Progressively Horrified

Fear Level: Spoopy
Trigger Warnings: blood, violence, eyeball trauma, bi stereotypes, gay slurs (used in community), trans slurs (used outside community), flashing lights

• Director: Paul Etheredge
• Writers: Paul Etheredge
• Stars: Dylan Fergus, Bryan Kirkwood, Hank Harris, Andrew Levitas, Matt Phillips, Kent Bradley James

Topics of Discussion:
-The audacious whiteness of this film
-Questionable cisness (or is it)
-Balloon related mysteries
-Finding parking in LA, am I right?
-Eddie's dad, the stripper...definitely not a real cop
-Accidents involving laying pipe
-Toby, you complicated bastard, how we love you
-A demonic clap on the shoulder
-So high, he didn't know he was dead
-"I look like my mom"
-The condom song
-What the EF is biker bf's deal?
-Squall Leonhart

Recommendations:
-The Gay and Wonderous Life of Caleb Gallow
-Freaky
-Hedwig and the Angry Inch
-Queer as Folk
-Velvet Goldmine
-Revolutionary Girl Utena
-Night of the Demons
-Spiral
-The Quiet Room
-Knife and Heart

Follow our guests:

Terra Acevedo
Twitter: @ThatsSoTerra
Instagram: @HoneyTwat

Manuel Vielma
IG: @msvjr
Horror Dessert Blog

The Final Thems Podcast:
Spotify
Podbean
Twitter: @finalthems

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Fear Level: Terrifying, Existentially disconcerting
Trigger Warnings: rape/sexual assault, insomnia, OCD, eating disorders, auditory and visual hallucinations

• Director: Darren Aronofsky
• Writers: Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, John J. McLaughlin
• Stars: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Rider

Did you watch Annihilation and think "I'd like to see another movie where Natalie Portman attempts to fight herself?" Well, have I got good news for you! It's time for sexual harassment, horrible hallucinations, and ballet that will keep you awake at night. Let's talk Black Swan with our friends Megan Brown and Elizabeth Brei

Topics of Discussion:

• Body horror is just a cool side effect of ballet
• Artistic Madness
• Mirrors: the true horror
• Treatment of mental illness
• Does this movie know it's about sexual harassment? Discuss!
• This is the wrong kind of sexual harassment
• Vincent Cassel, our worst villain yet
• Consult a lady
• Lily gets a bad rap
• The eerie similarities of Winona Rider
• MOM! GET OUT OF MY ROOM! I'M TRYING TO GET OFF!
• The problem with sexuality in this movie
• This movie is broken because it relies on the concept that people don't think Natalie Portman is potentially attractive
• THE MALE GAZE

Recommendations:

• Whiplash
• Sebastian Stan
• Chopping Mall
• Attack of the Clones?
• Suspiria
• Paranoia Agent
• Misandrists
• Climax
• Step Up 2: The Streets
• Birdman
• Perfect Blue
• Hannibal
• Requiem for a Dream
• The Wrestler
• Pi
• The Dream of a Beast by Neil Jordan
• The Machinist
• Jupiter Ascending

Follow our guests:

Megan Brown
Twitter: @megan_mb

Elizabeth Brei
Twitter: @peachchild

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Hope you all are doing well!
Last Friday we released an episode about Annihilation, so go watch Natalie Portman and Tessa Thompson and Gina Rodriguez fight giant alligators!
This week not only did we rerelease our episode about Craft Legacy on Monday, but we have a brand new episode on Black Swan coming this week and it guest starts editors extraordinaire Megan Brown and Elizabeth Brei! Come back and watch it with us on Friday!

Fear Level: Spoopy (not scary)
Trigger Warnings: Mind control, abusive parents, blood, embarrassment 

• Directors: Zoe Lister-Jones
• Writers: Zoe Lister-Jones, Peter Filardi
• Stars: Cailee Spaeny, Zoey Luna, Gideon Adlon, Lovie Simone, David Duchovny, Michelle Monaghan  

Did you ever meet somebody who seemed really great and begin what felt like it was going to be a deep and fulfilling relationship and then it turned out that they never made good on any of their promises?

Nevermind, I don't know why I brought that up.

