Good Mourning, Nancy Podcast

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

Get ready ladies, we're headed to the lighthouse! This week your favorite ghouls get all science-y and metaphorical while discussing Alex Garland's Annihilation! Topics of discussion: Epigenetics, trauma & metaphor, Virginia Woolf, and Mitosis and Meiosis! ---- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme songs! www.lilythecomposer.com Make sure you get some delicious coffee from our sponsors: www.recesscoffee.com The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks-by-rebecca-skloot/247865/#isbn=1400052181&idiq=3907247 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf https://www.amazon.com/Lighthouse-Virginia-Woolf/dp/0156907399/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1RGQ9KL7PLCC&keywords=to+the+lighthouse+by+virginia+woolf&qid=1564432489&s=books&sprefix=To+the+Light%2Caps%2C140&sr=1-1 ---- Resources: Annihilation (2018) Dir. Alex Garland ANNIHILATION Review by ALY CAVINESS https://midwestfilmjournal.com/2018/02/23/annihilation/ Annihilation by Brian Tellerico https://www

Coffee Breaks are back! This week your favorite ghouls discuss their harsh feelings on the 2018 Halloween and the announcement of its sequels! --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Grab some Recess Coffee at www.recesscoffee.com --- Link to Halloween Kills & Halloween Ends Teaser Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2A_frPUeko

Well hello there! This week your favorite ghouls discuss the direct sequel to Universal Studios Dracula (1931). Dracula's Daughter may have been a flop upon release but as the trailer suggests... "IT'S MORE EXCITING THAN DRACULA!" We'd have to agree! Who doesn't love an artistic and powerful lesbian vampire!? --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Buy some delicious coffee from our sponsors: www.recesscoffee.com ---- Resources: Attack of the Leading Ladies: Gender, Sexuality and Spectatorship in Classic Horror Cinema by Rhona J. Berenstein. Columbia University Press. 1996. Queer Horror: Decoding Universal’s Monsters by Gary Morris https://brightlightsfilm.com/queer-horror-decoding-universals-monsters/#.XP_QZZNKiu4 Dracula’s Daughter by Gary D. Rhodes https://read.amazon.com/?asin=B07C7H8C25 How the vampire became film’s most feminist monster by Genevieve Valentine https://thedissolve.com/features/exposition/964-how-the-vampire-became-films-most-feminist-monster/ The

It's time to keep your appointment with The Wicker Man (1973)! This week your favorite ghouls will be discussing this amazing cult classic! Hot takes on Capitalism, Paganism, Feminism and so much more! ---- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song www.lilythecomposer.com ---- Check out our sponsors at www.recesscoffee.com ---- The Wicker Man (1973). Dir. Robin Hardy The History of Sacrifice & The Wicker Man Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicker_man Did the Celts burn human sacrifices in a huge “wicker man”? By Cecil Adams http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1291/did-the-celts-burn-human-sacrifices-in-a-huge-wicker-man/ Did the ancient Celts practice human sacrifice? By Sean Dunne https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/did-the-ancient-celts-practice-human-sacrifice BURNING MEN – The Myth of the “Wicker Man” in Celtic Europe https://balkancelts.wordpress.com/2013/10/05/the-wicker-man/ What is a Wicker Man? Patti Wigington https://www.learnreligions.com/what-is-a-wicker-man-2561

We're back with season 6 episode 1! This week your favorite ghouls discuss bisexuality, motherhood, sexual deviance, and feminism in Dracula! We also talk about why you should watch old horror movies! --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Get some coffee from our sponsors! www.recesscoffee.com --- Resources: Dracula (1931) Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(1931_English-language_film) Women & Feminism in Dracula by Joseph Altnether https://study.com/academy/lesson/women-feminism-in-dracula.html Feminism, Sex Role Exchanges, and Other Subliminal Fantasies in Bram Stoker's "Dracula" By Stephanie Demetrakopoulos https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3346355.pdf?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Making Sense of Mina: Stoker's Vampirization of the Victorian Woman in Dracula by Kathryn Boyd https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1019&context=eng_honors Thirsty: The Women of Bram Stoker’s "Dracula" https://www.google.com/amp/s/powderroom.kinja

