dir. Yeon Sang-ho Yeon Sang-ho talks Korean zombie hit 'Train To Busan’ by Jean Noh https://www.screendaily.com/features/yeon-sang-ho-talks-korean-zombie-hit-train-to-busan/5111006.article Train to Busan IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5700672/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv Aloha ʻOe Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_%CA%BBOe TRAIN TO BUSAN - A MASTERPIECE OF SOCIAL COMMENTARY by Jack Buchanan https://www.filmosophy.co.uk/train_to_busan_social_commentary.html S. Korea's Hit Zombie Film Is Also A Searing Critique Of Korean Society by Elise Hu https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/09/01/492185811/s-koreas-hit-zombie-film-is-also-searing-critique-of-korean-society Train to Busan (2016) Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_to_Busan Eat the Rich: Pandemic Horror Cinema by Johan HÖGLUND https://journals.openedition.org/transtexts/706?lang RAIN TO BUSAN (2016): CLASS CRITICISM IN SOUTH KOREAN CINEMA by Tara Edwards https://www.thecinegogue.com/train-to-busan-2016-class-criticism-in-south-korean-cinema/ Train to Busan is a zombie action film with a social bite by Mark Farnsworth http://globalcomment.com/train-to-busan-is-a-zombie-action-film-with-a-social-bite/ Fatherhood on the Train to Busan by Tim Winterstein https://www.google.com/amp/s/thejaggedword.com/2017/06/16/fatherhood-on-the-train-to-busan/amp/ Women and Children First: The Sacrifice for Women in Train to Busan by Erin Edwards http://www.thebackseatdriverreviews.com/women-and-children-first-the-sacrifice-for-women-in-train-to-busan

Hey y'all! This week your favorite ghouls discussing From Hell! Topics of discussion include but are not limited to: sex-work in 1888, the REAL victims of Jack the Ripper, and why our obsession with Jack is problematic AF. --- Theme song by Lily LeBlanc: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: From Hell (2001) Dir. The Hughes Brothers From Hell (1999, Graphic Novel) Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell WHY IT’S TIME TO STOP TALKING ABOUT JACK THE RIPPER by Ann Foster https://bookriot.com/2019/04/02/stop-talking-about-jack-the-ripper/amp/ ‘Jack the Ripper’ was a serial killer who disembowelled women – we need to stop celebrating that by Charlotte Mallinson https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/jack-the-ripper-serial-killer-disemboweled-women-stop-celebrating-a8094826.html THE FEMINIST JACK THE RIPPER TOUR https://lookup.london/live/feminist-jack-the-ripper-walk/ Jack the Ripper and the Myth of Male Violence by Judith R. Walkowitz https://www.jstor.org/stable/3177712?seq=1 Our Jack the Ripper Obsession Is Misogynist by Katie Engelhart https://newrepublic.com/article/119375/jack-ripper-versus-feminists The women killed by Jack the Ripper are finally having their stories told by Maya Crockett https://www.stylist.co.uk/books/the-five-untold-lives-women-killed-jack-the-ripper-hallie-rubenhold-book-tv-series/252545 FED UP WITH JACK THE RIPPER https://eastendwomensmuseum.org/blog/fed-up-with-jack-the-ripper Jack the Ripper: A Twenty-First Century Investigation? by Jennifer Pegg https://www.casebook.org/dissertations/pegg.html From Hell (2001) Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell_(film) Roger Ebert’s Review of From Hell (2001) https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/from-hell-2001 (F)ailing women in psychiatry: lessons from a painful past by Andrea Tone, PhD https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5962395/ Lobotomy: Definition, Procedure & History By Tanya Lewis https://www.livescience.com/42199-lobotomy-definition.html What Does Misogyny Look Like? By Nina Rinata Aron https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/style/misogyny-women-history-photographs.html

