The Spooky Succubus-Cast

In this week’s episode, Abby and Rebecca discuss one of Abby’s favorites and unfortunately a really fun, well-made, subversive horror movie that was written by a total asshat. We talk questionable 2000s fashion, movie monsters, subverting all tropes but the big bad (the marginalization of BIPOC), and so much more!

This week, Rebecca and Abby are covering Ringu, the spooky J-Horror flick that deserves so much more than the whitewashed, white supremacist, shot-for-shot American remake it received. We talk about the ghost in Japanese culture and the marginalization of female characters. PLUS Ringu gives us a great opportunity to chat more about Baby Jessica losing her toe after falling in that well!

While Terrifier’s Art the Clown is a wonderfully deranged villain, Damien Leone is really over here just throwing horror tropes at the wall to see what sticks. He could have just told us he hates women without making make a feature film about it… but assholes like him are what keeps our content flowing, baby!

If you’re ready to talk about a decades-long horror franchise that exploits the real-life trauma and murder of actual people and rationalizes white men doing whatever they want and blaming on demons let me hear you say hell yeah! This week, we talk about covert abuse, the economic pressures of working class families in the 1970’s, and white male terrorists. Also, we pour one out for a fallen hero: the solar panels that Jimmy Carter installed on the White House.

TROLL! This week, Abby becomes a troll truther and we chat about maintaining a healthy distrust of bureaucracy. We also take a brief foray into Nordic anti-semitism, but as usual, we have no idea what we’re talking about! Join us for a stinky episode covered in the blood of a Christian man.

It happened. Rebecca turned the big 3-0 and to celebrate we covered a movie near and dear to her cold, dead little heart: Scream! We recorded this live and in person and it probably shows in the lack of sound engineering prowess reflected in the audio, but it has moxie, dang it!

This movie has achieved the high honor of worst we’ve ever covered and is truly just not fun to watch, but somebody had to do it, I guess. From indigenous erasure to casting white ladies as Egyptian women we’re talking about it (even though nobody asked us to).

Ableism abounds in this deranged and insensitive movie that has literally no right to be over two hours long. We tackle everything from mental illness to the marginalization of BIPOC and female character actors. Plus: Rebecca hears about baby Jessica falling in a well for the very first time!

AGWHAAN is a stunning, genre-bending film that gives us so much to intelligently research and discuss, but we bungle it and just barely converse like normal humans. You’ll hear our very uneducated takes on veiling traditions and queerness in repressive societies, as well as much fawning over our favorite new scream queen, Arash <3

This week, we demand justice for Carrie (and Piper Laurie’s curl pattern) and talk about our least favorite topic that we’re always talking about: the male gaze. Also, Abby tries to convince Rebecca that Carrie’s fiery rampage is actually an allegory for communism. It goes great!