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  • #169: Nosferatu (2024)

    #169: Nosferatu (2024)
    2025/05/14

    For Elyse’s birthday episode, we’re taking it way (way, way) back to one of the oldest horror films to grace our screens (except this time it’s in 4k). Join us as we unwrap the most twisted love triangle to date in Nosferatu.


    ***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of childhood sexual abuse/grooming, death of children, necrophilia


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    Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula (gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com)

    Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd

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    Sources:

    • Lomaia, Natalia. “Return of the Repressed: The Real Horror of Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu”. Headspace.org. https://headstuff.org/entertainment/film/the-real-horror-of-robert-eggers-nosferatu/

    • Nosferatu (2024) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu_(2024_film)

    • Nosferatu (2024) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5040012/

    • Weston, Kelli. “Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu Is a Modern Gothic Triumph.” The Nation.com. https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/robert-eggerss-nosferatu/

    • https://filmint.nu/nosferatu-2024-against-tradwives-and-uplift-stories-j-m-tyree/


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  • #168: The Omen (1976)

    #168: The Omen (1976)
    2025/05/07

    Happy Mother’s Day! Make sure you water your plants on stable ladders, avoid unnecessary globe-trotting, and check your kid for birthmarks before tuning in to our coverage of the poster-child for being child-free by choice in 1976’s The Omen.


    ***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of suicide, infanticide, religion


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    Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula (gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com)

    Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd

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    Sources:

    • Balanzategui, Jessica. “The Child and Adult Trauma in American Horror of the 1980s.” The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema: Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, Amsterdam University Press, 2018, pp. 35–66. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv80cc7v.5. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.

    • Berlatsky, Noah. “Hell Is for Children: The Revolutionary Politics of ‘The Omen’”. https://wearethemutants.com/2020/10/30/hell-is-for-children-the-revolutionary-politics-of-the-omen/

    • The Omen (1976) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omen

    • Nosferatu (2024) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075005/


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  • #167: Strange Darling (2023)

    #167: Strange Darling (2023)
    2025/04/30

    A night of roleplay with a stranger from a bar ends with a homemade breakfast in a farmhouse in the woods - but this isn’t the romance you may think. Join us on a misadventure of expectations in 2023’s Strange Darling.


    ***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of sexual violence & assault


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    Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula (gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com)

    Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd

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    Sources:

    • Strange Darling Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Darling

    • Strange Darling IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22375054/

    • Ex Machina, Derek. "’Strange Darling’ Review: A Modern Classic Thriller that Brilliantly Deceives its Audience.” Derekexmachina.com. https://www.derekexmachina.com/blog/2024/8/28/strange-darling-review-a-modern-classic-thriller-that-brilliantly-deceives-its-audience

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    53 分
  • #166: Splice (2009)

    #166: Splice (2009)
    2025/04/23

    What do you get when you cross the DNA of a human, salamander, kangaroo, fish, stingray, and bird? A very twisted encore to body horror month with 2009’s Splice.


    ***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of sexual assault, incest, domestic abuse, forced pregnancy, death of an animal


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    Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula (gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com)

    Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd

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    Sources:

    • Splice IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1017460/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_6_nm_2_in_0_q_splice

    • Splice Review by Steven Shaviro: http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=895

      Splice Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splice_(film)
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  • #165: Dead Silence (2007)

    #165: Dead Silence (2007)
    2025/04/16

    Beware the stare of Mary Shaw

    She had no children, only dolls

    This movie may be insufferably blue

    But bite your tongue, and we’ll Dead Silence (2007) to you


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    Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula (gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com)

    Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd

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    Sources:

    • Dead Silence Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Silence
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  • #164: Heretic (2024)

    #164: Heretic (2024)
    2025/04/09

    We’re back from spring break and taking on a MisterRei(d) full of religious horror in 2024’s Heretic.


    ***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of religious trauma, entrapment


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    Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula (gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com)

    Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd

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    Sources:

    • Ashley [@ewdatsgross]. "Did Anyone Else Put That Together or Am Do I Need to Get Off of Conspiracy Theory Tik Tok” TikTok. 16 November 2024. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YKo7q8/

    • “Heretic.” Google.com. https://www.google.com/search?q=heretic+definition&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS1044US1044&oq=heretic+definition&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyEwgAEEUYJxg5GEYY-QEYgAQYigUyBwgBEAAYgAQyBwgCEAAYgAQyBwgDEAAYgAQyBwgEEAAYgAQyBwgFEAAYgAQyBwgGEAAYgAQyBwgHEAAYgAQyBwgIEAAYgAQyBwgJEAAYgATSAQgzMjU2ajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

    • Heretic Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heretic_(film)

    • Heretic IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28015403/?ref_=tttrv_ov

    • McNamara, Kelly. “‘Heretic’s’ villain treats women as props. Unfortunately the film does, too.” LATimes.com. “https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2024-11-12/heretic-a24-hugh-grant-election

    • Stephen Nothum [authorstephennothum]. “Part 4| I Have So Much More Analysis Planned for This Film…” Tik Tok. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YKtX3r/

    • Stephen Nothum [authorstephennothum]. “Part 6| Love When Films Use Weather So Powerfully in the Storytelling. Heretic Does It Exceptionally Well.” Tik Tok. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YEFXbf/

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  • #163: The Thing (2011)

    #163: The Thing (2011)
    2025/03/26

    To close out our body horror month, we’re discussing an extraterrestrial being that brings with it extra-tentacle effects in 2011’s prequel to the 1982 classic, The Thing.


    ***CONTENT WARNING: mention of sexual assault, suicide


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    Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula (gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com)


    Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd

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    Sources:


    • The Thing 2011 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0905372/trivia/
    • The Thing 2011 Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(2011_film)
    • The Upsetting Story Behind 2011’s The Thing by Isenhart Productions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAWfrfIbgMY
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  • #162: The Stuff (1985)

    #162: The Stuff (1985)
    2025/03/19

    We’re taking some active recovery during our body horror month with The Stuff (1985)…it’s never enough.


    ***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of racism, diet culture


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    Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula (gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com)

    Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd

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    Sources:

    • Eggert, Brian. “The Stuff.” Deepfocusreview.com. https://www.deepfocusreview.com/reviews/the-stuff/

    • The Stuff IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090094/trivia/?ref_=tt_dyk_trv

    • The Stuff Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stuff

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    46 分