The Craft: Legacy is the sequel/reboot/remake of the classic The Craft for 2020 that has so much going for it. The young actresses are all great. One of the main characters is trans and is played by a young trans actress. David Duchovny is here to handle the creeping you out so that none of our girls have to go mad with power and pull a Dark Phoenix.

So why doesn't it work? Well...there are a few reasons but you'll have to listen to the podcast to find out for sure.

Topics of Discussion:
-Princess Nokia
-Mysterious self-cleaning jeans
-Shadows
-Dangling plot threads
-Meaningful representation
-Daddy Duchovny
-The Red Flag Factory
-Dickensian orphans

Recommendations:
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Teen Witch
Riverdale
Sailor Moon
The Books of Jonathan Stroud
Witch Hunt Atelier
Gideon the Ninth

Follow our guests:
Alicia Whitley on twitter: @aliciawhitley
Alicia Whitley on Instagram: @alburnet

Allie Mullin on twitter: @alliemullin
Allie Mullin on Instagram: @alliemullin
Allie's Photography Website: alliemullin.com

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Fear Level: Existentially disconcerting
Trigger Warnings: Gaslighting, dismemberment, blood, frightening imagery, pretentious assholes 

• Director/Writer: Alex Garland (Ex-Machina, 28 Days Later, Devs, Batman Black and White)
• Based on the novel by: Jeff VanDerMeer
• Stars: Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tuva Novotny, Benedict Wong, Oscar Isaac, 

Did you ever get assigned a group project that went so bad you decided you'd rather fuck off and become a bush? We've all been there. Annihilation understands you. It wants to get inside you. It wants to change your dna into special sparkly rainbow dna. Come for the beaches made of crystal, stay for the vibrating alien meat cube. It's Annihilation, the movie we can't possibly spoil because we honestly don't know what happened. And so can you!

Topics of Discussion:

• Oscar Isaac: not a valid test of straightness
• Oscar Isaac: too short to be a bear? A sun bear maybe?
• The revenge of the shitty infidelity subplot
• Gina Rodriguez: a difficult topic of conversation
• Gina Rodriguez: butch gay icon?
• Benedict Wong: a person you could pay to deliver a dozen lines from inside a containment suit, I guess.
• Refractions
• Prisms: How do they work?
• Never assume the straightness of Tessa Thompson characters
• When is an alligator like a flower?
• A short list of things intestines shouldn't do
• In rural Florida, bear calls you.
• Cass has never met tea she didn't want to spill
• I think I'd rather be a bush than keep talking to you
• LIGHTHOUSES ARE SYMBOLIC
• A very important meat cube

Recommendations:
The Southern Reach book trilogy by Jeff VanDerMeer
Junji Ito's "Fragments of Horror"
Uzimaki
Take a bunch of Nyquil and play No Man's Sky
Dead Space
The Thing
Altered States
2001: A Space Odyssey
Neon Genesis: Evangelion
Adolescence of Utena
Mushishi
Tanis (Podcast)
Contact
Arrival
Ex Machina
Under the Skin
Solaris
Sunshine
Alan Moore's Swamp Thing

Follow our guests:

Vita Ayala
Twitter: @definitelyvita

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OH MY GOD! HOW DID THIS HAPPEN!

Actually I can tell you how it happened! We recorded a podcast about Anna and the Apocalypse and since we talked about our favorite tiny queer girl, Steph North, a whole bunch I tagged actress Sarah Swire in the tweet about the episode and then both she and Alan McDonald, the writer of Anna and the Apocalypse got in touch to say thanks for the shout outs in the episode and then Jeremy was like "Hey would you guys want to come on and talk about Anna and the Apocalypse and they both said yes and we had to do it at a weird time of day because Alan is in Scotland so Chris couldn't make it but she was there in spirit.

