This month on Sitting in the Dark, we pay homage to the original Final Girl—Mom. From toxic devotion to architectural annihilation, we crack open the gift box of maternal horror and unwrap three deeply uncomfortable truths about the women who raised us… and might bury us.
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What happens when the symbols of our holidays themselves turn against us? What if we find ourselves running not from Frankenstein or Dracula or some other manifestation of desire and technology run amok, but we’re running from murderous Saint Nick himself? What happens when the things we celebrate in song are recontextualized as explicit symbols of fear? This month, Pete, Tommy, and Ray are talking all about holiday horrors!
On this episode of Sitting in the Dark, host Tommy Metz III is joined by Pete Wright and Andy Nelson for an exploration of found footage and epistolary films. As Tommy explains, the goal is to examine how certain horror movies have upheld the literary epistolary tradition on screen through the use of found footage techniques.
This month, our fine teacher Ray DeLancey and his sidekicks Pete Wright and Tommy Metz III dive headfirst into the hairy world of werewolves in film.
The trio takes on the troubled works of film adaptations of H. P. Lovecraft!