We're back! To kick off season 6, we'll be giving you a run down on the birth of Spiritualism and Feminism in New York! --- Additional Links: Interview with Grim Magazine (page 49): https://anatomyofascream.wordpress.com/2019/06/01/getgrim-grim-no-5-living-dead-girls/ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs: https://www.amazon.com/Incidents-Life-Slave-Harriet-Jacobs/dp/194564432X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Linda+brent&qid=1560203461&s=gateway&sr=8-1Thanks to --- Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Buy some coffee from out sponsors: www.recesscoffee.com --- Books for Resource: Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America, Second Edition 2nd Edition by Ann Braude Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull by Barbara Goldsmith How Thin the Veil!: 150 Years of Spiritualism by Linda Pendleton --- Online Articles: When Women Channeled the Dead to be Heard by Grant Shreve https://daily.jstor.o

It's the last episode of season 5! It's Mario Bava's Black Sunday aka The Mask of Satan! Topics of discussion include but are not limited to the duality of women, monstrous love, blurred lines between good & evil, and The Spectral Mother. This episode contains a quote concerning date rape. Listener discretion is advised. _____________ Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Buy some coffee from our sponsors: www.recesscoffee,com _____________ Resources: Black Sunday; (aka: La Maschera del Demonio) Bava, Mario 1960; France, Italy; 83 min; B&W; Horror P: Massimo de Rita; W: Mario Bava, Ennio de Concini, Mario Serandrei; C: Ubaldo Terzano, Mario Bava; E: Mario Serandrei; M: Robert Nicolosi Cast: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Ivo Garrani Lucas, Tim Fangoria Magazine, #42, pgs. 20-24, "Terror Pioneer", article on Bava's career. McGee, Mark Thomas Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures, McFarland & Company, Inc., 1996. ISBN 0-7

We'll tear your soul apart! Just kidding... but this episode might! This week your favorite ghouls will be discussing Clive Barker's HELLRAISER! Topics covered: The women of Hellraiser, domestic horror, the symbolism of the Lament Configuration, flower imagery, and dislocating eroticism. Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Buy some coffee from our sponsors: www.recesscoffee.com Resources: Spot the movie subliminal - HELLRAISER (engineer tunnel chase scene)by Collative Learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEpaMwAe09A Open to Question - Clive Barker (12/8/1987) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOqaKgrbjfQ "Writing Horror and the Body: The Fiction of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Anne Rice" By Linda Badley Scary! in an Era of "Positive Images" for Gays and Lesbians, Can Queer Characters Still Get Chopped Up in Horror Movies? By Sean Abley CLIVE BARKER’S HELLRAISER MYTHOLOGY: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS https://lib.ugent.be/fulltxt/RUG01/001/414/114/RUG01-001414114_2010_0001_

**This episode was recorded remotely** Get outta here, Roger Ebert! Alien (1979) is an awesome film! This week your favorite ghouls discuss Ridley Scott's sophomore masterpiece in sci-fi and terror! Discussions include but are not limited to: Archaic Mothers, Ripley's feminism, gender, the patriarchy in space, and Jung's theory on the Shadow Self! Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Buy some coffee from our sponsors: www.recesscoffee.com Resources: "The Black Imagination, Science Fiction and the Speculative" By Sandra Jackson & Julie Moody-Freeman "Interstellar Sleep Produces Such Matriarchal Monsters" By Davina Quinlivan "Alien Thoughts: Mind Reading and Spectatorial Pleasure in Ridley Scott’s Horror Film" by Cecilia Madeline Bolich https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=4207&context=etd “Woman: The Other Alien in Alien” by Tom Shone https://slate.com/culture/2012/06/prometheus-why-are-academics-so-obsesse

Be afraid! Be very afraid! You probably didn’t know that that famous line came from this film! Well, it does! This week your favorite ghouls discuss David Cronenberg’s most successful film, The Fly! Topics of discussion include but are not limited to: abortion, literal and metaphorical aging in relationships, disease, toxic masculinity and cis male puberty! Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Buy some sweet coffee from our sponsors: www.recesscoffee.com The Fly (1986) Resources: Vincent Price Part 1: https://soundcloud.com/goodmourningnancy/vincent-price-his-life-and-his-films-part-1 Vincent Price Part 2: https://soundcloud.com/goodmourningnancy/vincent-price-his-life-and-his-films-part-2 Beyond the Veil of the Flesh: David Cronenberg’s THE FLY (1986) by Matt Zoller Seitz https://www.indiewire.com/2012/12/beyond-the-veil-of-the-flesh-david-cronenbergs-the-fly-1986-232951/ The Beetle and the Fly by David Cronenberg https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/01/17/the-beetl