Please help the Black Lives Matter movement by visiting this website: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ Donate to Trans Lifeline: https://www.giveoutday.org/organization/Translifeline We're back! AGAIN! This week your favorite ghouls discuss Ana Lily Amirpour's sophomore film: The Bad Batch (2016). Topics of discussion: racism, white privilege, the boarder wall, post-apocalyptic fairytales, and the American Dream. --- Follow Bianca Xunise: https://www.instagram.com/biancaxunise/?hl=en Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: The Bad Batch (2016). dir. Amirpour, Ana Lily The Bad Batch Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Batch Ana Lily Amirpour on romance in the desert and the racial controversy over her new film, The Bad Batch by Kaitlyn Tiffany https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/23/15855842/the-bad-batch-interview-ana-lily-amirpour-dystopia Ana Lily Amirpour Responds to Racism Charges — But Won’t Apologize For Making You Uncomfortable by Eric Kohn https://www.indiewire.com/2017/06/ana-lily-amirpour-interview-the-bad-batch-1201846307/ The Bad Batch isn't a great dystopian film, but it's definitely an interesting one by Alissa Wilkinson https://www.vox.com/summer-movies/2017/6/23/15844944/bad-batch-review-ana-lily-amirpour ‘The Bad Batch’ is a poetic — and disturbingly persuasive — parable by By Michael O'Sullivan https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/the-bad-batch-is-a-poetic--and-disturbingly-persuasive--parable/2017/06/22/c8368164-5389-11e7-91eb-9611861a988f_story.html ‘The Bad Batch’ Review: It’s Social Rejects vs. Cannibals in Dystopia U.S.A. by Peter Travers https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/the-bad-batch-review-its-social-rejects-vs-cannibals-in-dystopia-u-s-a-204752/ 'Bad Batch' director on racism, her intentions and growing up Iranian-American by Michael Phillips https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-ana-lily-amirpour-bad-batch-20170627-column.html Maybe someday the world will appreciate The Bad Batch, but not today by Katie Rife https://film.avclub.com/maybe-someday-the-world-will-appreciate-the-bad-batch-1798191861 ‘The Bad Batch’ Review: Cannibals Battle Skateboarders in Confusing Saga by Tricia Olszewski https://www.thewrap.com/the-bad-batch-review-jason-momoa-ana-lily-amirpour/ ‘The Bad Batch’ Review: A Half-Cooked Cannibal Tale BY ADAM CHITWOOD https://collider.com/the-bad-batch-review/ The Title of The Bad Batch Tells You All You Need to Know by Jordan Hoffman https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/09/the-bad-batch-movie-review Film Review: ‘The Bad Batch’ Cannibals and Trump-era politics converge in Ana Lily Amirpour's striking but dissatisfying sci-fi mashup. By Guy Lodge https://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/the-bad-batch-review-1201852606/ The Bad Batch': Venice Review https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/suki-waterhouse-bad-batch-review-925877 Keanu Reeves Gives a Dramatic Pitch for ‘The Bad Batch’ with Ana Lily Amirpour https://www.indiewire.com/2017/06/keanu-reeves-the-bad-batch-interview-1201846642/

Your favorite ghouls are back from maternity/sick leave! It's been a hell-of-a-3-months! To lift your spirits from this GOT DANG 'Rona virus... why don't you spend a little time with the family? The Addams Family of course! This week we'll be discussing the women of The Addams Family and Addams Family Values! Topics include but are not limited to: motherhood & hellish crusades, Mother-Maiden-Crone, Femme Fatales, and what exactly the Addams family values are! --- Theme song by Lily LeBlanc: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: The Addams Family (1991) Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld Addams Family Values (1993) Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld The Addams Family (1991 film) Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Addams_Family_(1991_film) From Feminism to BDSM: The Powerful Life Lessons Morticia Addams Taught Us by Kayleigh Dray https://www.stylist.co.uk/people/morticia-addams-family-values-feminist-life-lessons-role-model-girl-power-empowerment-sex-bdsm-bondage/169052 10 Reasons Why ‘The Addams Family’ Is Awesome(ly) Feminist Posted By Myrna Waldron: http://www.btchflcks.com/2012/10/10-reasons-why-the-addams-family-is-awesomely-feminist.html#.XqhsUBNKjfY The Addams Family Is the Aspirational Tale of Familial Love I Crave by Kelly Faircloth https://pictorial.jezebel.com/the-addams-family-is-the-aspirational-tale-of-familial-1820013520 Here’s why “The Addams Family” was one of the most progressive and feminist films of the ‘90s by Jessica Wang https://hellogiggles.com/reviews-coverage/movies/the-addams-family-progressive-feminist-film/ Potts Shots: Gen Z Vs. "The Addams Family (1991)" by Madeline Potts https://bleedingcool.com/movies/potts-shots-gen-z-vs-the-addams-family-1991/ MORTICIA ADDAMS: A WITCH ICON WORTHY OF ALL THE PRAISE Contributed by Tai Gooden https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/morticia-addams-a-witch-icon-worthy-of-all-the-praise The Hidden Message of 'Addams Family Values' by Simon Abrams https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/addams-family-values-had-secret-political-message-reveals-writer-1162918 We Need to Talk About Morticia Addams’ Healthy Attitude Toward Sex, Marriage and Motherhood by Alexia Dellner https://www.purewow.com/news/morticia-addams-feminist-icon

