Episode 101 -- Powers of Horror (Film), Part 1
In Bed With The Right
Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan
4.8 • 662 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Just in time for spooky season, here's In Bed with the Right with a look at some classic horror films, asking: What's scary about gender? And what's gendered about fear in these movies? In keeping with the Halloween theme, we got way into this and watched way too many scary movies. And so we made a two parter. This first part dives into 1973's The Wicker Man and 1976's Carrie. The second part will be about Suspiria (1977) and Alien (1979).
Here are the texts we refer to in this episode:
Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
Carol Clover, Men, Women and Chainsaws (1992)
Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror (1982)
David Sanjek, "Twilight of the Monsters: The English Horror Film 1968-1975"
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Adrienne Dob. |
| 0:08.9 | And I'm We're Don again. |
| 0:10.2 | Whether we like it or not, we're in bed with the right. |
| 0:13.8 | So Adrian, today for spooky season, we are talking about some classic horror movies. That's right. |
| 0:23.4 | Yeah, we're calling this Powers of Horror Movies. I had powers of feminist horror also. |
| 0:31.2 | Like, where are we putting the parenthetical is, I think, a nice little game we can play, because what we're looking at, I think, in these |
| 0:40.6 | films, and we're taking some like classic films, not really new ones. We're looking at |
| 0:44.8 | the sort of peak of the horror genre from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s. And we're looking |
| 0:52.8 | at what is scary about gender or what is gendered about |
| 0:57.1 | fear in these films. |
| 0:59.0 | That's right. |
| 0:59.5 | As we do, in our typical way. |
| 1:01.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.0 | So just to explain how this list came together, Moira picked two movies she was passionate about |
| 1:08.4 | or interested in. |
| 1:09.7 | Then she changed the list that she was passionate about or interested in. And she changed the list that she was passionate about or interested in. |
| 1:12.7 | And I also then wanted to change my list. |
| 1:15.3 | And so I did the normal thing and made strangers on the internet, |
| 1:17.8 | aka our Patreon patrons, decide what I was going to watch. |
| 1:21.2 | And I love your choices. |
| 1:23.1 | But in the end, this, you know, bizarre process that we should probably avoid ever doing again |
| 1:29.6 | actually yielded a fairly cohesive list. It's four movies from the 70s. It's all 70s movies. |
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