How could something so beautiful be so evil? That's what we'd like to know! Here's our episode about the cult classic directed by John Hancock! Topics of discussion include: lesbianism in the 1970s, Baudelaire's poem entitled The Flowers of Evil, the image of death, and Godlike husbands.

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Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com

Listen to our episode about Dracula's Daughter (1936): https://soundcloud.com/goodmourningnancy/ep-53-draculas-daughter-1936-lesbian-power

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Resources:

Let's Scare Jessica to Death. Dir. John Hancock (1971)

Charles Baudelaire: The Flowers of Evil (1857)

https://fleursdumal.org/1857-table-of-contents

Women and psychiatry

http://broughttolife.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/themes/menalhealthandillness/womanandpsychiatry

Women & Hysteria in the History of Mental Illness

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480686/

Lesbian Vampires Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian_vampire

Not Just Dead, But Gay! Queerness and the Vampire by William A. Tringali

https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1172&context=honors_proj

#FlashbackFriday—Today in 1973, the APA Removed Homosexuality From List of Mental Illnesses By Elliott Kozuch

https://www.hrc.org/blog/flashbackfriday-today-in-1973-the-apa-removed-homosexuality-from-list-of-me

31 Days of Feminist Horror Films: LET’S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH + HONEYMOON by Kate Hagen

https://blog.blcklst.com/31-days-of-feminist-horror-films-lets-scare-jessica-to-death-honeymoon-e460db67afe1

DEEP CUTS: LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH by Sara Century

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/deep-cuts-lets-scare-jessica-to-death

LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH 1971 by Ken Anderson

https://lecinemadreams.blogspot.com/2018/10/lets-scare-jessica-to-death-1971.html

31 Days of Halloween 2012: Let's Scare Jessica to Death by Stephanie Lane

http://www.clevelandmovieblog.com/2012/10/31-days-of-halloween-2012-lets-scare.html

LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH (1971) Written by: The Arrow

https://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/reviews/lets-scare-jessica-to-death

Confessional Review: "Let's Scare Jessica to Death" (1971) by Stuart Monroe.

https://www.getonmydamnlevel.com/blog/2019/4/22/confessional-review-lets-scare-jessica-to-death-1971

REVIEW: Let's Scare Jessica to Death by Jay SHATZER

http://thelucidnightmare.blogspot.com/2010/04/review-lets-scare-jessica-to-death.html

Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) by Tom Fallows

https://classic-horror.com/reviews/lets_scare_jessica_to_death_1971

Let's Scare Jessica to Death: Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Scare_Jessica_to_Death

LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH (MOVIE REVIEW) by TOR

http://www.bloodygoodhorror.com/bgh/reviews/lets-scare-jessica-to-death

A Glimpse Into 1970s Gay Activism

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/02/a-glimpse-into-1970s-gay-activism/284077/