Recess 5: Little Shop of Horrors

It's been... way too long, we know! But we missed just simply talking about horror movies, so we decided to come back and try this again, a bit more casually. In this episode, we're exploring a movie that both of us really love—Ari Aster's Hereditary (2018). Does it still really hold up to the first time we saw it in theatres almost five years ago now? Listen and find out!

Surprise! In between our usual lessons, we're starting a new series called Recess Reviews where we'll be reviewing random horror, and maybe even non-horror releases, whenever we feel like it. This week we reviewed the latest installment in The Conjuring franchise, The Devil Made Me Do It.

We're joined by Amirra Malak, who is an Egyptian American artist, art teacher, and sci-fi fan, to continue our class on Universal Classic Monsters to discuss The Mummy's Hand (1940) and the nuances of Egyptian representation in Western media.

We're joined by Lindsay Traves, writer for Pajiba and co-host of The Pod and the Pendulum, to discuss the Universal Classic Monster film The Wolf Man (1941). This is a little bit longer episode than usual due to some casual chitchat we have about Saw and other things, but if you want to jump right into the film conversation, we start at about 44:40.

We're joined by special guest Darren Lynn Bousman, who directed Spiral (2021) and Saw II to IV, to discuss his exciting return to the franchise. Afterwards, we share our thoughts on this much anticipiated film.

We're joined by Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent's chief film critic, to discuss the screwball comedy-esque Universal Classic Monster film The Invisible Woman (1940).

We're joined by special guest Gemma Hurley who co-wrote the acclaimed 2020 horror film, Host, to discuss her film and a cosmic horror she grew up with, Event Horizon (1997), which has a complicated history.

We're joined by Brooke Solomon and Jordan Gustafson from The Queer Quadrant to discuss the horror musical classic Little Shop of Horrors (1986).

This week we're starting a new ongoing course returning to our roots to delve back into Universal's Classic Monsters. We discussed The Mummy (1932) highlighting Boris Karloff's extraordinary performance as well as its complicated and problematic representation of Egyptian culture.

We're back with another recess to discuss Carrie (1976) and to accompany the conversation we brought in Riverdale's "Carrie: The Musical" episode.