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This time, the Brood wades into the slasher genre.

For a critical starting place, you might check out Carol Clover's fascinating essay, Her Body Himself. Letitia, Chris, and Josh reference it quite a bit this episode.

Our primary films this time out:

Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

The Burning (1981)

Malevolence (2003)

Other films discussed: Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm St., Sleepaway Camp, Psycho, Halloween, and more.

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This week, Chris, Josh, & Letitia have a conversation about the revenge films I Spit on Your Grave, Martyrs, and The Skin I Live In. This week's discussion is far ranging and gets into the sticky subjects of torture on film, films with a "message", and aesthetics vs. ethics in film.

The Roger Ebert review of I Spit On Your Grave.

I Spit on Your Grave

Martyrs

The Skin I Live In

Other films discussed (if briefly): The Passion of the Christ, Virgin Spring, Straw Dogs, Death Wish

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This time out, The Brood discuss film adaptations of the work of Horror-Meister, H.P. Lovecraft.

The films:

• The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
• The Dunwich Horror (1970)
• The Resurrected (2005)

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This time out, The Brood investigates children as the source of horror.

Films discussed this time:

The Bad Seed

Village of the Damned

Alice, Sweet Alice

Children of the Corn

Orphan

The Omen

Splice

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This episode of The Brood is dedicated to the work of John Carpenter. In this episode, we discuss John Carpenter's unending horror, camera choices, ideology, and Carpenter's visions of "evil". We'll discuss the following films in detail:

Halloween (1978)

The Thing (1982)

Prince of Darkness (1987)

They Live! (1988)

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This time out the gang attacks some tricky questions of aesthetics as they discuss the campy side of the genre. Movies up for discussion:

Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowlarama  (1988)

Torture Dungeon (1970)

Chillerama (2011)

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This time around, the Brood investigates the representations of possession in three very different films:

Possession (1981)

Demons (1986)

The Last Exorcism (2010)

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This week, Chris, Josh, and Letitia discuss films that feature haunted places. We cover the dissapointing last act of many haunted films, haunted house films as the most "cinematic" horror genre, "being Dario Argento", the haunted trailer movie that will never be, where haunted films are going, and why they may no longer be as effective as other horror genres. We discuss the following films:

The Haunting

The Legend of Hell House

A Tale of Two Sisters

Inferno

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In the third episode of The Brood, Chris, Josh, and Letitia talk werewolves. We focus on The Company of Wolves, Curse of the Werewolf, and Dog Soldiers and discuss this flexible and surprising genre.

The Company of Wolves

Curse of the Werewolf

Dog Soldiers

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