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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.

Out To Get You Rebecca Gault, Margot Mutter

    • TV & Film
    • 5.0 • 12 Ratings

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

    07 - The Shining (1980) with Tucker Lieberman

    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.

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    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.  

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    • 1 hr 34 min
    06 - Scream (1996) with Karen Charm

    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.

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    • 1 hr 29 min
    05 - Titane (2021) with Brant Lewis

    05 - Titane (2021) with Brant Lewis

    In Episode 5 of Out To Get You, we are joined by writer and horror filmmaker, Brant Lewis, to talk about Julia Docuranu’s mechanophilic body-horror / psychological thriller, Titane!

    Content Warning:
    This episode contains discussion of graphic violence, pregnancy complications, self-managed abortion, body transformation, racism, ableism, transphobia, sexual violence, domestic abuse, loss of a child, homophobia, and many topics that may be sensitive for listeners.

    In this episode, we discuss the power of love, through the lens of homosocial bonding, the dangerous eroticism of steel, and the gulfs from which in family can be forged, in 2021’s Palme d’Or winner starring Agathe Rouselle, Vincent Lindon, and Garance Marillier.

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    • 2 hr
    04 - Fright Night (2011) with Zoe Tunnell

    04 - Fright Night (2011) with Zoe Tunnell

    In Episode 4 of Out To Get You, we are joined by co-writer and co-creator of the queer punk fantasy comic Blade Maidens, Zoe Tunnell, to talk about Marti Noxon's and Craig Gillespie's underrated, Great Recession reimagining of '80s cult classic, Fright Night!

    Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of homophobia, misogyny, sexual violence, substance abuse, aging magicians, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners.

    In this episode, we discuss the means by which vampires take root, through the lens of horror's mimetic nature, the casualties of capitalism, and 21st Century suburban America, in the 2011 horror-comedy starring Anton Yelchin, Colin Ferrell, Toni Collete, and David Tennant. 

    Follow Blade Maidens @blademaidens and Zoe at @zoewritestuff on Instagram, on BlueSky @zoewithasword, and check out the story thus-far at blademaidens.com.

    You can also follow fellow Blade Maidens co-creator, friend of the pod, and designer of our brand new logo, Valentine M. Smith, on Instagram, BlueSky, or visit their website, valentinemsmith.com.

    Follow Out To Get You on Instagram at OutToGetYouPod. Follow Margot and Bex on BlueSky at @pearlsnapped and @phoenixforce.

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    • 1 hr 23 min
    03 - Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) with Gretchen Felker-Martin

    03 - Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) with Gretchen Felker-Martin

    In Episode 3 of Out To Get You, we are joined by the author of Manhunt, and creator of The Deadlights Theater, Gretchen Felker-Martin, to talk about her upcoming novel, Cuckoo, and unpack the earthen grave of 1992's Bram Stoker's Dracula.

    Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of sexual violence and rape culture, racism and xenophobia, homophobia, colonialism, misogyny, monster-f*****g, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners.

    In this episode, we discuss the exquisite ecstasy of excess through the lens of maximalist movie magic, the clash of myth and modernity, and the enduring power of horror's most infamous aristocrat, in Francis Ford Coppola's love letter to the gothic, starring Wynona Rider, Gary Oldman, and Anthony Hopkins. 

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    • 1 hr 36 min
    02 - Sleepaway Camp (1983) with Lilah Sturges

    02 - Sleepaway Camp (1983) with Lilah Sturges

    In Episode 2 of Out To Get You we are joined by writer @lilahsturges to ring in the summer and tackle one of film's most notorious depictions of trans bodies on film, Robert Hiltzik's controversial summer slasher, Sleepaway Camp! 

    Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of transphobia, forced transitions, sexual assault and rape culture, homophobia, ableism, maladaptive age gaps, child predators, and other topics that may be sensitive for listeners.

    In this episode, we dredge up the bloodiest holiday season at Camp Arawak and examine the mangled history of trans representation in film through the lens of the violent social structures, arcane puberty rituals, and the meat grinder that is coming of age in 1983's infamous cult classic, starring Felissa Rose, Jonathan Tiersten, and Christopher Collet!

    Follow Lilah on Twitter, and check out her new graphic novel with El Garing, The Science of Ghosts, coming soon to a bookstore near you! You can find her latest book, Girl Haven (with illustrator Meaghan Carter,) and much more, in bookstores now!

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    Send your questions to OutToGetYouPodcast@gmail.com.

    Follow Margot and Bex at @pearlsnapped and @phoenixfcrce on Twitter. 

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    Editor’s Note: We recognize that there are moments of noise and artifacts we were unable to remove from tracks at varying points in the episode, but we have done our best to minimize and clean them up. In time we will attempt a remastered version of the episode, but letting go can be cathartic!

    • 1 hr 17 min

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