Episode 054: Cannibalism - Motel Hell (1980) Raw (2016) & Ravenous (1999)

Lucas and Joe descend into darkness with another Genre Meta…this time they are discussing the Taboo of Cannibalism. Between the historical background and medical journals, do our hosts even have the time to discuss Horror Movies?  Join our Patreon: The Fright Lab on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheFrightLab Subscribe to RSS - https://feed.podbean.com/frightlabpodcast/feed.xml Join the conversation on Discord - https://discord.frightlabpodcast.com We are on Threads - https://www.threads.net/@fright_lab_pod Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/share/1GsB8C4DDp/ and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fright_lab_pod/ Join the conversation on Bluesky - https://frightlabpod.bsky.social Lucas keeps a list of scary movies on Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/frightlabpod/ Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Email: [email protected] www.thefrightlab.com NIH on Cannibalism - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10328901/ NYT 1972 Catholic Priests on Cannibalism - https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/28/archives/two-catholic-aides-defend-cannibalism-in-chilean-air-crash.html Cannibalism as Taboo: Ritualized, Sacred? - https://www.sapiens.org/biology/cannibalism-ritualized-sacred/ Rice, Kayla R., "Behavioral Patterns of the Cannibalism and Sexual Taboos" (2016) - https://thekeep.eiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3514&context=theses Kuru and other Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/06/482952588/when-people-ate-people-a-strange-disease-emerged https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5120877/ https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/creutzfeldt-jakob-disease/symptoms-causes/syc-20371226 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6700593/ Raw IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4954522/ Ravenous IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0129332/ Wendigo Myths and Significance: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/windigo https://www.facinghistory.org/ideas-week/more-monsters-deeper-significance-wendigo-stories https://backstoryradio.org/blog/the-mythology-and-misrepresentation-of-the-windigo/ Wendigo Psychosis: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10685673/