Join Katy and Erika in celebrating July with the original summer blockbuster: Jaws! They dive deep into the minor 2nd interval, sacrifices made at the altar of capitalism, and the no-homo way to share about your trauma.

• "The Shark in Jaws Did Nothing Wrong--An Ecological Video Essay," TREY the Explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqykkfT8NlM
• "Jaws, Beneath the Teeth," Peter Biskind: https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC09folder/Jaws.html
• "Three Men on a Boat," Jen Corrigan, from It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror: https://bookshop.org/p/books/it-came-from-the-closet-queer-reflections-on-horror-various-authors/18682742

Erika and Katy kick off summer with a discussion of Bodies Bodies Bodies. They dive deep into tragic flaws, kidz these days, and just what exactly a libra moon says about you (spoilers: a lot!).

This month, join Katy and Erika as they delve into The Descent. They dive deep into unreality, literary foils, and whether or not women like beer.

This month, Katy and Erika discuss John Carpenter's cult classic The Thing. They dive deep into Cold War paranoia, the evolution of story, and what happens when you bring too much Jock Energy to a survival scenario.

• “What ‘The Thing’ Loses By Adding Women,” Noah Berlatsky: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/10/what-the-thing-loses-by-adding-women/246648/
• “Fecund Horror,” Noah Berlatsky: https://gayutopia.blogspot.com/2007/12/noah-berlatsky-fecund-horror_12.html
• “After 35 Years 'The Thing' Is Still Our Most Suffocating Horror Film,” Patrick Marlborough: https://www.vice.com/en/article/gypzvb/after-35-years-the-thing-is-still-our-most-suffocating-horror-film
• “Horrality—The Textuality of the Contemporary Horror Film,” Phillip Brophy: https://web.archive.org/web/20180910033121/http://www.philipbrophy.com/projects/rstff/Horrality_C.html
• “Underneath the Skin: John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’ and You,” Matthew Pridham: https://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/03/underneath-the-skin-john-carpenters-the-thing-and-you/

It's a real St. Patty's Day miracle: Katy and Erika are discussing Irish folk-horror the Hallow. They dive deep into Irish identity, why the dog dies, and how to spot a changeling baby using this one weird trick.

• The Brehon Academy: https://brehonacademy.org/
• "Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts," D. L. Ashliman: https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

Katy and Erika are back with an episode about "Jeepers Creepers." They dive deep into sibling relationships and the curse of clairvoyance, all while trying desperately to bring a sense of coherence to the Creepers lore and abilities.

Content warning for brief discussion of child sexual assault in the first ten minutes of the episode.

• "The Convicted Hollywood Pedophile Who Won't Go Away," Kate Aurthur: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kateaurthur/victor-salva-jeepers-creepers-pedophile
• "Don't Fear the Creeper: An Interview with Gina Philips," Emma Westwood: https://diaboliquemagazine.com/dont-fear-creeper-interview-gina-philips/
• "The Cassandra Scene in Aeschylus' 'Agamemnon,'" Seth L. Schein: https://www.jstor.org/stable/642925
• https://licenseplategame.com/cgi-bin/licenseplates.pl

It's Christmas time, so Katy and Erika are here to discuss the Canadian proto-slasher Black Christmas. They dive deep into second wave feminism, the dark roots of Christmas, and how maybe the real psycho killer was every single man we met along the way.

• "HIstorical Abortion Law Timeline: 1850 to Today": https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/issues/abortion/abortion-central-history-reproductive-health-care-america/historical-abortion-law-timeline-1850-today
• "A History of Women in High Education," Genevieve Carlton: https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/analysis/2021/03/21/history-women-higher-education/
• "Why Black Christmas (1974) Is My Favorite Christmas Movie," Ashley Maniw: https://ashleymaniw.com/2017/12/24/my-favourite-christmas-movie-black-christmas-1974-review/
• "The Radical Legacy of Black Christmas (1974)," Jamie Alvey: https://morbidlybeautiful.com/radical-legacy-black-christmas/
• "Horror Isn't Just For Halloween": https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/horror-isnt-just-for-halloween-why-christmas-thanksgiving-and-other-holidays-have-become-scary-movie-settings/ar-AA1j6jRh
• "Reviving Christmas in the Victorian Era": https://britishfoodandtravel.com/2020/12/11/victorian-christmas/
• "Why Do People Tell Ghost Stories on Christmas?" Kat Eschner: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-do-ghost-stories-go-christmas-180961547/
• "Crime at Christmas," Shedunnit: https://shedunnitshow.com/crimeatchristmas/

A real gift to the world this month as leading Purge experts, Katy and Erika, take a deep dive into the first movie of the franchise. They get absolutely frantic about Purge law, Christian nationalism, and whether or not they'd want to get chatted up by a highly educated white man.

• https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purge