Good Mourning, Nancy Podcast

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)

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