Good Mourning, Nancy Podcast

Hey goblins and ghouls! It's the last episode before maternity leave! This week Gracie is joined by her very good friend, Kate Mother F*ckin' Sculley. They're both extremely pregnant so they're both going to talk about Alice Lowe's pregnancy horror film, PREVENGE! Topics of discussion: The Pregnant Woman as the Monster, Ruth's Motivations and Hatred for Society, the Mother/Killer Archetype, and Ruth's Baby/Kill Book. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: Prevenge (2016) Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevenge Motherhood Isn’t Sacrifice, It’s Selfishness https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/opinion/sunday/motherhood-family-sexism-sacrifice.html? How a Pregnant Actress Overcame Her Frustrations With the Industry and Directed Her First Feature by Kate Erbland https://www.indiewire.com/2017/03/alice-lowe-prevenge-horror-interview-1201795842/ Alice Lowe: 'It wasn’t part of the plan to direct while pregnant' by Katie Puckrik https://www.theguardian.com

Get your mind out of the gutter because there's nothing sexy about this episode! This week your favorite ghouls discuss the vampire flick, 30 Days of Night! Topics of discussion: What exactly IS the 30 days of night and where?, the unique depiction of vampires, and the REAL threat to women in Alaska... --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: Cinematic Vampires: From Shadows to Spotlight https://the-artifice.com/cinematic-vampires/ 30 Days of Night Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_Days_of_Night_(film). What Are The Four Types of Vampires? By Ashley Abercrombie https://mysticinvestigations.com/paranormal/four-vampire-types/ 30 Days Grabbed Raimi's Eye by Cindy White https://web.archive.org/web/20071011135029/http://scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=3&id=42890 30 DAYS OF NIGHT: SURVIVING WILL COST YOUR HUMANITY by Brandi Blahnik http://www.audienceseverywhere.net/30-days-night-surviving-will-cost-humanity/ Nosferatu: VTM https://vtmb.fandom.

Hey ghouls! We're back with another crime drama this season! David Fincher's Se7en! Topics of discussion: A brief history of Dante's The Divine Comedy, Horror & True Crime in the 90s, Mills and Somerset: Equal but opposite parallels, and Expendable Women. --- Music by Lily LeBlanc www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: Crime and Horror: Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together BY DAVE RICHARDS http://www.criminalelement.com/crime-and-horror-together-genre-bending-mashups-thriller-private-detectives-paranormal/ THE HORROR: ‘SE7EN’: HOW DAVID FINCHER'S ICONIC CRIME/HORROR HYBRID SHOCKED THE WORLD BY THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX. https://controlforever.com/read/the-horror-se7en/ The Thrilling Parallels Between Detective Somerset and John Doe in 'Se7en' https://filmschoolrejects.com/se7en-good-and-evil/ Philosophy NOW! Se7en https://philosophynow.org/issues/78/Se7en 14 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Seven by Jake Rossen https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/61908/14-things-you-might-not-know-about-

This week it's a double feature with your favorite ghouls! The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) & it's reboot from 2014! Topics include a brief history of Texarkana and the Moonlight Murders, Embracing Tragedy, and The Phantom’s Duality! --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: The Terrifying Real-Life Murders That Inspired THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN by GREGORY BURKART http://www.the13thfloor.tv/2016/03/30/the-terrifying-real-life-murders-that-inspired-the-town-that-dreaded-sundown/ The True Story Behind The Town that Dreaded Sundown by April Bennett https://www.wickedhorror.com/features/true-life-horror/real-life-cold-case-behind-the-town-that-dreaded-sundown/ Mourning Through Horror Movies by Eren Orbey https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/mourning-through-horror-movies Watching sad films boosts endorphin levels in your brain, psychologists say by Nicola Davis https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/21/watching-a-sad-films-boosts-endorph

Check your windows! Check your doors! Make sure no one is peering in because this week your favorite ghouls are discussing the horror film that started the POV shot! Why, it's the British masterpiece: Peeping Tom (1960)! Topics of discussion: What is Scopophilia?, The Male Gaze, Sexual Themes, and Children and the Consequences from a Lack of Privacy. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song! www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: Michael Powell's 'Peeping Tom': the film that killed a career by David Gritten https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/7967407/Michael-Powells-Peeping-Tom-the-film-that-killed-a-career.html Peeping Tom: Criterion Film Collection By Laura Mulvey https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/65-peeping-tom Peeping Tom Review (Senses of Cinema) by Peter Wilshire http://sensesofcinema.com/2018/cteq/peeping-tom/ Classic Film Through a Feminist Lens: PEEPING TOM by Kimberly Pierce https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/classic-film-through-a-feminist-lens-peeping-tom/ PEEPING TOM & TH

