Good Mourning, Nancy Podcast

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

Welcome to your coffee break! This week Gracie and Abbey discuss some of their favorite “bad” horror movies (again)! Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977), Mortuary (2005), Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000), and Chernobyl Diaries (2012). ---- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Get some delicious coffee from our sponsors: www.recesscoffee.com Resources: Favorite Bad Horror Movies Part 1 https://soundcloud.com/goodmourningnancy/coffee-break-ep-21-favorite-bad-horror-movies Good Bad Flicks: Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 https://youtu.be/hAkmHSzUIHQ Watch “Death Bed: The Bed That Eats” Here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh0303gJskc Chernobyl Diaries (2012) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Diaries BOS:BW2 (2000) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Shadows:_Blair_Witch_2 DB:TBTE (1977) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Bed:_The_Bed_That_Eats Mortuary (2005) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortuary_(2005_film)

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