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Investigating the Femme Fatales Within ‘Friday the 13th’ and ‘Trick ‘r Treat’ [The Lady Killers Podcast]
“Kill her, Mommy! Kill her!”
“My, my what big eyes you have.”
We like to think we know how to throw down on Halloween, but no one parties like the counselors of Camp Crystal Lake, New Jersey or the residents of Warren Valley. While New Jersey’s summer camp eschews the traditional arts and crafts classes for archery and sculpting with Toxic Boy Mom Pamela Voorhees, Ohio’s picturesque little hamlet hosts a raging street soirée, a plethora of pumpkins, a haunted quarry, and, sure, a gang of princesses who just so happen to be werewolves. Lots to carve here, but who has the knives?
Enter The Lady Killers: A Feminine Rage Podcast.
Dedicated to Female-Identifying Killers in Horror, the latest series from BloodyFM finds co-hosts Jenn Adams, Sammie Kuykendall, Mae Shults, and Rocco T. Thompson discussing a female-identifying killer in the horror genre—and sometimes the wider world of cinema—from Julia and Jennifer to Carrie and Christine. Together, they’ll tell the story from her point of view, decide if it’s “Good For Her” Horror, and answer the most important question of all: Would we die for her?
“I’ve been obsessed with female killers ever since I fell in love with Brenda Bates and her 1,000 candles in Urban Legend,” Adams says about her new series (she’s also the co-host of Bloody FM’s The Losers’ Club: A Stephen King Podcast). “I can’t wait to talk about all the fantastic women who slice their way through the horror genre.”
If you couldn’t guess, the first two episodes center around the femme fatales lurking within 1980’s Friday the 13th and 2007’s Trick ‘r Treat. With Mrs. Voorhees, the group meditates on her muddy motive, and impeccable sweater game, in addition to their favorite counselors and the incomprehensible rules of Strip Monopoly! For the sexy wolf pack, they reminisce about favorite costumes, their love for Sam, the catch-22’s of having boobs, and the importance of always checking your Halloween candy.
Get in losers – we’re going trick-or-treating! Stream both episodes below or subscribe now via Apple Podcasts and Spotify for future episodes that drop every other Thursday. Next up? We’re heading to Sleepy Hollow for a little R&R.
About the Hosts
Jenn Adams
Jenn is a writer and podcaster from Nashville, TN. She co-hosts both The Loser’s Club: A Stephen King Podcast taking frequent deep dives into the work and adaptations of her favorite author and The Girls On the Boys, a podcast dedicated to analyzing the Amazon Prime Series The Boys and masculinity in the action/horror genre. Jenn is a contributor and columnist for Bloody Disgusting, Rue Morgue, Dread Central, Slashfilm, and Ghouls Magazine. She is the creator and author of the Strong Female Antagonist blog and will gladly talk your ear off about final girls, feminism, and Stephen King.
Sammie Kuykendall
Sammie Kuykendall is a frequent contributor and Social Media Specialist for The Losers’ Club: A Stephen King Podcast who hails from Northern California but is based in Chicago, Illinois. When she isn’t reading/reviewing fantasy smut/horror books, she’s either marathoning movies on the couch or listening to her favorite indie artist, Taylor Swift. She is a lover of all things pop culture and is currently working on coping with her non-fictional feelings for fictional characters.
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Mae Shults
Mae Shults is a queer/trans musician (as Everson Poe) and podcast editor, born & raised in Chicago. She enjoys short walks in the shade, chai lattes, and collecting records. Mae has co-founded several podcasts (including the sadly defunct Underneath It All & The Bull Crow Project), and currently edits Halloweenies. She spent several years creating original music & sound design for various theater productions around the city, and misses it dearly. Tune in for Mae’s strong socio-political opinions, her terrible puns, as well as her incessant thirst (especially for boobs).
Rocco T. Thompson
Rocco T. Thompson is a writer and critic based in Austin, Texas. He is a frequent contributor for Rue Morgue where he penned the cover story for the magazine’s first ever Queer Fear special issue. He also served as producer for In Search of Darkness: Part III, the final installment in the popular ‘80s horror documentary series. Rocco has an affinity for Sheri Moon Zombie, killer rednecks, underseen slashers, mummies, Italian genre cinema, post-9/11 horror, and women behaving very, very badly.
After kicking off July with discussions of Joe Dante’s seminal werewolf film The Howling (listen) and Ken Russell’s controversial erotic thriller Crimes of Passion (listen), we’re heading to Maine to dissect one of Stephen King‘s most misguided adaptations in Lawrence Kasdan‘s 2003 misfire Dreamcatcher!
Dreamcatcher sees friends Henry (Thomas Jane), Jonesy (Damian Lewis), Pete (Timothy Olyphant) and Beaver (Jason Lee) reunite for their annual hunting trip in Maine. Their reunion is cut short when they find themselves caught in the middle of a war between a hostile race of farty-farty aliens and an elite US military unit led by Colonel Abraham Curtis (Morgan Freeman), who has been driven mad after spending decades tracking the extraterrestrials. When Jonesy is possessed by one of the aliens, the remaining friends seek out their disabled childhood friend Duddits (Donnie Wahlberg), who they believe has powers that can save Jonesy…and the world.
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Episode 396: Dreamcatcher (2003)
Watch out for “ister gay” (oof), take some Gas-X and bite our bags because we’re talking Lawrence Kasdan’s baffling 2003 adaptation of Stephen King’s equally baffling novel Dreamcatcher.
Join us as we go all in on the farty-farty aliens populating this hilarious misfire that often feels like a bad Kevin Smith script. It’s a film filled with characters who get a single defining trait (if they’re lucky), played by respectable actors who are here for the paycheck (looking at you, Morgan Freeman).
Plus: blown-out assholes, using guns as telephones, pitying poor Donnie Wahlberg, and wondering why the hell this movie is called Dreamcatcher.
Cross out Dreamcatcher!
Coming Up Next: We’re going to be lounging around a posh Greenwich Village apartment as we check in on Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954).
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