Fear Feasts: Food in Horror Fear Feasts

For this bonus episode, Allie and Vanessa are guests of the Comfortably Hungry podcast hosted by Sam Bilton. Roald Dahl’s second children’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory celebrates its 60th birthday this year and together they dig into the wicked side of chocolate and how this is represented in Dahl’s book and its movie adaptations. With chocolate as their guide, Sam, Vanessa and Allie dissect the nuances of Dahl's narrative and its various cinematic adaptations. From Gene Wilder's iconic portrayal to Tim Burton's fantastical reimagination, discover how each rendition captures the essence of Dahl's mischievous use of food.

Being a teenager is hard enough, between smartphones, social media pressure, and that damn witch that haunts your hometown. And then when your bestie's mom is the town butcher and keeps selling her creepy pâté, and she worships the witch, it makes it so much worse. We're talking growing pains, technology, witchcraft, pea soup with meatballs, breasts, mob mentality, that awful pâté, Chinese take-out food and family meals, and more breasts, so join us as we analyze the connection between food and horror in Thomas Olde Heuvelt's bizarrely creepy novel HEX. You may never look at pâté quite the same way ever again.

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What would you do if you were stuck on a miserable homestead in the middle of the deep, scary forest with only your religious and mean mother, your God-fearing and totally inept father, your sex-obsessed younger brother, your bratty twin siblings that were constantly talking to the pet goat, the baby that would not stop eating, and a witch hiding somewhere in the woods? What if your miserable father couldn't hunt food to save his life or couldn't work the farm to get corn to grow, and your family were starving? What if your mother left you in charge of the family baby and the baby mysteriously disappeared? What if your lustful brother was taken by the witch and left to vomit up really disgusting apples? What if the goat, named Black Peter, asked if you wanted to taste butter and live deliciously, after you were continually accused of being a witch yourself? You'd surely go for it, right? We're discussing these appetizingly apprehensive questions as we analyze the connection between food and horror in the 2015 film The Witch, so grab an apple and your broom and join us!

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