Actor Essie Davis (‘The Babadook, ‘Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries’) joins April to discuss 1988’s ‘The Vanishing,’ forming a punk band for her new film ‘The True History of the Kelly Gang,’ and figuring out what her characters are thinking.

‘The Vanishing’ with Essie Davis

Switchblade Sisters is a podcast providing deep cuts on genre flicks from a female perspective. Every week, film critic and screenwriter April Wolfe sits down with a phenomenal female film-maker to slice-and-dice a classic genre movie - horror, exploitation, sci-fi and many others! Along the way, they cover craft, the state of the industry, how films get made, and more. Mothers, lock up your sons, the Switchblade Sisters are coming!

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Writer and director Nora Unkel joins April to discuss ‘Bride of Frankenstein,’ Mary Shelley, and that devious gremlin Doctor Pretorius.

‘The Vanishing’ with Essie Davis

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