Ep. 60: CARRIE (1976) - A Fractured Cinderella Story

It's the final episode of season 6! This week your favorite ghouls discuss the 1976 film Carrie! Topics of discussion include, but are not limited to: Gothic and Fairytale inspiration, puberty and body horror, bad mothers and their daughters, and the consequences behind a lack of female kinship. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: The Importance of Female Friendships Among Women by Dr. Kristen Fuller https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/happiness-is-state-mind/201808/the-importance-female-friendships-among-women Carrie (1976 film) Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_(1976_film) Writing Horror and the Body: The Fiction of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Anne Rice By Linda Badley https://www.questia.com/read/117391417/writing-horror-and-the-body-the-fiction-of-stephen Misfit Sisters: Screen Horror as Female Rites of Passage by Williams, Christy, Marvels & Tales https://www.questia.com/read/1P3-1733601281/misfit-sisters-screen-horror-as-female-rites-of-passage Controlling Mothers in ‘Carrie,’ ‘Mommie Dearest’ and ‘Now Voyager’ by Al Rosenberg http://www.btchflcks.com/2015/05/controlling-mothers-in-carrie-mommie-dearest-and-now-voyager.html#.XVb2UpNKh-U The Blood of ‘Carrie’ by Holly Derr http://www.btchflcks.com/2013/10/the-blood-of-carrie.html#.XVb2ZZNKh-U Carrie at 40: why the horror genre remains important for women Noah Berlatsky https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/03/carrie-stephen-king-brian-de-palma-horror-films-feminism THE VAGINA AS A BLEEDING WOUND: MONSTROUS PUBERTY IN CARRIE, THE EXORCIST AND GINGER SNAPS by Kate Maher https://www.academia.edu/9476703/Menstruation_in_horror_films Carrie (1976): A Look at Misogyny in Horror Cinema by Sarah Duong https://medium.com/@sarahmichelleduong/carrie-1976-a-look-at-misogyny-in-horror-cinema-b0204f9512fe THE TROUBLE WITH "CARRIE": STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS AND ONSCREEN VIOLENCE by Laura Bogart https://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/the-trouble-with-carrie Getting Carrie’d Away with Female Sexuality by: Lucy Sabin https://diaboliquemagazine.com/getting-carried-away-female-sexuality/ Carrie: the growing pains of a horror classic https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10474858/Carrie-the-growing-pains-of-a-horror-classic.html 15 Creepy Facts About Carrie BY JENNIFER M WOOD http://mentalfloss.com/article/68461/15-creepy-facts-about-carrie Myth and Magic in De Palma’s Carrie by Dmetri Kakmi http://sensesofcinema.com/2000/cteq/carrie/ Bloody Horror! The Symbolic Meaning of Blood in Stephen King’s Carrie by Rebecka Fransson http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:918009/FULLTEXT01.pdf CARRIE’S CHOICE: CONTEMPORARY FEMINISM AND SOCIOPOLITICAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF WOMANHOOD IN FILM ADAPTATIONS OF STEPHEN KING’S CARRIE by Molly Brianna Collins https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3089&context=all_theses “Carrie”: The Horror of Coming of Age by Mara Reisman https://azdailysun.com/entertainment/movies/carrie-the-horror-of-coming-of-age/article_ff8f4cdd-e0ec-5e06-863a-bdf1b626b072.html “Carrie” Story-Telling Techniques https://www.slaphappylarry.com/film-study-carrie-2013/ ‘Horror Is a Soothing Genre … It’s Upfront About How Scary It Is To Be a Woman.’ https://longreads.com/2019/08/14/interview-with-sady-doyle/?fbclid=IwAR2mOHJpXRWfIVWHXlHZQoHIwamdi2CYyzJf7CJ_5PYsUGW9-y4TvfWa9rM Carrie: The Teenage Horror by The Take https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bSCYqKsu_w Effects of prenatal stress on pregnancy and human development: mechanisms and pathways https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5052760/ Daughters of Unloving Mothers: 7 Common Wounds https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/tech-support/201304/daughters-unloving-mothers-7-common-wounds