The Final Girls: A Horror Film Podcast

By Anna BogutskayaTV & Film Film History

The Final Girls: A Horror Film Podcast episodes

November 19, 2025 BONUS • Julia Ducournau on the fictional disease of ALPHA
A bonus exclusive interview with Julia Ducournau (Palme D'Or winning writer/director of Raw, Titane) about her new film Alpha, out in UK cinemas now.

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
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Music: "Slasher" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.
→ Support us on Patreon for bonus content.
→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk
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→ Read Feeding the Monster
24 min
October 17, 2025 MACHINES 26 • Unfriended (2014) + Searching (2018)
After a short-ish break we return with author Lucy Rose to talk about two screenlife horrors: Unfriend (2014) and Searching (2018), starring everyone's favourite John Cho.
New episode every Friday.
Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering.
Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield

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Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.
→ Support us on Patreon for bonus content.
→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk
→ Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.
→ Read Feeding the Monster
1 hr 21 min
August 22, 2025 MACHINES 25 • Ex Machina (2014)
Film critic and host of The Losers' Club and The Lady Killers podcast, Jenn Adams, returns to talk about the Frankenstein movie of the 2010s: Alex Garland's Ex Machina (2014).
New episode every Friday.
Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering.
Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield

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Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.
→ Support us on Patreon for bonus content.
→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk
→ Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.
→ Read Feeding the Monster
1 hr 38 min
August 15, 2025 MACHINES 24 • Prometheus (2012) + Alien: Covenant (2017)
The Independent's Chief Film Critic Clarisse Loughrey comes onboard the Alien space ship to mount a passionate defense of the Alien prequels Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017), and argue that it's the best adaptation of the Frankenstein myth.
New episode every Friday.
Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering.
Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield

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Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.
→ Support us on Patreon for bonus content.
→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk
→ Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.
→ Read Feeding the Monster
1 hr 37 min
August 08, 2025 MACHINES 23 • Black Mirror (2011-)
Horror scholar, writer and co-host of This Ends at Prom joins Anna to look at ourselves in Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, covering the series themes and deep-diving into some iconic episodes like "San Junipero", "The National Anthem" and "USS Callister".
New episode every Friday.
Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering.
Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield

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Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
***
The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.
→ Support us on Patreon for bonus content.
→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk
→ Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.
→ Read Feeding the Monster
1 hr 54 min
August 01, 2025 MACHINES 22 • Pulse (2001) + One Missed Call (2003)
Friend of the show, podcaster Steph McKenna joins Anna to discuss two cornerstone J-horrors: the internet ghosts of Pulse (2001) and the cursed voicemail of One Missed Call (2003).
New episode every Friday.
Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering.
Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield

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Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
***
The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.
→ Support us on Patreon for bonus content.
→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk
→ Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.
→ Read Feeding the Monster
1 hr 39 min
July 25, 2025 MACHINES 21 • Resident Evil (2002)
Friend of the show Isaura Barbé-Brown and Anna clock in at the Umbrella Corporation to discuss the first Resident Evil (2002) and how it kickstarted the billion-dollar franchise starring Milla Jovovich.
New episode every Friday.
Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering.
Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield

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Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
***
The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.
→ Support us on Patreon for bonus content.
→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk
→ Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.
→ Read Feeding the Monster
1 hr 21 min
July 18, 2025 MACHINES 20 • Hollow Man (2000) + The Invisible Man (2020)
This week, we’re stripping it all back (literally) with a look at two very different takes on invisibility, male ego, and coercion: Paul Verhoeven’s Hollow Man and Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, both reimagining H.G.Wells' classic tale of a mad scientist who discovers invisibility and then comes to regret it. Joining a very sick Anna is friend of the show Ruby McGuigan.
New episode every Friday.
Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering.
Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield

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Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
***
The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.
→ Support us on Patreon for bonus content.
→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk
→ Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.
→ Read Feeding the Monster
1 hr 45 min
July 11, 2025 MACHINES 19 • The Horrors of Y2K
The early 2000s were many things: 9/11, camera phones, government surveillance, MSN Messenger, low-rise jeans, Big Brother and the most extra horror films you can think of. Author Kirsty Logan joins the podcast to go over what makes this moment in horror history so unique, by looking at a wave of horror films from the early 2000s that channelled the paranoia and confusion of the emerging digital age: My Little Eye (2002), The Collingswood Story (2002), Feardotcom (2002).
New episode every Friday.
Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering.
Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield

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Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
***
The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.
→ Support us on Patreon for bonus content.
→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk
→ Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.
→ Read Feeding the Monster
1 hr 33 min
July 05, 2025 MACHINES 18 • Videodrome (1983) + ExistenZ (1999)
As Charli XCX has declared: it's Cronenberg Summer. With his new film The Shrouds out in UK cinemas, we revisit two quintessential techno-body horror films from the Canadian master David Cronenberg. Joining Anna is the critic and author of David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials Violet Lucca.
New episode every Friday.
Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering.
Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield

***
Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
***
The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.
→ Support us on Patreon for bonus content.
→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk
→ Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.
→ Read Feeding the Monster
1 hr 11 min

About The Final Girls: A Horror Film Podcast

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A weekly podcast dedicated to exploring horror film and TV history through a female lens. Each series we dissect a trope to death through deep dive conversations hosted by film critic and author Anna…