The Final Girls: A Horror Film Podcast

Film critic and Bloody Women Commissioning Editor Leila Latif joins us for a deep dive into two vampire horror films that live in that delightful and delicious grey area between arthouse and horror cinema.

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This season is made possible with the support of Arrow Video. Our pick this week is The Villainess, a Western-inspired hyper-violent revenge thriller starring Kim Ok-bin.   

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya. 

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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism.

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The franchise is lead by a leather-clad Kate Beckinsale as the vampyre warrior Selene, who is part of the centuries-old feud between vampires and werewolves. This war might be coming to a head with the appearance of a man who might be able to unite the two monster clans by becoming a … vampire/werewolf/human hybrid. 

We're joined in this episode by the brilliant writer, presenter and podcaster Louise Blain, who gives her hilarious take onthe first three films in the franchise.  

 
This season is made possible with the support of Arrow Video. This week's pick is a campy, pun-filled horror comedy Elvira: Mistress of the Dark

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya.

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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism.

Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

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On the back of Saint Maud's BAFTA nominations and Morfydd's nomination for the EE BAFTA Rising Star Award, we bring you a special bonus interview with the lead actor from Saint Maud, Morfydd Clark, who delivers one the most astounding performances of the year.

You can vote for the BAFTA Rising Star Award HERE.

Listen to our deep dive episode on Saint Maud HERE.

Watch Anna's video essay on Saint Maud, "God's Lonely Woman", HERE.

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya. 

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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism.

Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Support us on Patreon. Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly dose of curated horror treats.

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I’m joined in this episode by writer and Bloody Women columnist Isaura Barbé-Brown to dive deep into the heist-action-comedy-vampire flick From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) and we move into millenial horror with the underrated 30 Days of Night (2007).

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This season is made possible with the support of Arrow Video. Our pick this week is Audition, one of the most celebrated and controversial J-horrors ever made! You can also read Isaura's piece on it HERE.

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya. 

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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism.

Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Support us on Patreon. Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly dose of curated horror treats.

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To coincide with World Book Day, a bonus episode interview with the author of Plain Bad Heroines, Emily M. Danforth (The Miseducation of Cameron Post), out today in the UK!

Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it the Plain Bad Heroine Society. Described by its author as "Picnic at Hanging Rock + The Blair Witch Project x lesbians". 

We discuss Emily's love of horror, the films that inspired this book, Mary MacLane, unrealiable narrators, the burden of likeability and so much more. 

This interview is totally SPOILER-FREE. 

Plain Bad Heroines is out now in the UK.

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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism.

Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

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I’m joined in this episode by writer and podcaster Becky Darke for a take on The Bloodthirsty Trilogy, which comprises The Vampire Doll (1970), Evil of Dracula (1971) and Lake of Dracula (1974). 

This season is made possible with the support of Arrow Video. Our pick this week is The Bloodythirsty Trilogy itself, a gorgeous edition that features all three films and a ton of exras.

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya. 

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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism.

Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Support us on Patreon. Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly dose of curated horror treats.

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We are once again blessed with culture critic, podcaster and producer Jordan Crucchiola's in-depth take on the original Marvel blockbuster, the vampire-action Blade (1998) as well as its sequels, the Guillermo del Toro-directed Blade II (2002) and attempt to reclaim the much maligned Blade: Trinity (2004).

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Digressions include: unimpressive Jabba the Hutt, uni butter, Scream, and our dream John Wick/Evil Soviet Ballet School spin-off.
 
This season is made possible with the support of Arrow Video. This week's pick is another classic 90s horror film, Candyman.

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya.

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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism.

Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Support us on Patreon for bonus episodes.

Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly dose of curated horror treats.

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As a Valentine's Day treat, we sat down with the brilliant Grace Barber-Plentie to go into what and why is Twilight (2008).You asked for it (well, someone asked for it).

The full episode is available now on our Patreon.

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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism.

Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Support us on Patreon for bonus episodes. Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly dose of curated horror treats.

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Part of our new series devoted to exploring the vampire in horror cinema, we discuss two odd vampire gems from the nineties that sit between horror and arthouse.  

First up, Guillermo del Toro's debut feature Cronos (1993), a timeless vampire film that never actually uses the 'vampire' word. And we go peak nineties indie with Nadja (1994), which features an amazing soundtrack, cast and bonus cameo from executive producer David Lynch. 

Joining us in this episode is Zena Dixon, Editor-in-Chief of Real Queen of Horror, to discuss these two oddball vampire gems. 

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This season is made possible with the support of Arrow Video. This week's pick is Brian De Palma's little-known goth rock opera Phantom of the Paradise.

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya. 

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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism.

Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Support us on Patreon for bonus episodes. Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly dose of curated horror treats.

Follow Anna on @annabdemented and Olivia is on @livihowe 

Part of our new series devoted to exploring the vampire in horror cinema, we go deep on two cinematic adaptations of Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles. 

First up, Neil Jordan's 1994 adaptation of Interview with the Vampire is a gothic masterpiece that has influenced counteless vampire films since. We also discuss its unfortunate sequel, Queen of the Damned, which came in 2007 starring Stuart Townsend as the vampire Lestat and Aaliyah as Akasha, the titular Queen of the Damned. 

Joining us in this episode is film critic Kelli Weston. We discuss the themes of Interview with the Vampire, the softboi energy of Louis, the monstrosity of Claudia the child vampire and the queer reading of the film.

Be warned: the section on Queen of the Damned includes dramatic readings of Lestat's band's lyrics.
 
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This season is made possible with the support of Arrow Video. This week's pick from their vast catalogue an underrated contemporary gothic horror Crimson Peak. 

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya. 

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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism.

Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Support us on Patreon for bonus episodes. Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly dose of curated horror treats.

Follow Anna on @annabdemented and Olivia is on @livihowe