Hopefully what you will do will be checking out the latest episode of the esteemèd podcast The Faculty of Horror, which features moi talking with hosts Alex West and Andrea Subisatti about some movie from 2018 called Suspiria.
I could talk about Suspiria all day! Or even for 31 days, as I did during SHOCKtober 2019. But what a treat to discuss it with the Fack icons of horror podcasting. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts, of course, or listen directly on the Faculty of Horror website. Love FoH and man, Suspiria rules.
Would you say that Suspiria is one of your 20 favorite horror films? Or mayhaps it is not? Either way, you can make your voice heard by sending me a list of your 20 faves for the forthcoming 2024 SHOCKtober celebrations! The deadline fast approacheth: Tuesday, September 24th, after which my email inbox will turn back into a pumpkin. If'n you need to know the hows and whats of what I'm talking about, please read this post. And a huge thanks to everyone who has sent in a list so far! I can't wait to spend all next month counting down the results. (And thinking about Suspiria.)
Oh and PS, we're 'round-bout the big WHO KILLED LAURA PALMER reveal over on The Detective and the Log Lady, so if you enjoy Twin Peaks and podcasts and Mike Muncer and me, then get ye to the show. New episodes every Monday! (Hey, maybe Fire Walk With Me is one of your 20 favorite horror movies...?) (PLEASE DON'T SPOIL ANYTHING FOR ME, WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN THERE YET! I'M A TWIN PEAKS NOOB)
Hmm, that's about all the news from around Stately Final Girl Manor, I think. Unless you'd like to hear about how excited I am for all the new Real Housewives episodes we're getting lately and---hey wait, come back!
Will there be any more Chilling Classics Cthursday?
ReplyDeleteYes, it returns next week! I've been away for a lot of the past few weeks for various reasons but I'm getting back on track with all kinds of things (including CCC!)
ReplyDeleteYay! I'm glad to hear it. It's been a weekly source of joy for me! (And I hope it's all good things that have been keeping you away!)
ReplyDeleteThanks!! I've been missing it, too--it's really exposed me to some banger films, and no matter what it's always fun to see what comes piddlin' down Mill Creek.
ReplyDeleteRe-living TWIN PEAKS through the podcast has been a joy. I re-watched DFIRE WALK WITH ME the other day it just gets better every time.
ReplyDeleteFWWM also introduces a few elements that go on to be explored in THE RETURN, but obviously nobody knew that at the time. But they were in Lynch's head even back in 1995 or whatever it was.
I wish I could elaborate but I'm not that kind of a@@hole. I'm many other kinds of a@@hole, just not THAT one.
AHHHH I cannot wait to watch it! I'm glad I resisted the urge over the years and I'm glad I'm resisting now but lawd...the wait is excruciating
ReplyDeleteListened to the first half of the new Suspiria podcast on my commute yesterday - it's so good to hear you discussing the film again! Hoping to finish up the podcast today and then rewatch Suspiria 2018 tonight!
ReplyDeleteWoo thanks for listening! And yes, please treat yourself to a rewatch. What a movie.
ReplyDeleteI listened to the Faculty of Horror episode tonight while frantically trying to finalize my Shocktober list...I could listen to you talk about Suspiria for dayyyyyys. I'm going to be paying extra attention to Griffith on my next re-watch now!
ReplyDeleteI was honestly SO shocked to see how much my feelings about Griffith changed with this viewing! And I felt like "wow, how could I have ever read her differently?" Ha, maybe in another couple of years I'll find some new interpretation...
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks! I love talking about it, that's for sure :)
Just swung by to see if this site was still kicking. And oh goody, it is! I run a horror blog myself (link below...please remove if you wish), so it's good to see others out there. I see you!
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I FINALLY got caught up on the EoH TP stuff, and I just now listened to this FoH podcast, and it was so very excellent.
ReplyDeleteI will never tire of discussions about how every movie is a queer movie. As someone who is also of a certain age, one thing I really liked about GoD and your commentary on every podcast you do, is the gentle reminders how not that long ago, all queer content was coded and one really had to know what to look for, and how seeing any glimpse of representation was glorious, even if the queers were the villains or ended up dead (or both).
High-five. (And thank you.) As much as it would have been nice to have more positive representation while growing up, I'm actually really grateful that I had to learn to read media in a different way. I think it's helped me dig deeper in general--not just looking for queer reads, but all the delicious subtexts and metaphors and allegories out there. And you can't really do better than horror when it comes to that, it is (and always has been) so juicy.
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