Horror in the Margins

We discuss Huesera: The Bone Woman directed by Michelle Garza Cervera. We talk about Mexican folklore, the horrors of domesticity and pregnancy, the concept of rewilding, and a whole lotta spiders, broken bones, and brujas. 

Content warnings for discussions of pregnancy, postpartum depression, and some pretty gnarly body horror. 

Huesera: The Bone Woman is available to view on Shudder and AMC+ and to rent on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu. 

Read about la huesera - https://www.claudiafineart.com/huesera

View the Virgin de Guadalupe statue featured in the movie and located in Mexico - https://filmap.tumblr.com/post/710600105527492608/huesera-the-bone-woman-michelle-garza-cervera

View the spider sculpture, Maman, which is located in Mexico and provided director Michelle Garza Cervera with inspiration for all the spidery bits of the film - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/266134659203468150/ 

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If there's a movie you'd like us to review or a creator you'd like us to interview, send us an email at [email protected]. We're happy to consider your suggestions. 

Stay spooky, Pod People. 

Podcast intro - Music by The_Mountain from Pixabay
Podcast outro - Music by ComaStudio from Pixabay

We talk to poet, author, and sex worker Stephanie Parent about her novel, The Briars. We discuss what the media gets wrong about sex work, contemporary Gothic storytelling, the thin line between pleasure and pain, feminine rage, queer love, ghosts, and more.  

You can purchase The Briars through: 

Cemetery Gates Media - https://cemeterygatesmedia.com/2023/02/12/the-briars/
Amazon - https://a.co/d/20mwD2N
Barnes and Noble - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-briars-stephanie-parent/1143395370

Be sure to also check out Stephanie's poetry collection, Every Poem a Potion, Every Song a Spell - https://a.co/d/h9xSLhu

Links to other media we discuss in the episode:

Cam trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN8xZ5WDonk - Streaming on Netflix 
Carmilla audiobook - https://www.audible.com/pd/Carmilla-Audiobook/B015RJL1Z6
Hustling Verse:  An Anthology of Sex Workers' Poetry - https://a.co/d/8lLL0BE 

Visit Stephanie's website: https://www.stephanieparent.net/ 
Follow her on IG:  sc_parent
Follow her on Twitter/X:  SC_Parent

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If there's a movie you'd like us to review or a creator you'd like us to interview, send us an email at [email protected]. We're happy to consider your suggestions. 

Stay spooky, Pod People. 

Podcast intro - Music by The_Mountain from Pixabay
Podcast outro - Music by ComaStudio from Pixabay

We talk to independent filmmaker Greg Pritikin about his latest feature, The Mistress, which debuted in select theaters this week. We discuss Greg's Queen Anne Victorian home in Angelino Heights, which served as the location for The Mistress; the biological desire to believe in the supernatural; the influence of Alfred Hitchcock and Psycho on The Mistress; intentionality in filmmaking; unreliable narrators; the power of a grand, orchestral score; and more. 

Fair warning, we explore all the twists and turns in The Mistress, including the big reveal at the end, so be sure to watch the movie first and then tune in for all the behind-the-scenes goodness and Easter eggs. 

Watch the trailer for The Mistress - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyYGA72qwsM

If the movie is playing at a theater near you, go treat yourself

And after you do, go check out the rest of Greg's filmography, including The Last Laugh, Dummy, Totally Confused, and Surviving Eden. 

Follow Greg on IG - @kidfromspain

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If there's a movie you'd like us to review or a creator you'd like us to interview, send us an email at [email protected]. We're happy to consider your suggestions. 

Stay spooky, Pod People. 

Podcast intro - Music by The_Mountain from Pixabay
Podcast outro - Music by ComaStudio from Pixabay

On this very special episode, Nikki interviews Horror in the Margins' very own Co-Host Tiffany Michelle Brown about her new feminist horror collection, How Lovely To Be a Woman: Stories and Poems.  We discuss the inspiration behind her most personal work, examine the terrifying consequences of societal conditioning and failings of white feminism, and celebrate unapologetically monstrous women.  

Content warnings include graphic violence, sexual harassment, body horror, fatphobia, cultural appropriation, and cultural fetishization.  All warnings are listed at the back of this book.

