Not Your Final Girl

We're shrinking heads in 2021. For the first double feature of the year we have clinical psychologist, filmmaker, and professor Jan Haaken discussing the horrors of the body, the bonds that form family, and stuff that looks like buttholes in Sea Fever and Relic - both 2020 movies with female directors. You love to see it, folks.

Check out our guest Jan Haaken at https://www.jhaaken.com/, where you can find her films, books, and projects.

Jan Haaken is professor emeritus of psychology at Portland State University, a clinical psychologist and documentary filmmaker. From refugee camps, abortion clinics, war zones, and mental hospitals to drag bars, dairy farms and hip-hop clubs, Haaken’s documentaries focus on people and places on the social margins, drawing out their insights on the world around them. Her documentaries center on labor carried out in liminal spaces and on difficult jobs that are not well understood. Haaken has taught film theory at Portland State University and consulted on documentary and visual storytelling as a Fulbright scholar at Durham University (UK) and University College Cork(Ireland) and as a visiting professor at London School of Economics (UK), YorkUniversity (UK), and University of Michigan Ann Arbor. She is a member of FilmFatales—a national organization of recognized female film directors and has received numerous awards for her filmmaking, most recently the Lena Sharpe Persistence of Vision award at the 2019 Seattle International Film Festival. In addition to a series of shorts, Haaken has directed six feature-length films, including Queens of Heart (2006) Guilty Except for Insanity (2009),Mind Zone: Therapists Behind the Front Lines (2014), MilkMen: The Life and Times of Dairy Farmers (2016), Our Bodies Our Doctors (2019), and Necessity: Oil,Water and Climate Resistance—(not yet released). Necessity Part II is currently in production.

A proud part of the Morbidly Beautiful Podcast Network. Our drive for intersectionality aligns well with the Morbidly Beautiful ethos. We love that MB is a nonprofit that gives back to the horror community, and are thrilled to be a part of the network! Show now also streaming on morbidlybeautiful.com!

Movies Discussed: Sea Fever (2020), Relic (2020)

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I am Not Your Final Girl by Claire C. Holland- https://www.amazon.com/Am-Not-Your-Final-Girl/dp/0692966633

Bandcamp- arieldyer.bandcamp.com

Show art by Brian Demarest: instagram.com/evilflynn

Hey cool cats, we've got something a little different for you this week. Back in October, we got to talk to the women of HelloBakersfield, a podcast devoted to exploring the people, places and culture of Bakersfield. We discuss the ins and outs of podcasting, how to get started on your very own podcast, and being a woman in the world of podcasts. If you're looking to start your pod, now's the time! Feel free to hit us up if you want any specific advice, too at [email protected]. 

A proud part of the Morbidly Beautiful Podcast Network. Our drive for intersectionality aligns well with the Morbidly Beautiful ethos. We love that MB is a nonprofit that gives back to the horror community, and are thrilled to be a part of the network! Show now also streaming on morbidlybeautiful.com!

Movies Discussed: Scare Me (2020)

Links: IG- instagram.com/nyfgpod Twitter- twitter.com/nyfgpod FB- facebook.com/nyfgpodcast/ Pod merch- https://society6.com/nyfgpod

I am Not Your Final Girl by Claire C. Holland- https://www.amazon.com/Am-Not-Your-Final-Girl/dp/0692966633

Bandcamp- arieldyer.bandcamp.com

Show art by Gabi Steiger: instagram.com/rabbitfoods

Vampire Girl art by Brian Demarest: instagram.com/evilflynn

Breaking the fourth wall and beyond in this episode with special guest Anna Mavromati of the L.A. based immersive theatre company, the Shine on Collective! Anna- writer, horror movie aficionado, professor, and all-around cool cat- chose the 2020 American horror comedy film SCARE ME written, directed, and produced by Josh Ruben and streaming for your viewing pleasure now on Shudder (we talk about Shudder so much. Sponsor us you cowards!).

Join us for a discussion that touches on transcending the boundaries of traditional theatre and storytelling in a pandemic, then veers off into improv actors doing cocaine in an isolated cabin, what it takes to be a writer, and the undeniable acting prowess of Chris Redd. We think Stephen King would be all over this shit.

Please check out the Shine On Collective, an award-winning Los Angeles-based theater organization that produces unusual and original performance installations! You can find out more about their latest experience Welcome Home, now shipping across the United States, at their website: http://www.shineoncollective.com/home. We highly recommend it. Follow on social media here: https://twitter.com/shineonshows,  https://www.instagram.com/shineoncollective/,   https://www.facebook.com/TheShineOnCollective/

A proud part of the Morbidly Beautiful Podcast Network. Our drive for intersectionality aligns well with the Morbidly Beautiful ethos. We love that MB is a nonprofit that gives back to the horror community, and are thrilled to be a part of the network! Show now also streaming on morbidlybeautiful.com!

