Episode 42: American Psycho
05/29/21 • 57 min
Joining us in this episode is the fantastic thriller writer Layne Fargo!
In this episode we look at the 2000 slasher film American Psycho. Directed by Mary Harron. Screenplay by Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner. Based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis. Starring Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Chloë Sevigny, Samantha Mathis, Cara Seymour, Justin Theroux, Guinevere Turner, Reg E. Cathey and Reese Witherspoon.
Trigger Warnings for this episode are violent death, racial and homophobic slurs, animal cruelty.
Recommendations:
Love Is Red by Sophie Jaff
Katherine Emerson was born to fulfill a dark prophecy centuries in the making, but she doesn’t know it yet. However, one man does: a killer stalking the women of New York City. People think he’s the next Son of Sam, but we know how he thinks and how he feels . . . and discover that he is driven by darker, much more dangerous desires than we can bear to imagine. He takes more than just his victims’ lives, and each death brings him closer to the one woman he must possess at any cost.
Killing Words (2003) (Palabras encadenadas)
Spanish psychological thriller
Directed by Laura Mañá
Screenplay by Laura Mañá, and Fernando de Felipe
Based on the play by Jordi Galceran
Starring Darío Grandinetti, Goya Toledo, Fernando Guillén and Eric Bonicatto
A mild-mannered psychopath plays mind-games with a woman he has tied to a chair in his basement.
The Normal Heart
directed by Ryan Murphy and written by Larry Kramer, based on his 1985 play of the same name.
Starring Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch, Jim Parsons, Alfred Molina, Joe Mantello, Jonathan Groff, and Julia Roberts
The film depicts the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984, as seen through the eyes of writer/activist Ned Weeks (Ruffalo), the founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group. Weeks prefers public confrontations to the calmer, more private strategies favored by his associates, friends, and closeted lover Felix Turner (Bomer). Their differences of opinion lead to arguments that threaten to undermine their shared goals.
Links:
https://twitter.com/LayneFargo
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/apr/14/american-psycho-bret-easton-ellis-christian-bale
Joining us in this episode is the fantastic thriller writer Layne Fargo!
In this episode we look at the 2000 slasher film American Psycho. Directed by Mary Harron. Screenplay by Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner. Based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis. Starring Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Chloë Sevigny, Samantha Mathis, Cara Seymour, Justin Theroux, Guinevere Turner, Reg E. Cathey and Reese Witherspoon.
Trigger Warnings for this episode are violent death, racial and homophobic slurs, animal cruelty.
Recommendations:
Love Is Red by Sophie Jaff
Katherine Emerson was born to fulfill a dark prophecy centuries in the making, but she doesn’t know it yet. However, one man does: a killer stalking the women of New York City. People think he’s the next Son of Sam, but we know how he thinks and how he feels . . . and discover that he is driven by darker, much more dangerous desires than we can bear to imagine. He takes more than just his victims’ lives, and each death brings him closer to the one woman he must possess at any cost.
Killing Words (2003) (Palabras encadenadas)
Spanish psychological thriller
Directed by Laura Mañá
Screenplay by Laura Mañá, and Fernando de Felipe
Based on the play by Jordi Galceran
Starring Darío Grandinetti, Goya Toledo, Fernando Guillén and Eric Bonicatto
A mild-mannered psychopath plays mind-games with a woman he has tied to a chair in his basement.
The Normal Heart
directed by Ryan Murphy and written by Larry Kramer, based on his 1985 play of the same name.
Starring Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch, Jim Parsons, Alfred Molina, Joe Mantello, Jonathan Groff, and Julia Roberts
The film depicts the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984, as seen through the eyes of writer/activist Ned Weeks (Ruffalo), the founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group. Weeks prefers public confrontations to the calmer, more private strategies favored by his associates, friends, and closeted lover Felix Turner (Bomer). Their differences of opinion lead to arguments that threaten to undermine their shared goals.
Links:
https://twitter.com/LayneFargo
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/apr/14/american-psycho-bret-easton-ellis-christian-bale
Previous Episode
Episode 41: The Blackcoat’s Daughter
This is a special Patron selected episode! Our Patron Doug chose this for us to cover and he joined us to talk about it.
In this episode, we look at the 2015 horror film written and directed by Osgood Perkins. Starring Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton, Lauren Holly, and James Remar.
To get us started here is a synopsis, Over their winter break, two Catholic schoolgirls get left behind at their boarding school at which the nuns are rumored to be Satanists.
Trigger Warnings for this episode are brutal bloody violence, frightening/intense scenes.
Cocktail:
The Demon Daddy
2 oz Blueberry Vodka
4-6 oz Sparkling Soda of Choice
Splash of Grenadine
Generous Squeeze of Fresh Lemon Juice
Recommendations:
Gretel and Hansel (2016)
Directed by Osgood Perkins
Screenplay by Rob Hayes
Starring Sophia Lillis and Sam Leakey portray the title characters, alongside Charles Babalola, Jessica De Gouw, and Alice Krige..
The story follows Gretel and Hansel as they enter the dark woods in order to find work and food, and then stumble upon the home of a witch.
Woodshock (2017)
Written and Directed by Kate and Laura Mulleavy
Starring Kirsten Dunst, Joe Cole, and Pilou Asbæk
The plot follows a woman who, reeling after the loss of her mother, begins to cope by using a powerful substance which has hallucinogenic, violent repercussions.
The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter.
Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara’s farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister. Alice has always insisted that they live off the grid, a decision that has weighty consequences when Ruthie wakes up one morning to find that Alice has vanished. In her search for clues, she is startled to find a copy of Sara Harrison Shea’s diary hidden beneath the floorboards of her mother’s bedroom. As Ruthie gets sucked into the historical mystery, she discovers that she’s not the only person looking for someone that they’ve lost. But she may be the only one who can stop history from repeating itself.
The Ghostkeeper (1981)
Directed by James Makichuk
Screenplay by Jim Makichuk and Doug MacLeod
Starring Riva Spier, Georgie Collins, Sheri McFadden, and Murray Ord
Its plot centers on a trio of snowmobilers in the Canadian Rockies who become stranded at an abandoned hotel where the elderly female innkeeper is hiding an evil entity within the building. The film is inspired by the Windigo legend of North America
The Witch (2015)
Directed and written by Robert Eggers
Starring Anna Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, and Harvey Scrimshaw
A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession.
Links:
https://www.indiewire.com/2017/03/the-blackcoats-daughter-review-osgood-perkins-rosemarys-baby-virgin-suicides-1201798341/
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-blackcoats-daughter-2017
Next Episode
Episode 43: House
In this episode we look at the 1977 Japanese movie House. Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi. Written by Chiho Katsura. Starring Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Kumiko Oba, Mieko Sato, Masayo Miyako, Eriko Tanaka, and Yōko Minamida.
To get us started here is a synopsis: A schoolgirl travels with her six classmates to her ailing aunt’s country home, where they come face to face with supernatural events as the girls are, one by one, devoured by the home.
We do want to caution you this episode is full of spoilers. We have an in-depth discussion on the plot so if you care about that, go watch the movie and come back. We’ll be waiting.
Trigger warnings for this episode are disturbing images, blood, gore, and violence.
Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_(1977_film)
https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/praise-hausu-worlds-most-demented-haunted-house-film
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