Hey goblins and ghouls! It's the last episode before maternity leave! This week Gracie is joined by her very good friend, Kate Mother F*ckin' Sculley. They're both extremely pregnant so they're both going to talk about Alice Lowe's pregnancy horror film, PREVENGE! Topics of discussion: The Pregnant Woman as the Monster, Ruth's Motivations and Hatred for Society, the Mother/Killer Archetype, and Ruth's Baby/Kill Book. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: Prevenge (2016) Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevenge Motherhood Isn’t Sacrifice, It’s Selfishness https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/opinion/sunday/motherhood-family-sexism-sacrifice.html? How a Pregnant Actress Overcame Her Frustrations With the Industry and Directed Her First Feature by Kate Erbland https://www.indiewire.com/2017/03/alice-lowe-prevenge-horror-interview-1201795842/ Alice Lowe: 'It wasn’t part of the plan to direct while pregnant' by Katie Puckrik https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/14/alice-lowe-on-violent-british-horror-comedy-prevenge From Kubrick to Kate Bush: Alice Lowe on her influences for killer mum horror Prevenge by Nikki Baughan https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/interviews/kubrick-kate-bush-alice-lowe-influences-prevenge Reduce Stress by Journaling by Dr. Pamela Peeke https://www.healthywomen.org/content/article/reduce-stress-journaling Prevenge review – audacious horror from a mother of invention by Mark Kermode https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/12/prevenge-review-alice-lowe-sightseers Pregnancy Is the Perfect Time to Make a Horror Movie By Jenni Miller https://www.thecut.com/2017/03/prevenge-alice-lowe-interview.html 'Prevenge' (2016) by Alice Lowe by Lindsey Pugh https://www.womaninrevolt.com/prevenge-2016-by-alice-lowe/ Alice Lowe stars in Prevenge: The mother of all horror revenge films by Ester McCarthy https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsfilmtv/alice-lowe-stars-in-prevenge-the-mother-of-all-horror-revenge-films-442230.html Alice Lowe’s Prevenge: A Response by Harriet Cooper https://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/articles/10.16995/sim.249/ Alice Lowe Talks PREVENGE and the Horrors of Pregnancy by Jacob Knight https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2017/03/27/alice-lowe-talks-prevenge-and-the-horrors-of-pregnancy Pregnancy Horror 'Prevenge': The Twisted Female 'Taxi Driver' Shot in 11 Days by Emily Buder https://nofilmschool.com/2017/03/prevenge-alice-lowe-interview-pregnancy-horror-slasher Prevenge and the Power of Pregnancy Horror By Jordan Crucchiola https://www.vulture.com/2017/03/prevenge-is-proof-we-need-more-horror-movies-about-pregnancy.html

Get your mind out of the gutter because there's nothing sexy about this episode! This week your favorite ghouls discuss the vampire flick, 30 Days of Night! Topics of discussion: What exactly IS the 30 days of night and where?, the unique depiction of vampires, and the REAL threat to women in Alaska... --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: Cinematic Vampires: From Shadows to Spotlight https://the-artifice.com/cinematic-vampires/ 30 Days of Night Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_Days_of_Night_(film). What Are The Four Types of Vampires? By Ashley Abercrombie https://mysticinvestigations.com/paranormal/four-vampire-types/ 30 Days Grabbed Raimi's Eye by Cindy White https://web.archive.org/web/20071011135029/http://scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=3&id=42890 30 DAYS OF NIGHT: SURVIVING WILL COST YOUR HUMANITY by Brandi Blahnik http://www.audienceseverywhere.net/30-days-night-surviving-will-cost-humanity/ Nosferatu: VTM https://vtmb.fandom.com/wiki/Nosferatu The Family Circle by Nancy Freeborne DrPH https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-power-community/201906/the-family-circle Belonging Is Our Blessing, Tribalism Is our Burden by Saul Levine M.D. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/lifelong-love/201212/community-is-needed-now-more-ever%3famp Steve Niles Interview w/Den of Geek - 30 Days of Night https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/batman/13298/steve-niles-interview Vampires Don’t Suck? 30 Days of Night at 10 https://www.headstuff.org/entertainment/film/30-days-of-night-at-10/

