Sammy and Emily are joined by Amber Dean, author of the psychological horror novel Hysterical, to discuss the 1992 classic Single White Female.

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Cat Fight month continues with a look at 1995's Showgirls starring Elizabeth Berkley as Nomi Malone. We untwist this twisted, dark, camp look at the melding of glitz and glamour with exploitation.

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We're back for a revisit of 2008's horror-comedy, Jennifer's Body. It was huge bomb at the time and hated by critics. But the film, Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried, starring has stood the test of time and risen to the top as a slow burn queer coded cult classic. 

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From the archives of our Patreon vault from 2023, before Final Girls Club was birthed into the world. It’s our review of Pearl, starring Mia Goth! For 300+ more episodes including weekly pop culture hot topics, show and album reviews, check us out on patreon.com/itsbecomeawholething

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What happens when holiday cheer collapses under resentment, grief, and unmet expectations. We break down Krampus as a dark fairy tale about family, shame, and punishment, looking how the film turns Christmas tradition into a horror story about what happens when kindness and connection disappear.

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It wouldn't be Family Is Hell Month without Ari Aster's Hereditary. We look at the film from an academic, analytical and personal lens from Toni Collette's genius to the metaphors for generational trauma passed down. This episode is brought to you by Paimon.

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Continuing Family Is Hell Month with Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, a domestic horror masterpiece where addiction, resentment, and generational violence turn a winter isolation job into the world’s worst family retreat. We break down the plot, the psychology of the Torrances, and why the Overlook Hotel feels less like a haunting and more like an extension of the family’s curse. 

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Welcome to 'Family is Hell' month. No better way to kick off this month's trope with an analysis of 2015's The Witch. A Puritan family unravels in the wilderness as grief, paranoia, and patriarchal terror turns home into hell. Beyond the movie, we look at the history of witchcraft and the roots of puritanical religious culture.

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For Final Girl month, we're diving into Ready or Not (2019). It's a blood-soaked, dark horror-comedy where a new bride, Samara Weaving, becomes the ultimate Final Girl. We break down the full plot, the film’s class-war satire, cursed family traditions. We explore class consciousness, how the movie skewers the ultra rich and evolves Final Girl tropes.

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This week we’re diving into Scream (1996), the genre-defining slasher that mixed gore with postmodern humor and created a new rulebook for horror. From Casey Becker’s devastating opening to Sidney Prescott navigating  survival, we explore how Scream turns teen girl vulnerability into power and why its commentary on sexuality, violence, technology, and media obsession still feels sharp today.

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