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.

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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-toni-collette-horror-grief

‘Hereditary’ Review by Matt Zoller Seitz

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/hereditary-2018

Family is a curse in the harrowing, deeply frightening Hereditary by A.A. Dowd

https://film.avclub.com/family-is-a-curse-in-the-harrowing-deeply-frightening-1826616606

“Hereditary” Delivers a New Kind of Horror by Anthony Lane

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/18/hereditary-delivers-a-new-kind-of-horror

‘Hereditary’ Director Unpacks The Movie’s Plot by Matthew Jacobs

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hereditary-ending-explained-ari-aster_n_5b240b5ee4b0f9178a9cf261

About the Ending of ‘Hereditary’: Really? By AO Scott

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/movies/hereditary-ending.html

Hereditary and the Monstrousness of Creative Moms by Katherine Fusco

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/07/hereditary-and-the-monstrousness-of-creative-moms/564815/

Hereditary as Folk Horror by Alexandra Hauke

http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/hereditary-as-folk-horror/

Hereditary and the Changeling Myth by Trevor Babcock

http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/hereditary-and-the-changeling-myth/

HEREDITARY: GRIEF AND MOTHERHOOD by Brian Fanelli

http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/hereditary-grief-and-motherhood/

FILM ARTICLE: IN THE BLOOD, an essay on the film ‘Hereditary’ by Daniel Carpenter

https://storgy.com/2018/07/07/film-article-in-the-blood-an-essay-on-the-film-hereditary/

Review: "Hereditary" by Chris Feil

http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2018/6/7/review-hereditary.html

Bad Blood: “Hereditary” Finds the Horror in Denial and Repression by Lena Wilson

https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/hereditary-deals-with-mental-illness

'Hereditary' is a Very Scary Movie About Not Believing Women By Danielle Riendeau

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9k8vey/hereditary-listen-to-women

‘Hereditary’: Patriarchy By Brett Riley

http://rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2018-06-the-true-horror-of-hereditary-patriarchy/

‘Hereditary’ & Motherhood By Charles Bramesco

https://www.mic.com/articles/189676/hereditary-is-the-latest-horror-movie-to-redefine-the-terror-of-motherhood

Hereditary Taps Into the Unique Terror of Inherited Mental Illness by Emma Dibdin

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a21526807/hereditary-movie-mental-illness/

Mental Illness In The Movies: How HEREDITARY Invokes The Fears Of Neurodivergent Families by Jack Godwin

https://www.filminquiry.com/mental-illness-hereditary/

‘Hereditary,’ Mad Horror, And Representation Of Mental Illness by ELEVEN GROOTHUIS

https://theestablishment.co/hereditary-mad-horror-and-the-post-cronenbergian-body-b9e2dd13848/index.html

Hereditary: The Real Story of King Paimon

https://www.denofgeek.com/us/culture/hereditary/274189/hereditary-the-real-story-of-king-paimon

Everything the eerie 'Hereditary' gets right about grief - Mashable

https://mashable.com/2018/06/11/hereditary-familial-grief/