Hey ghouls! We're back with another crime drama this season! David Fincher's Se7en! Topics of discussion: A brief history of Dante's The Divine Comedy, Horror & True Crime in the 90s, Mills and Somerset: Equal but opposite parallels, and Expendable Women. --- Music by Lily LeBlanc www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: Crime and Horror: Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together BY DAVE RICHARDS http://www.criminalelement.com/crime-and-horror-together-genre-bending-mashups-thriller-private-detectives-paranormal/ THE HORROR: ‘SE7EN’: HOW DAVID FINCHER'S ICONIC CRIME/HORROR HYBRID SHOCKED THE WORLD BY THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX. https://controlforever.com/read/the-horror-se7en/ The Thrilling Parallels Between Detective Somerset and John Doe in 'Se7en' https://filmschoolrejects.com/se7en-good-and-evil/ Philosophy NOW! Se7en https://philosophynow.org/issues/78/Se7en 14 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Seven by Jake Rossen https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/61908/14-things-you-might-not-know-about-se7en Seven (1995) Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_(1995_film) Where Did The 7 Deadly Sins Come From? by Chloe Langr https://epicpew.com/7-deadly-sins-history/ The Seven Deadly Sins Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins

This week it's a double feature with your favorite ghouls! The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) & it's reboot from 2014! Topics include a brief history of Texarkana and the Moonlight Murders, Embracing Tragedy, and The Phantom’s Duality! --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: The Terrifying Real-Life Murders That Inspired THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN by GREGORY BURKART http://www.the13thfloor.tv/2016/03/30/the-terrifying-real-life-murders-that-inspired-the-town-that-dreaded-sundown/ The True Story Behind The Town that Dreaded Sundown by April Bennett https://www.wickedhorror.com/features/true-life-horror/real-life-cold-case-behind-the-town-that-dreaded-sundown/ Mourning Through Horror Movies by Eren Orbey https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/mourning-through-horror-movies Watching sad films boosts endorphin levels in your brain, psychologists say by Nicola Davis https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/21/watching-a-sad-films-boosts-endorphin-levels-in-your-brain-psychologists-say The Surprising Reasons We Like Sad Movies by Katie Koerner https://greatist.com/happiness/why-do-like-sad-movies#1 Why Bringing Tragedy To Life Through Film Is Important by Marshall Julius https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/why-bringing-tragedy-to-life-through-film-is-important_uk_588a1152e4b02af0a3d5b686?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAT3oojxEz5zhf0nWSrJzIyW29Pj_3RqiqKbmxFo2n8_DrB64VvSeVM958CrvWx51-jm_g023zL40O70ITSRq2mzByy5uZzJlwNsnYIVPDjbu4GuGmUMMYbUmxz5mCu4u2OWmlhx5lbgVuthdOQ9KK3ZeNXIXFK8jMDOrpy6rAdB Is our growing obsession with true crime a problem? By Kelly-Leigh Coope https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47474996

