The Whorrors‪!‬ Elyse Rose & Shay Gilly

We’re covering two movies with “man” in the title, but DON’T BE FRIGHTENED - there’s lots of ladies committing trickery in the folk horror flick, The Wicker Man (1973 & 2006).



***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of sexual assault, spoilers for Midsommar



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Sources: 


Campbell, Dr. Danny. “Weekly Sermons: The Unholy Trinity.” The Tabernacle Family. The Tabernacle, 2022. https://www.thetabernaclefamily.org/tabernacle-sermons/weekly-sermons/sermon/650-the-unholy-trinity. Accessed December 2022. Web. 


Chambers, Jamie. "Troubling Folk Horror: Exoticism, Metonymy, and Solipsism in the "Unholy Trinity" and Beyond." JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 61 no. 2, 2022, p. 9-34. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/cj.2022.0014. Accessed December 2022.


“Constructing The Wicker Man: Film and Cultural Studies Perspectives.”Offscreen.com. https://offscreen.com/view/wicker_man#:~:text=Ashurst's%20essay%20demonstrates%20how%20The,the%20usual%20male%2Ddriven%20narrative.


Poole, W. Scott. “Monstrous Beginnings.” Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsessions with the Hideous and the Haunting. 2nd edition. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2018. Print.


The Wicker Man (1973) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man 


The Wicker Man (1973) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070917/ 


The Wicker Man (2006) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man_(2006_film) 


The Wicker Man (2006) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450345/ 

This is not a test.

This is your emergency broadcast system announcing the commencement of The Whorrors!’s coverage of The Purge (2013). Commencing at the siren, any and all crime, including murder, will be legal for 12 continuous hours. Listen in to hear about this hellish nation reborn.



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Sources:


McClendon, Blair. “The ‘Purge’ Films Reveal the Ugly Truth About America.” NYTimes.com. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/magazine/the-purge-movies.html
The Purge Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Purge_(2013_film)
The Purge IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2184339/?ref_=ttpl_ov

It’s Elyse’s birthday!  As a treat for our historical context giving, period piece adoring, and literary loving host, we present you something campy that has it all: 2016’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.



***CONTENT WARNING: discussions of enslavement



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Sources: 


Baiesi, Serena.  “Remediating Jane Austen through the Gothic: ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.’” 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/1889/5045. Accessed 29 March 2024. Web.  


Miquel-Baldellou, Marta. “‘As Soon As Ever She Died, the Hauntings Began’: Revisiting the Victorian Fallen Woman as a Gothic Archetype in Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black." Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media [Online], 0.5 (2021): 164-183. Web. 27 Apr. 2023


Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice_and_Zombies_(film) 


Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1374989/ 


Tongco, Tricia. “What 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' Tells Us About Women And Marriage” Huffpost.com. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies-marriage_n_56bbfa21e4b0b40245c55ec9. Web. 

This is no dream, this is really happening…we’re finally covering Rosemary’s Baby.



***CONTENT WARNING: r*pe, discussions of childhood sexual abuse, abortion



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Sources: 


Carstensen, Thorsten. “Is It Really Happening? The Postmodern Horror of Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby.” American Studies in Scandinavia, vol. 55, no. 2, 2023, https://doi.org/10.22439/asca.v55i2.7039.


Jacobs, Laura. “The Devil Inside: Watching Rosemary’s Baby in the Age of #MeToo.” VanityFair.com. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/05/watching-rosemarys-baby-in-the-age-of-metoo 


Rosemary’s Baby (1968) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary%27s_Baby_(film) 

Rosemary’s Baby (1968) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063522/

April is over, so you know what that means….it’s gonna be May

(from 2002).



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Sources: 


“ANALYSIS: “So many pretty parts, no pretty wholes” – MAY (2002), Twenty Years On” by Ariel Powers-Schaub
May IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303361/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv
May Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_(film)
May and The Importance of Autistic Representation by Lor Gislason: https://www.hearusscream.com/editorials/ho5ogoxfgryo2q7wdvux8jzkbienb3

We’re sliving for these 2000’s horror flicks, and this week’s is no different.  Find out what happens when the hot mechanic makes you melt in 2005’s House of Wax.



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Sources: 


House of Wax IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397065/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv
House of Wax Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Wax_(2005_film)