Good Mourning, Nancy Podcast

Hold on to your nipples and back skin! This week Gracie & Abbey discuss Jen & Sylvia Soska's modern horror masterpiece, American Mary! If you're a member of the body modification community, we'd love to hear your thoughts on the film and hear your story! Email us at goodmourningnancy@gmail.com ! Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Thanks to Recess Coffee for being a sponsor: www.recesscoffee.com Check out our podcast friends, Queens of the Damned: https://queensofthedamnedpodcast.wordpress.com/ Resources: Suturing Selfhood: ‘American Mary’ and the Unconventional Feminine Repossession of Self http://www.btchflcks.com/2017/11/american-mary-and-the-unconventional-feminine-repossession-of-self.html#.W4A8spNKj-Y AMERICAN MARY (2012) and the Female-Centered Horror Film https://brightlightsfilm.com/wp-content/cache/all/american-mary-2012-and-the-female-centered-horror-film/#.W4A87pNKj-Y American Mary: Directed by Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles

This week, the ghouls talk about Jordan Peele's very successful first film, Get Out! Topics of discussion include, but aren't limited to: the dangers of white liberalism and white feminism, death of the white savior, and epigenetics. Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Thanks to our sponsors at Recess Coffee: www.recesscoffee.com Resources: Wyche, Elbert. “'Get Out' Director Jordan Peele: 'I Wanted to Challenge Anybody Who Feels like They Are Not Racist'.” Screen International, 6 Dec. 2017. Questia.com. Bourke, Emily. “GET OUT.” The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, vol. 6, 2017. Jarvis, Michael. “Anger Translator: Jordan Peele's ‘Get Out’ .” Science Fiction Film & Television, vol. 11, no. 1, 1 Jan. 2018, pp. 97–109., doi:10.3828/sfftv.2018.9. https://www.npr.org/2017/02/19/515813914/in-get-out-jordan-peele-tackles-the-human-horror-of-racial-fear http://www.filmjournal.com/features/dark-side-jordan-peeles-get-out-mixes-horror-and-social-satire https://www.nyti

Warning! This episode contains discussions on sensitive material including but not limited to depression, eating disorders, and suicide. — Coffee Breaks are back! This week we discuss mental illness in horror films particularly The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Babadook (2014), The Exorcist (1973), Psycho (1960) and Psycho 2 (1983). Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Resources: https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/31/halloween-horror-film-mental-illness-scary-cliches https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/broadcast-thought/201310/why-is-mental-illness-scary%3famp https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3513603/representations-mental-health-horror-establishing-stigmas-tearing/

Happy Halloween! This week your favorite ghouls discuss Dario Argento's giallo masterpiece, Suspiria! Topics of discussion: Satanism and witchcraft, primary colors, fairy tales, Disney, and the perfect final girl. Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme music: www.lilythecomposer.com Check out our sponsors at Recess Coffee: www.recesscoffee.com Resources: Links & Online Articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspiria https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-531845719/devil-s-advocates http://www.kinoeye.org/02/11/schultesasse11.php http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/92027/Suspiria/articles.html http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue05/infocus/suspiria.htm http://roar.uel.ac.uk/5029/1/L.%20Hallam_Why%20Are%20There%20Always%20Three.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspiria_de_Profundis https://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/do-you-know-anything-about-witches-suspiria-at-40 https://www.bartleby.com/27/22.html https://www.npr.org/2015/10/28/450657717/why-are-old-women-often-the-face-of-evil-in-fairy-

This week we'll be talking about famed director Quentin Tarantino's underrated slasher film, Death Proof! In this episode we discuss how 11 years later, Death Proof is still as relevant as ever (if not more so), toxic masculinity, foot fetishes, and the history of Grindhouse cinema! --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Check out our sponsors at Recess Coffee: www.recesscoffe.com --- Resources: Mikaella Clements’ amazing article: https://www.highsnobiety.com/2017/06/29/death-proof-quentin-tarantino/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkOLfbt16gs&t=618s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Proof Aschenbrenner, Henriette Maria. “Two of a Kind-Robert Rodriguez's and Quentin Tarantino's Culturally Intertextual Comment on Film History: The Grindhouse Project.” Post Script, vol. 33, no. 3, 2014. Questia.com. https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2010/sep/29/sally-menke-quentin-tarantino-editor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Menke http://collider.com/quentin-taranti

