Out To Get You

Rebecca Gault, Margot Mutter

Unreliable Narrator Margot Mutter and Fantasy Academic Rebecca Gault plumb the depths of queer texts in horror, featuring a cast of all-star guests.

  1. Bonus Episode: Bex Talks About Star Trek - 01 - The Gorn

    26 JAN

    Bonus Episode: Bex Talks About Star Trek - 01 - The Gorn

    In this bonus episode of Out To Get You, we launch our series on the dread of deep space, fears of future past, and more, with a Class 7 probe of Star Trek’s The Gorn.  Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of speciesism, space opera, and having beloved stories co-opted by right-wing corporate fascists.  Drop in for a casual chat on intergalactic blood libel, the diminishing returns of big budget sci-fi, and filing the serial numbers off H.R. Giger’s xenomorphs. Questions for the next two recording sessions are now open! We’ll be joined by Jadzia Alexrod, author of the DC Book of Pride, the upcoming Galaxy: As The World Falls Down, and more, for pod persona paranoia in 1978‘s Invasion of the Body Snatchers! After that, author, comics crit luminary, and co-creator of The Forgotten Five, Sara Century (Best Issue Ever,) swoops in to pick apart Hitchcock’s 1963‘s avian apocalypse, The Birds! Follow Out To Get You on BlueSky and Patreon for new episodes, bonus content , and more, and get your own Valentine M. Smith-designed merch at TeePublic. Send your questions to OutToGetYouPodcast@gmail.com. If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe!

    30 min
  2. 11 - Parasite (2019) with Justin Park

    15/12/2025

    11 - Parasite (2019) with Justin Park

    In Episode 11 of Out To Get You, we are joined by software developer, Justin Park, to punch in for 2019's sublime and darkly comic award-winning powerhouse, Parasite.  Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of extreme poverty, social abuse, gaslighting, grooming, poisoning, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners.  In this episode, recorded April 13th 2025, we discuss the dangerous allure of the unattainable through the lens of social mobility, the poverty trap, and class conflict in Bong Joon-Ho's modern classic starring Song Kang-ho, Choi Woo-shik, Jang Hye-jin and Park So-dam! Follow Justin at @JustinSparked on Twitter and Bluesky. Follow Out To Get You on BlueSky and Patreon for new episodes, bonus content , and more, and get your own Valentine M. Smith-designed merch at TeePublic. Send your questions and comments to OutToGetYouPodcast@gmail.com. If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe!

    1h 50m
  3. 10 - Ex Machina (2014) with Kat Overland

    13/01/2025

    10 - Ex Machina (2014) with Kat Overland

    In Episode 10 of Out To Get You, we are joined by Eisner Award-Winning Women Write About Comics' small press editor and writer, Kat Overland, to debug the soul of Alex Garland's 2014 psychological thriller, Ex Machina. Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of racism, medical/technological torture, slavery, colonialism, misogyny, dicks who have way too much money, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners.  In this episode, we discuss the terrifying onus of consciousness through the lens of technocratic overreach, the lie of the great man, and the horror of who pays the price for progress, in this slow burn sci-fi nightmare starring Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, and Oscar Isaac. You can follow Kat on Bluesky, and check out more about her work, as well as Ex Machina: A (White) Feminist Parable for Our Time by J. A. Micheline, and much more, at Women Write About Comics (@WWAComics on Bluesky.) You can follow Out To Get You on Bluesky. New episode announcements coming soon! You can send your questions to OutToGetYouPodcast@gmail.com Get your very own Valentine M. Smith-designed Out To Get You logo merch at TeePublic! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe!

    1h 48m
  4. 09 - The Wicker Man (1973) with Cathy G. Johnson

    21/10/2024

    09 - The Wicker Man (1973) with Cathy G. Johnson

    In Episode 9 of Out To Get You, we are joined by award-winning cartoonist, printmaker, and educator, Cathy G. Johnson (Black Hole Heart, The Breakaways) to light a fire under the folk horror forebearer, 1973's cult classic, The Wicker Man, from Anthony Shaffer and Robin Hardy. Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of child sexual abuse and grooming, misogyny, colonialism, ritual murder, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners. In this episode, we discuss the nature of sacrifice through the lens of social stratification, context collapse, and the fear of being unmoored from modernity, in this timeless diamond in a rough, starring Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, and more. You can follow Cathy on Instagram and Bluesky. Tune in to Drawing a Dialogue to hear more from Cathy, and catch up on her latest work, Charger County. You can follow Out To Get You on Instagram and Bluesky. Questions are still open for Mulholland Drive (2001) with Connor Goldsmith and Perfect Blue (1997) with Jordan Blok! You can send your questions to OutToGetYouPodcast@gmail.com Get your very own Valentine M. Smith-designed Out To Get You logo merch at TeePublic! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe!