Check your windows! Check your doors! Make sure no one is peering in because this week your favorite ghouls are discussing the horror film that started the POV shot! Why, it's the British masterpiece: Peeping Tom (1960)! Topics of discussion: What is Scopophilia?, The Male Gaze, Sexual Themes, and Children and the Consequences from a Lack of Privacy. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song! www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: Michael Powell's 'Peeping Tom': the film that killed a career by David Gritten https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/7967407/Michael-Powells-Peeping-Tom-the-film-that-killed-a-career.html Peeping Tom: Criterion Film Collection By Laura Mulvey https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/65-peeping-tom Peeping Tom Review (Senses of Cinema) by Peter Wilshire http://sensesofcinema.com/2018/cteq/peeping-tom/ Classic Film Through a Feminist Lens: PEEPING TOM by Kimberly Pierce https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/classic-film-through-a-feminist-lens-peeping-tom/ PEEPING TOM & THE MALE GAZE by Adam Call Roberts https://www.themetropolistimes.com/the-metropolis-times/2012/04/07/peeping-tom Peeping Tom and the Critical Movie Viewer by Nora E Rossbach https://www.academia.edu/30553514/Peeping_Tom_and_the_Critical_Movie_Viewer.pdf?auto=download "Peeping Tom": A Second Look by William Johnson https://www.jstor.org/stable/1212185?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents THE GAZE OF THE VOYEUR by Jihane Mossali https://themissingslate.com/2014/02/15/the-gaze-of-the-voyeur/ Film Theory 101 – Laura Mulvey: The Male Gaze Theory by Rachael Sampson https://www.filminquiry.com/film-theory-basics-laura-mulvey-male-gaze-theory/ Peeping Tom Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peeping_Tom_(1960_film) The Male Gaze Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_gaze What We Post On Social Media May Harm Our Children's Development by Elizabeth Fernandez https://www.forbes.com/sites/fernandezelizabeth/2019/07/08/what-we-post-on-social-media-may-harm-our-childrens-development/#f48a59a536bb BBC News: Five Key Moments in Britain’s Sexual Revolution http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8456543.stm No turning back: family forms and sexual mores in modern Britain http://www.historyandpolicy.org/policy-papers/papers/no-turning-back-family-forms-and-sexual-mores-in-modern-britain Sex Before the Sexual Revolution http://www.historyandpolicy.org/historians-books/books/sex-before-the-sexual-revolution

Get out your tarot cards and start brewing your witch bottles because this week your favorite ghouls are discussing Anna Biller's THE LOVE WITCH! Topics include: Witchsploitation and Patriarchal Exploitation, Toxic Beauty & Feminine Standards, gender roles, and the Psychology of Love, Fantasy & Narcissism. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: The Movies That Changed My Life by Anna Biller https://theplaylist.net/love-witch-director-anna-biller-movies-changed-life-20161110/ The Love Witch - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Love_Witch The Love Witch paints the battle of the sexes with a gaudy Technicolor brush by Katie Rife https://film.avclub.com/the-love-witch-paints-the-battle-of-the-sexes-with-a-ga-1798189434 The Love Witch: a film about the perversities of desire that will soon be a cult feminist classic by Marlon Gibson http://theconversation.com/the-love-witch-a-film-about-the-perversities-of-desire-that-will-soon-be-a-cult-feminist-classic-73308 FANGRRLS ON FILM: GENDER NORMS MAKE EVERYONE MISERABLE IN THE LOVE WITCH by Sarah Marrs https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/fangrrls-on-film-gender-norms-make-everyone-miserable-in-the-love-witch 'The Love Witch' Is Campy Horror That Feminist Cinema Needs by Kate Loftus O'Brien https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wdbzk9/the-love-witch-is-the-camp-murderous-horror-anna-billers Anna Biller on The Love Witch and how she crafts spellbinding female fantasies by Sophie Monks Kaufman https://lwlies.com/articles/anna-biller-the-love-witch-female-fantasies/ Crazy In Love: Transgressive Femininities in Anna Biller’s ‘The Love Witch’ By Annette LePique https://www.anothergaze.com/crazy-love-transgressive-femininities-anna-billers-love-witch/ Under Her Spell: Anna Biller’s The Love Witch BY MICHAEL SICINSKI https://cinema-scope.com/cinema-scope-online/lovewitch/ “Poor baby”: The Love Witch by Laura Thomas https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(19)30231-7/fulltext The Love Witch and witchcraft's appeal in the era of Trump by Clarisse Loughrey https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-love-witch-witchcraft-anna-biller-feminist-horror-film-donald-trump-lana-del-rey-a7627921.html ANNA BILLER ON CLASSIC FILMS AND TWITTER FEMINISMS BY KATHERINE FUSCO https://www.publicbooks.org/anna-biller-on-classic-films-and-twitter-feminisms/ ‘The Love Witch’ Looks Familiar but Feels Remarkably Fresh by Lee Jutton https://www.btchflcks.com/2017/04/the-love-witch-looks-familiar-but-feels-remarkably-fresh.html#.XaD_x-dKjOQ The male glance: how we fail to take women’s stories seriously by Lili Loofbourow https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/06/the-male-glance-how-we-fail-to-take-womens-stories-seriously

