This week we look into Babak Anvari's Under the Shadow . The movie explores the effects of the cultural revolution in Iran and how a mother has to now face her past. The film combines the mythology of the jinn and history of Iran to make a film that critiques sexism while providing some scares and good tension. I hope enjoy this round of The Descent! Artwork by Christopher Shy
Huge trigger warning for talk about sexual assault (SA) Time to take another look at the R*pe Revenge genre. In this episode I take some time to analyze Revenge (2017), directed by Coralie Fargeat. This french r*pe revenge movie is one of the few if not only movie in the genre to not show the SA. The genre has mostly been written and directed by men, and in the past decade we've been having more women and queer men behind the lens. How does this affect the narrative and how the movie is shot? I ...
This time we talk about The Babadook (2014) by Jennifer Kent. The Australian horror movie left an impact on me with its meditation of death and suppression of trauma. The movie challenges medicating to solve deeper issues, the avoidance of dealing with traumatic experiences and the idea that trauma is something we can just overcome or put “behind us”. While there may very well be people that may describe as having overcome their trauma, trauma is something we live with and must navigate in our o...
Hello to anyone listening or has supported this show in any way. This is the last "official" show of the semester and I am bring back my friend Elaina as a guest as we cover 1974's Black Christmas . Spoiler warning!* I do get into the most recent remake of Black Christmas (2019) . I want to thank everyone who has listened and even if this the last episode of the semester and year I will continue this little project. If I get accepted again for Titan Radio next semester you can expect regular mor...
Going solo in this episode but I hope everyone still enjoys it. I'm covering several movies I've watched these past couple months including My Bloody Valentine (1981), The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999), The Stepford Wives (1975), Tumbbad (2018), and Better Watch Out (2017). I close it off with some talk about my personal sensitivity and in general and the possibility of trigger warnings in horror. What do y'all think? Next Saturday will be Nov. 2 but we'll still be celebrating. It'll be Dia de los Muert...
Today I have another guest, Elaina, and we watched Australian Hulu Original Little Monsters (2019) all for Lupita Nyong'o! We can't strongly recommend this rom-com zombie horror comedy but it has some heartwarming moments and some great character work through Nyong'o as a teacher, from Us (2019), and Josh Gad as a hilarious children's tv personality, voice of Olaf in Frozen (2013) . We talk about some interesting explorations with zombies and the reading of the movie as an invasion of the innoce...
A different episode today, also longer. Today I am joined by one of my best friends Enrique and we delve into his history with horror, recent horror movies he's watched in part of the 31 Days of Horror, where people plan to watch a horror movie each day of October, depression, psychology, how horror can help people deal with trauma and to end the show we discuss One Cut of the Dead (2017) . Also as an edit to our blubbering I was trying to mention the Netflix original Extremely Wicked, Shockingl...
The second episode of The Descent. I have a guest this time, my friend Jess, and we discuss "The Love Witch", how we got into horror and the complexities of how Horror has been labeled, used and changed, especially in relation to horror movies written by women. I discuss the diversity of horror and talk about the recent horror movies I have watched in an effort to do the "31 Days of Halloween/Horror" in which people try to watch a horror movie a day. A big difference from my first episode and I'...
The first episode of the CSUF Titan Radio show The Descent. This episode is primarily music, highlighting my favorite songs featured in horror movies, tracks from horror movie scores, songs inspired by horror elements and themes. I hope you enjoy my first episode!
