Happy Halloween! This week, we’re talking horror films: the genre’s queer roots, female villains reclaiming their bodies, and how American Horror Story altered our brain chemistries, for better or for worse. 

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Julia Métraux, ⁠"The Very Human Appeal of ‘American Horror Story"⁠ (JSTOR)

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Timestamps:

Intro 00:00

Our Favorite Horror Films 01:41

Horror and Queerness 06:27

Scream Queens 09:43

American Horror Story 12:05

Tate Langdon 14:13

AHS Asylum 20:29

AHS Bringing Horror to the Mainstream 21:53

Religion and Horror 24:28

Autonomy and Horror 25:48

Final Girls 28:00

Horror vs. Thriller 29:01

Found Footage 29:53

Men are Always the Problem 32:48

Cannibalism in Horror 34:13

Eat the Rich 34:57

Horror is the Working Man's Genre 37:30

What are we afraid of? 37:43

Horror Tropes 43:55

Outro 47:11

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