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.

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

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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-classic-73308

FANGRRLS ON FILM: GENDER NORMS MAKE EVERYONE MISERABLE IN THE LOVE WITCH by Sarah Marrs

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/fangrrls-on-film-gender-norms-make-everyone-miserable-in-the-love-witch

'The Love Witch' Is Campy Horror That Feminist Cinema Needs by Kate Loftus O'Brien

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wdbzk9/the-love-witch-is-the-camp-murderous-horror-anna-billers

Anna Biller on The Love Witch and how she crafts spellbinding female fantasies by Sophie Monks Kaufman

https://lwlies.com/articles/anna-biller-the-love-witch-female-fantasies/

Crazy In Love: Transgressive Femininities in Anna Biller’s ‘The Love Witch’ By Annette LePique

https://www.anothergaze.com/crazy-love-transgressive-femininities-anna-billers-love-witch/

Under Her Spell: Anna Biller’s The Love Witch BY MICHAEL SICINSKI

https://cinema-scope.com/cinema-scope-online/lovewitch/

“Poor baby”: The Love Witch by Laura Thomas

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(19)30231-7/fulltext

The Love Witch and witchcraft's appeal in the era of Trump by Clarisse Loughrey

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-love-witch-witchcraft-anna-biller-feminist-horror-film-donald-trump-lana-del-rey-a7627921.html

ANNA BILLER ON CLASSIC FILMS AND TWITTER FEMINISMS BY KATHERINE FUSCO

https://www.publicbooks.org/anna-biller-on-classic-films-and-twitter-feminisms/

‘The Love Witch’ Looks Familiar but Feels Remarkably Fresh by Lee Jutton

https://www.btchflcks.com/2017/04/the-love-witch-looks-familiar-but-feels-remarkably-fresh.html#.XaD_x-dKjOQ

The male glance: how we fail to take women’s stories seriously by Lili Loofbourow

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/06/the-male-glance-how-we-fail-to-take-womens-stories-seriously