Welcome to Season 2 of The Monstrous Feminine Podcast! To celebrate Pride month, we look at depictions of queerness in horror! 🏳️‍🌈

We cover a lot of ground in this episode. To start it off, we theorise why horror is appealing to queer audiences, and descend into ✨discourse✨ about pink-washing. We then move on to discuss why there is so much doppel-banging in queer horror. We also explore why telekinesis is a useful metaphor for repressing queerness. Finally, we scrutinise the links between religion, queerness and horror.

Get ready and go watch The Hunger (1983) 🧑🏻‍🎤🩸⚰️, Thelma (2017) 🧠🙇🏼‍♀️🙏🏻, and Saint Maud (2020) 👩🏻‍⚕️✝️🔥.

The Coven: Louisa, Mila, Tyia and Zeba

Theme Music and Transitions by: Ruud Bemelmans

‘Witch of the Week’ Music by: Sebastian Pizzaro

*CONTENT WARNING*

The Hunger (0:24:35-0:43:36): Violence, death, paedophilia, (child) murder, grooming, incest, HIV AIDs epidemic and homophobia

Thelma (0:43:36-1:08:11): Violence, death, homophobia, religious trauma, sexual coercion, drugging, gaslighting and (infant) murder

Saint Maud (1:08:11-1:42:19): Violence death, homophobia, religious trauma/fanaticism, rape, murder, self harm and suicide