It's the final episode of season 6! This week your favorite ghouls discuss the 1976 film Carrie! Topics of discussion include, but are not limited to: Gothic and Fairytale inspiration, puberty and body horror, bad mothers and their daughters, and the consequences behind a lack of female kinship.

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Resources:

The Importance of Female Friendships Among Women by Dr. Kristen Fuller

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/happiness-is-state-mind/201808/the-importance-female-friendships-among-women

Carrie (1976 film) Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_(1976_film)

Writing Horror and the Body: The Fiction of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Anne Rice By Linda Badley

https://www.questia.com/read/117391417/writing-horror-and-the-body-the-fiction-of-stephen

Misfit Sisters: Screen Horror as Female Rites of Passage by Williams, Christy, Marvels & Tales

https://www.questia.com/read/1P3-1733601281/misfit-sisters-screen-horror-as-female-rites-of-passage

Controlling Mothers in ‘Carrie,’ ‘Mommie Dearest’ and ‘Now Voyager’ by Al Rosenberg

http://www.btchflcks.com/2015/05/controlling-mothers-in-carrie-mommie-dearest-and-now-voyager.html#.XVb2UpNKh-U

The Blood of ‘Carrie’ by Holly Derr

http://www.btchflcks.com/2013/10/the-blood-of-carrie.html#.XVb2ZZNKh-U

Carrie at 40: why the horror genre remains important for women Noah Berlatsky

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/03/carrie-stephen-king-brian-de-palma-horror-films-feminism

THE VAGINA AS A BLEEDING WOUND: MONSTROUS PUBERTY IN CARRIE, THE EXORCIST AND GINGER SNAPS by Kate Maher

https://www.academia.edu/9476703/Menstruation_in_horror_films

Carrie (1976): A Look at Misogyny in Horror Cinema by Sarah Duong

https://medium.com/@sarahmichelleduong/carrie-1976-a-look-at-misogyny-in-horror-cinema-b0204f9512fe

THE TROUBLE WITH "CARRIE": STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS AND ONSCREEN VIOLENCE by Laura Bogart

https://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/the-trouble-with-carrie

Getting Carrie’d Away with Female Sexuality by: Lucy Sabin

https://diaboliquemagazine.com/getting-carried-away-female-sexuality/

Carrie: the growing pains of a horror classic

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10474858/Carrie-the-growing-pains-of-a-horror-classic.html

15 Creepy Facts About Carrie BY JENNIFER M WOOD

http://mentalfloss.com/article/68461/15-creepy-facts-about-carrie

Myth and Magic in De Palma’s Carrie by Dmetri Kakmi

http://sensesofcinema.com/2000/cteq/carrie/

Bloody Horror! The Symbolic Meaning of Blood in Stephen King’s Carrie by Rebecka Fransson

http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:918009/FULLTEXT01.pdf

CARRIE’S CHOICE: CONTEMPORARY FEMINISM AND SOCIOPOLITICAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF WOMANHOOD IN FILM ADAPTATIONS OF STEPHEN KING’S CARRIE by Molly Brianna Collins

https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3089&context=all_theses

“Carrie”: The Horror of Coming of Age by Mara Reisman

https://azdailysun.com/entertainment/movies/carrie-the-horror-of-coming-of-age/article_ff8f4cdd-e0ec-5e06-863a-bdf1b626b072.html

“Carrie” Story-Telling Techniques

https://www.slaphappylarry.com/film-study-carrie-2013/

‘Horror Is a Soothing Genre … It’s Upfront About How Scary It Is To Be a Woman.’

https://longreads.com/2019/08/14/interview-with-sady-doyle/?fbclid=IwAR2mOHJpXRWfIVWHXlHZQoHIwamdi2CYyzJf7CJ_5PYsUGW9-y4TvfWa9rM

Carrie: The Teenage Horror by The Take

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bSCYqKsu_w

Effects of prenatal stress on pregnancy and human development: mechanisms and pathways

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5052760/

Daughters of Unloving Mothers: 7 Common Wounds

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/tech-support/201304/daughters-unloving-mothers-7-common-wounds