That's So Gothic

Make way for a new woman in black. She's in mourning, but she won't let that stop her!

My Cousin Rachel (2017) Dir. Roger Michell. Adapted by Michell from Daphne DuMaurier's novel of the same name. Starring Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin, and Holliday Grainger. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email [email protected]. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrchancelee and @mcavoy_amanda. Instagram @sogothicpod Closing music "Gothic Guitar" by Javolenus 2014 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0)

She's so bored she could KILL.

Lady Macbeth (2017) Dir. William Oldroyd. Adapted by Alice Birch from the 1865 novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov. Starring Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, and Naomi Ackie. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email [email protected]. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrchancelee and @mcavoy_amanda. Instagram @sogothicpod Closing music "Gothic Guitar" by Javolenus 2014 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0)

"Twilight, but with witches" is both an accurate description and a rude insult to this immensely charming teen romance that brings out the steamy side of Southern Gothic.

Beautiful Creatures (2013) Dir. Richard LaGravenese. Adapted by LaGravenese from the novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. Starring Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Emma Thompson, Emmy Rossum, Viola Davis, and Jeremy Irons.

That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email [email protected]. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrchancelee and @mcavoy_amanda. Instagram @sogothicpod Closing music "Gothic Guitar" by Javolenus 2014 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0)

Our Southern Gothic series continues with a movie that grapples with the horrors of slavery in the American South, Beloved. Also a movie that had Karina Longworth ask, Civil Rights action or B-movie? https://grantland.com/features/looking-back-oprah-winfrey-beloved/

Beloved (1998) Dir. Jonathan Demme. Screenplay by Akosua Busia, Adam Brooks, Richard LaGravenese. Starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandiwe Newton, and Kimberly Elise

That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email [email protected]. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrchancelee and @mcavoy_amanda. Instagram @sogothicpod Closing music "Gothic Guitar" by Javolenus 2014 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0)

Literary analysis on "The End of Beloved" https://storypower.criticsandbuilders.com/2019/11/26/the-end-of-beloved/

Our Southern Gothic series is now in full swing with the New Orleans-infused thriller, The Skeleton Key!

The Skeleton Key (2005) Dir. Iain Softley. Screenplay by Ehren Kruger. Starring Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, and Peter Saarsgard.

That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email [email protected]. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrchancelee and @mcavoy_amanda. Instagram @sogothicpod Closing music "Gothic Guitar" by Javolenus 2014 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0)

Dracula. The Mummy. Wolfman. Creature from the Black Lagoon. And creature from the Bates Motel. We discuss the return of classic Universal movie monster Norman Bates in Psycho II (1983) Dir. Richard Franklin. Screenplay by Tom Holland. Starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly, and Dennis Franz.

Facts about Psycho II: https://www.eightieskids.com/completely-terrifying-facts-about-psycho-ii/

That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email [email protected]. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrchancelee and @mcavoy_amanda. Instagram @sogothicpod Closing music "Gothic Guitar" by Javolenus 2014 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0)

All this sheeyit! Look at my sheeyit!

I got … I got SHORTS! Every fuckin’ color.

I got designer T-shirts!

I got gold bullets. Motherfuckin’ VAM-pires.

I got Scarface. On repeat. SCARFACE ON REPEAT. Constant, y’all!

I got Escape! Calvin Klein Escape! Mix it up with Calvin Klein Be. Smell nice? I SMELL NICE!

That ain’t a fuckin’ bed; that’s a fuckin’ art piece. My fuckin’ spaceship! U.S.S. Enterprise on this shit. I go to different planets on this motherfucker! Me and my fuckin’ Franklins here, we take off. TAKE OFF!

Look at my shit. Look at my shit! I got my blue Kool-Aid.

I got my fuckin’ NUN-CHUCKS.

I got shurikens; I got different flavors.

I got them sais. Look at that shit, I got sais. I got blades!

Look at my sheeyit! This ain’t nuttin’, I got ROOMS of this shit!

I got my dark tannin’ oil … lay out by the pool, put on my dark tanning oil …

I got machine guns … Look at this, look at this motherfucker here! Look at this motherfucker! Huh? A fucking army up in this shit!

Spring Breakers (2013) written and directed by Harmony Korine. Starring James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine. SPRING BREAK FOREVER, BITCHES. Bikinis and big booties, that's what life is all about!

If you could re-make any movie, what would you choose? After the blockbuster success of Good Will Hunting, Gus van Sant chose to re-do Psycho, from the same script! The disastrous box office made this the first and last experiment of its type. 

Psycho (1998) directed by Gus van Sant. Shot from the original screenplay, lightly altered by original screenwriter Joseph Stefano. Starring Anne Heche, Vince Vaughn, William H. Macy, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, and his butt. We re-cast it for 2023. 

That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email [email protected]. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrchancelee and @mcavoy_amanda. Instagram @sogothicpod Closing music "Gothic Guitar" by Javolenus 2014 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0)