Plug It Up: A Horror Movie Podcast About the Monstrous Feminine - False Positive: Gaslighting: the Movie

False Positive: Gaslighting: the Movie

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08/03/21 • 87 min

Plug It Up: A Horror Movie Podcast About the Monstrous Feminine

Ariel and Rachel from the Zombie Grrlz Podcast Network join Caitlin to talk about the new A24 movie False Positive. It's one that we had conflicting feelings on, but had a blast dissecting. From Pierce Brosnan and his speculums (specula?) to flying babies: we cover it all. Ariel shares one of the best water birth stories I've ever heard, Rachel recounts her life of menstrual crime, and I ask Joe Bob Briggs for boner stories.

Previous Episode

Rosemary's Baby: This is No Dream!

Caitlin and Mary talk about one of their all-time favorite movies: Rosemary's Baby. That's right, folks, we're introducing a second trope to the line-up: monstrous motherhood! We talk about the ways motherhood can seem monstrous - horrific pregnancies, demonic births, raising a monster, and moms committing the unspeakable. Don't fret - there are plenty more period movies on the docket, but we had a lot of fun adding this trope to the mix. We both love Rosemary's Baby, and we give it all our love. The anthropologist I mentioned at the end was Barbara Ehrenreich, if you'd like to look her up. The book I cited at the beginning was The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood, by Dr. Barbara Almond. Two great Barbaras.

Next Episode

What Lies Below: A Lovecraftian Himbo

Maddie returns to talk with Caitlin about What Lies Below (2020), not to be confused with What Lies Beneath (2000). Do you like hunky dudes who study parasites? Maybe hunky dudes who ARE parasites? Have we got news for you! This was a fun one, and it contains my favorite period fact so far. Also, the documentary I mentioned was Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror. Be sure to check it out!