When Reese gets a crush on a theater nerd, he’s faced with the Troy Bolton conundrum of love or football…and he’s going to wish he chose football. Sneak into school with us after hours to catch a midnight performance of The Gallows (2015).

***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of hanging

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Sources:

• The Gallows (Wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gallows

• The Gallows (IMDb): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2309260/

For Elyse’s birthday episode, we’re taking it way (way, way) back to one of the oldest horror films to grace our screens (except this time it’s in 4k). Join us as we unwrap the most twisted love triangle to date in Nosferatu.

***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of childhood sexual abuse/grooming, death of children, necrophilia

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Sources:

• Lomaia, Natalia. “Return of the Repressed: The Real Horror of Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu”. Headspace.org. https://headstuff.org/entertainment/film/the-real-horror-of-robert-eggers-nosferatu/

• Nosferatu (2024) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu_(2024_film)

• Nosferatu (2024) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5040012/

• Weston, Kelli. “Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu Is a Modern Gothic Triumph.” The Nation.com. https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/robert-eggerss-nosferatu/

• https://filmint.nu/nosferatu-2024-against-tradwives-and-uplift-stories-j-m-tyree/

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Happy Mother’s Day! Make sure you water your plants on stable ladders, avoid unnecessary globe-trotting, and check your kid for birthmarks before tuning in to our coverage of the poster-child for being child-free by choice in 1976’s The Omen.

***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of suicide, infanticide, religion

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Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula (gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com)

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Sources:

• Balanzategui, Jessica. “The Child and Adult Trauma in American Horror of the 1980s.” The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema: Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, Amsterdam University Press, 2018, pp. 35–66. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv80cc7v.5. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.

• Berlatsky, Noah. “Hell Is for Children: The Revolutionary Politics of ‘The Omen’”. https://wearethemutants.com/2020/10/30/hell-is-for-children-the-revolutionary-politics-of-the-omen/

• The Omen (1976) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omen

• Nosferatu (2024) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075005/