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Final Girl Madness: Help Bloody FM’s Knight Light Podcast Crown the Ultimate Final Girl!
The award-winning Bloody FM podcast, Knight Light, is bringing Final Girl Madness to the horror arena!
What is Final Girl Madness? It’s March Madness, horror style!
We’re pitting some of the most legendary final girls in horror history against each other in a brutal, bracket-style showdown.
Who will outwit, outlast, and outfight the rest to claim the title of the Ultimate Final Girl?
The Ultimate Final Girl Madness Competitors:
The blood-soaked battlefield will feature six of horror’s fiercest survivors:
- Sidney Prescott (Scream 1996) – The queen of self-defense and mind games.
- Sam Carpenter (Scream 2022) – A final girl with a dark side.
- Laurie Strode (Halloween) – The original babysitter turned slasher-slayer.
- Jess Bradford (Black Christmas) – A quiet survivor with a sharp instinct.
- Grace Le Domas (Ready or Not) – A bride with nothing left to lose.
- Erin (You’re Next) – A survivalist who turns the tables on her attackers.
The Rules:
Final Girl Madness isn’t just about the characters. We’re bringing the game and match to the conversation. Each battle is determined by rolling for:
- Location – Where will they fight? The Overlook maze? Camp Crystal Lake? Reagan’s Bedroom?
- Weapon – What’s in their hands? A piano wire? A candy with razors? An unloaded shotgun?
- Wild Card – A surprise factor that could help or hurt them.
- Hazard – The environmental danger lurking around them.
Once the stage is set, our knights will debate who would come out on top. It will be brutal, gory, loud, and chaotic. But, don’t worry, we’ll make sure to keep it nuanced and fun for you! The winner moves on to face the next final girl in line.
Join Prince Jackson (Head Knight), Freddy Nuti (Knighty Night) and Sydney Resendes (Chronicle of the Knight) for an epic month! Each episode this month will be packed with our bets, character analysis, and wits as we determine who is carrying onto the next round.
We’re also giving YOU the chance to play along! Download our Final Girl Madness Game, packed with rules, locations, weapons, and more. Gather your horror-loving friends and start your own final girl battles—because only one can survive.
Download the Final Girl Madness: Knight Light Style to Play! 🎲
Who will reign supreme? Let the games begin! 🔪
Having fun playing this with your ghouls? Drop a comment on our socials or leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!
It’s been a busy month on Murder Made Fiction podcast. In addition to introducing a new co-host (Perfectly Good Moment‘s Amanda Jane Stern), we spent Pride Month tackling a wide variety of Leopold and Loeb fictional adaptations.
In 1924 Chicago, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb plotted to commit the perfect murder when they abducted and killed 14-year-old Bobby Franks. As Amanda outlines in her primer on the case, the men were caught almost immediately and the media circus that followed was billed “the trial of the century”.
Listen to Leopold and Loeb mini primer.
The fallout has reverberated throughout the last century as countless books, plays, musicals, and films have drawn on the case for inspiration. Some are more faithful than others, such as Richard Fleischer‘s 1959 drama Compulsion, which stars a young Dean Stockwell as Leopold and Orson Welles as the boys’ lawyer, John Darrow (named Jonathan Wilk in the film).
Listen to Leopold and Loeb: Compulsion (1959).
Then there are the texts that use the idea of queer-coded killers as a jumping off point, but confuse (or flat-out disregard) the details of the real life case in favour of jumbled fiction. That’s what happens in Barbet Schroeder‘s Murder by Numbers, which awkwardly introduces a tortured backstory for lead actress (and executive producer) Sandra Bullock. The result is an uneven film that misunderstands which of its two competing storylines are actually interesting (hint: it’s the Leopold and Loeb stuff with Ryan Gosling and Michael Pitt).
Listen to Leopold and Loeb: Murder by Numbers (2002).
We ended up discussing other (often more successful) titles on Patreon, including 1992’s Swoon (a New Queer Cinema art-house take on the crime), Michael Haneke‘s 2007 Funny Games remake, and gay screenwriter Kevin Williamson‘s Scream, which proved to be a much more reverent and sly interpretation of L&L than we anticipated.
We wrapped up the month with a final summary episode about our favorite adaptations before chatting with author and archivist Erik Rebain, who literally wrote the book on Leopold (Arrested Adolescence) and maintains one of the foremost websites on the crime.
Watch our discussion on YouTube below (or listen here):
Next month: For July, we’re turning our attention to the Boston Strangler, with a look at films from 1964 and 1968, as well as the most contemporary version from 2023, starring Kiera Knightley and Carrie Coon.
Want even more true crime adaptations and Murder Made Fiction? Support the show on Patreon to listen to the aforementioned episodes, as well as a full-length primer on the case and 160+ hours of bonus content.
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