We’re back to back with literary adaptations, but be careful not to get stuck in your imagination’s creation. Look through the looking (stone) as we discover the world behind the crawl space in 2009’s Coraline.

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Sources:

• Belle Develle Co. “Part 68| Replying to Amethystjackson… This is my Theory on the Cat.” Tik Tok. Accessed 19 Oct. 2024.
• Coraline (2009) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coraline_(film)
• Coraline (2009) IMDb:
• Curtis, James. “Why Were You Born?: An Analysis of the Anti-Feminist Implications of the Film Adaptation of Coraline.” Gender Forum, no. 57, 2016, p. N_A-.
• Keller, Michael. “Coraline Fan Theories Scarier than the Movie.” CBR, 18 Oct. 2023, www.cbr.com/coraline-fan-theories-scarier-than-movie/.
• Picado, Claudia. “'Coraline’ Gave Us One of the Best Monstrous Mothers in All of Horror." Collider, 13 Sept. 2023, https://collider.com/coraline-other-mother/. Accessed 19 Oct. 2024.

Episode 150 of The Whorrors! is here, and we decided to take a bite out of the vampire genre in Anne Rice’s queer and twisted love story (with 0 romantic chemistry), Interview with the Vampire.

***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of grooming, sexual violence, enslavement

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Sources:

• Female autonomy and the illusion of choice in Interview with the Vampire by Ada Kalu: https://www.soundspheremag.com/news/female-autonomy-and-the-illusion-of-choice-in-interview-with-the-vampire/

• Interview with a Vampire IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110148/trivia/?ref_=tt_dyk_trv

• Interview with a Vampire Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interview_with_the_Vampire_(film)

• The Vampire Chronicles Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vampire_Chronicles
  

Idle hands are the devil's playthings . . . and the reason all your friends and family are dying. We’re back with Elyse’s first foray into horror where pulling yourself up by your bootstraps might be the way to go in 1999’s Idle Hands.

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Sources:

• Keetley, Dawn. "It’s Alive! Why so Many Hands in Horror?" Horror Homeroom, 23 Sept. 2016, www.horrorhomeroom.com/hands-in-horror/.

• Idle Hands (1999) IMDb:

• Idle Hands (1999) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idle_Hands