Just Ghoul With It

Blood Quantum

This week Nikki and Kate watched Blood Quantum and discussed the complicated history behind the title, wide shots and disorienting camera angles, and how they’d unalive each other in the event of zombification.

 

Content warnings:

Blood, gore, audio gore, gun violence, eyeball mutilation, the dog dies (at least twice), a head is smashed, cutting, death by suicide, death of a baby, death of a child, vomiting, racism, slurs

 

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Our intro and outro music is Spooky Drill by AlisiaBeats and the cover art is by Nikki Solomon

 

Sources:

Cameron, Michael.  (2021, July 13). On The Marrow Thieves and Blood Quantum: A conversation with Krista Collier-Jarvis. Dalhousie University. https://blogs.dal.ca/openthink/on-the-marrow-thieves-and-blood-quantum-a-conversation-with-krista-collier-jarvis/

 

TIFF. (2022, November 22). Jeff Barnaby on a Shared Love of Horror in BLOOD QUANTUM | From Studio 9. Original interview 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ohALDgihso

 

Blood Quantum and Sovereignty: A Guide. https://nativegov.org/resources/blood-quantum-and-sovereignty-a-guide/

 

Rule, Elizabeth. (2018, February 7). It’s Not Just About the Blood. As quoted in NPR’s Code Switch. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/583753149

 

Maher, Savannah. (2018, February 7). The Difficult Math Of Being Native American. NPR’s Code Switch.

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/02/07/583665568/love-and-blood-quantum-buy-in-or-die-out

The Amityville Horror (1979)

This week Nikki and Kate watched The Amityville Horror (1979) and discussed 1970s fashion, the Based on a True Story Effect, and the fulfilling of the demon pig prophecy.

 

Rated 

Content warnings:

Blood, gore, audio gore, bugs, intimate partner violence, child abuse, finger mutilation, a head is squashed, death of a child, jump scares, vomit, claustrophobia, panic attack, car crash, gun violence

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Our intro and outro music is Spooky Drill by AlisiaBeats and the cover art is by Nikki Solomon

 

Sources:

Radford, Benjamin. (2005, April 8). Voice of Reason: The Truth Behind the Amityville Horror. LiveScience. https://www.livescience.com/6962-voice-reason-truth-amityville-horror.html

 

Vassar, Shea. (2020, October 15). Digging Up the Indian Burial Ground Trope. Film School Rejects. https://filmschoolrejects.com/indian-burial-ground-trope/

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20110707133921/http://www.amityvillemurders.com/catholic.html

 

https://amityvillemurders.com/the-haunting/lutz-vs-weber.html

We Are Still Here

This week Nikki and Kate watched We Are Still Here and discussed towns with dark secrets, smoky lighting, and turtleneck counts.

Content warnings:

Blood, gore, audio gore, a head is squashed, possession, car accident, gun violence, cutting, someone is burned alive, eye mutilation, jump scares, shaky cam, self harm, references to death by suicide

 

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Our intro and outro music is Spooky Drill by AlisiaBeats and the cover art is by Nikki Solomon

28 Days Later

This week Nikki and Kate watched 28 Days Later (finally!) and discussed the tension invoked by abandoned cities, the challenges in turning a bustling city into an empty one for filming, and Kate’s worsening British Brain infection.

 

Rated 

Content warnings:

Sexual assault, r*pe, p*edophilia, blood, gore, audio gore, death by suicide, gun violence, car crash, eye mutilation, cutting, amputation, animal death, a head is squashed, death by hanging, child death, jump scares, vomit, hospital scene, needles, shaky cam, flashing lights/images

 

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Our intro and outro music is Spooky Drill by AlisiaBeats and the cover art is by Nikki Solomon

Barbarian

This week Nikki and Kate watched Barbarian and discussed hate sinks, subverting expectations, and Obi-Wan Kenobi. 

 

Rated R

Content warnings:

Blood, gore, audio gore, sexual violence (mentions of serial r*pe and p*d*philia), inc*st, gun violence, car crash, eye gore, child sexual abuse, someone struggling to breathe, amputation, torture, jump scares, vomit, death by suicide, shakey cam, homophobic slurs

 

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Our intro and outro music is Spooky Drill by AlisiaBeats and the cover art is by Nikki Solomon

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

This week Nikki and Kate watched Tucker and Dale vs. Evil and discussed Murphy’s Law, Alan Tudyk’s genius, and tapeworms.

 

Rated R

Content warnings:

Bees/wasps, mention of r*pe, sexual assault, cutting, finger mutilation, someone struggling to breathe, someone is burned alive, torture, blood, gore, audio gore, gun violence, car crash, hospital scene, ableism, jump scares

 

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Our intro and outro music is Spooky Drill by AlisiaBeats and the cover art is by Nikki Solomon

Se7en

This week Nikki and Kate watched Se7en and discussed pathetic fallacy and precipitation, meticulous set dressing, and the origin of PBR.

 

Rated R for grisly afterviews of horrific and bizarre killings and for strong language

Content warnings:

Death by suicide, sexual assault/r*pe, torture, anti-fat bias, homophobia, ableism, slurs, dead animals, cutting, blood, gore, audio gore, decapitation, finger mutilation, genital mutilation, gun violence, jump scare, hospital scene

 

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Our intro and outro music is Spooky Drill by AlisiaBeats and the cover art is by Nikki Solomon

Jacob's Ladder

This week Nikki and Kate watched Jacob’s Ladder and discussed undercranking, heaven and hell in lighting, and being jumpscared by Macaulay Culkin.

 

Rated R

Blood, gore, audio gore, racial slurs, homophobic slurs, ableist slurs, ableism, institutionalization, needles/syringes, gun violence, PTSD

 

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Our intro and outro music is Spooky Drill by AlisiaBeats and the cover art is by Nikki Solomon

Ava's Possessions

This week Nikki and Kate watched Ava’s Possessions and discussed the debunked gateway drug theory, neon lights, and outer demons.

 

Rated R

Content warnings:

Blood, gore, vomit, possession, death of an animal, hospital scene, institutionalization

 

You can check out all of the past episodes as well as our extended episode notes on the Just Ghoul With It website, www.justghoulwithitpod.com 

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Our intro and outro music is Spooky Drill by AlisiaBeats and the cover art is by Nikki Solomon

Byzantium

This week Nikki and Kate watched Byzantium and discussed the representation of sex workers in horror, classic seaside lighting, and very polite vampires.

 

Rated R

Content warnings:

Throat cut, beheading, blood, gore, audio gore, r*pe (offscreen/implied), hospital scene, needles/syringes, cancer

 

You can check out all of the past episodes as well as our extended episode notes on the Just Ghoul With It website, www.justghoulwithitpod.com 

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Our intro and outro music is Spooky Drill by AlisiaBeats and the cover art is by Nikki Solomon