Final Girls

Tammy may not be the most famous Final Girl, but in 28 Weeks Later (2007), she’s sprinting for her life through one of the bleakest apocalypses ever put on screen. This week, we cover Tammy’s fight to survive the Rage Virus outbreak and her remarkably concise Final Girl arc in the final ten minutes.

Spoiler Warning: The infection spreads fast, and so do the 28 Weeks Later spoilers. Proceed at your own risk.

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Sometimes healing means burning it all down. For our summer Solstice episode, we’re not going it alone. This is our very first episode with guests, and we couldn’t be more excited to welcome our friends Cory and Rossa from Broomsticks and Bloodshed to the pod! Together, we step into the sun-drenched nightmare of Midsommar (2019), where grief blooms into ritual and heartbreak transforms into something far more powerful.

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Spoiler Warning: The flowers are blooming, the fires are burning, and the Midsommar spoilers are plentiful.

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Jen starts Revenge (2017) as the sexy, sidelined girlfriend, only to rise reborn in blood as one of the most viscerally unhinged Final Girls of the last decade. This week, we chat about her Final Girl journey in Coralie Fargeat’s neon-drenched takedown of the male gaze.

CONTENT NOTE: We discuss a scene of SA from the film.

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Spoiler Warning: This episode contains Revenge spoilers,

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SARAH'S BIRTHDAY EPISODE! New girl Sarah Bailey is giving peak 90s witchcore. But once she finds her coven, things go from light-as-a-feather to dark-as-hell. This week on Final Girls, we revisit the iconic teen witch masterpiece that made every girl want to call the corners.

Spoiler Warning: There’s magic in these spoilers—handle with care.

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Undercover cop Judith Gray walks into a poorly planned illegal arms sting in Demonic Toys (1992) and ends up trapped in a possessed toy warehouse with a demon fetus and a bunch of pint-sized murder machines. This week, we salute the bonkers brilliance of Demonic Toys and the sadly ineffective badassery of our Final Girl, who fights her way through it with a gun in one hand and a grudge in the other.

Spoiler Warning: This episode is crawling with Demonic Toys spoilers. Proceed accordingly.

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It’s all fun and games until the bodies start dropping.Sophie and Bee walk into a hurricane party in Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) and end up in a full-blown bloodbath. This week, we break down their Final Girl stories and the messy, brilliant satire of A24’s Gen Z slashe cell phone lighting and all.

Spoiler Warning: Someone turned the lights out and the Wi-Fi’s down, so listen at your own risk.

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Mia Farrow’s iconic Rosemary Woodhouse Iin Rosemary’s Baby (1968), doesn’t scream, slash, or run through the woods. But make no mistake: she’s a Final Girl. This week, we sink into the psychological horror of isolation and bodily autonomy as Rosemary endures the slow unraveling of her life. And we gush over that cute pixie cut she gets halfway through the movie.

Spoiler Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Rosemary’s Baby and one very badass Satanic bassinet.

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This week, we're covering the glitchy Final Girl story of Gemma in M3GAN (2022). Gemma is a brilliant roboticist AND a cautionary tale wrapped in code, the actual villain and Final Girl of her own story. When she takes in her orphaned niece Cady, Gemma does what any emotionally unavailable tech genius might: she outsources parenting to an AI.

Spoiler Warning: This episode contains M3GAN spoilers—and maybe a firmware update you didn’t agree to.

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🌟 Final Girls Double Feature (Part 2)! 🌟

Next up: Death Proof (2007)

Abernathy, Zoë, and Kim are taking the wheel and fighting back. In Death Proof, Quentin Tarantino flips the Final Girl trope on its head, giving us three fearless women who absolutely wreck the killer. This week, we break down why this trio’s friendship and fury make them some of the most satisfying Final Girls in horror history.

Spoiler Warning: Buckle up—Death Proof spoilers (and serious girl power) ahead!

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🌟 Final Girls Double Feature! 🌟

First up: Planet Terror (2007)

Cherry Darling might have started the night as a go-go dancer with a broken heart, but by the end of Planet Terror, she’s packing heat and leading the charge against a zombie outbreak. This week, we dive into Cherry’s wild, blood-soaked Final Girl arc and how Rose McGowan’s performance and later activism turned fiction into something far more powerful.

Spoiler Warning: Things get gory fast—Planet Terror spoilers ahead!

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