Cabin in the Woods

In this week’s episode, Abby and Rebecca discuss one of Abby’s favorites and unfortunately a really fun, well-made, subversive horror movie that was written by a total asshat. We talk questionable 2000s fashion, movie monsters, subverting all tropes but the big bad (the marginalization of BIPOC), and so much more!

Ringu

This week, Rebecca and Abby are covering Ringu, the spooky J-Horror flick that deserves so much more than the whitewashed, white supremacist, shot-for-shot American remake it received. We talk about the ghost in Japanese culture and the marginalization of female characters. PLUS Ringu gives us a great opportunity to chat more about Baby Jessica losing her toe after falling in that well!

Terrifier

While Terrifier’s Art the Clown is a wonderfully deranged villain, Damien Leone is really over here just throwing horror tropes at the wall to see what sticks. He could have just told us he hates women without making make a feature film about it… but assholes like him are what keeps our content flowing, baby!

The Amityville Horror (1979)

If you’re ready to talk about a decades-long horror franchise that exploits the real-life trauma and murder of actual people and rationalizes white men doing whatever they want and blaming on demons let me hear you say hell yeah! This week, we talk about covert abuse, the economic pressures of working class families in the 1970’s, and white male terrorists. Also, we pour one out for a fallen hero: the solar panels that Jimmy Carter installed on the White House.

Trollhunter

TROLL! This week, Abby becomes a troll truther and we chat about maintaining a healthy distrust of bureaucracy. We also take a brief foray into Nordic anti-semitism, but as usual, we have no idea what we’re talking about! Join us for a stinky episode covered in the blood of a Christian man.

Scream

It happened. Rebecca turned the big 3-0 and to celebrate we covered a movie near and dear to her cold, dead little heart: Scream! We recorded this live and in person and it probably shows in the lack of sound engineering prowess reflected in the audio, but it has moxie, dang it!

Queen of the Damned

This movie has achieved the high honor of worst we’ve ever covered and is truly just not fun to watch, but somebody had to do it, I guess. From indigenous erasure to casting white ladies as Egyptian women we’re talking about it (even though nobody asked us to).

Orphan

Ableism abounds in this deranged and insensitive movie that has literally no right to be over two hours long. We tackle everything from mental illness to the marginalization of BIPOC and female character actors. Plus: Rebecca hears about baby Jessica falling in a well for the very first time!

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

AGWHAAN is a stunning, genre-bending film that gives us so much to intelligently research and discuss, but we bungle it and just barely converse like normal humans. You’ll hear our very uneducated takes on veiling traditions and queerness in repressive societies, as well as much fawning over our favorite new scream queen, Arash <3

Carrie

This week, we demand justice for Carrie (and Piper Laurie’s curl pattern) and talk about our least favorite topic that we’re always talking about: the male gaze. Also, Abby tries to convince Rebecca that Carrie’s fiery rampage is actually an allegory for communism. It goes great!

An American Werewolf in London

An American Werewolf in London is a Landis flick that tells the tale of two young American guys that, while backpacking through Northern England, get attacked by a werewolf. It manages to be misogynistic but also has an underlying tragic queer narrative; goofiness ensues.

Oculus

This week we’re covering Mike Flanagan’s 2013 movie Oculus, and everyone (including us) is sad and dead. While this film really hammers home the mother in horror trope, Ol’ Flan manages to craft a pretty nuanced female character in Karen Gillan’s Kaylie.

Idle Hands

This beauty has everything: a whopping 15% on Rotten Tomatoes, Vivica A. Fox in a nun’s habit, and Seth Green during the phase when he dyed his hair black! That’s right, we’re doing “Idle Hands” and our thesis is that it’s a sophisticated work advocating for body neutrality. Who’s with us?

Ganja and Hess

This week, we careen straight into certain disaster by taking on spectacular blaxploitation horror/experimental art film Ganja and Hess (despite having no qualifications and being huge idiots). In all seriousness, if you haven't seen this movie, WATCH IT.

The Faculty

Your favorite human disasters are back! We're talking about 1998 cult favorite "The Faculty" and Rebecca is truly impassioned. This movie has everything: Jon Stewart with a goatee, Clea Duvall in a weird normie lavender dress, and Piper Laurie's blush! Oh and we also have a casual chat about whether every 90's movie was brainwashing against labor organizing.

Black Sunday (1960)

Hop in the way way back machine with us to chat about Italian Gothic horror flick, Black Sunday (aka La maschera del demonio). Enjoy Abby's proficient Italian pronunciations and bask in our general outrage at the deep rooted classist, misogynistic, and racist origins of the genre. Also, some brief vagina talk!

The Sixth Sense

We reveal the very obscure and little known twist at the end of The Sixth Sense and marvel over the wonder that is Toni Collette. Also discussed: women in refrigerators, cultural erasure and why M. Night Shyamalan loves white supremacist actors. Join us for another week!

Raw

Who's hankering for a weird, sexy French cannibal movie? We've got you covered! While Raw is a triumph of feminist filmmaking, it still manages to marginalize BIPOC and queer identities in a pretty gross way! We're talking about it, and Bartles the dog gives his two cents as well.

The Evil Dead

This week it's all about Sam Raimi's f***ed up colonizer mindset on the Cast, and we finally hit a breaking point with talking about white male directors (except we have to keep talking about them because this is a horror podcast). Also featuring a seltzer check-in (Wegman's brand v. La Croix)

Sleepaway Camp

We are...confused. We know this movie is transphobic and homophobic, but it's challenging to vocalize why (yet the overt anti-black racism is crystal clear). Also, we advocate for the triumphant return of short shorts.

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