Get out your tarot cards and start brewing your witch bottles because this week your favorite ghouls are discussing Anna Biller's THE LOVE WITCH! Topics include: Witchsploitation and Patriarchal Exploitation, Toxic Beauty & Feminine Standards, gender roles, and the Psychology of Love, Fantasy & Narcissism. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: The Movies That Changed My Life by Anna Biller https://theplaylist.net/love-witch-director-anna-biller-movies-changed-life-20161110/ The Love Witch - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Love_Witch The Love Witch paints the battle of the sexes with a gaudy Technicolor brush by Katie Rife https://film.avclub.com/the-love-witch-paints-the-battle-of-the-sexes-with-a-ga-1798189434 The Love Witch: a film about the perversities of desire that will soon be a cult feminist classic by Marlon Gibson http://theconversation.com/the-love-witch-a-film-about-the-perversities-of-desire-that-will-soon-be-a-cult-feminist-c

Happy New Year! This week, your favorite ghouls discuss the controversial, feminist crime classic: 1991's The Silence of the Lambs. Topics include: The use of psychology and Rites of Passage in TSOTL, the male gaze, feminism, and transphobia. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: Silence of the Lambs Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silence_of_the_Lambs_(film) Why the Silence of the Lambs in a Feminist Fable by Nicholas Barber http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170307-why-the-silence-of-the-lambs-is-a-feminist-fable Silence of the Sexes: Gender Inversion in Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs https://urj.ucf.edu/docs/Evans.pdf Cultural analysis of Jonathan Demme's "The Silence of the Lambs" by Arthur S. Almquist https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2971&context=etd Before we knew better: Silence of the Lambs is a win for women—but fails LGBTQ culture by By Annaliese Griffin https://qz.com/quartzy/1566136/silence-

Happy Holidays! This week, your favorite ghouls discuss the one that REALLY started it all... 1974's Canadian classic: BLACK CHRISTMAS! That's right, the OG final girl slasher that STILL doesn't get enough credit. Topics of discussion: Women’s Reproductive Rights, Feminism, & Final Girls, Possible Anti-Feminist Themes in Black Christmas, house and home imagery and meaning, and the Black Pill. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: Black Christmas (1974) Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Christmas_(1974_film) 12 Surprising Facts About Black Christmas by Matthew Jackson https://mentalfloss.com/article/568067/black-christmas-horror-movie-facts The Quad: ‘Black Christmas’ remake to regift feminism to horror genre 45 years later BY RYAN WU https://dailybruin.com/2019/07/01/the-quad-black-christmas-remake-to-regift-feminism-to-horror-genre-45-years-later/ Women In Horror Series: “Black Christmas” by Kelcis Mattson https://medium.com/@wewillbeth

Hold on to your butts because this film is a wild ride! This week your favorite ghouls discuss Alexandre Aja's controversial New French Extremity horror film, High Tension aka Haute Tension aka Switchblade Romance. We won't go into anymore more detail here.... just... watch it (and then listen here!). --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: West, Alexandra. Films of the New French Extremity: Visceral Horror and National Identity. McFarland, 2016. High Tension (2003) Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Tension Expressing the Mind of a Serial Killer: The Unreliable Narrator in Alexandre Aja's High Tension by Beth Kattelman https://www.academia.edu/25830717/Expressing_the_Mind_of_a_Serial_Killer_The_Unreliable_Narrator_in_Alexandre_Ajas_High_Tension?auto=download Fille Finale: The Final Girl in New French Extremity by Alexandra West https://offscreen.com/view/fille-finale The Killer in/and the Girl: Alexandre Aja’s ‘High Tension’ by Rebecca Willo