We're sorry we called you a meatloaf but we couldn't help it! This week we discuss 1981's An American Werewolf in London written and directed by John Landis! Discussion topics include but are not limited to: German and Yiddish folklore, why Jews love AAWIL, Alex the Mother-Wife, and the werewolf identity. This episode also contains some material that might be triggering to some audiences. Listener discretion is advised. Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Resources: An American Werewolf in London (1981). dir. John Landis Forceville, Charles. (2014). Embodied identity in werewolf films of the 1980s. Image [&] Narrative. 15. 44-55. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262562937_Embodied_identity_in_werewolf_films_of_the_1980s Kennedy, Harlan. Things That Go Howl in the Id. Film Comment. Vol. 18, No. 2 (MARCH-APRIL 1982), pp. 37-39. Published by: Film Society of Lincoln Center https://www.jstor.org/stable/43452832 “Feats of Clay: Seven Horror Movies Inspired by Jewish

Take a BITE out of this week's episode! Lily Ana Amirpour's vampire flick: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night! Discussion topics include: feminism in the middle east and in the west, fantasy worlds, Sergio Leone, and punkette filmmaking! Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Buy some coffee from our sponsors: www.recesscoffee.com Episode Resources: Articles: Abdi, Shadee, and Bernadette Marie Calafell. “Queer Utopias and a (Feminist) Iranian Vampire: a Critical Analysis of Resistive Monstrosity in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.” Critical Studies in Media Communication, vol. 34, no. 4, 2017, pp. 358–370. Atkinson, Michael. “Vampire Princess of Persia.” In These Times, vol. 38, no. 12, Dec. 2014. Questia.com. Ito, Robert. “The Shadow in a Chador ; Ana Lily Amirpour's Film, with an Iranian Vampire, Breaks Hollywood's Rules.” International New York Times, 14 Nov. 2014. Questia.com. McDavid, Jodi. “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.” Journal of Religion and Film, vol. 18, no. 1

Don’t eat strange soup! It might have been made with human flesh! This week your favorite ghouls discuss Antonia Bird’s 1999 film, Ravenous! The discussion includes but is not limited to: American Exceptionalism, Manifest Destiny, Wetiko disease, lost Europeans and gender studies! Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Buy some coffee from our sponsors: www.recesscoffee.com Patreon Shout Out Music: www.purple-planet.com Resources: “Exceptional Zombie Cannibals” – Antonia Bird’s ‘Ravenous’ (1999) and the discourse of American exceptionalism by Olga Ackroyd http://www.baas.ac.uk/usso/exceptional-zombie-cannibals-antonia-birds-ravenous-1999-and-the-discourse-of-american-exceptionalism/ Ravenous Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenous_(1999_film) Hungry? 'Ravenous' May Spoil Your Appetite by Dann Gire Monstrous Nature: Environment and Horror on the Big Screen By Robin L. Murray; Joseph K. Heumann Carnal Appetites: Foodsexidentities by Elspeth Probyn Roger Ebert Revi

Wait.... Frankenhooker is a feminist film!? DAMN. RIGHT. This week your favorite ghouls will be discussing this amazingly schlocky B-movie! Topics covered include, but are not limited to: legalizing sex work, the Just Say No Campaign, body shaming and its affects, and the vagina dentata! Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Check out our sponsors and buy some coffee: www.recesscoffee.com Resources: Frankenhooker Review http://watchinghorrorfilmsfrombehindthecouch.blogspot.com/2012/01/frankenhooker.html Sleaze and Cheese in Frank Henenlotter’s FRANKENHOOKER by Melissa Howard http://www.spectacularoptical.ca/dev/2011/10/sleaze-and-cheese-in-frank-henenlotter%E2%80%99s-frankenhooker/ Frankenhooker Review By Giovanni Deldio https://horrorfreaknews.com/frankenhooker-1990-review/7281 Frankenhooker / Mary Shelley Wiki http://mary-shelley.wikia.com/wiki/Frankenhooker Exploring Frankenhooker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7_QXj_QPL0 Frankenhooker (1990) Monster Madness X movie

