Magickal Realist Horror

Episode Notes

Bonus Episode: Magickal Realist Horror   Happy Halloween!
Anna and Madalyn gush about Ari Aster; Will talks about Brecht;
Frank explains some creepy things he read on the internet; we all
love these movies, but there’s reason to be disturbed by the
culture that produced them. That’s horror.   Hereditary.
Dir./Writ. Ari Aster. Perf. Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly
Shapiro. A24, 2018.   Midsommar. Dir./Writ. Ari Aster. Perf.
Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper. A24, 2019.
  Rosemary’s Baby. Dir./Writ. Roman Polanski. Perf. Mia
Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer. Paramount,
1968.   The VVitch: A New England Fable. Dir./Writ. Robert
Eggers. Perf. Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie. A24,
2015.   The Pointless Crew: Anna Wendorff (she/her/hers) –
Communications, Rhetorics of Sci & Tech, Feminism // Frank
Fucile (he/him/his) – Lit & Theory, Film & Media, Genre,
Enviro & Tech Studies // Will O’Brien (he/him/his) – Lit
& Theory, Modernism, Ecocriticism, Drama // Madalyn McCabe
(she/they) – Co-Producer, European Studies   // Troll us on
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MUSIC: Fantômas – Rosemary’s Baby (written by Krzysztof Komeda)
  ART: Still from The Witch, dir. Robert Eggers, feat. Anya
Taylor Joy (A24, 2015)