Good Mourning, Nancy Podcast

This week, your favorite ghouls discuss the gonzo, 80's horror flick: Blood Diner! Guest starring Alison Peirse, author of the books After Dracula, Korean Horror Cinema, and Women Make Horror! --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- BLM: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ TLM: https://translifeline.org/ ---- Research: https://www.google.com/amp/s/swampflix.com/2017/02/11/blood-diner-1987/amp/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Diner https://www.google.com/amp/s/birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/10/03/the-savage-stack-blood-diner-1987/amp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGjE1todHOE https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbr.com/blood-diner-cult-classic-dark-comedy-halloween/amp/. https://366weirdmovies.com/14-blood-diner-1987/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/cineccentric.com/2020/10/08/blood-diner-and-the-american-art-of-excess/amp/ http://ecofilmmediaenvironment.blogspot.com/2020/07/blood-diner-1987-and-jennifers-body.html?m=1 https://www.screenslate.com/articles/meat-mov

Wow... sorry that this is a week late... but it was worth it! At least, we think so! Topics of discussion: The Triple Goddess, Triangles, Toxic Masculinity and Complacency, Female Monstrosity, and Re-Writing Fairytales. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: PBS's MONSTRUM: Hansel & Gretel by Dr. Emily Zarka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_ywuNEEiVE&t=302s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretel_&_Hansel https://www.google.com/amp/s/flipscreened.com/2020/02/05/review-gretel-hansel-2020-is-a-story-about-female-power-and-witchcraft/amp/ SYMBOLISM IN GRETEL & HANSEL: THE DIVINE FEMALE AND THE NUMBER THREE by Dawn Kurtagich https://www.dawnkurtagich.com/blog-1/2020/9/8/symbolism-in-gretel-amp-hansel-the-divine-female-and-the-number-three. How 'Gretel & Hansel' puts an empowering feminist spin on the Grimm fairy tale (exclusive clip) by Ethan Alter https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.yahoo.com/amphtml/entertainment/how-gretel-hansel-puts-an-empowering-feminist-

"I'm not crazy! I'm possessed!" This week your favorite ghouls discuss GOTHIKA! --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: https://www.google.com/amp/s/nerdist.com/article/black-final-girls-slasher-films/%3famp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ign.com/articles/2003/04/24/gothika-production-start%3famp=1 Gothika: What The Anima Sola Tattoo Means (& Why It's Important) by Steven Cuffari https://screenrant.com/gothika-movie-anima-sola-tattoo-meaning-importance-explained/ GOTHIKA : NOT ALONE (Review) https://reelisticviews.com/gothika-review-a-nerve-racking-narrative/ Why Gothika Exposes The Hidden Thoughts of Every Black Woman Who’s Ever Experienced Mental Illness by Janiera Eldridge https://www.graveyardshiftsisters.com/2017/03/why-gothika-exposes-hidden-thoughts-of.html?m=1 Gothika: What The Horror Movie's Title Means by Brynne Ramella https://www.google.com/amp/s/screenrant.com/gothika-movie-title-name-meaning-explained/amp/ https://afrohorror.libsyn.co

"Just so you know... the words 'just' and 'cramps,' they don't go together." This week your favorite ghouls discuss Ginger Snaps (2000)! --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Services: If you or someone you know is struggling, please refer to the following resources. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255  National Alliance on Mental Illness: 1-800-950-6264 National Sexual Assault Hotline (RAINN): 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) Crisis Text Line: Within the US, text HOME to 741741 --- BLM: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ TransLifeLine: https://translifeline.org/ --- Resources: Women Make Horror (2020). Edited by Alison Pierse (https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/women-make-horror/9781978805118) https://www.google.com/amp/s/blindfieldjournal.com/2019/12/05/feminist-flashback-were-girls-gone-wild-in-ginger-snaps-2000/amp/.. http://jeunessejournal.ca/index.php/yptc/article/view/54/75 https://www.google.com/amp/s/wearethemutants.com/2020/10/08/sister-lovers

I'll just DIE if you don't listen to this latest GMN episode! This week your favorite ghouls discuss the original 1975 film: The Stepford Wives. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- BLM: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ Trans Lives Matter :https://translifeline.org/ --- Resources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stepford_Wives https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stepford_Wives_(1975_film) https://www.google.com/amp/s/ew.com/movies/2017/10/23/the-stepford-wives-1975-history/%3famp=true https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/91401/the-stepford-wives#articles-reviews?articleId=194000 https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/91401/the-stepford-wives#trivia https://www.filmcomment.com/article/our-bodies-our-selves-the-stepford-wives/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-26/in-the-stepford-wives-no-woman-gets-out-alive . Group Psychology and Crowd Behaviour in Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives By A. Alshiban. Published 2019 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psy

