Freaky (2020)
Marshall Smith, PhD, and Laura Patterson, PhD, discuss Freaky (Landon 2020) from a sociological perspective for the podcast Collective Nightmares. This discussion focuses on representations of gender and bodies in the film.
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01/09/2022
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Freaky (Landon 2020) Get your freak on? Another simple but genius blend of 80s comedy premises with the horror genre. This horror comedy is Landon’s follow-up to the excellent Happy Death Day (2017). This was a welcome reprieve when we watched in the spring of 2020. Landon’s film feels like a well-intentioned good faith effort to be responsible with the content. While not always successful it was a fun watch and Kathryn Newton’s performance shone. With a premise that could have easily become a disaster of representation it at least avoided that. It also served as good grist for discussion of sub-genres. There is lots more of our podcast! Please listen, review, subscribe, and tell your friends. SPOILERS IN THIS EPISODE Freaky (Landon 2020) Becky (Murnion and Milott 2020) Inexchange (Parker 2006) Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (Glosserman 2006) Happy Death Day (Landon 2017) TOPIC INDEX – TOPIC INDEX – Freaky (Landon 2020) (times are approximate) 0:30 – Introductions 2:45 – spoilers 4:15 – Movie discussion begins 4:15 – overall impressions and context 10:45 – spoiler discussion begins 12:15 – gender essentialism 15:00 – love story 24:00 – sexuality 26:45 – the killings 35:00 – privileging hegemonic masculine violent solutions 39:45 – gender swap the body swap 41:15 – setting 42:00 – satire? camp? 48:30 – How would we improve the film? 56:15 – Happy Death Day spoilers! 57:00 – challenging the genre tropes 1:02:50 – grading the film using the Collective Nightmares Evolving Rubric of Social Responsibility Related Episodes Tucker and Dale vs Evil (Craig 2010) Inexchange (Parker 2006) Behind the Mask (Glosserman 2006) Related Films Becky (Murnion and Milott 2020) Happy Death Day (Landon 2017) Credits Edited and processed with Audacity. Free, cross-platform, open source, and awesome. https://www.audacityteam.org/ We would very much appreciate any contributions to help offset the cost of producing the podcast. Thanks! paypal.me/collectivenightmares Thanks for listening. Please let us know your thoughts. • www.collectivenightmares.com • IG: @collectivenightmares • T: @collectnight • [email protected] • [email protected] “Horror films are our collective nightmares.” Episode 95 Keywords horror, podcast, sociology, fun, body swap, gender, horror comedy, yonic, Beaver, mascot, high school sports, vagina dentata, bodies, essentialism, genre, tropes, slashers, sexuality, sex is death, phallic weapons, fucking Freud, mansplaining,
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