HeyJaredThat's So Morbid
Deep dive into the darker side of life to inspire your own works of art or fiction. Join author, Ashe Woodward, and artist, Marco Marin, as they delve into the history and symbolism of macabre topics – from momento mori and black metal to cadaver cults and illegal alchemy –…
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Second Screening: What Does Horror Need from You? (opens the original)
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Ever find yourself checking your phone during a horror movie? Looking away when something gross happens? Talking to your friend because you’re totally not scared ? Congratulations: you’ve just discovered second screening. Second screening is the increasingly common habit of using a second device or otherwise splitting your attention while watching a film or TV show. But horror has a particular problem with it: the genre depends on your attention, anticipation, and willingness to surrender yourse
Final Perimenopausal Divorced Girl: Who Really Identifies with the Final Girl (opens the original)
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What happens when the girls who grew up watching Final Girls… become ...women? In this episode of Spooky Scholars , we look at one of horror’s most iconic tropes through a very specific lens: perimenopause, divorce, and Gen X finally being fucking done. Drawing on Carol J. Clover’s influential work on the Final Girl, I look at Laurie Strode, Nancy Thompson, Alice, Jess, and the women who survived the horror movies of our youth and asks why they hit differently when you’re in your 40s than they d
Candyman & the Making of Monsters: Shadow Work Analysis of Storytelling (opens the original)
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Gentrification, racism, horror, storytelling, and the making of monsters: Candyman (2021) asks who gets to tell a story and who gets turned into the villain. In this Part 2 shadow work analysis of Candyman (2021) , I explore power, cultural appropriation, mythology, race, identity, and the uncomfortable question of what happens when we inherit (and try to profit from) someone else’s story. *This episode contains spoilers for: Candyman (1992) Candyman (2021) 💀💀Follow us on Instagram @spooky.schol
Candyman & the Collapse of Certainty: A Shadow Work Analysis of Betrayal (opens the original)
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This episode is an exploration of what happens when the horror movie you loved as a kid turns out to be about the exact trauma you're living through! Buckle up, because this episode gets personal. Before we get into the 1992 horror classic Candyman , I’m dropping the tea on my divorce, betrayal, and what it feels like when someone you trusted completely destroys the reality you thought you were living in. (Yes, we are processing our trauma through horror movies, where've you been?) But this isn’
Gaslighting, Grief, and Psychological Horror with Author Claire Fuller (opens the original)
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In this episode I’m with author Claire Fuller. We talk about her sixth book, Hunger and Thirst , ( available now! ), where she’s finally come over to the fully dark side even though she has quite an extensive horror background. In our conversation, Claire unpacks the darker side of ambition and friendship, examining how themes of manipulation and coercion shape the story in unsettling ways. We also talk about her background with sculpture and how that made its way into Hunger and Thirst. I reall
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