Content warning: there are discussion of bullying, menstruation, religious trauma, and sexual assault in this episode. Discussion of sexual assault starts at 1:03:43 and ends at 1:06:20. Listen with care.

They’re all going to laugh at you! Laney and Carson are going back to high school to talk about Carrie. An adaptation of Stephen King’s first novel turned into a classic horror movie, Brian De Palma sure did a great job of showing us what grown men think it feels like being a bullied high school girl. As we get ready for prom, we discuss things like the male gaze in film, the representation of bullying in media, and blood, blood, and more blood! Get your dirty pillows ready and go up in flames with us!

What’s your favorite scary movie? This week, Carson and Laney talk about Scream, the 1996 classic slasher film with the spooky masked murderer Ghostface terrorizing the quaint little town of Woodsboro, California. Topics of discussion include the horror of being a wealthy white American teen in the 90s, queercoding of villains trying to destroy the nuclear family ideal, and why sex is a killer in teen horror movies. It’s the millennium! Motives are incidental! Also, RIP Stu Macher, you would have loved he/they pronouns.

In this pilot of Scaredy Cat and Horror Hound, Laney and Carson introduce themselves and why we’re talk about about horror films in the first place. We touch on the first horror movies we ever watched, what we think makes horror good or bad, and why Carson has to hold Laney’s hand through the process of talking about scary movies. We hope you enjoy the journey as much as we do!