The Final Girls: A Horror Film History Podcast

Scholar Stacey Abbott joins me two movie serial killers: the chaos of The Hitcher (1986), where Rutger Hauer kills on the highway and the conservative fantasies of Terry O'Quinn in The Stepfather (1987).

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Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya. 

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Artwork: Ewa Ferdynus.

Music: "Erebus" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio.

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The Final Girls is a weekly podcast exploring the history of horror film.

→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

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Film critic and writer Katie Rife joins me to discuss very different two portraits of serial killers: the highly fictionalised The Boston Strangler (1968), starring Tony Curtis, and the acclaimed Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), with the iconic Michael Rooker.

Discover what films we're covering next on our Letterboxd.

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya. 

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Artwork: Ewa Ferdynus.

Music: "Erebus" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio.

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The Final Girls is a weekly podcast exploring the history of horror film.

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Actor and writer Isaura Barbé-Brown goes deep on two quietly distressing films: 10 Rillington Place (1971), which dramatises the real-life murderer John Christie, and the much-acclaimed Spoorloos (1988), a Dutch horror film that was dubbed by Stanley Kubrick to be the "most terrifying film" he'd ever seen. PLUS a little spoilery rant about the American remake The Vanishing (1993).

Discover what films we're covering next on our Letterboxd.

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya. 

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Artwork: Ewa Ferdynus.

Music: "Erebus" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio.

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The Final Gi...

An exclusive (and spoiler-free!) interview with The First Omen director Arkasha Stevenson.  The First Omen is out in UK cinemas now.

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya

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Music: "Slasher" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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Editor Maha Albadrawi joins to discuss two films about obsessive men who lock young women in their basements... for love.  

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Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya. 

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Artwork: Ewa Ferdynus.

Music: "Erebus" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio.

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The Final Girls is a weekly podcast exploring the history of horror film.

→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

→ Listen to our weekly horror film podcast.

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An exclusive interview with Sydney Sweeney, the star and producer of Immaculate, and director Michael Mohan.

PLUS a spoiler-free review of the film with Bloody Disgusting's Meagan Navarro.

Listen to the full review on Patreon.

Immaculate is out in UK cinemas now.

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya

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Music: "Slasher" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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The Final Girls is a weekly podcast exploring the history of horror film.

→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

→ Foll...

Video-essayist Izzy Custodio joins the podcast to go deep on Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960) and friend of the pod and podcaster Becky Darke comes by to discuss the other serial killer movie of 1960, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960).

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Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya. 

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Music: "Erebus" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio.

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The Final Girls is a weekly podcast exploring the history of horror film.

→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

→ Listen to ou...

Film critic Christina Newland joins Anna to discuss Charles Laughton's sole directorial effort, the fairytale horror masterpiece The Night of the Hunter (1955). PS: There's a little bit of background noise in the first five minutes that couldn't be removed.   

Catch-up with the films we're covering on our Letterboxd.

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya. 

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Music: "Erebus" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio.

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The Final Girls is a weekly podcast exploring the history of horror film.

→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

Happy Oscars Weekend to all those who celebrate. As always, horror is nowhere to be seen amongst the nominees. So we've decided to take matters into our own hands... and host our very own HORROR OSCARS, including similar amounts of chaos.

The hilarious and smart friends of the pod Becky Darke and Isaura Barbé-Brown join Anna to nominate and award the best horror films of the year.

00:00:00 State of horror in 2023 and why the Oscars hate genre movies
00:19:07 Best Original Screenplay 
00:33:17 Best Supporting Actress
00:49:27 Best Supporting Actor
01:00:31 Best Sequel/Requel/Re...

Film critic Leila Latif joins Anna to discuss Alfred Hitchcock's serial killers in Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Rope (1948) and Frenzy (1972). 

Discover  what films we're covering on our Letterboxd.

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya. 

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Music: "Erebus" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio.

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The Final Girls is a weekly podcast exploring the history of horror film.

→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

→ Listen to our weekly horror film podcast.

→ Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.

→ Support us...