The Horror Pod Class

Watching and Reading

Tyler: I am reading loving Found Footage and Horror Films: Fear and the Appearance of Reality by Alexandra Heller Nicholas. Also watched The Wandering Earth pretty awesome.

M: GoT. Finished Jean Rey. Hey also Written in Darkness Mark Samuels

OR: hey, wanna read some Canadian Horror? Gemma Files http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/drawn-up-from-deep-places/

Essential Question: How does Ginger Snaps handle Puberty, the Female Monster and Transfiguration.

Movie

Hey, BTW there were two sequels: https://www.thoughtco.com/ginger-snaps-movie-franchise-1873037

Theory

https://modernmythology.net/weird-horrors-conceit-807fde7e5170

Out by Sixteen”:Queer(ed) Girls in

Ginger Snaps—Tanis MacDonald in Jeuneese, Young Poe

Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 3.1 2011

I am your worst fear, I am your best fantasy: new approaches to slash fiction

Brennan, Joseph Carl Linden

https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/5872

Application of Theory to the Movie

http://www.brattleblog.brattlefilm.org/2019/01/23/lunatics-and-riot-grrrls-how-ginger-snaps-reclaimed-the-feminine-power-of-the-werewolf-14629/

We talk all things Ginger Snaps, Transfiguration and High School. Its a rough time for everyone.

Tyler with the show notes....Spectrum Sucks

 

This week we are all about The Dibbuk Box....DONT OPEN IT!

 

What are we watching!

 

Tyler:  Avengers End Game, Possum, Nick Cutter's The Troop

 

Mike:  Game of Thrones.  History of Westeros Podcast. 

Time is a Flat Circle: Examining True Detective, Season One

Melissa Milazzo

with Adam and Mark Stewart

 

Dark Corners of the Web

From The Tablet:  The Second Wife

Essential Question:  Is there such a thing as  Jewish Horror...Also Mike is an Anti Semite

The Movie:

1.  Not really old testament more like apocryphal religious. 

2.  Some background information for the Actual Dybbuk Box

3.  Truman State University connection.

Theory

Judaism, The Dybbuk Box, and Possession by Yoram Bilu

Too Holy To Print by J.H. Chajes on Tablet

Spirit Possession in Judaism (Hardcover) Cases and Contexts from the Middle Ages to the Present (Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology)

Matisyahu is great

The Application

The Witch of Endor

The Disembodied Evil of Jewish Horror by Nathan Abrams

Other Jewish horror.  The new Golem!. 

 NEXT WEEK:  GINGER SNAPS and Transfiguration

On this week's episode, we discuss the horror film American Mary and how it views body modification, in what we think is a positive light, through a horror movie.

We are excited to announce the finalists for our April Flash Fiction Contest.  April's topic was "The Global Weirding", and we were all truly impressed with the quality of work submitted.  If you did not make the finals this month feel free to submit next month as we will announce the flash fiction topic on May 1st for the May Flash on the Horizon contest.

Welcome back to The Horror Pod Class, this time with more guardian angels. Today we are talking to one of our favorite horror and weird fiction authors, Nadia Bulkin! We discuss a really great movie that she turned us on to on Netflix called A Dark Song. Specifically, we discuss the concept of the Sublime and how it interacts with horror fiction.

Welcome back to The Horror Pod Class, this time with more science. Maybe not real science, but more how we fear and distrust scientists and science in general. Don't think that's true? Well just look at the kind of movies we keep making, Splice being the poster child. Also, Mike totally gets a car in a movie wrong.

PART 2 BECAUSE THE INTERNET IS HARD

 

Tyler is back and he has hijacked the show notes.

Short and Sweet here we go

What have we been watching/drinking/reading

I saw US. Some good information about it. https://shadowandact.com/the-ending-of-us-explained-review

The Best Science Fiction of the Year Neil Clark

Getting Ready for Zombie 101

Dark Corners of the Web

3rd bear

http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/vandermeer_04_07/ Also Listen on StarShipSofa Podcast

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Essential Question:

What does Tragedy Girls have to say about SM….PS its on Hulu

1. The Movie

Reviews

https://www.signalhorizon.com/single-post/2018/02/11/Movie-Review-Tragedy-Girls-Is-the-Horror-Satire-We-Want-and-Need

http://collider.com/tragedy-girls-review/

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/19/16449404/tragedy-girls-horror-comedy-review-slasher-satire

2. The Theory

https://childmind.org/article/how-using-social-media-affects-teenagers/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2018/03/19/5-ways-social-media-can-be-good-for-teens/?utm_term=.2f9cc063c21d

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/books/review/podcast-roger-mcnamee-zucked-facebook-catastrophe.html

3. Theory Application

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/08/social-media-copies-gambling-methods-to-create-psychological-cravings

Next on The Horror Pod Class: Splice and Genetic Engineering

Welcome back class! This week we take a look at the movie Tragedy Girls and how it takes a critical look at social media. Which we all love to hate but still use anyway.

Hey Class.  Its Tyler doing the show notes today.  So they will be short and crappy probably.  We both took trips so its great to get back to class.     What we are Watching and Reading   Tyler: Camp Ghoul Mountain Part 4 by Jonathan Raab    Mike:  Synth edited by CM Muller and Lego Movie 2   Dark Corners of the Web   Nightmare Magazine Podcast   Pitcher Plant   Steps for.....   Essential Question:  What immigration questions come from a close viewing of It Came at Night   Act 1 About the Movie   It Came at Night won some awards   Act 2  About the Theory   Atlantic article from David From:  Border Security and Fascists.     Act 3 What the Movie has to say about the Theory   Great Interview with the lead actor from Inverse.

The Horror Homeroom and It Comes At Night

Slate's discussion from the Director about Immigration