The Whorrors!

By Elyse Rose & Shay Gilly

A horror movie podcast by two washed-up English majors discussing the tropes, the titillating, and everything else surrounding badass women in horror.

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June 05, 2024#128: A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
For Shay’s birthday episode, we’re taking a trip back down Elm Street to swoon over Kyle Gallner and meet Freddy’s new face in 2010’s A Nightmare on Elm Street.

***CONTENT WARNING: discussions of childhood sexual abuse, sexual assault, suicide, self-harm

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Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ([email protected])
Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd
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Sources:
ANOES 2010 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179056/trivia/

ANOES 2010 Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street_(2010_film)

Christensen, Kyle. “‘Look What You Did to Me!’: (Anti)Feminism and Extratextuality in the Remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010).” Journal of Film and Video, vol. 68, no. 2, 2016, pp. 29–45. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.5406/jfilmvideo.68.2.0029. Accessed 12 Apr. 2024

Pied Piper wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied_Piper_of_Hamelin

Robert Englund: an Exclusive Interview by Aaron Williams: https://www.comingsoon.net/horror/news/725682-robert-englund-an-exclusive-interview
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1h 5min
May 29, 2024#127: The Wicker Man (1973 & 2006)
We’re covering two movies with “man” in the title, but DON’T BE FRIGHTENED - there’s lots of ladies committing trickery in the folk horror flick, The Wicker Man (1973 & 2006).

***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of sexual assault, spoilers for Midsommar

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Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ([email protected])
Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd
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Sources:
Campbell, Dr. Danny. “Weekly Sermons: The Unholy Trinity.” The Tabernacle Family. The Tabernacle, 2022. https://www.thetabernaclefamily.org/tabernacle-sermons/weekly-sermons/sermon/650-the-unholy-trinity. Accessed December 2022. Web.

Chambers, Jamie. "Troubling Folk Horror: Exoticism, Metonymy, and Solipsism in the "Unholy Trinity" and Beyond." JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 61 no. 2, 2022, p. 9-34. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/cj.2022.0014. Accessed December 2022.

“Constructing The Wicker Man: Film and Cultural Studies Perspectives.”Offscreen.com. https://offscreen.com/view/wicker_man#:~:text=Ashurst's%20essay%20demonstrates%20how%20The,the%20usual%20male%2Ddriven%20narrative.

Poole, W. Scott. “Monstrous Beginnings.” Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsessions with the Hideous and the Haunting. 2nd edition. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2018. Print.

The Wicker Man (1973) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man

The Wicker Man (1973) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070917/

The Wicker Man (2006) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man_(2006_film)

The Wicker Man (2006) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450345/
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1h 7min
May 22, 2024#126: The Purge (2013)
This is not a test.
This is your emergency broadcast system announcing the commencement of The Whorrors!’s coverage of The Purge (2013). Commencing at the siren, any and all crime, including murder, will be legal for 12 continuous hours. Listen in to hear about this hellish nation reborn.

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Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ([email protected])

Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd
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Sources:
McClendon, Blair. “The ‘Purge’ Films Reveal the Ugly Truth About America.” NYTimes.com. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/magazine/the-purge-movies.html

The Purge Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Purge_(2013_film)

The Purge IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2184339/?ref_=ttpl_ov
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49min
May 15, 2024#125: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)
It’s Elyse’s birthday! As a treat for our historical context giving, period piece adoring, and literary loving host, we present you something campy that has it all: 2016’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

***CONTENT WARNING: discussions of enslavement

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Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd
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Sources:
Baiesi, Serena. “Remediating Jane Austen through the Gothic: ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.’” 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/1889/5045. Accessed 29 March 2024. Web.

Miquel-Baldellou, Marta. “‘As Soon As Ever She Died, the Hauntings Began’: Revisiting the Victorian Fallen Woman as a Gothic Archetype in Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black." Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media [Online], 0.5 (2021): 164-183. Web. 27 Apr. 2023

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice_and_Zombies_(film)

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1374989/

Tongco, Tricia. “What 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' Tells Us About Women And Marriage” Huffpost.com. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies-marriage_n_56bbfa21e4b0b40245c55ec9. Web.
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55min
May 08, 2024#124: Rosemary's Baby (1968)
This is no dream, this is really happening…we’re finally covering Rosemary’s Baby.

