Ep. 94: CHERRY FALLS (2000) - The Poisonous Pit

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01/25/22 • 77 min

You haven't seen, let alone heard of the film Cherry Falls (2000)? Well, you're in for a treat! This is arguably the LAST 90s TEEN SLASHER movie! Its the end of an era and we're here to talk about tropes turned on their heads, virginity, asexuality, and kissing your mom on the goddamn lips (WTF!!!??) Trigger warnings: violence, sex, sexual language, rape, murder, child abuse, (possible ) transphobia, pedophilia, school shootings, and incest. Visit Our Website(s): https://linktr.ee/goodmourningnancy Buy Cherry Falls (2000) from Shout Factory: https://tinyurl.com/bdd6jfej BLM & TLM: blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ & translifeline.org/donate/ Listen to Horror Queers: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-queers/id1449041559 Resources: The Real Story Behind ‘Cherry Falls’ by Trace Thurman https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/340 0027/story-behind-cherry-falls/ WHY CHERRY FALLS AND ITS FINAL GIRL ARE STILL RELEVANT NEARLY 20 YEARS LATER By Emma Fraser https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/why-cherry-falls-and-its-final-girl-are-still-relevant-nearly-20-years-later?amp Best Horror Movie You Never Saw: Cherry Falls (2000) by Eric Walkuski https://www.joblo.com/best-horror-movie-you-never-saw-cherry-falls-2000/amp/ The Butchered Remains of CHERRY FALLS (2000) by Paul Ferrell https://scriptophobic.ca/2020/07/07/written-in-blood-cherry-falls/ The Progressive Feminism of 90s Slasher Films Lives on Today by Adam White https://i-d.vice.com/amp/en_uk/article/ywe8wg/the-progressive-feminism-of-90s-slasher-films-lives-on-today A Case Study Into Horror: Structuralism and Feminism in Horror Films by Georgina Howlett http://themediaadventures.blogspot.com/2015/01/a-case-study-into-horror.html?m=1 "Hymen Holocaust": 'Cherry Falls' and the Myth of the Sacred Virgin by Amy Roberts https://clarissaexplainsfa.com/blog/2019/2/23/cherry-falls-sex-equals-death-horror-trope REEL GENDER: EXAMINING THE POLITICS OF TRANS IMAGES IN FILM AND MEDIA by Joelle Ruby Ryan https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_etd/send_file/send?accession=bgsu1245709749 A Timeline of Transgender Horror by Logan Ashley Kisner https://aninjusticemag.com/a-timeline-of-transgender-horror-90d707b71e2d Why Now is the Time to Revisit Cherry Falls by Nat Brehmer https://wickedhorror.com/features/retrospectives/why-now-is-the-time-to-revisit-cherry-falls/ How Cherry Falls Became The Most Expensive Made For TV Horror Movie Ever by Matt Morrison https://screenrant.com/cherry-falls-movie-controversy-cost-budget-explained/amp/ The Past Comes Back to Haunt Cherry Falls (2000) by Kim Morrison https://www.ghoulsmagazine.com/articles/mother-of-fears-column-cherry-falls-2000 https://www.morbidmuch.com/2015/05/a-forgotten-slasher-cherry-falls.html?m=1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Falls

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Ep. 93: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972) - Borderline Dad Joke