Happy New Year! This week, your favorite ghouls discuss the controversial, feminist crime classic: 1991's The Silence of the Lambs. Topics include: The use of psychology and Rites of Passage in TSOTL, the male gaze, feminism, and transphobia. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: Silence of the Lambs Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silence_of_the_Lambs_(film) Why the Silence of the Lambs in a Feminist Fable by Nicholas Barber http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170307-why-the-silence-of-the-lambs-is-a-feminist-fable Silence of the Sexes: Gender Inversion in Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs https://urj.ucf.edu/docs/Evans.pdf Cultural analysis of Jonathan Demme's "The Silence of the Lambs" by Arthur S. Almquist https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2971&context=etd Before we knew better: Silence of the Lambs is a win for women—but fails LGBTQ culture by By Annaliese Griffin https://qz.com/quartzy/1566136/silence-of-the-lambs-is-a-win-for-women-but-fails-lgbtq-culture/ The Enduring Feminist Vision of 'The Silence of the Lambs' by Madison Brek https://filmschoolrejects.com/feminist-vision-silence-of-the-lambs/ Feminist Forensics in The Silence of the Lambs https://thefilmstage.com/features/the-silence-of-the-lambs-and-the-intuitive-feminism-of-jonathan-demme/ Feminine Perspective And Power In THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS by CH Newell https://www.filminquiry.com/feminine-perspective-power-silence-lambs/ Over 25 Years, Clarice Starling's Impact on Film Heroines Still Resonates by Sarah Marshall https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/over-25-years-clarice-starlings-impact-film-heroines-still-resonates-hearken The Not-So-Hidden Transphobia in Silence of the Lambs https://www.thesociologicalcinema.com/blog/the-not-so-hidden-transphobia-in-silence-of-the-lambs ‘Buffalo Bill Is NOT Transgender’ Claims ‘Silence of the Lambs’ Actor https://screenhub.blog/2018/06/05/buffalo-bill-is-not-transgender-claims-silence-of-the-lambs-actor-screenhub-entertainment/ MY AUNTIE BUFFALO BILL: THE UNAVOIDABLE TRANSMISOGYNY OF SILENCE OF THE LAMBS http://feministing.com/2016/03/10/my-auntie-buffalo-bill-the-unavoidable-transmisogyny-of-silence-of-the-lambs/ A Transgender Critic Revisits “The Silence Of The Lambs” On Its 25th Anniversary https://hornet.com/stories/a-transgender-critic-revisits-the-silence-of-the-lambs-on-its-25th-anniversary/ THE NEW FINAL GIRL OF 90S HORROR: PART 2 by DAWN KEETLEY http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/the-new-final-girl-of-90s-horror-part-2/ Pink pussyhats: The reason feminists are ditching them by Kristen Jordan Shamus, https://www.freep.com/story/news/2018/01/10/pink-pussyhats-feminists-hats-womens-march/1013630001/ McDermott, LeRoy (1996). "Self-Representation in Upper Paleolithic Female Figurines". Current Anthropology. 37 (2): 227–275. JSTOR 2744349. The Venus of Willendorf and its Controversial Interpretation http://scihi.org/venus-of-willendorf/

