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Episode 69: The Fack Lives!: 2018 Year in Review
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Jan 28, 2019
Andrea and Alex return for their annual year in review episode. From their favourite films of 2018 to FAQs and bloopers, few stones are left unturned… and those are probably haunted anyway. EXTRA CREDIT Alex’s Favourite Films of 2018: Suspiria Pyewacket Annihilation Assassination Nation Cam Andrea’s Favourite Films of 2018: Suspiria Hereditary Assassination Nation […]
Episode 68. House Proud: Mother! (2017)
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Dec 24, 2018
Andrea and Alex break down the foundational elements of Darren Aronofsky’s divisive mother! From authorship to ecofeminism to sink instillation, few stones are left unturned or unexamined. REQUIRED READING mother! Dir. Darren Aronofsky, 2017. EXTRA CREDIT What is Ecofeminism? An overview of the term that rose to prominence in the 1970s. The Death of […]
Episode 67. Where is my mind: The Stepford Wives (1975) and Get Out (2017)
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Nov 28, 2018
This month, Andrea and Alex tackle two films whose hearts lie in the darkest, most secret parts of suburban utopia. In Bryan Forbes’ The Stepford Wives and Jordan Peele’s Get Out, we follow protagonists who are socialized to make room for the privileged and examine what happens when they strike back. REQUIRED READING The Stepford […]
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Episode 66. Personal Hell: The House of the Devil (2009)
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Nov 3, 2018
Join Andrea and Alex live at Salem Horror Fest! In this episode they tackle Ti West’s The House of the Devil and it’s reliance on the 1980s Satanic Panic movement. From modern technology to notions of the real and unreal, how much of the devil is in the details? REQUIRED READING The House of the Devil. Dir. […]
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Episode 65. Smells Like Teen Spirit: The Faculty (1998)
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Sep 26, 2018
When it’s up to the misfits of Harrington High to stop the parasite-infected faculty from taking over the world, mayhem ensues. Alex and Andrea cut through the muck with a discussion on The Faculty‘s position in the ’90s teen horror cycle, the sociology of high school, and what happens when marketing partnership go awry. REQUIRED READING The Faculty. […]
All Quiet on the Western Front: The Wind (2018) Review
Sep 15, 2018
The horror-western sub-genre has generally been a male dominated one with films like Bone Tomahawk (2015), Ravenous (1999), and From Dusk Till Dawn (1996). Emma Tammi’s new film The Wind reorients the narratives of the unknown American frontier in the 1800s and focuses on Lizzie (Caitlin Gerard) and her husband Isaac (Ashley Zukerman) as their […]
Scared Sacred Exclusive Chapter Excerpt – The Conjuring (2013) and The Conjuring 2 (2016)
Sep 14, 2018
As you may have heard, Alex and Andrea have chapters in a forthcoming anthology from House of Leaves Publishing. Scared Sacred: Idolatry, Religion and Worship in the Horror Film is a collection of writings exploring the cultural landscape of religion in horror cinema. Bringing together leading critics, historians and writers in this field, the book includes an introduction by author and theologian […]
Wave of Mutilation: Assassination Nation (2018) Review
Sep 13, 2018
New England is often considered the birth place of modern America. When the Puritans founded Plymouth Colony in 1620 they couldn’t have known it would become the bedrock for many of the issues Americans still face today. Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation, uses its Salem, Massachusetts setting to highlight how little has changed from the uptight, […]
From My Cold Dead Hands: Halloween (2018)
Sep 9, 2018
It’s a funny thing seeing a film at TIFF’s Midnight Madness (the horror/genre programming section of TIFF). The audience is bananas. The energy is palpable and the audience participation is through the roof. At last night’s world premiere of David Gordon Green’s Halloween (2018), the audience was primed, Jamie Lee Curtis was in the house […]
REVIEW: Habit Forming – The Nun (2018)
Sep 6, 2018
Corbin Hardy’s The Nun begins with a recap of where we’ve seen The Nun (aka the demon Valak) before, most notably in Ed Warren’s (Patrick Wilson) painting in The Conjuring 2 (2016) firmly entrenching the film as another spin off in The Conjuring universe or Waniverse. In the footsteps of the franchise’s other spin offs, Annabelle […]
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