Bonus Episode: We Need To Talk About Mike

Welcome to the first of an experimental format here on the podcast, where a topic is chosen and one of your hosts takes a swing at it. 

Today... we need to talk about Mike Hanlon and the new adaptation of Stephen King's It. How a brilliant and vital part of the Losers Club was reduced to a shadow of his former self, and how that may have happened.

So buckle in as we wind up the speculation machine and try to figure this all out, shall we?

If you like this format and want to see more, have an idea for a name, or an idea for a topic, please lets us know! We're available on Twitter (@womenincaskets) and email (podcast@womenincaskets.com) and we'd love to hear from you.

Also, if you would, please rate and review us on iTunes or wherever you catch your podcasts. It really means a lot to us.

There were a lot of inspirations and sources for this episode so here we go:

• La Melle (BlackGirlNerds.com) "Mike Who? Mike Hanlon. The New Magical Negro of Derry, Maine."

• Zak Cheney-Rice (Mic.com) "Mike Hanlon, the black kid in Stephen King’s ‘It,’ has a remarkable backstory. The movie erased it."

• Jason Alston (Medium.com) "The Tragic Fall of Mike Hanlon: One of American Fiction’s Only Black Male Librarians is Re-Imagined… As a Drug Addict"

• Travis Johnson (FilmInk.com.au) "Mike Hanlon: It‘s Invisible Loser"

• Lindsay Ellis (YouTube.com/LindsayEllis) "The Hobbit: Battle of Five Studios (Part 2/2)"

Intro Music: "Have You Met Sir Belmont" Nostalvania (via OCRemix)

Outro Music: "Kindle the Soul" RoeTaKa (via OCRemix)

Bonus Episode: Save Horror 2018 March Madness Bracket

Every year, Save Horror runs a horror-themed March Madness bracket, and for the last three years running, we have challenged The Rants Macabre, Miskatonic Musings and now Test Pattern to a friendly competition.

But that means we have some decisions to make. Would you like to hear us make them?

Welcome to the Horrordome, 64 movies enter, one leaves! There's heartbreak, frustration and a little horse-trading, but we think you'll enjoy a peek into our process.

NOTE: This was originally recorded as a Patreon special, but since we've temporarily suspended our Patreon, we're giving it to everyone! Yay!

This bonus episode comes with selections from the Mortal Kombat movie soundtrack, because Dawn's a nerd like that. The tracks sampled were:

• Utah Saints - Utah Saints Take on the Theme from Mortal Kombat
• KMFDM - Juke-Joint Jezebel [Metropolis Mix]
• Geezer - The Invisible
• Mutha's Day Out - What U See-We All Bleed Red
• Buckethead - George S. Clinton - Goro Vs. Art
• George S. Clinton - Demon Warriors-Final Kombat
• Orbital - Halcyon and On and On

It also featured our regular intro featuring  "Fritz Was Here" by YoshiBlade (via OCRemix).

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F.I.N.A.L. Girls Redux

We. Are. Exhausted.

It's been a wild few weeks and we're gearing up for some more awesomeness for you all, so instead of your regularly-scheduled podcast, the Women In Caskets invite you to join the formerly Patreon-only special: the F.I.N.A.L. Girls.

Happy Halloween and we'll be back on our regular night with a brand-new podcast on October 27th!

When Jen and Dawn asked themselves what they wanted to do for Women In Horror month, there was really only one answer: plan a bloodbath.

Join the Women In Caskets as they tell you the unfortunate story of the women of F.I.N.A.L., or the FINAL Girls as they're commonly known as. Eight* women arrive at a lonely lakeside retreat. One survives. Who will it be?

Thanks always to The Shape for our outro music.

Intro Sound FX provided via Freesound.org creators:

• Horror Ambiance, White Noise Woods, Laugh by klankbeeld 
• Chainsaw by ivolipa 
• Monster by Sea Fury 
• Thunder by hifijohn 
• Thunderclap by night by inchadney 
• Dry Thunder by juskiddink 
• Horror gate by Tomlija 

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Bonus Episode: Tim League and the Alamo Drafthouse Part 2

The following is, one again, not a normal podcast. It's a simple conversation between four friends about a truly heinous situation that has continued to unfold around us in ever expanding circles.

In the week before Fantastic Fest, we sat down to directly address the situation that had developed with Tim League, Devin Faraci, and Fantastic Fest. We were joined by two good friends and members of the film community and we discussed our feelings, our hopes and our fears for the festival we were all about to attend.

Well that festival is over and we thought we'd record a part two of that conversation, especially considering the additional allegations coming to light in other related spheres. This has, after all, hardly been an isolated incident. So that's exactly what we did. We recorded another podcast. It's not our final word on the matter, but for now it is the last time we'll devote an entire podcast to this
particular topic. (Knock on wood.)

We've said it before and we'll say it again, these are not isolated incidents, but it is an important time for our community to consider how its culture has treated women in general and specifically when they speak up about harassment and assault.

When this podcast ends, the conversation won't. And it can't.

Huge thanks to Jen Blair (@fakejenblair) and Rafael Ruiz (@RafAntonioRuiz) for joining us today and thanks for listening.

Bonus Episode: Tim League and the Alamo Drafthouse

The following is not a normal podcast. There's no discussion of movies, television or games, there's no pithy clips pulled to highlight our points. It's a simple conversation between four friends about a truly heinous situation that we've found ourselves having to deal with this week and as such it is a bit disorganized and emotionally raw.

This podcast was recorded to directly address the current situation and controversy surrounding the Alamo Drafthouse, Tim League, Devin Faraci and Fantastic Fest.

We feel that this is one of the most important tests facing our film geek community right now and we would be remiss if we didn't address it as critics, as fans and as feminists. But we understand that it's not what we normally talk about and as such you may feel like you want to skip it.

We hope you don't.

This is an important and ongoing conversation about our culture and the way its evolved and while this is by no means a final statement, it is a starting point for us, if not all of you, going into Fantastic Fest.

While we do not talk about the specifics of the allegations leveled at Devin we understand that this entire conversation regarding the fallout and League's response to his critics may be triggering for some so please take care of yourself.

Huge thanks to Jen Blair (@fakejenblair) and Rafael Ruiz (@RafAntonioRuiz) for joining us today and thanks for listening.