Episode 56: Live from ArmadilloCon 2: Reality Bites

Recorded Live at ArmadilloCon in Austin, TX!

The Women in Caskets try to make sense of all those horror movies featuring, "Based on a True Story," in their title cards. From films that bear only a passing semblance to their source to somewhat faithful adaptations, serial killers to killer animals, and the truly gutsy ones that just made it all up and pretended it was real, it's a master list of the real-life macabre. 

The full list of films mentioned and their trailers can be found in our episode playlist on YouTube HERE.

Stuff You Missed In History Class did an episode on two of the killers mentioned (and probably more): Mary Ann Cotton and Sawney Beane. Check them out!

And one correction: Dawn mis-identified the plaintiff in the Warren litigation. The Warrens didn't bring the lawsuit, Gerald Brittle, author of a book on the Warrens, did, claiming that the Warrens gave him exclusive rights to their stories and all derivative works coming out of them. Warner Bros. et al claim the movies are based on historical records and therefore available for free use. Brittle countered that the Warrens made it all up, making the works fiction and therefore - you know what, it's kinda hysterical to read it all, look it up sometime. 

Thanks always to The Shape for the intro and outro music. Now also featuring, "Fritz Was Here" by YoshiBlade (via OCRemix).

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Episode 54: That's Hysterical: Part One

Before Dawn and Jen take a close look at two films featuring women who are not, as they say, all together sane, they wanted to to take a broader look at the way "crazy" women have been portrayed in horror cinema and television.

In the first of a two-part series, your hosts talk about what hysteria is historically and start to break down the different kinds of crazy ladies horror has to offer: the flat-out hysterical, the possessed, and the inherent evil of being female.

Below is a full list of the movies mentioned, including links to where they have been previously discussed in other episodes. 

Thanks always to The Shape for the intro and outro music. Now also featuring, "Fritz Was Here" by YoshiBlade (via OCRemix).

Intro clip from Comedy Central's Another Period.

You can find the episode of Sawbones featuring Hysteria HERE.

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And now, the movies:

The Hysterical: Audition, Happy Birthday to Me, Excision (Honorable mentions: Oculus, American Horror Story, A Tale of Two Sisters and Gothica)

The Possessed: The Exorcist (1973), The Exorcist (2016 - TV - Link is Patrons-only), and The Conjuring (Honorable mentions: all the possession movies - just all of them)

The Evil Females: Black Swan, Sleepaway Camp, Carrie (Honorable mentions: Jennifer's Body, Dracula (all of them), Ginger Snaps, Teeth, It Follows, Flowers in the Attic and Repusion)

Live From Armadillocon: Creepy Kids

Join the Women In Caskets live from Armadillocon in Austin, TX! 

When invited to speak at a sci-fi/fantasy convention, Jen and Dawn of course turned to the scariest thing they could think of - kids. Creepy, powerful, and horrific kids. So join them as they discuss why the creepy kid is such a successful trope in horror, what makes a creepy kid and what movies (and a few TV shows) manage to knock it out of the ballpark. And along the way, they identify some crazy gaps in their cinematic knowledge and make some REALLY unfortunate word choices.

Thanks always to The Shape for the intro/outro music. 

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