This episode is a slight deviation from my normal episode format. I was feeling incredibly passionate about this topic and felt compelled to share it with you all. I am sure you will enjoy it and learn, nonetheless.

SOURCES/INFORMATION

Clover, Carol J. “Her body, himself: Gender in the slasher film.” Representations, vol. 20, 1987, pp. 187–228, https://doi.org/10.2307/2928507

Cowan, Gloria and O’Brien, Margaret. “Gender and Survival vs. Death in Slasher Films: A Content Analysis.” Sex Roles, vol. 23, 1990, pp. 197-196.

Lukowski, Sarah. “ Female Victimization in the 1970s and 1980s Slasher Film.” Suffolk University, 2022.

Harrington, Erin. Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror. Routledge.

SOURCES/INFORMATION

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063522/

Women, Monstrosity, and Horror: Gynaehorror: https://www.routledge.com/Women-Monstrosity-and-Horror-Film-Gynaehorror/Harrington/p/book/9780367208066

Guy Horror: https://www.publicbooks.org/guy-horror-rosemarys-baby-coercive-control/

Coercive Control: https://www.healthline.com/health/coercive-control#making-threats

Reproductive Control: https://www.womenslaw.org/about-abuse/forms-abuse/reproductive-abuse-and-coercion

If you have already seen this film, my sincerest apologies in advance to make you relive it with me today. Listen in as I discuss the absolute horror of Jacob's Ladder and Tim Robbins' journey to death.

SOURCES/INFORMATION

IMDB: https://m.imdb.com/tt0099871/

Walking Corpse Syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard%27s_syndrome

Sam Woolfe: https://www.samwoolfe.com/2023/10/jacobs-ladder-adrian-lyne-1990-making-peace-with-death.html

Jezebel: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jezebel-queen-of-Israel

Jacob: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob

Jacob's Ladder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s_Ladder

PTSD: https://www.ptsd.va.gov/understand/what/ptsd_basics.asp

Bardo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo

The bitch is back! Sorry for the impromptu month off I took there. Between illness and travel, your girl was run down and had no voice to talk to you with, my dear. So celebrate with me while I talk to you about the harrowing 2022 film Good Boy.

SOURCES/INFORMATION

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19705884/

Learned Helplessness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness

Battered Person Syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battered_woman_syndrome

Perhaps one of the cruelest films you can watch, The Coffee Table will leave you sweaty, breathless, and anxious.

SOURCES/INFORMATION

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21874760/

Experimental horror is not for everyone. I give many thanks to the universe it is my favorite cup of tea. Gaspar Noe's Climax is a descent into the minds of a drug-addled dance troupe inside of an abandoned school in France. What could possibly go wrong?

SOURCES/INFORMATION

IMDB: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt8359848/

Climax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climax_(2018_film)

Psychonaut Wiki LSD: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/LSD#Subjective_effects

Extreme Behavior and LSD: https://skywoodrecovery.com/lsd-abuse/extreme-behavior-related-to-lsd/

Cinemaholic: https://thecinemaholic.com/climax-review/

For reasons unknown to me, I had no one in my life interested enough in this film to go see it in theaters. Now that I have seen it, I finally understand all of the buzz. The journey through the psyche of Saint Maud will leave you speachless.

SOURCES/INFORMATION

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7557108/?ref_=ttpl_ov

Spugna: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spugna

Mortification of Flesh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortification_of_the_flesh

Self-Immolation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation#:~:text=Self%2Dimmolation%20is%20the%20act,most%20extreme%20methods%20of%20protest.

Esther: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther

Stigmata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmata#:~:text=A%20st%C3%ADgma%20(%CF%83%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%B3%CE%BC%CE%B1)%20is%20a,the%20side%2C%20from%20a%20lance.

Have a fear of the uncanny? Puppets? Surrealism? Possum (2018) contains a combination of all of these elements to create the most upsetting psychological horror film I have seen in years. And I promise, there's not as much Freudian discussion as you might think.

SOURCES/INFORMATION

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6081670/

Possum Film Information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possum_(film)

Theory of the Uncanny: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny#Sigmund_Freud

Abjection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjection

Repetition Compulsion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repetition_compulsion

Destiny Neurosis: https://www.simplypsychology.org/repetition-compulsion.html#:~:text=Some%20examples%20of%20repetition%20compulsion,of%20violence%20later%20in%20life.