    2h 7m
  5. 08 - Alien (1979) with Taryn Freeman

    25/06/2024

    08 - Alien (1979) with Taryn Freeman

    In Episode 8 of Out To Get You, we are joined by writer, academic, and paleontologist, Taryn Freeman, to gestate the horror that is Ridley Scott’s 1979 xenomorph masterpiece, Alien. Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of sexual violence, forced birth, misogyny, capitalist exploitation, colonialism, bodily fluids of various viscosities, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners. In this episode, we discuss the nightmare of our future present through the lens of even-later-stage capitalism unleashed, the evisceration of bodily autonomy, and the loneliness of space and survival, in this timeless sci-fi horror starring Sigourney Weaver, Ian Holm, Bolaji Badejo, and more. You can follow Taryn on Instagram and Bluesky . You can follow Out To Get You on Instagram and Bluesky. Questions are still open for Ex Machina (2014) with Kat Overland, and Mulholland Drive (2001) with Connor Goldsmith. And questions have been re-opened with Perfect Blue (1997) with Jordan Blok! You can send your questions to OutToGetYouPodcast@gmail.com Get your very own Valentine M. Smith-designed Out To Get You logo merch at TeePublic! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe!

    1h 53m
  6. Bonus Episode: The Z Word (2024) with Lindsay King-Miller

    15/06/2024 · BONUS

    Bonus Episode: The Z Word (2024) with Lindsay King-Miller

    In this bonus episode of Out To Get You, we are joined for Pride by author Lindsay King-Miller (Tiny Nightmares, The Jewish Book of Horror, more) to peel back the flesh of her intimate and vicious debut novel, The Z-Word!  Content Warning: If you're with us in 2024, this one's pretty breezy. Drop in for a spoilers-free discussion of her electric queer apocalypse, as we dig in to what zombies hunger for, all our ends of the world, the sinister compact of rainbow capitalism, and more! You can set the mood for San Lazaro's messiest Pride by tuning in to Lindsay's handcrafted The Z-Word playlist! Follow Lindsay on Bluesky and Instagram, and stop by lindsaykingmiller.com, or your local bookstore, for your copy of The Z Word and more. Follow Out To Get You on Instagram and Bluesky. Send your questions to OutToGetYouPodcast@gmail.com. Questions are open for the following episodes: Mulholland Drive (2001) with literary agent, writer, and host/creator of the Cerebro podcast, Connor Goldsmith. Ex Machina (2014) with x3-time Eisner-award-winning writer and small press editor, Kat Overland.   Get your very own Valentine M. Smith-designed Out To Get You logo merch at TeePublic! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe!

    34 min
  7. 07 - The Shining (1980) with Tucker Lieberman

    20/04/2024

    07 - The Shining (1980) with Tucker Lieberman

    In Episode 7 of Out To Get You, we are joined by author Tucker Lieberman (Most Famous Short Film of All Time, It Came From The Closet) to open the doors on Stanley Kubrick's acclaimed 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's horror of the hearth, The Shining.  Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of racism, genocide, domestic violence, ableism, misogyny, that old chestnut intergenerational trauma, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners. In this episode, we discuss the terror of the ones you love through the lens of queer visibility, possession, and the clarion call of history's twisted specter in the 1980 off-season classic starring Jack Nicholson, Shelly Duvall, Danny Lloyd, and Scatman Crothers. Follow Tucker on Instagram and Bluesky, and visit tuckerlieberman.com to get your copy of Most Famous Short Film of All Time, and more! Follow Out To Get You on Instagram and Bluesky. Send your questions to OutToGetYouPodcast@gmail.com. At the airdate of this episode, questions are open for the following episodes: Mulholland Drive (2001) with literary agent, writer, and host/creator of the Cerebro podcast, Connor Goldsmith. Ex Machina (2014) with WomenWriteAboutComics' x3-time Eisner-award-winning writer and small press editor, Kat Overland.   Get your very own Valentine M. Smith-designed Out To Get You logo merch at TeePublic! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe!

    1h 34m
  8. 06 - Scream (1996) with Karen Charm

    08/02/2024

    06 - Scream (1996) with Karen Charm

    In Episode 6 of Out To Get You, we are joined by cartoonist and author of Four Years, Karen Charm, to dial in on the party line for 1996’s masterclass slasher send-up, Scream! Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of domestic violence, gaslighting, misogyny, the 90s, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners. In this episode, we discuss living in the shadow of inherited tragedy, the unintended consequences of media saturation, and more in Kevin Williamson’s and Wes Craven’s seminal hit, starring Neve Campbell, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Matthew Lillard, and Jamie Kennedy. Follow Karen on Instagram, BlueSky, and Patreon, and visit CharmGardens.com for your copy of Four Years and more! Follow Out To Get You on Instagram and Bluesky at OutToGetYouPod. Send your questions to OutToGetYouPodcast@gmail.com. If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe!

    1h 29m
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Unreliable Narrator Margot Mutter and Fantasy Academic Rebecca Gault plumb the depths of queer texts in horror, featuring a cast of all-star guests.

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  • Creator
    Rebecca Gault, Margot Mutter
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    13
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
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  • Show Website
    Out To Get You

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