***CONTENT WARNING: r*pe, discussions of childhood sexual abuse, abortion

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Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ([email protected])
Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd
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Sources:
Carstensen, Thorsten. “Is It Really Happening? The Postmodern Horror of Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby.” American Studies in Scandinavia, vol. 55, no. 2, 2023, https://doi.org/10.22439/asca.v55i2.7039.

Jacobs, Laura. “The Devil Inside: Watching Rosemary’s Baby in the Age of #MeToo.” VanityFair.com. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/05/watching-rosemarys-baby-in-the-age-of-metoo

Rosemary’s Baby (1968) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary%27s_Baby_(film)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063522/
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1h 14min
May 01, 2024#123: May (2002)
April is over, so you know what that means….it’s gonna be May
(from 2002).

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Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ([email protected])
Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd
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Sources:
“ANALYSIS: “So many pretty parts, no pretty wholes” – MAY (2002), Twenty Years On” by Ariel Powers-Schaub

May IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303361/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv

May Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_(film)

May and The Importance of Autistic Representation by Lor Gislason: https://www.hearusscream.com/editorials/ho5ogoxfgryo2q7wdvux8jzkbienb3
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1h 2min
April 24, 2024#122: House of Wax (2005)
We’re sliving for these 2000’s horror flicks, and this week’s is no different. Find out what happens when the hot mechanic makes you melt in 2005’s House of Wax.

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Sources:
House of Wax IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397065/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv

House of Wax Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Wax_(2005_film)
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56min
April 17, 2024#121: The Fourth Kind (2009)
A dead relative, a wobbly headed bird, and a screaming mother…but this time the affliction isn’t Hereditary (drum emoji). Find out what keeps flying over Alaska in 2009’s “based on true events” study, The Fourth Kind.

***CONTENT WARNING*** discussion of suicide

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Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ([email protected])
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Sources:
Real Life Paranormal Activity in the Fourth Kind: Fact or Fiction? By Karen Quan: https://people.com/movies/real-life-paranormal-activity-in-the-fourth-kind-fact-or-fiction/

‘The Fourth Kind’ Blended Fiction and Reality for a Unique Experiment [The Silver Lining] by Luiz H.C. : https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3710037/blending-fiction-and-reality-in-the-fourth-kind-the-silver-lining/

The Fourth Kind IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1220198/trivia/

The Fourth Kind Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fourth_Kind
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58min
April 10, 2024#120: Vivarium (2019)
A nice house, a white picket fence, and a other-worldly boy who traps you in an altered dimension of domesticity…The American dream, am I right?
Listen in to explore the hellish neighborhood of 2019’s Vivarium.

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Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ([email protected])
Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd
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Sources:
Nemiroff, Perri. “'Vivarium' Director's Yonder Explanation Makes the Movie Even More Chilling.” Collider.com. https://collider.com/vivarium-explained-lorcan-finnegan/

Vivarium Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivarium_(film)

Vivarium IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8368406/
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47min
April 03, 2024#119: Immaculate (2024)
Hail Mary, full of grace the Lord is with thee…but the fruit of thy womb may not be so blessed. This review is hot off the presses - convene with us at the convent as we recount 2024’s Immaculate.

***CONTENT WARNING*** discussions of religious trauma, sexual assault, r*pe, abortion, forced motherhood, death of a baby

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Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula ([email protected])
Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd
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Sources:
Akin, Jimmy. “8 Things You Need to Know About the Immaculate Conception.” www.ncregister.com. https://www.ncregister.com/blog/8-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-immaculate-conception-bv9oa7nm

Donato, Matt. “'Immaculate' Review: Sydney Sweeney’s Horror Isn’t Afraid to Sin.” Collider.com. https://collider.com/immaculate-review-sydney-sweeney/

Immaculate (2024) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate_(2024_film)

Immaculate (2024) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23137390/trivia/

Magical Realism Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_realism

Nunsploitation Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunsploitation
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1h 25min

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