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  • #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)
    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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    1 時間 11 分
  • #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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    50 分
  • #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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    1 時間 20 分
  • #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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    1 時間 1 分
  • #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
  • #161: Reanimator (1985)
    2025/03/12

    Before brat juice and The Substance, there was another green serum that was raising hell in the 80’s. Listen in as we take on our second installment of our body horror month with 1985’s Reanimator.


    ***CONTENT WARNING: discussions of sexual assault, 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:

    • Frankenstein Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein

    • Petrie, Raine. “The Homoerotic History of Re-Animator (Part I)” https://medium.com/@thegorezone/comrades-in-science-the-homoerotic-history-of-re-animator-part-i-f8bf3f2785e8

    • Re-Animator (1985) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-Animator

    • Re-Animator (1985) IMDb:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089885/?ref_=nm_flmg_knf_t_1

    • “This Can't Be Happening: Mad Science, Disbelief and the Female Perspective in Re-Animator.” View from the Morg, 18 Nov. 2019. https://viewfromthemorg.com/2019/11/18/this-cant-be-happening-mad-science-disbelief-and-the-female-perspective-in-re-animator/?utm_source=chatgpt.com


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  • #160: The Fly (1986)
    2025/03/05

    When the nerdy guy you met at a party starts doing calisthenics in his living room after performing science experiments on himself, be afraid…be very afraid. Join us as we kick off our body horror-themed month with 1986’s The Fly.


    ***CONTENT WARNING: discussions of abortion, death of an animal, terminal illness


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    Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula (gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com)

    Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd

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    Sources:

    • ‘DOES THIS LOOK LIKE A SICK MAN TO YOU?’: The Horror of Identity and the Identity of Horror in David Cronenberg’s ‘The Fly’ by Travis Woods: https://cinephiliabeyond.org/fly/#:~:text=In%20Cronenberg's%20The%20Fly%2C%20all,of%20their%20own%20masculine%20identities

    • The Fly IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091064/trivia/

      • The Fly 1986 Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly_(1986_film)
      • ‘I’m Becoming Brundlefly…’: Body Horror, Gender Dysphoria, and David Cronenberg’s 1986 sci-fi/horror The Fly by Lexi Bowen: https://medium.com/@transylvania/im-becoming-brundlefly-body-horror-gender-dysphoria-and-david-cronenberg-s-1986-a706d9a933f8
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    58 分