Heyo! We're back! This week your favorite ghouls discuss The Descent from 2005! Were the female characters represented in a positive or negative light? What do the crawlers and the cave represent? What does Jessica's birthday have anything to do with this? Finally, does Gracie's obsession with name meanings work for the characters? FIND OUT NOW & LISTEN! --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: The Descent (2005) Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Descent Film Analysis | The Descent - Tragedy in Horror by Cristobal Olguin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H24zb6CJKK0 The Descent Redefined Women in Horror Movies by Hannah Bonner https://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/the-descent/254201/the-descent-redefined-women-in-horror-movies Bechdel Test Canon: The Descent by Alyx Vesey https://www.bitchmedia.org/post/bechdel-test-canon-the-descent In Defense Of Lady-Terrorizing Horror Movies by Anna North https://jezebel.com/in-defense-of-lady-terrorizing-horr

We return with a very special episode about American author and poet Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). You thought your life was crap? Listen as we tell the tale of Poe’s “tragical” attempt at love, his dealings with loss and grief, his constant state of poverty, and his addiction to alcohol. The good times are few and far between in this episode. All we can do now is thank Poe for bringing out the little (or big) goth in all of us! --- Buy Charlotte Montague’s book here: https://www.amazon.com/Edgar-Allan-Poe-Strange-Standing/dp/078583334X Check out Wanderlust on a Budget: http://wanderlust-onabudget.com/blog/ The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore: https://www.eapoe.org/balt/poegrave.htm Buy Poe’s collected works here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/barnes-noble-leatherbound-classics-the-complete-tales-and-poems-of-edgar-allan-poe-edgar-allan-poe/1106658787#/ Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com

This week your favorite ghouls are reading some small creepypastas to get you into the Halloween spirit! This is our last episode before we go on a small break before season 7! We'll see you then! -- Theme music by Lily LeBlance www.lilythecomposer.com Creepypasta music by Purple Planet -- Resources: 8 Short Creepypasta Stories That Will Give You Chills! Edited by Audrey Webster https://the-line-up.com/10-short-creepypastas

It's the final episode of season 6! This week your favorite ghouls discuss the 1976 film Carrie! Topics of discussion include, but are not limited to: Gothic and Fairytale inspiration, puberty and body horror, bad mothers and their daughters, and the consequences behind a lack of female kinship. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: The Importance of Female Friendships Among Women by Dr. Kristen Fuller https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/happiness-is-state-mind/201808/the-importance-female-friendships-among-women Carrie (1976 film) Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_(1976_film) Writing Horror and the Body: The Fiction of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Anne Rice By Linda Badley https://www.questia.com/read/117391417/writing-horror-and-the-body-the-fiction-of-stephen Misfit Sisters: Screen Horror as Female Rites of Passage by Williams, Christy, Marvels & Tales https://www.questia.com/read/1P3-1733601281/misfit-sisters-screen-horror-as-f

Welcome to your coffee break! This week your favorite ghouls take a load off from their crazy lives to talk about progressive Italian rock band, Goblin’s soundtrack for the 1977 Dario Argento film: SUSPIRIA — Thank you Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com — Resources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspiria_(1977_soundtrack) https://www.amazon.com/Suspiria-Complete-Version-Goblin/dp/B00004Y801 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mgmpnn/40-years-later-suspiria-is-still-the-scariest-album-ever --- Listen to our episode on Suspiria here: https://soundcloud.com/goodmourningnancy/ep-37-suspiria-1977-a-fantastical-fairy-tale

Feeling nostalgic!? Then listen to our episode on Ti West's The House of the Devil! One of us loves it...the other one thinks the ending could have been better. Topics of discussion include but are not limited to: Feminism in the 1970s/1980s compared to present day, the representation of motherhood in HOTD, and Satanic Panic! ---- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Listen to our episode about Silent Night, Bloody Night: https://soundcloud.com/goodmourningnancy/episode-13-silent-night-bloody-night-trigger-happy --- Resources: The Faculty of Horror Podcast Review of The House of the Devil http://www.facultyofhorror.com/tag/the-house-of-the-devil/ TI WEST’S “THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL” (2009) by Cameron Beyl https://directorsseries.net/2016/09/30/ti-wests-the-house-of-the-devil-2009/ Ti West Interview, “The House of the Devil,” Tribeca 2009 by Karina Longworth https://www.indiewire.com/2009/04/ti-west-interview-the-house-of-the-devil-tribeca-2009-227278/ ‘The House of the

