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Plug It Up: A Horror Movie Podcast About the Monstrous Feminine

Sep 26, 2023

Soju from Straight Chilling Podcast joins Caitlin to discuss Baby Ruby, a monstrous-motherhood movie from 2022. It explores the darker side of pregnancy, birth, and new motherhood via a perfectionist influencer who loses touch with reality. It also highlights the fact that we live in a culture that gives a lot of...


Sep 19, 2023

Little bro Zach joins Caitlin to cover 2022's Monstrous, a monstrous-motherhood (insert Leo DiCaprio pointing at TV gif) movie with a double twist, starring Christina Ricci. We look at themes of grief, love, and time, and we talk about the meanest landlady in the history of cinema.

This is sort of an oops-all-tangents...


Sep 12, 2023

J joins Caitlin to talk about Bad Things, the new release from Stewart Thorndike. Just as Lyle was dubbed "the lesbian Rosemary's Baby," Bad Things is considered "the queer Shining." We look at gender, sexuality, mommy issues, and some good old fashioned snowy isolation.

Tangents include: haunted hotels, AHS, blankets,...


Sep 5, 2023

Mary joins Caitlin to cover Talk To Me, the newest horror release from A24. We dicuss themes of grief, friendship, monstrous motherhood, and drugs. Talk To Me is genuinely scary, boasts great practical effects, and has an excellent script with realistic, authentic characters. It's a banger of a debut from the...