Merry Christmas, Happy Solstice and Joyous Holiday to one and all! This month your favorite ghouls are discussing avant-garde and new wave queer cinema director, Curtis Harrington's Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972). Grab yourself a gingerbread man and eat up this deliciously campy hagsploitation Christmas film! Trigger warnings: child abuse, child death, Vietnam War, fat shaming, and menopause. Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com BLM & TLM: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ & https://translifeline.org/donate/ Resources: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972) by She Blogged by Night (Stacia) https://shebloggedbynight.com/2016/whoever-slew-auntie-roo-1972/ When the Woman Screams: Who Slew Auntie Roo (1971) https://wordpress.lehigh.edu/screams/2020/02/17/who-slew-auntie-roo-1971/ A Look at Joan Crawford and the Gay Icon Phenomenon by Sara Clements https://medium.com/@saraclements/a-look-at-joan-crawford-and-the-gay-icon-phenomenon-b8172f20e3e0 Why Gays Fell In Love With These Original Shock Queens By Anthony Uzarowski https://www.queerty.com/why-gays-fell-in-love-with-these-original-shock-queens-20160123 Retro Review: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? By Dana Vargas https://www.macabredaily.com/articles/retro-review-who-slew-auntie-roo Who Slew Auntie Roo? Review by Nathaniel Thompson for TCM https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/95729/who-slew-auntie-roo#articles-reviews Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972) Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoever_Slew_Auntie_Roo%3F Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971) Review by Michi https://randommoviemusings.com/2019/09/24/whoever-slew-auntie-roo-1971/amp/ A PRIMER FOR THE UNEXPECTEDLY AWESOME HAGSPLOITATION HORROR SUBGENRE By Rebecca Pahl https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/a-primer-for-the-unexpectedly-awesome-hagsploitation-horror-subgenre?amp 10 Grand Hagsploitation Horror Movies https://filmschoolrejects.com/best-hagsploitation-horror-movies/?amp THE HAGSPLOITATION, GRAND DAME GUIGNOL & THE PSYCHO-BIDDY HORROR SUBGENRE by Wynn https://mubi.com/lists/the-hagsploitation-grand-dame-guignol-the-psycho-biddy-horror-subgenre ‘Hagsploitation’: horror’s obsession with older women returns by Anne Billson https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2018/jan/18/hagsploitation-horrors-obsession-with-older-women-returns Psycho-biddy: Gender in Horror Films Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_horror_films MENOPAUSAL MANIACS: A HAG HORROR WATCHLIST https://rue-morgue.com/menopausal-maniacs-a-hag-horror-watchlist/ Dollar Double Feature: Christmas Horror: Rabid (1977) and Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? By GG Graham https://wickedhorror.com/features/editorials/dollar-double-feature-christmas-horror-rabid-1977-and-whoever-slew-auntie-roo/ Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana – Tragic Gay Icons https://josephsciambra.com/judy-garland-marilyn-monroe-princess-diana-tragic-gay-icons/ Why Do Gay Men Historically Adopt Female Stars as Their Icons? By Trevor Martin https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-do-gay-men-historical_b_3895070/amp http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/hereditary-grief-and-motherhood/ Maternal Horror Films: Understanding the ‘Dysfunctional’ Mother https://the-artifice.com/maternal-horror-films-dysfunctional-mother/ When Santa Was a Woman: 5 Christmas Histories You Want to Know By Sivan http://www.revivingherstory.com/rhblog/2014/12/16/when-santa-was-a-woman-5-christmas-histories-you-want-to-know Who is the Celtic Mother Goddess? http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/opinionated-celtic-faqs/mother/

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Ep. 95: 28 DAYS LATER (2002) - The End is F*cking Nigh!

The end is nigh! Or is it? This week your favorite ghouls discuss 28 Days Later! Trigger warnings: sexual assault, rape, Black character tropes, death by suicide, heteronormativity, deadly viruses, pandemics and epidemics, child death, parental death, HIV Aids. Visit Our Website(s): https://linktr.ee/goodmourningnancy BLM & TLM: blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ & translifeline.org/donate/ Resources: 28 DAYS LATER AND THE ENDURING POWER OF FRANKENSTEIN By DAWN KEETLEY http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/frankenstein/ “JUST LIKE THE MOVIES”: THE NON-DIEGETIC HORROR OF THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/non-diegetic-horror-of-the-coronavirus-outbreak/ The Failure of a Pseudo-Christian Community in a Nation-State in Crisis: 28 Days Later by Karl E. Martin https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol18/iss2/6/ The Human Project: utopia, dystopia, and the black heroine in Children of Men and 28 Days Later by Jayna Brown https://www.academia.edu/29993104/The_Human_Project_utopia_dystopia_and_the_black_heroine_in_Children_of_Men_and_28_Days_Later Some Kind of Virus: The Zombie as Body and as Trope by JEN WEBB AND SAM BYRNAND https://www.academia.edu/14417113/Some_Kind_of_Virus_The_Zombie_as_Body_and_as_Trope Family Splatters: Rescuing Heteronormativity from the Zombie Apocalypse by Kate Cady & Thomas Oates https://www.academia.edu/28457275/Family_Splatters_Rescuing_Heteronormativity_from_the_Zombie_Apocalypse What’s really terrifying about 28 Days Later by Laura Akers https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/whats-really-terrifying-about-28-days-later/?amp 28 Days Later (2002): The Evolution of Selena by LKEKE35 at Geeking Out About It https://tvgeekingout.wordpress.com/2017/10/30/28-days-later-2002-the-evolution-of-selena/ The Transatlantic Impact of 9/11 by Lindsay Clutterbuck https://www.rand.org/blog/2011/09/the-transatlantic-impact-of-911.html 28 Days Later: The Inspiration For The Rage Virus Explained by Michael Kennedy https://screenrant.com/28-days-later-movie-rage-virus-explained/ 28 Days Later: 10 Ways Danny Boyle's Masterpiece Changed The Zombie Genre By Nathan Sharp https://screenrant.com/28-days-later-danny-boyule-best-zombie-movie/ ORIGIN OF HIV & AIDS from Avert.org https://www.avert.org/professionals/history-hiv-aids/origin 28 DAYS LATER: When Dreams Meet Reality | Horror Explored by Ryan Hallinger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DHcfpm-eIQ 'In a Heartbeat' (28 Days Later) | Video Essay (2018) by FSD Productions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3vhfsUskqc 28 DAYS LATER: A Return To Normality | Video Essay by willismakesmovies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T2E99fAQGg 7 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About 28 Days Later by CineFix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaFDX2A6tng

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