We're going old school on today's episode with FRANKENSTEIN (1931)! It's a classic about a man and the monster who created him. Along the way, hear our thoughts on the new Addams Family movie, Little Shop of Horrors in Pasadena, and our upcoming screening of BUTCHER, BAKER, NIGHTMARE MAKER (1981) We get into some strange territory with artificial wombs and the queerness of Frankenstein's Monster.
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Recommended Reading:
The Strange and Twisted Life of “Frankenstein" By Jill Lepore
The Queer and the Creepy: Homosexual Desire in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Elizabeth Goldhammer
Why Frankenstein’s Monster Haunts Queer Art by Charlie Fox
Fright School Recommended Texts:
The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror by David J. Skal
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film by Carol J. Clover
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror by Robin R Means Coleman
Projected Fears by Kendall R. Phillips
The Horror Genre: From Beelzebub to Blair Witch by Paul Wells
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