This year is the 40th Anniversary of John Carpenter's Halloween! In honor of that, we'll be discussing some behind the scenes trivia, Laurie Strode as the original badass screen queen, the fears of domesticity, innocence lost, and stabbing the patriarchy in the eye with a wire hanger! Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Thanks to our sponsors at Recess Coffee! Buy some coffee here: www.recesscoffee.com Resources: Lukic, Marko, Pandzic, Maja, Americana: Dreading the White Picket Fences: Domesticity and the Suburban Horror Film. The Journal of American Popular Culture, 1900 to Present; Hollywood Rasmussen, Randy. Psycho, The Birds, and Halloween: The Intimacy of Terror in Three Classic Films. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2014. 220 pp. Softcover. ISBN: 978-0-7864-7883-5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_(1978_film) https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/10/the-making-of-john-carpenters-halloween/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10394340/John-C

Bullseye! This week Gracie & Abbey discuss the most underrated American vampire film! Near Dark, even over 30 years later, is still eerily relevant to this day. Hatred against the "other," father's of the night and day, toxic masculinity, and women trying to survive in a patriarchal society (vampire or otherwise) are among some of the talking points. Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Thanks to Recess Coffee for being a sponsor: www.recesscoffee.com Check out our friends over at FriGay the 13th: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/frigay-the-13th Resources: Near Dark (1987). dir. Kathryn Bigelow Auerbach, Nina. Our Vampires, Ourselves. The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Holte, James Craig. Dracula in the Dark: The Dracula Film Adaptations. Greenwood Press, 1997. Palmer, Louis H. Vampires in the New World. Praeger, 2013. Rickels, Laurence A. The Vampire Lectures. Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2008. Simpson, Philip. “Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Cult

GROOVY! This week Gracie & Abbey discuss the supernatural horror film (and remake), 2013's EVIL DEAD. They talk about freedom of choice, drug addiction and possession, rape and revenge, hell on earth, and the fun homages to the original. "Ma'am, close the book and run!" Thanks to Lily Leblanc for our theme music: www.lilythecomposer.com Thanks to our sponsors at Recess Coffee: www.recesscoffee.com Check out our friends at Horror Junkies Podcast: https://www.horrorjunkiespodcast.com/ Resources: https://www.youtube.com/user/NightmareMaven “Evil Dead” By Parker, Elizabeth | The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, Summer 2014 http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/evil-dead/ http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130404/entlife/704049945/ http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/03/09/evil-dead-review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTiA9x66X58 https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/105857/feeding-the-beast-addiction-in-horror-films/ https://unrealitymag.com/movies/six-horror-movies-that-use-drugs-as-a-plot-poi

Netflix’s “The Haunting of Hill House” trailer was released recently. Gracie & Abbey watched it…and now they’re confused, concerned, but also super excited! Watch Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9OzG53VwIk Listen to our episode on horror author Shirley Jackson: https://soundcloud.com/goodmourningnancy/shirley-jackson-her-life-her-works Thanks to our Laurie Strode & Ellen Ripley patrons: James, Jarvis, Shanna, Stacy, Lucy, Chris, Jill, Julie, Valerie, Cianan, Ashley, Maggie and Janelle! Become a patron here: patreon.com/goodmourningnancy Resources: https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/19/17879536/netflix-haunting-of-hill-house-first-look-trailer-mike-flanagan

Stop waffling around and just listen! This week Gracie & Abbey discuss The Prowler (aka Rosemary’s Killer) and about PTSD, terrible boyfriends, terrible friends, incels, and horror-war movies! Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Check out our sponsors at www.recesscoffee.com Nancy’s Dream Team: https://goodmourningnancy.com/2018/06/05/nancys-dream-team-the-new-bechdel-test/ Last Podcast on the Left and Incels: https://soundcloud.com/lastpodcastontheleft/side-stories-earons-incels Resources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prowler_(1981_film) http://horrorfreaknews.com/prowler-1981-review http://horrornews.net/37899/film-review-the-prowler-1981/ https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/202200/retrospective-prowler-1981-35-years-later/ http://sonofcelluloid.blogspot.com/2011/03/prowler-1981.html https://is.muni.cz/el/1421/podzim2013/FAVz040/Session_2c_Nowell_There_s_More_Than_One_Way_to_Lose_Your_Heart.pdf https://aslashabove.com/2014/03/14/the-prowler-1981/ http://moria.co