Happy Holidays! This week, your favorite ghouls discuss the one that REALLY started it all... 1974's Canadian classic: BLACK CHRISTMAS! That's right, the OG final girl slasher that STILL doesn't get enough credit. Topics of discussion: Women’s Reproductive Rights, Feminism, & Final Girls, Possible Anti-Feminist Themes in Black Christmas, house and home imagery and meaning, and the Black Pill. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: Black Christmas (1974) Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Christmas_(1974_film) 12 Surprising Facts About Black Christmas by Matthew Jackson https://mentalfloss.com/article/568067/black-christmas-horror-movie-facts The Quad: ‘Black Christmas’ remake to regift feminism to horror genre 45 years later BY RYAN WU https://dailybruin.com/2019/07/01/the-quad-black-christmas-remake-to-regift-feminism-to-horror-genre-45-years-later/ Women In Horror Series: “Black Christmas” by Kelcis Mattson https://medium.com/@wewillbethestars/women-in-horror-series-black-christmas-92b50051a9fc Black Christmas reminds us that nothing is sacred by Zack Handlen https://www.google.com/amp/s/film.avclub.com/black-christmas-reminds-us-that-nothing-is-sacred-1798275044/amp Skip Die Hard this year. Black Christmas is the cynical 2017 holiday movie alternative By Aja Romano https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/culture/2016/12/22/13872376/skip-die-hard-watch-black-christmas ‘BLACK CHRISTMAS’: THE GROUNDBREAKING 1974 SLASHER FILM THAT PAVED THE WAY FOR ‘HALLOWEEN’ https://dangerousminds.net/comments/black_christmas_the_groundbreaking_1974_slasher_film_that_paved_the_way_for The sexism is coming from inside the house: Patriarchal perspective in Black Christmas by cdionio https://visualculture.blog.ryerson.ca/the-sexism-is-coming-from-inside-the-house-patriarchal-perspective-in-black-christmas/ 40 THOUGHTS I HAD WHILE WATCHING BLACK CHRISTMAS by Carly Lane https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.syfy.com/syfywire/40-thoughts-i-had-while-watching-black-christmas%3famp Best Decades in Horror: The 1970s by Jon Espino https://www.theyoungfolks.com/film/111218/best-decades-in-horror-the-1970s/ Black Christmas Review by GODDESSESANDMONSTERS https://www.google.com/amp/s/goddessesandmonsters.com/2017/12/25/black-christmas-1974/amp/ Black Christmas (1974):: Do You See What I See? https://www.kindertrauma.com/black-christmas-1974-do-you-see-what-i-see/ Black Christmas and Gender Roles in the 1970s Slasher Film by Lenore Hipsher https://www.thetunnelsmagazine.com/hipsheracademicblackchristmas Black Christmas, a grueling art-piece of male aggression & female power by Jason Scott https://bsidesbadlands.com/black-christmas-1974-womanhood-essay/ Black Christmas & the Horror of Being Female in a Patriarchal Society by ashleymaniw https://www.google.com/amp/s/anatomyofascream.wordpress.com/2018/11/26/black-christmas-the-horror-of-being-female-in-a-patriarchal-society/amp/ More than horror, Black Christmas is the quintessential Canadian story by Justine Smith https://www.google.com/amp/s/nationalpost.com/entertainment/movies/more-than-horror-black-christmas-is-the-quintessential-canadian-story/amp THE PRO-SEX SLASHER: TALKING BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974) by Horrorhomeroom Podcast http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/the-pro-sex-slasher-talking-black-christmas-1974/ Incels & The Black Pill Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incel#%22Black_pill%22

Hold on to your butts because this film is a wild ride! This week your favorite ghouls discuss Alexandre Aja's controversial New French Extremity horror film, High Tension aka Haute Tension aka Switchblade Romance. We won't go into anymore more detail here.... just... watch it (and then listen here!). --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: West, Alexandra. Films of the New French Extremity: Visceral Horror and National Identity. McFarland, 2016. High Tension (2003) Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Tension Expressing the Mind of a Serial Killer: The Unreliable Narrator in Alexandre Aja's High Tension by Beth Kattelman https://www.academia.edu/25830717/Expressing_the_Mind_of_a_Serial_Killer_The_Unreliable_Narrator_in_Alexandre_Ajas_High_Tension?auto=download Fille Finale: The Final Girl in New French Extremity by Alexandra West https://offscreen.com/view/fille-finale The Killer in/and the Girl: Alexandre Aja’s ‘High Tension’ by Rebecca Willoughby http://www.btchflcks.com/2015/10/the-killer-inand-the-girl-alexandre-ajas-high-tension.html#.XYkwdJNKjfY ‘High Tension’: Rethinking Female Sexuality and Subjectivity Through Violence by Laura Minor http://www.btchflcks.com/2015/10/high-tension-rethinking-female-sexuality-and-subjectivity-through-violence.html#.XYkwdJNKjfY Vampires, Psychics, and Ghosts: A Look at Queer Women in Horror by Sara Century https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/vampires-psychics-and-ghosts-look-queer-women-horror Queer Review: High Tension (2003) http://queeringthecloset.blogspot.com/2014/05/queer-review-high-tension-2003.html Villainizing Queerness in Alexandre Aja’s High Tension by Mary Beth McAndrews https://www.gaylydreadful.com/blog/2019/6/15/villainizing-queerness-in-alexandre-ajas-high-tension Take Back the Knife: Revisiting “High Tension” by Stacie Ponder https://www.afterellen.com/movies/81011-take-back-the-knife-revisiting-high-tension Horror Film’s Terrifyingly Harmful Use of Queer Tropes by Mary Beth McAndrews https://muchadoaboutcinema.com/2018/07/02/horror-films-terrifyingly-harmful-use-of-queer-tropes/ 28 Things We Learned from Alexandre Aja’s High Tension Commentary by Commentators: Alexandre Aja (director/co-writer), Grégory Levasseur (co-writer/art director) https://filmschoolrejects.com/commentary-high-tension-ea807d8a0c25/ The Misuse of Dissociative Identify Disorder & Demonization of Homosexuality in High Tension (2003) https://scriptophobic.ca/2018/07/02/the-misuse-of-dissociative-identify-disorder-demonization-of-homosexuality-in-high-tension-2003/

