Bonus Episode: Magickal Realist Horror
Happy Halloween! Anna and Madalyn gush about Ari Aster; Will talks about Brecht; Frank explains some creepy things he read on the internet; we all love these movies, but there’s reason to be disturbed by the culture that produced them. That’s horror.
Hereditary. Dir./Writ. Ari Aster. Perf. Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro. A24, 2018.
Midsommar. Dir./Writ. Ari Aster. Perf. Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper. A24, 2019.
Rosemary’s Baby. Dir./Writ. Roman Polanski. Perf. Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer. Paramount, 1968.
The VVitch: A New England Fable. Dir./Writ. Robert Eggers. Perf. Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie. A24, 2015.
The Pointless Crew:
Anna Wendorff (she/her/hers) – Communications, Rhetorics of Sci & Tech, Feminism //
Frank Fucile (he/him/his) – Lit & Theory, Film & Media, Genre, Enviro & Tech Studies //
Will O’Brien (he/him/his) – Lit & Theory, Modernism, Ecocriticism, Drama //
Madalyn McCabe (she/they) – Co-Producer, European Studies
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MUSIC:
Fantômas – Rosemary’s Baby (written by Krzysztof Komeda)
ART:
Still from The Witch, dir. Robert Eggers, feat. Anya Taylor Joy (A24, 2015)