In this week’s Coffee Break, Gracie & Abbey discuss the controversial t-shirt worn at the Suspiria premiere at the Venice Film Festival, what the critics had to say about the film, virgin sacrifice, and Gracie’s Suspiria dream that’s probably going to be better than the actual movie. We would like to thank our Laurie Strode and Ellen Ripley patrons: James, Jarvis, Shanna, Stacy, Lucy, Chris, Jill, Julie, Valerie, Cianan and Ashley! Become a patron here: www.patreon.com/GoodMourningNancy Thanks to our sponsors at Recess Coffee: www.recesscoffee.com Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme music: www.lilythecomposer.com Resources for today’s episode: http://www.vulture.com/2018/09/guy-had-a-weinstein-is-innocent-tee-at-suspiria-premiere.html https://ew.com/movies/2018/09/01/dakota-johnson-suspiria-therapy/ http://time.com/5384890/suspiria-review/ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/sep/01/suspiria-review-luca-guadagninos-horror-remake-has-sex-and-style-but-fails-to-bewitch http://www.foxnews.com/enterta

BEETLEJUICE, BEETLEJUICE, BEETLEJUICE!!! Or is it Betelgeuse? It's season 4, episode 1 and this week Gracie and Abbey are talking about Tim Burton's instant spooky classic! Thanks to our Ellen Ripely patrons: James and Jarvis! If you'd like to support us head on over to www.patreon.com/GoodMourningNancy Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Thanks to our sponsors at Recess Coffee: www.recesscoffee.com Resources: Issitt, Micah L. Goths: A Guide to an American Subculture. Greenwood, 2011. Wright, H. Stephen. “The Film Music of Danny Elfman: A Selective Discography.” Notes, vol. 62, no. 4, 2006. Questia.com, Danny Elfman, Beetlejuice. “Beetlejuice Wikipedia” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetlejuice “Beetlejuice Is an Insane Movie and It’s Insane It Ever Got Made” https://io9.gizmodo.com/beetlejuice-is-an-insane-movie-and-it-s-insane-it-ever-1824145917 “How ‘Beetlejuice’ Was Born” https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/3/30/17178786/beetlejuice-30-years-tim-burton-michael-kea

We’re back again for round 4! Here’s our very special episode about the literary genius (and Syracuse University alum) SHIRLEY JACKSON! She was the author of such classics as The Lottery & The Haunting of Hill House, which is scheduled to appear on Netflix as a miniseries in October, 2018! We hope you enjoy! Thanks to our sponsors: www.recesscoffee.com Thanks Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/GoodMourningNancy Resources: Franklin, Ruth. Shirley Jackson: a Rather Haunted Life. Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017. Purchase Here: https://www.amazon.com/Shirley-Jackson-Rather-Haunted-Life/dp/1631493418/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1535421458&sr=8-1 Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. W.W. Norton, 2013. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Jackson https://www.sleepwalkingthroughhistory.com/blog/2017/7/13/scratch-off-ms-shirley-jackson-at-su http://shirleyjackson.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Have_Always_Lived_in_the_Ca

It's the last episode of season 3! This week Gracie & Abbey talk about the infamous pre-code, Tod Browning film, FREAKS! Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme music: www.lilythecomposer.com Thanks to Dalton Dobson for our promo photos: www.facebook.com/LightenedImagination/ Check out our sponsors at www.recesscoffee.com --- Resources: Badley, Linda. Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic. Greenwood Press, 1995. Questia.com, Tod Browning, Freaks. Birth. Movies. Death. - The Unseen “Freaks”: https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2014/10/03/the-unseen-freaks Bitch Flicks: Freaks Sing the Body Eclectic http://www.btchflcks.com/2013/10/freaks-sing-the-body-eclectic.html#.WxFdkFMvy9Y Browning, Tod, director. Freaks. Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, 1932 Church, David. “Freakery, Cult Films, and the Problem of Ambivalence.” Journal of Film and Video, vol. 63, no. 1, 2011. Questia.com, Tod Browning, Freaks. Disability in Tod Browning’s FREAKS: https://justanotherbodiesoffilmblog.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/disability-and-tod-brownin

