SHRINK CHAT: Host, In Search of Darkness, Tom Savini & Lucio Fulci

Can a horror movie shot entirely on a Zoom call actually be scary?

Shannon and Cathy are back for Season 3 with a Shrink Chat full of horror: Host, the 2020 Shudder seance film set on a video call, In Search of Darkness, the four-and-a-half-hour documentary on 1980s horror, and Lucio Fulci's Zombie Flesh Eaters. Plus, Horror Facts with Cath, a Golden State Killer sentencing update, and the psychology of deja vu.

Therapists Shannon and Cathy bring a clinical lens to the movies: why Deja vu feels like a memory of something that never happened, what Carl Jung made of it, and why the wives of serial killers so often never knew.

Covered in this episode:

- Host (2020, Rob Savage)

- In Search of Darkness (Shudder)

- Tom Savini

- From Dusk till Dawn (1996, Robert Rodriguez)

- Salma Hayek and George Clooney

- Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979, Lucio Fulci)

- City of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Return of the Living Dead

- The Burning, Fade to Black, The Fog, Cat People

- Bill & Ted Face the Music

- Hellraiser's Pinhead

- Joseph DeAngelo, the Golden State Killer

Clinical concepts: Deja vu, source memory, short and long-term memory, temporal lobe epilepsy, Jung's collective unconscious, cognitive dissonance, exposure therapy, phobias.

A correction from us: Host runs about 57 minutes, not 92. And the Jason actor we couldn't name is Kane Hodder.

Related episodes:

- Fulci's Zombie, Asvins, Lavender, Contorted

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*Two licensed therapists, one forensic psychologist, one clinical LMFT, take apart the minds behind the crimes.*

Until then... sleep safe. 😴

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