Topics of conversation are far ranging but include:
-Not burying your gays
-Singing
-Dancing
-Choreographing
-The many times of year during which different drafts of this movie were set
-Creating honest queerness in your characters
-Female protagonists not being your prize for hanging around long enough
-Sliding Doors alternate universe where this movie never happens
-Why directors should always want writers on their set
-Overcoming traditional masculinity at the end of the world
-Sarah's voice and how it's very good
-Ben Wiggins, the man who makes a mockery out of the concept of sexuality
-Optimus Prime's Linked in account

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Check out Emily's art and art classes at: http://www.megamoth.net/

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Fright Level: Spoopy (not scary) with mild jump scares and moderate existential dread
Trigger Warnings: zombies, gore, pandemics, high school, musicals, Christmas

Anna and the Apocalypse is a 2017 horror/comedy/musical from Scotland that combines our love of musicals set in high schools and zombie horror comedies set in England. It's directed by John McPhail and it stars Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Christopher Leveaux, Marli Siu, Mark Benton, Paul Kaye, and the podcast's new girlfriend Sarah Swire and new boyfriend Ben Wiggins.

This movie has us co-sleeping in ballpits, fantasizing about power throuples, and examining the effects of toxic masculinity on how we deal with apocalypses and friendships. We also talk extensively about Sarah Swire's portrayal of Steph North and how rare it is to have a non-sexualized queer woman with social anxiety, a warm winter wardrobe, and a hatchback in a horror movie, despite the fact that that describes a quarter of our friend group. We are Soldiers at War for this movie and Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now.

Recommendations:
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Feed by Mira Grant
Cobra Kai
Paper Girls

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Fear Level: Existentially disconcerting
Trigger Warnings: Gaslighting, dismemberment, blood, frightening imagery, pretentious assholes 

• Director/Writers: Dan Gilroy (Writer: Freejack, Kong Skull Island, Real Steel, Bourne Legacy and director of Roman J Israel and Nightcrawler)
• Stars: Jake Gyllanhal, Renee Russo, Toni Colette, Zawe Ashton, John Malkovich, Daveed Diggs, Tom Sturridge, Natalia Dyer

This week we bring you something notably less moist than the Alien movies! It's a movie about art that kills you (and of course all the assholes in the art market who join in along the way). We've got bisexual Jake Gyllenhaal. We've got neurotic John Malkovich. We've got absolutely magic (and gay) Rene Russo! What more could you want? If you answer was murderous monkeys, well, somehow you're in luck. It's Velvet Buzzsaw time!

Topics of Discussion:

• The magic of Gyllenhaal
• Malkovich!
• I built a railroad!
• No you didn't you white son of a bitch!
• Put your hand in me and see what happens!
• Evil cat
• Magic monkeys of the ghost gas station and other Goosebumps titles
• Poor Coco
• My respect for your work has evaporated
• Always a critic, never a mourner
• What's the point of art if it's never seen?

Recommendations:
Nightcrawler
The Cell
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - "Dee Makes a Smut Film"
Basquiat
Memory & Dream
House of Leaves
The Fall
Donnie Darko

Follow our guests:

Sam Beck
Twitter: @SamBeckDraws
Insta: @SamBeckDraws

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GO BUY BEN'S GRAPHIC NOVEL "Renegade Rule" RIGHT NOW!

It's our extra long pride month, so be sure you check out our new episodes about queer horror movies and our rereleases of some of our favorite episodes about LGBT Horror films! New ones every Friday, rereleases every Monday!

It's a rerelease of our first episode just for Pride! Hear all about Jennifer's Body, one of our favorite movies and cult queer horror at its finest

Fright Level: Spoopy (not scary)
Trigger Warnings: gaslighting, kidnapping, cannibalism, possession, toxic friendships, use of disability slurs

Jennifer's Body is the 2009 horror/comedy from director Karyn Kusama (The Invitation, Girlfight) and writer Diablo Cody (Juno) starring Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, and Adam Brody. It was torn up by critics and well known for having one of the worst advertising campaigns ever, but has since become a cult classic with queer horror fans and especially queer women. Why?

Because it's actually really freaking good! It's a story about toxic friendships, blossoming queer relationships, 2000's indie emo bands, and ritual sacrifice and we're gonna tell you why it might be a modern queer feminist horror masterpiece.

Also: Megan Fox is great, actually and we as a society owe her a huge apology.

Recommendations:
Shaun of the Dead
The Descent
Ready or Not

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Chris's other Podcast "Gotham Outsiders: A Batman Book Club Podcast"

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