Tiffany expertly curated a playlist to accompany the book and set the mood:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0rQkigQLJ5VnxbAs98TxEN?si=12d4c5e280284bef

And w recommend sipping Tiffany's Seeing Double Cocktail while listening:

• 1.5 oz gin
• .5 oz. elderflower liquor
• .5 oz Aperol
• 1 oz Lemon Juice
• 3 Maraschino Cherries
• 1 Tsp Maraschino Cherry Juice

Combine Ingredients and Serve on the Rocks (Please Drink Responsibly)

You can purchase How Lovely To Be a Woman through:

• Verbatim Books - North Park, San Diego
• Artifact Books - Encinitas, San Diego - beginning August 12 
• Barnes and Noble - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-lovely-to-be-a-woman-tiffany-michelle-brown/1143367932?ean=9798218193799   
• Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C31W43WS?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_2WR65QZSN931SWKGBT3B

Visit Tiffany's website - https://www.tmbwrites.com/
Follow Tiffany on Twitter - @TiffeBrown
And on IG - @Tmok85

We still have merch available for purchase through Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/HorrorintheMargins. All proceeds from June through August are going to the National Center for Transgender Equality - https://transequality.org/.  And come meet us at Midsummer Scream, June 29 at the Long Beach Convention Center: https://midsummerscream.org/ 

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If there's a movie you'd like us to review or a creator you'd like us to interview, send us an email at [email protected]. We're happy to consider your suggestions. 

Stay spooky, Pod People. 

Podcast intro - Music by The_Mountain from Pixabay
Podcast outro - Music by ComaStudio from Pixabay

We discuss the genre-defying Polish film The Lure directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska, based loosely on the Hans Christian Anderson fairytale The Little Mermaid. We talk about man-eating sirens, the tension between fame and family, the themes of exploitation and agency, and monstrous sexuality. Also, did we mention this one's a musical?

Content warnings for discussions of sexual exploitation and brief sexual assault, as well as body horror and some gore.

The Lure is available to view on HuluMax and to rent on Amazon Prime, YouTube, Google Play, Apple TV, and Vudu. 

If you want to watch more compelling mermaid content, we recommend the docuseries MerPeople on Netflix. 

Also, don't miss out on our Horror in the Margins merch, now available for purchase through our Etsy shop at https://www.etsy.com/shop/HorrorintheMargins. All proceeds from the sale of HITM merch will go to our charity beneficiary for the quarter - June through August - the National Center for Transgender Equality - https://transequality.org/. 

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If there's a movie you'd like us to review or a creator you'd like us to interview, send us an email at [email protected]. We're happy to consider your suggestions. 

Stay spooky, Pod People. 

Podcast intro - Music by The_Mountain from Pixabay
Podcast outro - Music by ComaStudio from Pixabay

We talk to Bram Stoker Award-nominated author J.A.W. McCarthy about her rock and roll succubi novella Sleep Alone. We discuss the best live shows we've ever been to and what made them memorable, our belief that succubi and vampires are inherently queer, body horror, intergenerational trauma, and the undeniable importance of belonging. 

AND because Sleep Alone is very much a novella about music, we built a collaborative playlist that we've dubbed the Sleep Alone Mixtape, available on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6J6Wgk4Rw67oj7e9tj3CmG?si=203cf8be4b2c4dca

Purchase Sleep Alone through:

• IndieBound - https://bookshop.org/p/books/sleep-alone-j-a-w-mccarthy/19773192?ean=9781737463399
• Barnes and Noble - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sleep-alone-j-a-w-mccarthy/1143087717
• Amazon - https://a.co/d/ed5bPuc

Visit Jen's website - https://www.jawmccarthy.com/

Follow Jen on Twitter - @JAWMcCarthy
Follow Jen on IG - @jawmccarthy

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If there's a movie you'd like us to review or a creator you'd like us to interview, send us an email at [email protected]. We're happy to consider your suggestions. 

Stay spooky, Pod People. 

Podcast intro - Music by The_Mountain from Pixabay
Podcast outro - Music by ComaStudio from Pixabay

Happy Pride, Pod People!  During June, we're spotlighting works that explore gender and sensuality and represent the queer experience. 

Pride is a time to celebrate but also a time to recognize the LGBTQIA community is under attack and needs our support. Please consider supporting the queer community however you can, not only this month, but year-round.

