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We're throwing it as far back as we've ever thrown it to visit the Bates Motel and find out what Jamie Lee Flirty's mom was up to in 1960 with Hitchcock's seminal film, Psycho. ***CONTENT WARNING: discussions of transphobia Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula (gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com) Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd Standard Music License Sources: Clover, Carol J. Men, Women, and Chainsaws. Princeton University Press: New Jersey, 1992. Print. Klein Martins, David. “‘We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes. Haven't You?': Psycho and the Postmodern Rise of Gender Queerness.” Aspeers : Emerging Voices in American Studies, vol. 10, 2017, pp. 39–53, https://doi.org/10.54465/aspeers.10-05. Psycho (1960) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054215/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv Psycho (1960) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_(1960_film)
In today's episode, we are finally tackling the film Roger Ebert called “a raw and painful experience” that “transcends the genre of terror, horror, and the supernatural.” We are, of course, talking about William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973). Based on William Peter Blatty's novel of the same name, the film is an acknowledged classic trafficking in body horror and demonic possession, scenes of which have morphed into head turning, pea-soup laced pop culture shorthand. But is there more to this story than meets the eye? We're breaking it all down today with spoilers so stay tuned. References/Mentioned in this Episode Clover, Carol J. Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film-Up. Princeton University Press, 2015. Collative Learning. The even darker underbelly of THE EXORCIST - film analysis. YouTube, 24 January 2017. Ebert, Roger. “The Exorcist.” RogerEbert.com, 23 December 1973. Happy Haunts Library, YouTube, 2023. Heffernan, Ryan. “The 9 Most Hilarious 'The Exorcist' Parodies in Movies and TV Shows.” Collider, 9 October 2023. Schuetz, Janice. "“The exorcist”: Images of good and evil." Western Journal of Communication (includes Communication Reports) 39.2 (1975): 92-101. Williams, Marlena. Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist. Mad Creek Books, 2023. Faces of Fear: Encounters with the Creators of Modern Horror. Berkley Trade, 1985, pp. 36-49. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/horror-homeroom/support
The world's a scary place at the moment, but we didn't want to lose the Halloween spirit ;) Join in as Elyse and Shay unpack the slasher that started it all! Follow us on Instagram & Twitter at @thewhorrorspodcast Email us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.com Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula (gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com) Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd - Standard Music License Works Referenced: Clover, Carol J. Men, Women, and Chainsaws. Princeton University Press, 1992.
Bom dia, Cinéfilos!O mês do terror continua no Ponto Cego, e hoje a Beatriz e o Tiago conversam sobre dois filmes slasher: A Noite do Terror, de 1974, e Comunhão, de 1976.Siga a Beatriz no Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/biba_moreira/Música de Encerramento: Cindy Lauper: Girls Just Want To Have FunLivros citados: KERSWELL, J.A..The Slasher Movie Book. Chicago Review Press, 2012CLOVER, Carol J. Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film: Gender in the Modern Horror. Princeton University Press, 2015.
We talk about the 2009 film ‘Jennifer’s Body,’ why it wasn’t appreciated when it came out, and what it has to say about the expectations we project onto young women’s bodies. We discuss Megan Fox’s theory about why the movie bombed and the treatment of actresses pre-MeToo, and we dive into how the movie plays with horror tropes. Cited: Blichert, Frederick. “'Jennifer’s Body' Would Kill if It Came Out Today.” Vice. https://www.vice.com/en/article/qv99y3/jennifers-body-would-kill-if-it-came-out-today?utm_source=vicetwitterus Clover, Carol J. Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. Princeton University Press, 1997. Grady, Constance. “How Jennifer’s Body went from a flop in 2009 to a feminist cult classic today.’ Vox. https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/10/31/18037996/jennifers-body-flop-cult-classic-feminist-horror Scott, A.O. “Hell Is Other People, Especially the Popular Girl.” New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/movies/18jennifer.html The music used in this episode is "Lost Souls" by Portrayal freemusicarchive.org/music/Portraya…l_-_Lost_Souls used under an attribution license creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In this episode I discuss queerness, political potential, and iterations of Joseph Sheridan La Fanu's Carmilla. Show Notes: The Carmilla web series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4QzRfvkJZ4 The Carmilla Movie: https://carmillamovie.vhx.tv/ Case, Sue-Ellen. “Tracking the Vampire,” 66–85, 2009. Clover, Carol J. Men, Women, and Chain Saws. Princeton University Press, 1992. Doty, Alexander. “There’s Something Queer Here.” In Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture. University of Minnesota Press, 1993. Duggan, Lisa. “The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism.” In Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics, edited by Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson. Duke University Press, 2002. Edelman, Lee. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Duke University Press, 2004.
Darknet is an adaptation of the Japanese series Torihada (2010-present), and exists as something between a web series, an interactive TV anthology, and a Canadian network series. References and Further Reading Abramowitz, Rachel. Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?: Women’s Experience of Power in Hollywood. New York: Random House, 2000. Print. Barnouw, Erik. The Golden Web: A History of Broadcasting in the United States. Vol. 2. New York: Oxford UP, 1968. Print. Clover, Carol J. Men Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. London: BFI, 1992. Print. Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. London: Routledge, 1993. Print. Hamilton, Patrick. Gas Light, a Victorian Thriller in Three Acts. London: Constable, 1939. Print. Humm, Maggie. Feminism and Film. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1997. Print. Janisse, Kier-La. House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films. Godalming, UK: Fab, 2012. Print. Jones, Norma, Maja Bajac-Carter, and Bob Batchelor. Heroines of Film and Television: Portrayals in Popular Culture. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littelfield, 2014. Print. Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. New York: Columbia UP, 1982. Print. Lené Hole, Kristin. Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics: Claire Denis, Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2016. Print. Rochon, Debbie. “The Legend of the Scream Queen.” GC Magazine 1999. Web. Rose, Jacqueline. Sexuality in the Field of Vision. London: Verso, 1991. Print. Short, Sue. Misfit Sisters: Screen Horror as Female Rites of Passage. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Print. Sobchack, Vivian Carol. Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture. Berkeley: U of California, 2004. Print. Let’s Start at the Beginning (Lee Rosevere) / CC BY-SA 4.0 Author: Geneveive Newman
After a much-longer-than-expected hiatus, here’s the third podcast in the Everything is Liminal series! It covers The Cold War, gender, haunting, and radical political potentiality in The Shining. The Faculty of Horror Podcast can be found here: http://www.facultyofhorror.com/ and here’s a direct link to their episode on The Shining which is great: http://www.facultyofhorror.com/2015/12/episode-33-all-work-and-no-play-stanley-kubricks-the-shining-1980/ Sources: Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan, 1994. Clover, Carol J. Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. London: BFI, 1992. Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. London: Routledge, 1993. Deleuze, Gilles. Difference and Repetition. New York: Columbia UP, 1994. Freeland, Cynthia. “Explaining the Uncanny in The Double Life of Véronique”, Horror Film and Psychoanalysis. Ed. Steven Jay Schneider. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Gaiman, Neil. Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions. New York: Avon, 1998. Print. Gordon, Avery. Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota, 1997. Hall, Stuart. Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse. Birmingham: Centre for Cultural Studies, U of Birmingham, 1973. Podcast music: Let’s Start at the Beginning (Lee Rosevere) / CC BY-SA 4.0 Author: Geneveive Newman