Movies Discussed: Scare Me (2020)

Links: IG- instagram.com/nyfgpod Twitter- twitter.com/nyfgpod FB- facebook.com/nyfgpodcast/ Pod merch- https://society6.com/nyfgpod

I am Not Your Final Girl by Claire C. Holland- https://www.amazon.com/Am-Not-Your-Final-Girl/dp/0692966633

Bandcamp- arieldyer.bandcamp.com

Show art by Gabi Steiger: instagram.com/rabbitfoods

Vampire Girl art by Brian Demarest: instagram.com/evilflynn

What a sweet episode we’ve got for you this time - sweet as in both incredibly wholesome and also as in cool rock n roll murder stuff too. This episode really does have everything, listeners. We had a whale of a time with ScreenVomit co-host Kayla talking about Serial Mom (1994), a rollicking John Waters crime spree with an amazing cast, and The Orphanage (2007), a Spanish ghost story that is poetic, shocking, and devastating in equal turns. Sounds heavy? Don’t worry, we also have body horror and house fire stories. You’re gonna love it.

Otherwise, stay tuned for some severe hot takes, formative horror movies, minor discussion of Indianapolis Underground Railroad architecture, and the coolest horror moms on the block.

Please check out ScreenVomit! Candace went on to talk about Gone Girl, for better or worse, on this episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gone-girl-leave-the-himbos-alone-feat-candace-sluder/id1458687219?i=1000495369116 but you should listen to all of it. We recommend it. Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/screenvomit/id1458687219 and follow on social media here: https://twitter.com/screenvomit, https://www.instagram.com/screenvomit/, https://www.facebook.com/screenvomit/

A proud part of the Morbidly Beautiful Podcast Network. Our drive for intersectionality aligns well with the Morbidly Beautiful ethos. We love that MB is a nonprofit that gives back to the horror community, and are thrilled to be a part of the network! Show now also streaming on morbidlybeautiful.com!

Movies Discussed: Serial Mom (1994), The Orphanage (2007)

Links: IG- instagram.com/nyfgpod Twitter- twitter.com/nyfgpod FB- facebook.com/nyfgpodcast/ pod merch- https://society6.com/nyfgpod 

I am Not Your Final Girl by Claire C. Holland- https://www.amazon.com/Am-Not-Your-Final-Girl/dp/0692966633

Bandcamp- arieldyer.bandcamp.com

Show art by Gabi Steiger: instagram.com/rabbitfoods

Vampire Girl art by Brian Demarest: instagram.com/evilflynn

We’re back, ghouls! We were tempted to call this one Witches Ain’t Shit, except that really isn’t true since the witches in both our movies are powerful and mysterious and we definitely don’t want to incur their wrath.

Thank you very much to our delightful guest, film producer Maya Korn, for our double feature today: Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977) and Maya’s own production, Diabla (2019). Suspiria is a classic and a massive influence on modern horror from its fever dream visuals to its synths. Also maggots fall from the ceiling, which always soothes the soul. Following that, Diabla is as new, throbbing, and raw as a freshly severed body part. Sound intriguing? Wait til you watch it.

We know it’s almost Thanksgiving, but we recorded this episode closer to Halloween, so that’s why we spend the beginning talking about costumes. Just pretend we’re talking about cosplay. We look forward to the day ComicCon is back in person so Candace can be seen in her full Sexy Jon Arbuckle regalia.

Great news, Diabla is on the festival circuit, meaning you can get in on this indie horror action. Keep up with it here: facebook.com/DiablaFilm/ & https://www.instagram.com/diablafilm/

A proud part of the Morbidly Beautiful Podcast Network. Our drive for intersectionality aligns well with the Morbidly Beautiful ethos. We love that MB is a nonprofit that gives back to the horror community, and are thrilled to be a part of the network! Show now also streaming on morbidlybeautiful.com!

Movies discussed: Suspria (1977), Diabla (2019)

Links: IG- instagram.com/nyfgpod Twitter- twitter.com/nyfgpod FB- facebook.com/nyfgpodcast/

I am Not Your Final Girl by Claire C. Holland- https://www.amazon.com/Am-Not-Your-Final-Girl/dp/0692966633

Bandcamp- arieldyer.bandcamp.com

Show art by Gabi Steiger: instagram.com/rabbitfoods

Vampire Girl art by Brian Demarest: instagram.com/evilflynn

You ever commune with the creatures of the night? We did in this episode and folks, we’re here to tell you: the thirst for human blood transcends gender binaries. But you knew that already, right?

