Erika and Katy are taking you to the movies to see the B-Horror classic: Camp Bloobath--I mean, The Final Girls. They dive deep into the hero's journey, the hallmarks of a final girl, and how it's kind of a weird choice to do a strip tease for your daughter. Happy (belated) mother's day!

• "Her body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film," Carol J. Clover: https://www.jstor.org/stable/i347286
• “The (Extremely) Short Guide to Writing Horror,” Tim Waggoner: https://www.williamcookwriter.com/2014/03/the-extremely-short-guide-to-writing.html
• "The Hero With a Thousand Faces," Joseph Campbell: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588138.The_Hero_With_a_Thousand_Faces

Erika and Katy return to Wes Craven's world for "A Nightmare on Elm Street." They dive deep into the Satanic Panic, troubled sleep in Shakespeare plays, and Erika's big theory that motherhood is all a scam.

• "American Monsters: Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000," Sarah Hughes: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26803447

• "Cultural Human Sacrifice in Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street Films," Brittany Caroline Speller: https://www.supernaturalstudies.com/previous-journal-issues/vol-4-issue-1/speller
• "Killer Fears: Slasher Films and 1980s American Anxieties," Gabriel White: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1084&context=legacy#:~:text=While%20teen%20films%20gave%20the,teens%20had%20during%20the%201980s
• "The Trail of His Flames," Tucker Lieberman, from It Came from the Closet: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60708721-it-came-from-the-closet

Erika and Katy are celebrating their two year anniversary by discussing their first sequel, Scream 2. They dive deep into the rules of sequels, the fate of Cassandra, and everbody's homorepressed mommy issues.

• "'Scream 2': College is a Horror Sequel," Eric Han. https://cornellsun.com/2023/02/09/scream-2-college-is-a-horror-sequel/