The Unhinged Binge

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Welcome to The Unhinged Binge! A podcast where an over-caffeinated and slightly manic chick rants about 80s horror movies, sharks-sploitation films, and to make it as random as possible also goes on a verbal voyage through the wild filmography of the enigmatic career of the one and only iconic: Nicolas Cage! If for some reason this interests you... hey thanks!

  1. Analyzing the Slasher Film

    01/05/2025

    Analyzing the Slasher Film

    Slashers, let's talk about their evolution, tropes, and the characters in them. Also censorship! Why not. Letterboxd list of Slashers: https://letterboxd.com/legault_rants/list/teen-slasher-list/ Blog transcript WITH all sources listed: https://legault05.wixsite.com/horrorexploror/post/slasher-analysis My Insta: https://www.instagram.com/theunhingedbinge/ The Books I mentioned: ‘The Teenage Slasher Movie Book, 2nd Revised and Expanded’ by J.A. Kerswell (2018). ‘The Story of Film: A Odyssey’ by Mark Cousins (2020). ‘Censorship: A Beginner’s Guide’ by Julian Petley (2009). ‘The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar’ by  Robin R. Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris (2023) ‘I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies’ by Heidi Honeycutt (2024) ‘Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre’ by Alison Peirce (2020). Other sources: ‘A Brief History of Film Censorship’ by National Coalition Against Censorship, NCAC.org (2023). ‘What data on 3,000 murderers and 10,000 victims tells us about serial killers’ by Zachary Crockett. Vox (2016). Link.  ‘Why are there fewer serial killers now than there used to be?’ by Cody Mello-Klein. Northeastern Global News (2023). Link. ‘why were there so many serial killers between 1970 and 2000 — and where did they go?’ by Brenna Ehrlich. Rolling Stones (2021). Link. ‘Serial Killer Statistics’. Taylor Stacy. (2023). University of Michigan. Link.

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Welcome to The Unhinged Binge! A podcast where an over-caffeinated and slightly manic chick rants about 80s horror movies, sharks-sploitation films, and to make it as random as possible also goes on a verbal voyage through the wild filmography of the enigmatic career of the one and only iconic: Nicolas Cage! If for some reason this interests you... hey thanks!