The movie
Show notes
It's the final episode of season 6! This week your favorite ghouls discuss the 1976 film Carrie! Topics of discussion include, but are not limited to: Gothic and Fairytale inspiration, puberty and body horror, bad mothers and their daughters, and the consequences behind a lack of female kinship. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: The Importance of Female Friendships Among Women by Dr. Kristen Fuller https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/happiness-is-state-mind/201808/the-importance-female-friendships-among-women Carrie (1976 film) Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_(1976_film) Writing Horror and the Body: The Fiction of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Anne Rice By Linda Badley https://www.questia.com/read/117391417/writing-horror-and-the-body-the-fiction-of-stephen Misfit Sisters: Screen Horror as Female Rites of Passage by Williams, Christy, Marvels & Tales https://www.questia.com/read/1P3-1733601281/misfit-sisters-screen-horror-as-female-rites-of-passage Controlling Mothers in ‘Carrie,’ ‘Mommie Dearest’ and ‘Now Voyager’ by Al Rosenberg http://www.btchflcks.com/2015/05/controlling-mothers-in-carrie-mommie-dearest-and-now-voyager.html#.XVb2UpNKh-U The Blood of ‘Carrie’ by Holly Derr http://www.btchflcks.com/2013/10/the-blood-of-carrie.html#.XVb2ZZNKh-U Carrie at 40: why the horror genre remains important for women Noah Berlatsky https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/03/carrie-stephen-king-brian-de-palma-horror-films-feminism THE VAGINA AS A BLEEDING WOUND: MONSTROUS PUBERTY IN CARRIE, THE EXORCIST AND GINGER SNAPS by Kate Maher https://www.academia.edu/9476703/Menstruation_in_horror_films Carrie (1976): A Look at Misogyny in Horror Cinema by Sarah Duong https://medium.com/@sarahmichelleduong/carrie-1976-a-look-at-misogyny-in-horror-cinema-b0204f9512fe THE TROUBLE WITH "CARRIE": STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS AND ONSCREEN VIOLENCE by Laura Bogart https://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/the-trouble-wit