First off, we’ve got an incompetent familiar, voyeurism, social outcasts, and the most romantic bloodbath we’ve ever seen in Let the Right One In. Also someone bursts into flames. You love to see it. Then in Bit we’ve got Laurel, a queer trans girl, leaving her small town behind and falling in with a vampire girl gang in LA. But also they have an evil heart in a box, Nazi vampires hunters after them, and everyone is generally kind of terrible. Ah, the pains of growing up - or becoming immortal, or whatever.

Next up: Cishet Werewolves. Just kidding. Or are we? Weigh in on this very important topic in our pit of discussion, Not Your Final Girl Gang on Facebook. We also share memes and incantations there, dance naked under the full moon, and stare into the endless blackness of the abyss. Please be our friend! Right here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/409584323316170

A proud part of the Morbidly Beautiful Podcast Network. Our drive for intersectionality aligns well with the Morbidly Beautiful ethos. We love that MB is a nonprofit that gives back to the horror community, and are thrilled to be a part of the network! Show now also streaming on morbidlybeautiful.com!

Movies discussed: Let the Right One In (2008), Bit (2019)

Links: IG- instagram.com/nyfgpod Twitter- twitter.com/nyfgpod FB- facebook.com/nyfgpodcast/

I am Not Your Final Girl by Claire C. Holland- https://www.amazon.com/Am-Not-Your-Final-Girl/dp/0692966633

Bandcamp- arieldyer.bandcamp.com

Show art by Gabi Steiger: instagram.com/rabbitfoods

Vampire Girl art by Brian Demarest: instagram.com/evilflynn

We’re covering two Latin American horror movies in this episode; get on this rollercoaster ride of emotions with us. First off, La Llorona (the good one), a ghost story dealing with colonization and genocide, then we’ve got Tigers Are Not Afraid bringing up the rear with cartel violence and homeless orphans. It’s a lot! Fortunately, your hosts and their guest, screenwriter and actress Deanna Gomez, can offer you some jokes in this trying time.

Other topics covered: our embarrassing high school times, interesting facts about ourselves, Twitter fights, yelling about horror criticism, and Candace’s presidential campaign’s hot-button issue - legally requiring Andy Serkis in a motion capture suit to play every child’s role in any movie.

There’s more too. We were very chatty in this one. Reminder to join our Facebook group, Not Your Final Girl Gang to be chatty with us. Also, if you’re so inclined, take this survey and tell us what you hate about us. Or like. It’s anonymous so have at it. Please and thank you. https://surveymonkey.com/r/265HP76

A proud part of the Morbidly Beautiful Podcast Network. Our drive for intersectionality aligns well with the Morbidly Beautiful ethos. We love that MB is a nonprofit that gives back to the horror community, and are thrilled to be a part of the network! Show now also streaming on morbidlybeautiful.com!

Movies discussed: La Llorona (2019), Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017)

Check out Deanna’s screenwriter collective The Write or Die Chicks here: https://thewodc.com/

Links: IG- instagram.com/nyfgpod Twitter- twitter.com/nyfgpod FB- facebook.com/nyfgpodcast/

I am Not Your Final Girl by Claire C. Holland- https://www.amazon.com/Am-Not-Your-Final-Girl/dp/0692966633

Bandcamp- arieldyer.bandcamp.com

Show art by Gabi Steiger: instagram.com/rabbitfoods

Vampire Girl art by Brian Demarest: instagram.com/evilflynn

Are you ready to be scared and gay? Well, you better be, cause it’s the spooky month AND our freakin one year anniversary. In this episode, we’re digging into three Gothic tales of horror from when the world was still black and white. These movies have everything: repressed queerness, subversive empathy, rabid squirrels, the looming threat of forced institutionalization, candles, and a soggy dead guy, just for starters. We’ve got three different studios and three different decades going on here, but some intriguingly common themes - it’s almost as if people have always tackled topics like gender and sexuality and disability. Hmm. 

Aside from our movies, we’ll also talk about our own Halloween traditions - how Ariel wrings every bit of festivity from the season, while Candace just kind of lets Halloween come to her - as well as what’s coming up for the future of the pod. New movies? Old movies? More Hammer films? Satanist lesbians? You know it.

