Podcasts
The Weeping Woman: Exploring the Many Faces of La Llorona [Murder Made Fiction Podcast]
Throughout Mexico and Central America, children grow up fearing La Llorona. Also known as the Weeping Woman, this menacing figure is said to lurk near various bodies of water, crying for her missing sons. Some believe she intentionally drowned her children while others claim their deaths were caused by the negligence of a shameless seductress. But where did this frightening legend begin and does La Llorona still haunt the modern world?
In the latest episode of Bloody FM’s Murder Made Fiction Podcast, Jenn walks Joe through the tale’s many variations and the controversial woman who inspired it all. From the Aztec goddess Coatlicue to the Nahua concubine La Malinche, they’ll discuss the legend’s historical context while unpacking the way this villainized woman has been used to shape modern culture.
This episode kicks off a month of films adapting this haunting story. They’ll travel back nearly 100 years for Ramón Peón’s pre-Code film La Llorona or The Crying Woman then discuss Rafael Baledón unique retelling The Curse of the Crying Woman, before rejoining coverage of Ed and Lorraine Warren with Michael Chaves’ The Curse of La Llorona. They’ll conclude the month on a high with Jayro Bustamante’s lauded La Llorona.
And if you want even more Murder Made Fiction, be sure to check out the pod’s Patreon feed, where Jenn and Joe have ~90 hours of content included episodes dedicated to The Conjuring franchise the case files of Ed and Lorraine Warren along with episode by episode coverage of Hulu’s The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox.
Podcasts
Shakespearean Education in the Vincent Price-Starring ‘Theater of Blood’ [Horror Queers Podcast]
Butch knows best…
After concluding May with discussions of the disaster “slasher” The Poseidon Adventure (listen) and Michael Biehn’s demon twink in the messy-but-watchable The Fan (listen), we’re heading back to the ’70s to discuss our very first Vincent Price film in Douglas Hickox‘s horror comedy Theater of Blood (1973).
In Theater of Blood, Vincent Price stars as Edward Lionheart, a disgraced Shakespearean actor who begins targeting the critics who shamed him. The gimmick? He’s taking inspiration from the death scenes in William Shakespeare’s plays! Aiding him is his daughter Edwina (Diana Rigg), who acts as the honeypot for her father’s macabre scheme.
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Episode 388: Theater of Blood (1973)
Brush up on your Shakespeare and protect those poodles because we’re covering our very first Vincent Price film in Douglas Hickox’s horror comedy Theater of Blood (1973), a personal favorite of both Price and Diana Rigg.
Join us as we go all in on this somewhat episodic (but also educational!) proto-slasher, wondering if we’re supposed to know that’s Diana Rigg in hippie drag, and cackling at some of these murder set pieces.
Plus, “Handsy Dickman,” narcissistic gravestones, antisemitic stage makeup, and the ultimate debate: is it theatER or theatRE?
C/W: Attempted suicide, off-screen dog murder.
Cross out Theater of Blood!
Coming Up Next: We’re celebrating the premiere of AMC’s The Vampire Lestat with a look at the much-maligned 2002 adaptation Queen of the Damned!
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