Terror Talk: True Crime, Serial Killers and Horror

Why is horror the deepest genre out there?Content note: discussion of serial murder, missing and murdered children, child sexual abuse allegations, a contested murder case, and illness.For our 200th e...

27 Jan 20211h 11min

If you don’t care whether the final girl lives, has the movie already failed?Content note: discussion of sexual assault and revenge, sexual violence in a low-budget horror film, teen violence and a co...

22 Jan 202148min

Would you be kinder if every interaction came with a star rating? Or would you just get better at faking it?Therapists Shannon and Cathy reach Black Mirror Season 3 (2016), the season Netflix took ove...

20 Jan 202147min

Can trauma split a mind so completely that a killer isn’t the same person who committed the crime?Content note: discussion of serial murder, dissociative identity disorder and childhood abuse, the ins...

15 Jan 202141min

What makes a female psychopath so hard to see, even when she tells you exactly what she’s going to do?Content note: discussion of psychopathy and murder, sexual content and drug use in film clips, a n...

13 Jan 202152min

Why is it so hard to walk away from a narcissist, even when the door is standing open?Content note: discussion of narcissistic and emotional abuse and recovery, a film about revenge on an abusive fath...

8 Jan 202141min

What’s the difference between someone who drinks blood and someone who drains you dry?Content note: discussion of blood drinking and BDSM within the real vampire community, personality disorders, and ...

6 Jan 202149min

What happens when a slasher gives away its killer in the first fifteen minutes?Content note: discussion of hazing and a prank that leaves a student institutionalized, and of the 1980s slasher trope of...

1 Jan 202148min