In this episode, hosts Katherine Troyer and Anthony Tresca discuss the 2017 comedy-horror film Happy Death Day.

Episode Highlights: Katherine creates a critical framework for nostalgia, Anthony discusses the idea of Tree as a Final Girl, and we agree that a college campus is the perfect location for a story where every day feels exactly the same as the last day.

A Dose of Scholarship: For more on the final girl in horror, check out Carol J. Clover's Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. For theories of nostalgia, we recommend looking at Svetlana Boym's The Future of Nostalgia and Stephanie Coontz's The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap.

This podcast episode first aired on October 8, 2019

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In this episode, hosts Katherine Troyer and Anthony Tresca discuss Jordan Peele's 2019 horror film Us.

Episode Highlights: Katherine discusses a foundational idea in horror scholarship, Anthony situates the film within its own tethered/untethered framework, and we share the story of us...and Us.

This podcast episode first aired on September 24, 2019

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In this episode, hosts Katherine Troyer and Anthony Tresca discuss Andrés Muschietti's 2019 horror film It, Chapter Two (adapted from Stephen King's novel by the same name).

Episode Highlights: Katherine discusses critical theories of adaptation, Anthony talks about how Bill Hader steals the show, and we use way too many puns.

This podcast episode first aired on September 10, 2019

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In this episode, hosts Katherine Troyer and Anthony Tresca discuss Andrés Muschietti's 2017 horror film It, Chapter One (adapted from Stephen King's novel by the same name).

Episode Highlights: Katherine provides a coming-of-age critical framework for the film, Anthony discusses the bigger metaphor behind the "sheep murder gun," and we discuss how the scariest moments for us are situated in the domestic horrors of the film.

This podcast episode first aired on August 26, 2019

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