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X (West 2022)
I got so invested in putting out our episodes for Pearl and MaXXXine I realized I hadn’t finished or release the one for X! My apologies! X is the film that starts the entire Pearl/Maxine trilogy. An outstanding horror film by itself, and even better now that we’ve seen the rest of the story come to fruition. Laura is definitely the star of this episode! You can hear why she is such a phenomenal professor. Marshall said some totally unnecessary things early on that smacked of mansplaining and I apologize for it! Despite my embarrassment I’ve left it in to keep me humble and so everyone can see that we all have bad brain days. This film sparked a conversation about the state of the slasher sub-genre, cross gender identification in a post-gender world, and the elderly representation in horror. Without further ado, our longest episode yet: X.
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Scream (Craven 1996)
X (West 2022)
TOPIC INDEX – X (West 2022) (times are approximate)
0:30 – Introductions
3:00 – Men, Women, and Chainsaw by Carol Clover
4:00 – Film discussion begins
6:00 – spoilers discussion begins
8:00 – Exemplary review of Clover by Laura
13:00 – Clover’s components of the slasher genre
23:00 – Marshall gets caught up on some pedantic quibble (I’m sorry!)
29:00 – applying Clover to X
33:00 – sexualized killer and victims
40:00 – film sequence at 41:00 in X
50:00 – meta
55:00 – review of main themes
107:00 – film sequence at 42:51 in X
1:26:00 – X back to Clover
1:28:00 – televangelist
1:38:00 – gender killing
1:48:00 – phallicization
1:51:00 – killer women
1:57:00 – older Final Girls
2:02:00 – hegemonic masculinity
2:09:00 – grading the film using the Collective Nightmares Evolving Rubric of Social Responsibility
2:27:00 – women’s sexuality
Related Episodes
Pearl (West 2022)
MaXXXine (West 2022)
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Episode 120