Today we explore where nostalgia and dissociation meet in 2024 metaphorical masterpiece I Saw the TV Glow.

***CONTENT WARNING: discussions of gender dysphoria, transphobia, repression, abuse, suicide

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• 'I Saw the TV Glow' director breaks down that emotional ending, teases potential sequel by Patrick Ryan: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2024/05/18/i-saw-the-tv-glow-ending-explained/73672439007/
• ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ Director Jane Schoenbrun Shares a Theory for Why We’re So Nostalgic for the ’90s by Chris O’Falt: https://www.indiewire.com/features/interviews/i-saw-the-tv-glow-jane-schoenbrun-90s-nostalgia-hauntology-1235002972/
• ISTTVG IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15574270/
• I Saw the TV Glow’s Ending Is Full of Hope, If You Want It to Be by Emily St. James: https://www.vulture.com/article/the-hidden-hope-in-i-saw-the-tv-glows-ending-explained.html
• I Saw the TV Glow Stars Address Trans Allegories of A24 Film by Jeremy Dick: https://www.cbr.com/i-saw-the-tv-glow-justice-smith/
• ISSTV Transcript: https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/movies/i-saw-the-tv-glow-2024-transcript/
• ISTTVG Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Saw_the_TV_Glow
• New Yorker article: Jane Schoenbrun Finds Horror Close to Home by Holden Seidlitz: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/jane-schoenbrun-finds-horror-close-to-home

Pre-Homecoming checklist:

• Ditch plans with your mom who’s really into community theater

• Flirt with the cute guy on the football team

• Switch bodies back with a raging serial killer by getting possession of a powerful blade with questionable origins before midnight

Find out if Millie is stuck as the Blissfield Butcher forever in 2020’s Freaky.

***CONTENT WARNING: implied sexual violence

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• Freaky (2020) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freaky_(film)
• Freaky (2020) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10919380/
• ​​Freaky Friday. Directed by Gary Nelson, Walt Disney Productions, 1976.
• "Philemon and Baucis." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 6 Aug. 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baucis_and_Philemon.
  Pulver, Andrew. "Freaky Review – Wildly Entertaining Body-Swap Comedy Horror." The Guardian, 11 Nov. 2020, www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/11/freaky-review-wildly-entertaining-body-swap-comedy-horror.

We've reached the end of Sawgust, and we're going out with a bang...right through the TV screen in 2010's Saw 3D.

***CONTENT WARNING: discussions of self-harm, misogyny, hanging

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• Saw 3D IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1477076/trivia/

• Saw Wiki Recorded Messages: https://sawfilms.fandom.com/wiki/Recorded_Messages#History

• Saw 3D Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_3D
  

Jigsaw takes on corporate America and makes a compelling argument for universal healthcare in this next installment of Sawgust. Make sure you know all your coworkers’ dirty secrets, because it just may save your life in Saw VI (2009).

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• Saw VI IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1233227/trivia/

• Saw VI Was the Perfect Early Obama Era Horror by Darren Mooney: https://www.escapistmagazine.com/saw-vi-was-the-perfect-early-obama-era-horror/

• Saw Wiki Recorded Messages: https://sawfilms.fandom.com/wiki/Recorded_Messages#History

• Saw VI Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_VI
  

Jigsaw may have a new face, but the new man behind the mask is just as determined to bleed you dry. Find out what 5 strangers have in common and don’t get crushed when you find out who dies next in Saw V.

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• Nerve Gas House reddit threads:

• • https://www.reddit.com/r/saw/comments/15ede1i/was_the_house_mallick_burnt_down_the_saw_ii_nerve/

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/horror/comments/j8fbmx/the_one_great_thing_about_saw_v_that_no_one_ever/

• Saw V IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1132626/trivia/

• Saw V Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_V

• Saw Wiki Recorded Messages: https://sawfilms.fandom.com/wiki/Recorded_Messages#History

We want to play a game…again. We’ve given you Sawtember…Jigsaw came early this year, and we’re kickin’ off Sawgust with 2007’s Saw IV.

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• Saw IV IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0890870/trivia/
• Saw IV Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_IV
• Saw Wiki Recorded Messages: https://sawfilms.fandom.com/wiki/Recorded_Messages#History
• Ten Years Ago: Saw IV by Stevi Costa: https://tenyearsago.wordpress.com/2017/10/26/ten-years-ago-saw-iv

LET US IN NOWWW, AND IT CAN BE NIIIICE, LISTEN TO US COVER LONGLEGS (2024) NOT ONCE, NOT TWICE, BUT AS MANY TIMES AS YOU LIIIIIIKE.

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• Longlegs IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23468450/

• Longlegs Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longlegs

  @roomforscream. “Spoilers: There are a lot of references in Longlegs so here is a breakdown of the lore to help better understand the film.” TikTok. 12 July 2024. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRETnun7/

We’re throwing it as far back as we’ve ever thrown it to visit the Bates Motel and find out what Jamie Lee Flirty’s mom was up to in 1960 with Hitchcock’s seminal film, Psycho.

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• Clover, Carol J. Men, Women, and Chainsaws. Princeton University Press: New Jersey, 1992. Print.

• Klein Martins, David. “‘We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes. Haven’t You?’: Psycho and the Postmodern Rise of Gender Queerness.” Aspeers : Emerging Voices in American Studies, vol. 10, 2017, pp. 39–53, https://doi.org/10.54465/aspeers.10-05.

• Psycho (1960) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054215/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv

• Psycho (1960) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_(1960_film)