Being a female FBI agent looks EXHAUSTING… This week we say f*ck your boys club. So swap your sweatpants for your best business casual and aviators. We’re talking about THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) and MISS CONGENIALITY (2000). We’re asking the important questions, like how does any woman succeed without a queer or queer-coded […]
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The Invisible Man & Ghost
Fact: Just because you can’t see him, doesn’t mean he’s not creepily following you around. This week, it’s all about what you can’t see. So put on some Unchained Melody, grab a seat at the closest pottery wheel and settle in – we’re talking the 1990 box office romance GHOST and the just-released 2020 horror […]
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Twilight & Fear
Repeat after us… stalking is not romantic. This week, we’re talking two first love cautionary tales – both involving high school girls falling for possessive older men who are also definitely murderers. It’s the 2008 box office hit TWILIGHT and the 1996 Marky Mark-led thriller FEAR. Who would have thought a teen vampire romance would […]
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Vertigo & Heartbreakers
Crime doesn’t pay… or does it? This week, we’re talking about women and the men they trick to fall in love with them as part of unnecessarily complicated schemes – It’s the 1958 Hitchcock classic VERTIGO and the 2001 rom-com HEARTBREAKERS. While you wouldn’t think one of AFI’s top 10 films of all time would […]
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You’ve Got Mail & Unfriended
Does anything good realllllyyy happen on the internet? This week, we trace the history of online communication from the wide-eyed early days of dial-up with YOU’VE GOT MAIL (1998) to the modern day reality of being constantly plugged into a technology that’s probably out to get us, let’s be honest – it’s UNFRIENDED (2014). Sure, […]
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Sixteen Candles & Valentine
Some horror movie villains don’t wear masks, they masquerade as high school heartthrobs in John Hughes movies. This week, we’re talking 80s coming-of-age “classic” SIXTEEN CANDLES alongside the 90s teen slasher VALENTINE. We’re asking the important questions like – which one is the horror movie? How in the world did Roger Ebert find Sixteen Candles […]
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It Follows & Easy A
Sex has consequences, whether you have it or not. This week, Tara and Amanda take on the 2010 rom-com EASY A and the 2014 horror favorite IT FOLLOWS and share the v important lessons learned in the process. First up, it’s the disturbing tale of a high school prostitution racket gone wrong… and we’ll […]
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Introduction
Ever watch a rom com and think to yourself, this is one chainsaw away from being a straight-up horror movie? Us too! Welcome to Happy Ever Slasher.