FRIGHT SCHOOL

Welcome back to Fright School! We had a great spring break and are ready to dive back into the horror! We chat about the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Joshua is embarrassingly excited for THE LITTLE MERMAID! Our friend Heather Petrocelli wrote a book, QUEER FOR FEAR: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator. Grab a copy at the link below! This month it's time for another Joe takeover! Since May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, he has chosen a wide selection of films to honor that diverse experience. This week we chat about BURNING. Are you satisfyingly a little hunger or a great hunger? Listen and find out!

Order Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator by Heather O. Petrocelli

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Welcome back to Fright School! Joe is having car troubles and Joshua gives another demonstration that he knows f-all about cars. This week we watched YELLOWJACKETS (yay!), KNOCK AT THE CABIN (meh), WE'RE HERE (cry face emoji), and DRAMARAMA (gay...)! We're wrapping up Women's Horror History Month with WHAT LIES BENEATH. Hey! That IS Dear Dexter's Dead Daddy! We dive very deep beneath the what to chat about new age Gothic at the dawn of the millenium, haunting women from around the world, psychoanalytic theory, and, of course, gaslighting: this month's unofficial theme. Grab your sad beige cardigans and join us for this haunting tale...

Kendall R. Phillips - Projected Fears - Horror Films and American Culture (2005)

Something Wraithlike This Way Comes

WHAT LIES BENEATH (2000): RETURN OF THE REPRESSED

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Welcome back to Fright School! This class will be led by substitute teachers DJ PsychoDandy and MC Diggy Biscuits… that will make more sense as the show progresses. We missed our Geekscape siblings attending CREATURE FEATURE WEEKEND. Sad face emoji… Joshua has been rewatching TRUE DETECTIVE. Joe is excited for TOP CHEF and YOU. This week, we take it all the way back to 1944 with GASLIGHT! Joshua attempts to reduce an entire semester’s worth of information on the medicalization of women to as few minutes as possible. We discuss the film in contexts of WWI and WWII, the gaslighting antics of Hitler and Trump, and the objectophilia of the Psycho Dandy.

Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness

The Madman in the Attic: Gaslight and the “Psycho Dandy”

Gaslight and the Political Psychology of a Melodramatic Thriller

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Welcome back to Fright School! We took a field trip to see Scream VI! We had some thoughts. Light spoilers ahead...

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Welcome back to Fright School! We start off this episode with a moment of mourning for Ricou Browning, the stuntman who filmed the underwater sequences as THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON. Joshua went to see COCAINE BEAR! This week, we are breaking down with GOTHIKA. We discuss the film in the context of the films of Hitchcock and classic gothic horror, the stress of gaslighting, and media portrayals of mental illness and institutions.

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Welcome back to Fright School! Joshua gives some tips for dealing with anxiety and stress. Joe got some new glasses! We're excited for the unrated version of M3GAN to hit Peacock. Joe revisits SUPERSTORE. Stephen Graham Jones just released the sequel to MY HEART IS A CHAINSAW, DON'T FEAR THE REAPER and Joshua attended the book signing. This week on the show we get really deep with ATTACK THE BLOCK. Utilizing an expansive and detailed article by Lorrie Palmer, we discuss the language of the film, how the architecture of the council buildings and postwar Britain influence the story, the othering of racism and alienation, and toxic masculinity. Buckle up, Dear Listener! This is a weird one.

Attack the Block: monsters, race, and rewriting South London’s outer spaces by Lorrie Palmer

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Welcome back to Fright School! We chat about Rihanna's Superb Owl half-time NFL Apple Music concert football show thing. Joshua has deleted the Facebook app in an effort to get better sleep. Joe went to San Francisco! Check out our dear friend and Doctor of Queer Horror Heather Petrcocelli's new show THE QUEEREST YEAR. This week we sink our teeth into THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS. We discuss the Black body and experimentation narratives, Pandora and her box of terrors, sacrifice and survival, and how humans should never turn their back on nature. 

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Welcome back to Fright School! We catch up on the week with a chat about Zaddy Pascal showing up on SNL. Joshua hates on The Coldplay. Joe watched KALEIDOSCOPE and has some recommendations for how YOU should watch it! This week we are celebrating 45 years of George Romero's DAWN OF THE DEAD! We wanted to kick off our Black History Month movies with something that would make Joe say "meh..." We discuss the obvious commentary on consumerism in America, the familiar role the Vietnam War plays in the horror film, and why zombie media like THE WALKING DEAD and THE LAST OF US can't get away from the legacy of Romero. When there's no more room in Hell, you can join us in the Wes Craven Memorial Library!

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Welcome back to Fright School! We are TITANIUUUUM! At least, Joshua hopes so if he's to survive grad school. This week we catch up on what we've been watching. Joe is eyeholes deep in a WALKING DEAD rewatch. Joshua has been torturing himself with another rewatch of GLOW knowing full well there will never be a 4th season. Have you met the gay community's newest, bestest, murderousest friend, M3GAN? We welcome Sam Wineman back to the show to tell us all about her!

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Welcome back to another episode of Fright School! Joshua saw SKINAMARINK. Joe finished reading his first novel of the year! Good job, Joe! The boys discuss THE LAST OF US, MAYFAIR WITCHES, and Madonna tickets. This week we close out this chapter of our journey down Elm Street with WES CRAVEN'S NEW NIGHTMARE. The film gave Wes an opportunity to realize intentions he had for the first and third films in the series and we are here for it. Did anyone else get the impression watching this that earthquakes in California would always be like that?!

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