(!!!!) TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE & SUICIDE Check your horoscope! We predict you'll love this episode about the pre-code slasher film, Thirteen Women (1932). --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Black Lives Matter: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ Trans Lifeline: https://translifeline.org/ --- Resources: THIRTEEN WOMEN (1932): THE SLASHER THAT STARTED IT ALL by DAWN KEETLEY http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/thirteen-women/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/crackedrearviewer.wordpress.com/2018/06/09/forgotten-horror-thirteen-women-rko-1932/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/satinyourlap.com/2020/11/09/thirteen-women-1932/amp/ https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=821 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Women https://www.ravenousmonster.com/featured-article/thirteen-women-dark-history-first-slasher-film/ http://www.oh-the-horror.com/page.php?id=1986 http://www.themoviewaffler.com/2012/02/pre-code-retrospective-thirteen-women.html?m=1 https://www.google.com/amp/s/variety.com

This week we're taking a much needed vacation to Isle Nublar and visiting JURASSIC PARK! Topics of discussion: How Are The Men Represented? How Are The Women Represented? The Use of Color to Tell A Story, and The Anti Capitalist Message in Jurassic Park! --- BLM: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ Trans Lives Matter: https://translifeline.org/donate/ --- Thank you to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: Clever Girl: A Feminist Interpretation of Jurassic Park https://www.google.com/amp/s/storgy.com/2018/06/07/clever-girl-a-feminist-interpretation-of-jurassic-park/amp/ https://paleontologyworld.com/entertainment/‘jurassic-park’-inherently-feminist-interpretation https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313603741_Woman_Inherits_the_Earth_Deconstructing_Jurassic_Park_as_an_Early_Text_in_Third-Wave_Feminism https://addi.ehu.es/bitstream/handle/10810/30078/TFG_Ayerbe.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y https://youtu.be/5hCuv16pzjs https://www.jstor.org/stable/4316764?seq=1

Well, looks like 2021 actually kinda sucks...SUCKS! Get it!? This week your favorite ghouls are discussing the 2019 teen vampire flick, BIT! --- Music by Lily LeBlanc: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Maines https://www.vulture.com/2019/08/bit-movie-the-story-behind-brad-elmores-vampire-film.html https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2020/04/movie-review-bit-2019/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/reviews/3567493/review-bit-intersectional-feminist-vampire-movie-didnt-know-needed/ https://awfj.org/blog/2019/06/10/bit-review-by-alexandra-heller-nicholas/ https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/20/18542843/intersectionality-conservatism-law-race-gender-discrimination https://offscreen.com/view/feminist-spaces-in-horrific-places https://medium.com/@emilie.pichot/radical-intersectional-feminist-horror-films-c072f2ca492 https://morbidlybeautiful.com/reel-review-bit/ https://flipscreened.com/2020/04/28/review-quee

Happy New Year and GOODBYE 2020! This week your favorite ghouls are reading some silly New Years Creepypastas! --- Music by Lily LeBlanc: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Black Lives Matter: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ TransLifeLine: https://translifeline.org/donate/

Happy Holidays! This week your favorite ghouls discuss Michael Dougherty's 2015 Christmas film, Krampus! --- Music by: Lily LeBlanc --- Resources: The Strange Appeal of Christmas Horror by Richard Newby https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/why-christmas-horror-movies-appeal-audiences-1171409 Krampus Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus “Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film & Television” Edited by Paul Corupe and Kier-La Janisse. Horns for the Holidays: The Krampus Conquers North American Horror Film by Paul Corupe (pg. 307) How Krampus, the Christmas ‘Devil,’ Became Cool by Becky Little https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/12/151204-krampus-movie-christmas-demon-santa-holiday-folklore/ 12 Slays of Xmas: "Krampus": Viewing "Krampus" through a psychiatrist's lens by Anthony Tobia, M.D. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/views-through-the-psychiatrist-s-lens/201812/12-slays-xmas-krampus Is Krampus Becoming Too Commercial? https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe

I saw ye! Yer fond of me podcast! This week your favorite ghouls are joined by Kate MF Sculley to talk about Robert Egger's sophomore film, The Lighthouse! --- Music by Lily LeBlanc: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: How Robert Eggers Built a 19th-Century ‘Lighthouse’ That Could Shine for 16 Miles by Bill Desowitz https://www.indiewire.com/2019/10/the-lighthouse-robert-eggers-period-production-design-1202184244/amp/ What the hell did 'The Lighthouse' even mean? By JESS JOHO https://mashable.com/article/the-lighthouse-robert-eggers-meaning-explained-ending.amp 'The Lighthouse,' 'The Witch' and the Horror of Robert Eggers by Richard Newby https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/heat-vision/lighthouse-explained-how-it-connects-witch-1250507 ‘The Lighthouse’ Ending Feeds Myth and Symbolism to the Birds By Vinnie Mancuso https://collider.com/the-lighthouse-ending-explained/?amp What Is ‘The Lighthouse’ Really About? By Dani Di Placido https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2020/04/20/what-is-t

This week your favorite ghouls are discussing another Rob Zombie film... The Lords of Salem (2013)! Topics include but are not limited to Nathaniel Hawthorne and the History of Salem, Women and Bodily Autonomy, The Lords and what they represent, The Power of Music, and Female Trauma in Rob Zombie movies. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Black Lives Matter: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ TransLifeline: https://translifeline.org/ --- Resources: ‘Sisters United’ Feminist Nostalgia, Queer Spectatorship and the Radical Witch Politics of Rob Zombie’s The Lords of Salem by Ben Raphael Sher from New Queer Horror: Film & Television Studies https://www.amazon.com/Queer-Horror-Film-Television-Studies/dp/1786836262 https://filmschoolrejects.com/18-things-we-learned-from-rob-zombies-the-lords-of-salem-commentary-80525a0013b8/?amp https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lords_of_Salem_(film) https://screenrant.com/rob-zombie-lords-salem-movie-meta-twist/amp/ https://scree

"The horror is history..." This week your favorite ghouls discuss Oprah Winfrey and Jonathan Demme's film version of Toni Morrison's prize winning novel, Beloved (1998). Topics include but are not limited to The horrors of the past: slavery, trauma and ghosts, Southern Gothic horror, mothers and daughters, and sisterhood. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilyleblanc.com --- Resources: Beloved (1998 Film) Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloved_(1998_film) Beloved: The Best Horror Novel the Horror Genre Has Never Claimed by Grady Hendrix https://www.tor.com/2016/02/18/beloved-the-best-horror-novel-the-horror-genre-has-never-claimed/ Black Horror Rising BY TANANARIVE DUE https://uncannymagazine.com/article/black-horror-rising/?fbclid=IwAR2_acNtT-tCRsQ30f17jrzuTVmYpCsio-wGvAIkX2Nm5mHQyI55UaviH7E Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’: A Gothic Classic of Black Horror Media by Donyae Coles https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3578911/toni-morrisons-beloved-gothic-classic-black-horror-me

This week your favorite ghouls discuss the cult classic: Carnival of Souls! Topics of discussion: shared consciousness, dreams, The Man and how he relates to Mary Henry, and women and driving in horror films. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com TranslifeLine: https://translifeline.org/ BLM: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ --- Resources: Carnival of Souls (1962) TCM http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/70341/Carnival-of-Souls/articles.html How Obscure Horror Film 'Carnival of Souls' Influenced Everything You've Ever Seen by Justin Morrow https://nofilmschool.com/2016/10/how-carnival-souls-bridges-art-house-and-horror 5 Lessons on Making Low-Budget Horror From Cult Classic 'Carnival of Souls' by Greg Cwik https://nofilmschool.com/2016/08/5-lessons-making-low-budget-horror-cult-classic-carnival-souls Dead in the Water? Dream and Reality in Carnival of Souls by Peter Wilshire https://offscreen.com/view/carnival_of_souls Carnival of Souls (1962) - Wikipedia https://

This week your favorite ghouls discuss The Haunting (1963). No, not the one with Catherine Zeta Jones...NO not the Netflix one... we're talking about THE OG black and white goddess of a film! Topics of discussion include but are not limited to: Queer Coding, Houses the kill, the neo-domestic, and depression. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com https://translifeline.org/ https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ --- The Haunting of Fun Home: Shirley Jackson and Alison Bechdel's Queer Gothic Neodomesticity by Jill Anderson https://www.academia.edu/32669290/The_Haunting_of_Fun_Home_Shirley_Jackson_and_Alison_Bechdels_Queer_Gothic_Neodomesticity Elegant Chills: The Haunting by George E Turner https://ascmag.com/articles/flashback-the-haunting-1963 Terror, suspense, and the power of suggestion in The Haunting By Farran Smith Nehme https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/1208-terror-suspense-and-the-power-of-suggestion-in-_the-haunting_ Synæsthetic Specters: Haunting Hill House on t