What? You said you don't like anime? Get outta here and watch Satoshi Kon's 1997 masterpiece in horror and animation: Perfect Blue! This shit ain't Disney, son. In this episode we discuss the importance of the color red, fan entitlement, the Japanese idol industry, as well as creating and experiencing confusion. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: Perfect Blue Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Blue The Fractured and Famous: Celebrity culture and control in Perfect Blue by Priya Sridhar https://www.animefeminist.com/tag/perfect-blue/ HOW PERFECT BLUE PREDICTED ALL OUR SOCIAL MEDIA ANXIETIES By Michael-Oliver Harding https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/perfect-blue-predicted-social-media-anxieties Perfect Blue: Blurring the Worlds & Sexuality by SC https://insightsandart.com/2017/05/22/perfect-blue-blurring-the-worlds-sexuality/ What Are Good Girls Made Of? Impossible Femininity in Black Swan vs. Perfect Blue BY VRAI KAISER https:

How could something so beautiful be so evil? That's what we'd like to know! Here's our episode about the cult classic directed by John Hancock! Topics of discussion include: lesbianism in the 1970s, Baudelaire's poem entitled The Flowers of Evil, the image of death, and Godlike husbands. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Listen to our episode about Dracula's Daughter (1936): https://soundcloud.com/goodmourningnancy/ep-53-draculas-daughter-1936-lesbian-power --- Resources: Let's Scare Jessica to Death. Dir. John Hancock (1971) Charles Baudelaire: The Flowers of Evil (1857) https://fleursdumal.org/1857-table-of-contents Women and psychiatry http://broughttolife.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/themes/menalhealthandillness/womanandpsychiatry Women & Hysteria in the History of Mental Illness https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480686/ Lesbian Vampires Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian_vampire Not Just Dead, But Gay! Queerness and the Vamp

Your favorite ghouls are back with another coffee break! This week they ask the age old question... "WHAT'S IN THE BOX!?" when discussing Universal Studios new Halloween Horror Nights maze based on Greek Mythology (particularly the myth of Pandora's Box). Plus, some announcements surrounding the renewal of Hulu's Into the Dark series (produced by Blumhouse). --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme songs: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: John Squire’s Bloody Disgusting Articles: Pandora’s Box at Universal Studios https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3579867/greek-mythology-comes-life-halloween-horror-nights-hollywoods-curse-pandoras-box/ HULU Renews Into the Dark Series https://bloody-disgusting.com/tv/3579856/hulu-renewed-anthology-series-dark-another-year-holiday-horrors/ Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth: https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B004QZACH6&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_j9CBDb5V8VNT0

This week your favorite ghouls diss on H.P. Lovecraft's ugly racism, discuss the terror of cosmic horror, women's medical rights, and debate on wether or not Vickers is a feminist character. --- Thanks to Lily Leblanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: Prometheus Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_(2012_film) Lovecraftian Horror Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovecraftian_horror Half in the Bag Ep. 33: Prometheus by Red Letter Media https://youtu.be/NiQfbgDPz6o In Prometheus, Reaching for God By Liel Leibovitz https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-293039163/in-prometheus-reaching-for-god Beyond the Mountains of Madness: Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror and Posthuman Creationism in Ridley Scott's Prometheus (2012) By David McWilliam https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-531844451/beyond-the-mountains-of-madness-lovecraftian-cosmic Prometheus In-Depth Analysis by Franco Macabro http://filmconnoisseur.blogspot.com/2012/07/prometheus-in-depth-analysis.h

This week your favorite ghouls discuss the most insane horror film in years... HEREDITARY! Don't lose your heads as we discuss women and motherhood, King Paimon and the patriarchy, as well as grief in horror movies. ---- Other GMN Episodes: Ep. 15: The Babadook: https://soundcloud.com/goodmourningnancy/episode-15-the-babadook-breaking-the-curse Ep. 42: The Witch: https://soundcloud.com/goodmourningnancy/ep-42-the-witch-2015-marvelous-well Ep. 47: The Fly: https://soundcloud.com/goodmourningnancy/ep-47-the-fly-1986-be-very-afraid Resources: Mourning Through Horror Movies By Eren Orbey https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/mourning-through-horror-movies Have Recent Horror Films Accurately Captured Grief? http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/have-recent-horror-films-accurately-captured-grief/ Death, Grief and Why Horror Films Truly Matter by Steven Sheil https://www.talkhouse.com/death-grief-value-horror-films/ The horror of grief by Guy Lodge https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jun/07/hereditary-to