Thanks for one year, you beautiful ghouls! Without you, we’d just be yelling about horror movies at each other. Which would still be fun, of course, but not nearly as fun as yelling with you all.

A proud part of the Morbidly Beautiful Podcast Network. Our drive for intersectionality aligns well with the Morbidly Beautiful ethos. We love that MB is a nonprofit that gives back to the horror community, and are thrilled to be a part of the network! Show now also streaming on morbidlybeautiful.com!

Movies discussed: Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Links: IG- instagram.com/nyfgpod Twitter- twitter.com/nyfgpod FB- facebook.com/nyfgpodcast/

I am Not Your Final Girl by Claire C. Holland- https://www.amazon.com/Am-Not-Your-Final-Girl/dp/0692966633

Bandcamp- arieldyer.bandcamp.com

Show art by Gabi Steiger: instagram.com/rabbitfoods

Vampire Girl art by Brian Demarest: instagram.com/evilflynn

Well, we made it, folks. It’s our first filmmaker guest ever! In this episode, we’ll go all the way back to Fran Zapata’s childhood memories of parental gorilla mask pranks, and get into two movies that she loves: Don’t Breathe (2016) and Veronica (2017).

Pull up a pile of frozen peas and text us when you get to The Scene. We’ll discuss representations of blind characters in both our movies, the dividing line between thriller and horror, the impulse to write Fucked Up stuff, and whether your pets look at you like a giant chicken leg (which, ours do not, by the way. They love us and would never eat us). Also we demanded Fran make our podcast into a movie, so keep an eye out for our mind-bendy pod people (get it?) flick, coming whenever we can lure in a corporate sponsor. We’re selling out, baby!

We’ve got some good energy in this one. Great vibes all around, honestly. If only Veronica had done a seance with us instead of her terrible friends.

Check out Fran Zapata @franmakeshorror on Instagram and on Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/user113038093

A proud part of the Morbidly Beautiful Podcast Network. Our drive for intersectionality aligns well with the Morbidly Beautiful ethos. We love that MB is a nonprofit that gives back to the horror community, and are thrilled to be a part of the network! Show now also streaming on morbidlybeautiful.com!

Movies discussed:

Don’t Breathe (2016)

Links: IG- instagram.com/nyfgpod Twitter- twitter.com/nyfgpod FB- facebook.com/nyfgpodcast/

I am Not Your Final Girl by Claire C. Holland- https://www.amazon.com/Am-Not-Your-Final-Girl/dp/0692966633

Bandcamp- arieldyer.bandcamp.com

Show art by Gabbi Steiger: instagram.com/rabbitfoods

Vampire Girl art by Brian Demarest: instagram.com/evilflynn

A very special episode of Not Your Final Girl, in which we must admit that sometimes cyber bullying does actually pay off. Cabins: Are they worth all the murder and mayhem? Candace, Gaby, and Ariel discuss the finer points of rich aunts, fraught female relationships, beautiful psychopathic wives, and the dangers of clout chasing in our movies, What Keeps You Alive (2018) and Always Shine (2016). Thank you to our new friend Jalapeño Jared for talking shit on Ariel’s music page and inspiring us to get into this particular sub-subgenre (?) of cabin horror - where the real danger lies within the people closest to you.

Pull up a seat and join us to get into some twisty-turny mind-bendy madness, including sabotage, betrayal, rowboat fights, luminol baths, Chekov’s syringes, and boring bearded dudes. We promise it’ll be a fun and instructive time, especially if you happen to be planning on any cabin trips this fall (though, we’re only covering a fraction of cabin horrors here, so still be careful - there could still be forest demons and stuff). It’s Jalapeño Jared approved.

Do yourself and watch a movie, and listen on, losers. And so forth.

A proud part of the Morbidly Beautiful Podcast Network. Our drive for intersectionality aligns well with the Morbidly Beautiful ethos. We love that MB is a nonprofit that gives back to the horror community, and are thrilled to be a part of the network! Show now also streaming on morbidlybeautiful.com!

Movies discussed:

What Keeps You Alive (2018)

Always Shine (2016)

Links:

IG- instagram.com/nyfgpod

Twitter- twitter.com/nyfgpod

FB- facebook.com/nyfgpodcast/

I am Not Your Final Girl by Claire C. Holland- https://www.amazon.com/Am-Not-Your-Final-Girl/dp/0692966633

Bandcamp- arieldyer.bandcamp.com

Show art by Gabi Steiger: instagram.com/rabbitfoods

Vampire Girl art by Brian Demarest: instagram.com/evilflynn