S2E17: DISGUST - Cat Benstead on Raw (2016)

Content warning: discussions of sexual assault, chronic illness, cannibalism, vomiting, skin conditions, bullying, and self doubt.

On this episode of The Beauty of Horror, Chandler talks with the host of TGIF: A Horror Movie Podcast, and the Founder and Co-Editor of Hear Us Scream: The Voices of Horror, Cat Benstead about Julia Ducournau's skin-crawling feature debut, RAW (2016)!

They talk about Cat’s relatively recent start in horror (which has now led to a second edition of an anthology of horror essays), a child’s path to autonomy, independence, and finding their place in the world, sibling rivalry, peeling off skin and Elmer’s Glue, social disgust, and, of course, aesthetics.

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• Previous BoH episode: Brian Keiper on The Fly

Films

• Martyrs (2008)
• Color Out of Space (2019)
• The Craft (1996)
• May (2002)
• The Fly (1986)
• Girl, Interrupted (1999)

Quote from Savoring Disgust: The Foul and the Fair by Carolyn Korsmeyer.

Music by Karl Casey (White Bat Audio)

Cover Art designed by John Green (JRGDrawing)

Edited by Aviva Dassen

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