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Family Dynamics in Horror Movies
Horror keeps coming back to the family table. In these 28 episodes we looked at the loss of the nuclear family in The Lost Boys, narcissism and elder abuse in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, and family secrets in Hereditary and Frailty. Secret Santa turns a holiday dinner into the nightmare, The Sixth Sense asks what happens when nobody listens to a child, Zombieland is about the people left behind, and Nope puts family expectations under the Hollywood spotlight.
28 episodes · 2019–2024 · 22 guests
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THE ENDLESS
w/ Bridget D. Brave, Laurel Hightower
BIRTH/REBIRTH
w/ Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
IT STAINS THE SANDS RED
w/ Chris Vander Kaay
NOPE
w/ Dwan L. Hearn
HOME ALONE
w/ Thomas Brungardt
THE SIXTH SENSE
w/ William Sterling
THE BLACK PHONE
THE MONSTER SQUAD
EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, ALL AT ONCE
w/ Anton Cancre
FRAILTY
w/ Paul Michael Anderson
THE DARK AND THE WICKED
w/ Laurel Hightower
SCREAM
w/ Allison Lovecraft, Ian Lovecraft
KRAMPUS
w/ William Sterling
THE WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW
w/ Chris Vander Kaay
FOUND
w/ Jeff Strand
HOUSE
w/ Jeff Whitmire
IT
w/ Dr. Michael Blouin
SECRET SANTA
w/ Adam Marcus
PSYCHO
w/ Shelly Grant
THE LOST BOYS
w/ Sadie Hartmann
SHAUN OF THE DEAD
w/ Doug Murano
HEREDITARY
w/ Gemma Amor
TRAIN TO BUSAN
w/ MichaelBrent Collings
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE
w/ Stephanie Evelyn
THE HOST
w/ Thomas Brungardt
ZOMBIELAND
BEETLEJUICE
w/ Edward Savio