Heyo! We're back! This week your favorite ghouls discuss The Descent from 2005! Were the female characters represented in a positive or negative light? What do the crawlers and the cave represent? What does Jessica's birthday have anything to do with this? Finally, does Gracie's obsession with name meanings work for the characters? FIND OUT NOW & LISTEN! --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: The Descent (2005) Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Descent Film Analysis | The Descent - Tragedy in Horror by Cristobal Olguin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H24zb6CJKK0 The Descent Redefined Women in Horror Movies by Hannah Bonner https://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/the-descent/254201/the-descent-redefined-women-in-horror-movies Bechdel Test Canon: The Descent by Alyx Vesey https://www.bitchmedia.org/post/bechdel-test-canon-the-descent In Defense Of Lady-Terrorizing Horror Movies by Anna North https://jezebel.com/in-defense-of-lady-terrorizing-horror-movies-5623749 Feminist Halloween Day 14: The Descent by LM https://odorunara.com/2014/10/16/feminist-halloween-day-14-the-descent/ Horror Week 2011: The Descent by Stephanie Rogers http://www.btchflcks.com/2011/10/horror-week-2011-the-descent.html#.XXkEi5NKjfZ The Descent: A horror movie that broke the Bechdel Test by Lois https://www.geekquality.com/the-descent/ #2: The Descent by Alex https://www.onecriticalbitch.com/blog/the-descent-review The Descent: The Last Great Horror Film by Jon Lisi https://the-artifice.com/the-descent-great-horror-film/ Feminist Guide to Horror Movies, Part Three: Worlds Without Patriarchy by HOLLY L. DERR https://msmagazine.com/2012/10/31/feminist-guide-to-horror-movies-part-three-worlds-without-patriarchy/ Collins’ Crypt: On The Two Endings Of THE DESCENT by Brian Collins https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/03/10/collins-crypt-on-the-two-endings-of-the-descent The Descent: Devil’s Advocates by James Marriott

We return with a very special episode about American author and poet Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). You thought your life was crap? Listen as we tell the tale of Poe’s “tragical” attempt at love, his dealings with loss and grief, his constant state of poverty, and his addiction to alcohol. The good times are few and far between in this episode. All we can do now is thank Poe for bringing out the little (or big) goth in all of us! --- Buy Charlotte Montague’s book here: https://www.amazon.com/Edgar-Allan-Poe-Strange-Standing/dp/078583334X Check out Wanderlust on a Budget: http://wanderlust-onabudget.com/blog/ The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore: https://www.eapoe.org/balt/poegrave.htm Buy Poe’s collected works here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/barnes-noble-leatherbound-classics-the-complete-tales-and-poems-of-edgar-allan-poe-edgar-allan-poe/1106658787#/ Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com

This week your favorite ghouls are reading some small creepypastas to get you into the Halloween spirit! This is our last episode before we go on a small break before season 7! We'll see you then! -- Theme music by Lily LeBlance www.lilythecomposer.com Creepypasta music by Purple Planet -- Resources: 8 Short Creepypasta Stories That Will Give You Chills! Edited by Audrey Webster https://the-line-up.com/10-short-creepypastas