Deep Thoughts Shallow Plots
Season 1
by Erika and Katy
Gruß vom Erika und Katy! This krampus nacht, the girlies dive deep into Krampus origin stories, the emotional release of horror/comedy, and St. Nick's cadre of bad boys. Note: We will be taking January off. See you in February! "How Does Horror Comedy Work?" V Renée: https://nofilmschool.com/2017/07/how-does-horror-comedy-work “Is Krampus Really Pagan?” Spencer McDaniel: https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/12/13/is-krampus-really-pagan/ “’Krampus’s True Meaning Runs Way Deeper Than Holiday Horror,” Chris Sasaguay: https://collider.com/krampus-movie-meaning/ “The Story Of Krampus, The Anti-Santa Who Punishes Naughty Children With Season’s Beatings,” Jaclyn Anglis: https://allthatsinteresting.com/krampus “You won’t BELIEVE why Germans tell their children the Christmas Krampus story!” LeAnna Brown: https://www.wanderingermany.com/german-krampus-christmas-legend-origin/
Sweet birthday babies, Erika and Katy, are giving you the gift of "Happy Death Day." They dive deep into overhanded metaphors for grief, a timeline of timeloops, and Katy's one-sided war with The Lumineers.
Katy and Erika are celebrating spooky season with Night of the Living Dead. They dive deep into the late 1960s, ghouls vs. zombies, and what it's like when one kid is carrying the entire group project. “Night of the Living Dead: Mere Anarchy Is Loosed,” Stuart Klawans. https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5390-night-of-the-living-dead-mere-anarchy-is-loosed “The Arabic Ghoul and its Western Transformation,” Ahmed K. Al-Rawi. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40646532 “When the Zombie Looks: The Human Being Undone in George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead,” Jesse Stommel. https://brightlightsfilm.com/when-the-zombie-looks-the-human-being-undone-in-george-romeros-night-of-the-living-dead/
Katy and Erika close out creature feature summer with Cloverfeild. They dive deep into non-linear storytelling, the perks of found footage, and the roughly 48,000 questions they have about the monster.
Can't have a Hot Creature Summer without Doug Jones, so this month Katy and Erika turn their attention to Guillermo del Toro's El Laberinto del Fauno. They dive deep into daddy issues, Falangism, and why it's never a bad idea to be wary of fauns.
Join Katy and Erika in celebrating July with the original summer blockbuster: Jaws! They dive deep into the minor 2nd interval, sacrifices made at the altar of capitalism, and the no-homo way to share about your trauma. "The Shark in Jaws Did Nothing Wrong--An Ecological Video Essay," TREY the Explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqykkfT8NlM "Jaws, Beneath the Teeth," Peter Biskind: https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC09folder/Jaws.html "Three Men on a Boat," Jen Corrigan, from It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror: https://bookshop.org/p/books/it-came-from-the-closet-queer-reflections-on-horror-various-authors/18682742
Erika and Katy kick off summer with a discussion of Bodies Bodies Bodies. They dive deep into tragic flaws, kidz these days, and just what exactly a libra moon says about you (spoilers: a lot!).
This month, join Katy and Erika as they delve into The Descent. They dive deep into unreality, literary foils, and whether or not women like beer.
This month, Katy and Erika discuss John Carpenter's cult classic The Thing. They dive deep into Cold War paranoia, the evolution of story, and what happens when you bring too much Jock Energy to a survival scenario. “What ‘The Thing’ Loses By Adding Women,” Noah Berlatsky: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/10/what-the-thing-loses-by-adding-women/246648/ “Fecund Horror,” Noah Berlatsky: https://gayutopia.blogspot.com/2007/12/noah-berlatsky-fecund-horror_12.html “After 35 Years 'The Thing' Is Still Our Most Suffocating Horror Film,” Patrick Marlborough: https://www.vice.com/en/article/gypzvb/after-35-years-the-thing-is-still-our-most-suffocating-horror-film “Horrality—The Textuality of the Contemporary Horror Film,” Phillip Brophy: https://web.archive.org/web/20180910033121/http://www.philipbrophy.com/projects/rstff/Horrality_C.html “Underneath the Skin: John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’ and You,” Matthew Pridham: https://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/03/underneath-the-skin-john-carpenters-the-thing-and-you/
It's a real St. Patty's Day miracle: Katy and Erika are discussing Irish folk-horror the Hallow. They dive deep into Irish identity, why the dog dies, and how to spot a changeling baby using this one weird trick. The Brehon Academy: https://brehonacademy.org/ "Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts," D. L. Ashliman: https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html