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Freaky (Landon 2020)
Get your freak on? Another simple but genius blend of 80s comedy premises with the horror genre. This horror comedy is Landon’s follow-up to the excellent Happy Death Day (2017). This was a welcome reprieve when we watched in the spring of 2020. Landon’s film feels like a well-intentioned good faith effort to be responsible with the content. While not always successful it was a fun watch and Kathryn Newton’s performance shone. With a premise that could have easily become a disaster of representation it at least avoided that. It also served as good grist for discussion of sub-genres.
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SPOILERS IN THIS EPISODE
Freaky (Landon 2020)
Becky (Murnion and Milott 2020)
Inexchange (Parker 2006)
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (Glosserman 2006)
Happy Death Day (Landon 2017)
TOPIC INDEX – TOPIC INDEX – Freaky (Landon 2020) (times are approximate)
0:30 – Introductions
2:45 – spoilers
4:15 – Movie discussion begins
4:15 – overall impressions and context
10:45 – spoiler discussion begins
12:15 – gender essentialism
15:00 – love story
24:00 – sexuality
26:45 – the killings
35:00 – privileging hegemonic masculine violent solutions
39:45 – gender swap the body swap
41:15 – setting
42:00 – satire? camp?
48:30 – How would we improve the film?
56:15 – Happy Death Day spoilers!
57:00 – challenging the genre tropes
1:02:50 – grading the film using the Collective Nightmares Evolving Rubric of Social Responsibility
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Episode 95
Keywords
horror, podcast, sociology, fun, body swap, gender, horror comedy, yonic, Beaver, mascot, high school sports, vagina dentata, bodies, essentialism, genre, tropes, slashers, sexuality, sex is death, phallic weapons, fucking Freud, mansplaining, gender privilege, violence, hegemonic masculinity, camp, satire,