"Hey, Coraline... how about you leave your mom alone for one got dang minute!" This week your favorite ghouls (who also happen to be moms... can ya tell!!??) are discussing Laika's amazing gateway horror film, Coraline (2009)! --- Donate to BLM: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ Donate to Translifeline: https://www.translifeline.org/donate/ Thanks Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: An eye for an I: Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and Questions of Identity by David Rudd http://ubir.bolton.ac.uk/218/1/emcs_journals-1.pdf The Grass Isn't Always Greener on the Other Side: Coraline's Journey to the Other Side by Isabella Martinez https://dsc.duq.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1030&context=first-class The Key is in the Mouth: Food & Orality in Coraline http://www.longwood.edu/staff/miskecjm/380Coralinekeeling.pdf Examining the Works of Neil Gaiman: Children Don’t Need Their Literature Dumbed Down by Thomas Byrne https://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/ojs/index.php/tlg/article/view

This week your favorite ghouls are discussing the South Korean hit, Train to Busan! Topics include but are not limited to: Seok-Woo's two foils, Covid-19 & pandemic response, and the social commentary in Train to Busan. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: Train to Busan (2016). Dir. Yeon Sang-ho Yeon Sang-ho talks Korean zombie hit 'Train To Busan’ by Jean Noh https://www.screendaily.com/features/yeon-sang-ho-talks-korean-zombie-hit-train-to-busan/5111006.article Train to Busan IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5700672/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv Aloha ʻOe Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_%CA%BBOe TRAIN TO BUSAN - A MASTERPIECE OF SOCIAL COMMENTARY by Jack Buchanan https://www.filmosophy.co.uk/train_to_busan_social_commentary.html S. Korea's Hit Zombie Film Is Also A Searing Critique Of Korean Society by Elise Hu https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/09/01/492185811/s-koreas-hit-zombie-film-is-also-searing-critique-of-korean-societ

Hey y'all! This week your favorite ghouls discussing From Hell! Topics of discussion include but are not limited to: sex-work in 1888, the REAL victims of Jack the Ripper, and why our obsession with Jack is problematic AF. --- Theme song by Lily LeBlanc: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: From Hell (2001) Dir. The Hughes Brothers From Hell (1999, Graphic Novel) Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell WHY IT’S TIME TO STOP TALKING ABOUT JACK THE RIPPER by Ann Foster https://bookriot.com/2019/04/02/stop-talking-about-jack-the-ripper/amp/ ‘Jack the Ripper’ was a serial killer who disembowelled women – we need to stop celebrating that by Charlotte Mallinson https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/jack-the-ripper-serial-killer-disemboweled-women-stop-celebrating-a8094826.html THE FEMINIST JACK THE RIPPER TOUR https://lookup.london/live/feminist-jack-the-ripper-walk/ Jack the Ripper and the Myth of Male Violence by Judith R. Walkowitz https://www.jstor.org/stable/3177712?seq=1 Ou

Please help the Black Lives Matter movement by visiting this website: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ Donate to Trans Lifeline: https://www.giveoutday.org/organization/Translifeline We're back! AGAIN! This week your favorite ghouls discuss Ana Lily Amirpour's sophomore film: The Bad Batch (2016). Topics of discussion: racism, white privilege, the boarder wall, post-apocalyptic fairytales, and the American Dream. --- Follow Bianca Xunise: https://www.instagram.com/biancaxunise/?hl=en Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: The Bad Batch (2016). dir. Amirpour, Ana Lily The Bad Batch Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Batch Ana Lily Amirpour on romance in the desert and the racial controversy over her new film, The Bad Batch by Kaitlyn Tiffany https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/23/15855842/the-bad-batch-interview-ana-lily-amirpour-dystopia Ana Lily Amirpour Responds to Racism Charges — But Won’t Apologize For Making You Uncomfortable by Eric Kohn

Your favorite ghouls are back from maternity/sick leave! It's been a hell-of-a-3-months! To lift your spirits from this GOT DANG 'Rona virus... why don't you spend a little time with the family? The Addams Family of course! This week we'll be discussing the women of The Addams Family and Addams Family Values! Topics include but are not limited to: motherhood & hellish crusades, Mother-Maiden-Crone, Femme Fatales, and what exactly the Addams family values are! --- Theme song by Lily LeBlanc: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: The Addams Family (1991) Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld Addams Family Values (1993) Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld The Addams Family (1991 film) Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Addams_Family_(1991_film) From Feminism to BDSM: The Powerful Life Lessons Morticia Addams Taught Us by Kayleigh Dray https://www.stylist.co.uk/people/morticia-addams-family-values-feminist-life-lessons-role-model-girl-power-empowerment-sex-bdsm-bondage/169052 10 Reasons Why ‘The Addams Family’ Is Awesome(ly)