The Spooky Succubus-Cast

**This ep has a cw for suicide and self harm

Be warned - we have access to JSTOR again so it’s OVER for you bitches. This week, we’re chatting about Korean zombie flick #Alive, set in a Rear Window-esque apartment setup but with flesh eating. It’s sad, funny, gross, and SSC approved!

This week Abby and Rebecca cackle over Fright Night (2011). There are discussions of vampiric lore, boring female characters, and lots and lots of I,Tonya talk. Can you film a vampire? Let’s find out!

This bi-week(ish), Abby and Rebecca are discussing Pan’s Labyrinth! Join us as we break down more shit we don’t understand (the Spanish Civil War) and imagine a world where men get therapy.

We’re back to decimate another beloved horror staple with the Blair Witch Project! Despite antagonist Heather’s professed desire to “avoid cheese”, it is SO cheesy and cringe, but then we also end up drawing parallels with snuff films so who even knows what’s going on. But, as usual, the filmmakers definitely hate women!

Wan and Whannell are making another appearance on the Cast with Insidious! This movie finds Rose Byrne playing a weird simpering housewife in some very frumpy floral tops, cementing our opinion that James Wan really hates women. Plus: our angelic genre hero Lin Shaye and the Darth Maul demon!

It’s our first ever animated movie! Also please forgive Abby’s almost unlistenable audio in the first half - she is an elder millennial and doesn’t know how to use her computer!
This week, we’re talking Coraline. It’s an enchanting and stunning feat of stop-motion animation, but unfortunately we’ve got a mommy complex, people! Plus, fat women as punchlines, the tokenization of black and brown characters, and a dancing mouse circus. Listen now!

Even Rebecca Hall can’t save this stinker, and maybe we don’t even like Rebecca Hall anymore BECAUSE of this stinker. The Night House follows Beth as she tries to unravel the supernatural mystery of why her husband unalived himself on a gently rocking rowboat. Spoiler alert: many unnamed brunette women end up as collateral damage in this absolute dirge of a movie. Join us along this ride!

This week Abby and Rebecca walk through the fever dream that is 1986’s Gothic. We follow Mary Godwin (later Shelley), Percy Shelley, and Claire Claremont as they arrive at Lord Byron’s castle. They drink a lot of laudanum, interact with leeches, and sort of have orgies. After this haunted summer, Mary Shelley would write Frankenstein and Polidori Vampyr. Two better stories but instead we have to watch Lord Byron abuse people.

In Little Monsters, Lupita Nyong’o plays a kindergarten teacher tasked with keeping her class safe and happy while also taking on the emotional labor of the men she’s stuck with during a zombie attack. She is perfect as usual and for the most part, this little horror-comedy slaps, but there is weird ableism and some serious racism that cannot be excused. Listen to Abby and Rebecca rant, rave, and McGiggle!

Neil Jordan’s 1994 adaptation of Anne Rice’s blood-sucking epic Interview with the Vampire has it all. It’s a story of love, betrayal, overt racism, and subtle and not-so-subtle ped0philia. We discuss all this, plus does Brad Pitt have personal hygiene issues? Allegedly.