This week we're living deliciously and talking about The VVitch! Topics of discussion include but aren't limited to: fear of feminine power, the history of the puritans, mothers & daughters, and Satanism! --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Buy some delicious coffee from our sponsor: www.recesscoffee.com Resources: “Female Freedom and Fury in The Witch” by David Sims https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/02/robert-eggers-the-witch-female-empowerment/470844/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witch_(2015_film) “Why ‘The Witch’ is the scariest historical film ever” by Melissa J. Gismondi http://theconversation.com/why-the-witch-is-the-scariest-historical-film-ever-85068 “The Witch: A New England Folktale” Review (Journal of Religion & Film) by Stephen Stensrud https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1602&context=jrf “The Witch is Sinister, Smart, and Wildly Feminist” by Scott Pierce https://www.wired.com/2016/02/the-wi

We’re Annie’s Number 1 fan! This week your favorite ghouls discuss MISERY! Topics include but are not limited to: female stalkers, gender roles reversed, and frailty and fandom! Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song www.lilythecomposer.com Resources: Fischer, Lucy. Body Double: the Author Incarnate in the Cinema. Rutgers University Press, 2013. King, Claire Sisco. Washed in Blood: Male Sacrifice, Trauma, and the Cinema. Rutgers University Press, 2012. Morgan, Jack. The Biology of Horror: Gothic Literature and Film. Southern Illinois University Press, 2006. Online Resources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misery_(film) https://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/11/misery_1990.html https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/jul/30/rereading-stephen-king-misery https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/why-misery-is-more-relevant-in-the-social-media-age-70523/ https://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/misery/50907/revisiting-the-film-of-stephen-kings-misery http://www.vokradio.com/conten

We’re back for season 5! This week we’re kicking off with a discussion on one of our favorite horror masters: Clive Barker! Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Check out our awesome sponsors: www.recesscoffee.com Resources: Winter, Douglas E. Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic. HarperCollins, 2002 Buy the biography here: https://www.amazon.com/Clive-Barker-Fantastic-Authorized-Biography/dp/0066213924 Online Resources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Barker https://www.courthousenews.com/ex-says-clive-barker-turned-his-life-into-a-horror-show/ Listen to our Candyman Episode! https://soundcloud.com/goodmourningnancy/ep-26-candyman-1992-sweets-to-the-sweet Phil and Sarah Stokes Interview Archive: http://www.clivebarker.info/interviewsindex.html Youtube interviews: Clive Barker: Dark Dreamers Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwoPqIHq4XM Open to Question Interview - Clive Barker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOqaKgrbjfQ Clive Barker Imajica Interview - Conn

Happy Holidays! This week your favorite ghouls will be reading some Christmas Creepypastas straight from the frozen depths of Tumblr! Resources: Christmas by CafeLegendary http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Christmas The War on Christmas by Jennifer1911: http://fifteenhours-creepystories.tumblr.com/post/92471054866/creepypasta-225-the-war-on-christmas CHRISTMAS #1: NOT A CREATURE WAS STIRRING by MichaelDJ54http://fifteenhours-creepystories.tumblr.com/post/135817138969/christmas-1-not-a-creature-was-stirring CHRISTMAS SPECIAL #2: THE SNOW GLOBE ANGEL TOLD SECRETS by QueenofScots http://fifteenhours-creepystories.tumblr.com/post/106244276180/christmas-special-2-the-snow-globe-angel-told

It's the last full length episode of season 4! This week your favorite ghouls discuss the 1942 classic, Cat People! Topics of discussion include but aren't limited to: American women during WWII, female sexuality, and the origin of jump scares! ------ Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Get some delicious coffee from our sponsors! www.recesscoffee.com ---- Resources: Books & Scholarly Journals: Mccutcheon, Camille. “Horror Noir: Where Cinemas Dark Sisters Meet. PaulMeehan. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2011.” The Journal of American Culture, vol. 36, no. 1, 2013, pp. 67–68., doi:10.1111/jacc.12013_15. Means Coleman, Robin R. Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present. Routledge, 2011. Palumbo, Donald. Eros in the Mind's Eye: Sexuality and the Fantastic in Art and Film. Greenwood Press, 1986. Snelson, Tim. Phantom Ladies: Hollywood Horror and the Home Front. Rutgers U.P., 2016. Wilcox, Jason. “Cat People and Its Two Worlds.” CineAction