"What would Jamie Lee Curtis do?" That's what horror fan, Joseph Scott asked himself when he was faced with an intruder in his home.... Watch the tearful SCC Q&A panel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N6WPOFrihw Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song www.lilythecomposer.com Visit our sponsors over at www.recesscoffee.com We would like to thank our Laurie Strode and Ellen Ripley patrons: James, Jarvis, Shanna, Stacy, Lucy, Chris, Jill, Julie, and Valerie! They keep us going!

*This episode contains a discussion on self-harm so it might not be for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised.* This week Gracie & Abbey discuss Insidious (2010)! Listen as they talk about mother-in-laws, depression, Darth Maul, and a horror movie superhero who is in her seventies! Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Check out our sponsors at www.recesscoffee.com Resources: “Who’s Afraid Of The Big, Bad Trans Woman? On Horror and Transfemininity” by Mey Valdivia Rude: https://www.autostraddle.com/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-trans-woman-on-horror-and-transfemininity-198212/ “15 Things You Didn’t Know About Insidious”: https://www.therichest.com/expensive-lifestyle/entertainment/15-things-you-didnt-know-about-insidious/ “Insidious Facts”: http://screencrush.com/insidious-facts/ “8 Things You Didn’t Know About the Insidious Film Franchise”: https://www.clickthecity.com/movies/a/33841/8-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-insidious-film-franchise “23 Fear Inducing Facts

This episode may not be for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised. "How could you watch horror? Isn't the real world violent enough?" In this week's coffee break episode, Gracie & Abbey have a very caffeinated and unscripted discussion on violence in horror, war, and breaking points. Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Check out our sponsors at www.recesscoffee.com

Dun dun…. Dun dun….dundundundundundundun! This week we’re talking about the Steven Spielberg film, Jaws! In this episode we’ll be telling disastrous behind the scenes stories, discussing the gender of the shark, and trying to remember whether or not sharks have nostrils! Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Check out our sponsors at Recess Coffee: www.recesscoffee.com Resources: Butler, Andrew M. Solar Flares: Science Fiction in the 1970s. Liverpool University Press, 2012. Clover, Carol J. Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. Princeton University, 1997. Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. Routledge, 2015. Kowalski, Dean A. Steven Spielberg and Philosophy: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Book. University Press of Kentucky, 2008. Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78AstZwjf1c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M69YyOxzKa0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWR8dHTgX0c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MiVtavjD8w htt

This week Gracie & Abbey discuss Antonio Maria Da Silva's horror movie mashup, The Overlook Hotel! *some language* Link to the film on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/277328537 Link to the film on Youtube: https://youtu.be/R8QnwIC8ap8 Article: https://news.avclub.com/this-homemade-sequel-to-the-shining-is-a-love-letter-to-1827367484 Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme music www.lilythecomposer.com

Wow.... guys.... we rip this one to pieces but trust us this is one of our favorites! Some discussions include Black magic, platonic friendships, and dealing with your own personal journey through Hell! --- Thanks to Lily Leblanc for our theme song! www.lilythecomposer.com Check out our sponsors at www.recesscoffee.com --- Resources: Drury, Nevill. Stealing Fire from Heaven the Rise of Modern Western Magic. Oxford University Press, 2011. Jung, C. G., and R. F. C. Hull. The Collected Works of C. G. Jung . 2nd ed., vol. 12, Princeton University Press, 1980. Marlan, Stanton, and David H. Rosen. The Black Sun: the Alchemy and Art of Darkness. Texas A & M University Press, 2005. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Above,_So_Below_(film) https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/as-aboveso-below https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-as-above-so-below-shot-a-horror-film-in-the-actual-1626848609 https://www.themystica.com/as-above-so-below/ http://variety.com/2014/film/reviews/film-review-as-above-so-below-12012867