BONUS • Julia Ducournau on the fictional disease of ALPHA
Released on 11/19/2025
A bonus exclusive interview with Julia Ducournau (Palme D'Or winning writer/director of Raw, Titane) about her new film Alpha, out in UK cinemas now.
Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
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Music: "Slasher" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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MACHINES 26 • Unfriended (2014) + Searching (2018)
Released on 10/17/2025
After a short-ish break we return with author Lucy Rose to talk about two screenlife horrors: Unfriend (2014) and Searching (2018), starring everyone's favourite John Cho.
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Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield
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Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.
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MACHINES 25 • Ex Machina (2014)
Released on 08/22/2025
Film critic and host of The Losers' Club and The Lady Killers podcast, Jenn Adams, returns to talk about the Frankenstein movie of the 2010s: Alex Garland's Ex Machina (2014).
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Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield
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Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.
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MACHINES 24 • Prometheus (2012) + Alien: Covenant (2017)
Released on 08/15/2025
The Independent's Chief Film Critic Clarisse Loughrey comes onboard the Alien space ship to mount a passionate defense of the Alien prequels Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017), and argue that it's the best adaptation of the Frankenstein myth.
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Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield
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Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.
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MACHINES 23 • Black Mirror (2011-)
Released on 08/08/2025
Horror scholar, writer and co-host of This Ends at Prom joins Anna to look at ourselves in Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, covering the series themes and deep-diving into some iconic episodes like "San Junipero", "The National Anthem" and "USS Callister".
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Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield
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Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.
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MACHINES 22 • Pulse (2001) + One Missed Call (2003)
Released on 08/01/2025
Friend of the show, podcaster Steph McKenna joins Anna to discuss two cornerstone J-horrors: the internet ghosts of Pulse (2001) and the cursed voicemail of One Missed Call (2003).
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Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield
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Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.
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MACHINES 21 • Resident Evil (2002)
Released on 07/25/2025
Friend of the show Isaura Barbé-Brown and Anna clock in at the Umbrella Corporation to discuss the first Resident Evil (2002) and how it kickstarted the billion-dollar franchise starring Milla Jovovich.
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Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield
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Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.
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MACHINES 20 • Hollow Man (2000) + The Invisible Man (2020)
Released on 07/18/2025
This week, we’re stripping it all back (literally) with a look at two very different takes on invisibility, male ego, and coercion: Paul Verhoeven’s Hollow Man and Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, both reimagining H.G.Wells' classic tale of a mad scientist who discovers invisibility and then comes to regret it. Joining a very sick Anna is friend of the show Ruby McGuigan.
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Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield
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Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.
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MACHINES 19 • The Horrors of Y2K
Released on 07/11/2025
The early 2000s were many things: 9/11, camera phones, government surveillance, MSN Messenger, low-rise jeans, Big Brother and the most extra horror films you can think of. Author Kirsty Logan joins the podcast to go over what makes this moment in horror history so unique, by looking at a wave of horror films from the early 2000s that channelled the paranoia and confusion of the emerging digital age: My Little Eye (2002), The Collingswood Story (2002), Feardotcom (2002).
New episode every Friday.
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Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield
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Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.
→ Support us on Patreon for bonus content.
→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk
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→ Read Feeding the Monster
MACHINES 18 • Videodrome (1983) + ExistenZ (1999)
Released on 07/05/2025
As Charli XCX has declared: it's Cronenberg Summer. With his new film The Shrouds out in UK cinemas, we revisit two quintessential techno-body horror films from the Canadian master David Cronenberg. Joining Anna is the critic and author of David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials Violet Lucca.
New episode every Friday.
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Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield
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Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.
→ Support us on Patreon for bonus content.
→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk
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→ Read Feeding the Monster
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