Faculty of Horror | Podcasting from the Horrored Halls of Academia

Aug 28 2020

BONUS CONTENT! Commentary: I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006)

The summer bonus trilogy concludes! Join Alex as she mines the occasional depths, miscalculations and style choices of Sylvain White’s I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, examining whether the 1990s Teen Horror Cycle can exist in a new millennium.

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Jul 31 2020

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Episodes

Episode 86: Summer of Plague Pt 3. Nature Is Healing: Mimic (1997) and The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)

Our Summer of Plague wraps up with a look at potential cures and a post-human reality. Between Guillermo del Toro’s Frankensteinian bugs and a post-apocalyptic UK, the end of the world may be closer (and more necessary) than we think.

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Mimic. Dir. Guillermo del Toro, 1997.

The Girl with All the Gifts. Dir. Colm McCarthy, 2016.

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Down and Dirty Pictures. Peter Biskind’s examination of the rise of Miramax and Dimension Films.

Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities. An in-depth look at the notebooks and films of del Toro.

At Home With Monsters. A look at del Toro’s touring exhibit!

“Mimic”. The short story, by David A. Wollheim

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Julia Kristeva’s treatise on the purpose of abject horror.

Queer Revolution, Zombie Uprisings, and the problem with M. R. Carey’s The Boy on the Bridge: an article examining the prequel to The Girl with All the Gifts.

The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement: “May we live long and die out”

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Jul 24 2020

BONUS CONTENT! Commentary: I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)

Alex is back with Julie and Ray to continue their summer pastime of making terrible terrible decisions! This time with Brandy, Jack Black and some dubious geography trivia.

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Jun 30 2020

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Episode 85: Summer of Plague Pt 2. Shut In: 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

Time to hunker in your bunker! In this episode, Andrea and Alex tackle the issues surrounding Nice Guys, privilege, and the conservative ideology around preservation during times of upheaval.

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10 Cloverfield Lane. Dir Dan Trachtenberg, 2016.

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r/niceguys. These “nice guys” aren’t nice.

Awards for Good Boys. Add some “nice guy” satire to your Instagram feed with art by Mia Mingus.

The BATCAVE. Andrea’s YouTube episode on 10 Cloverfield Lane.

Cloverfield Clues: A whole YouTube channel devoted to Cloverfield marketing easter eggs online.

J.J. Abrams – The Mystery Box. Abrams’ Ted Talk on the central conceit to his creations.

Theatre and the Plague. Antonin Artaud’s treaty The Theatre and Its Double, which contain his plague theory.

Hollywood 9/11. Tom Pollard’s book on 9/11’s impact on the film industry.

Gaylords of Darkness, Episode 82. An amazing interview with Luca Guadagnino and David Kajganich the director and writer of Suspiria (2018).

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