For our Pride film discussion, we watched Titane directed by the inimitable French director Julia Ducournau. We talk about the wide, beautiful spectrum of gender expression and identity, the very different ways in which the same character can experience the world as female-presenting or male-presenting, the body horror subgenre, weird eroticism, and the absolute force that is actor Agathe Rousselle.

Content warnings for discussions of body horror, pregnancy and birth, verbal assault, and violence.

Titane is available to view on Hulu and to rent on YouTube, Google Play, Redbox, and Vudu. 

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If there's a movie you'd like us to review or a creator you'd like us to interview, send us an email at [email protected]. We're happy to consider your suggestions. 

Stay spooky, Pod People. 

Podcast intro - Music by The_Mountain from Pixabay
Podcast outro - Music by ComaStudio from Pixabay

We discuss Piggy directed by Carlota Pereda, based on her 2019 short film of the same name. We talk about the ways in which Piggy subverts the classic revenge narrative through a rich and nuanced coming-of-age story, the often-problematic portrayal of fat characters and bodies within the horror genre, and how tempting it is to fall for the bad boy...even when he's, you know, a serial killer. Oops.

Content warnings for discussions of violence against women, torture, fat shaming, bullying, and fatphobia.

Piggy is available to view on Hulu and to rent on Amazon Prime, YouTube, Google Play, Redbox, and Vudu. 

You can watch the Piggy short film on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/WHgh2ajazTw

You can watch Carlota Pereda's other short film, Here There Be Monsters, on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/QAcbR5fY5-A

If you want to read some fat-positive horror, check out Diet Riot: A Fatterpunk Anthology edited by Nico Bell and Sonora Taylor: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59979983-diet-riot

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If there's a movie you'd like us to review or a creator you'd like us to interview, send us an email at [email protected]. We're happy to consider your suggestions. 

Stay spooky, Pod People. 

Podcast intro - Music by The_Mountain from Pixabay
Podcast outro - Music by ComaStudio from Pixabay

We talk to Nebula Award-nominated author Ai Jiang about her latest release, Linghun, now available through Dark Matter Press. We discuss the myriad ways in which grief can haunt us, the capitalistic exploitation of sorrow in the town of HOME, the innate power of names, loss in the context of immigration, and the importance of letting go of the dead in order to live. 

Also, we forgot to mention it while recording, but Ai created a PLAYLIST for Linghun, which you can listen to on:

• YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL98PVY7e4LpInAnwCeedpSnTXpp-MRZXq
• Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0WfyJNeikGV6jYohlOEHrR?si=944dc1042fca4da4

Purchase Linghun through:

• Dark Matter Press - https://darkmattermagazine.shop/products/linghun
• Barnes and Noble - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/linghun-ai-jiang/1143174186
• Bookshop.org - https://bookshop.org/p/books/linghun-ai-jiang/19876482
• Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Linghun-Ai-Jiang/dp/195859802X

Visit Ai's website - https://aijiang.ca/

Follow Ai on Twitter - @AiJiang_

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If there's a movie you'd like us to review or a creator you'd like us to interview, send us an email at [email protected]. We're happy to consider your suggestions. 

Stay spooky, Pod People. 

Podcast intro - Music by The_Mountain from Pixabay
Podcast outro - Music by ComaStudio from Pixabay

We discuss Tigers Are Not Afraid directed by Issa López. We talk about magical realism, fairytales, the price of magic, and the powerful lens of horror filmmaking to explore harrowing reality of gang violence, human trafficking, and missing women and children worldwide.

Content warnings for discussions of violence against women and children, school shootings, and human trafficking.

Tigers Are Not Afraid is available to view on Shudder. 

Note - We had slight technical difficulties while recording this episode, but we'll get everything dialed in for next time. Thanks for hanging in there with us!

Podcast intro - Music by The_Mountain from Pixabay
Podcast outro - Music by ComaStudio from Pixabay

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If there's a movie you'd like us to review or a creator you'd like us to interview, send us an email at [email protected]. We're happy to consider your suggestions.

Stay spooky, Pod People.

Podcast intro - Music by The_Mountain from Pixabay
Podcast outro - Music by ComaStudio from Pixabay

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If there's a movie you'd like us to review or a creator you'd like us to interview, send us an email at [email protected]. We're happy to consider your suggestions. 

Stay spooky, Pod People. 

Podcast intro - Music by The_Mountain from Pixabay
Podcast outro - Music by ComaStudio from Pixabay