Episode 102 -- Powers of Horror (Film), Part 2
In Bed With The Right
Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan
4.8 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
To get you ready for spooky season, here's In Bed with the Right with a second look at some classic horror films, asking: What's scary about gender? And what's gendered about fear in these movies? The second part of our "Powers of Horror (Film)" two-parter dives into two more classic 1970s horror, into changing workplaces and fairy tales, into gialli and mouths with mouths in them. Our focus is on 1977's Suspiria and 1979's Alien. Hope you enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Adrian Dobb. |
| 0:08.9 | And I'm Moira Don again. |
| 0:10.2 | Whether we like it or not, we're in bed with the right. |
| 0:13.8 | So, Adrian, today we are back with even more feminist readings of classic horror films. |
| 0:21.2 | How are you feeling? |
| 0:22.2 | I feel ready. I'm excited for this. |
| 0:24.3 | We're now getting to the movies that I actually really love. |
| 0:27.9 | These are really good ones today. |
| 0:29.7 | We're going to be talking about Syspira, the Dario Argento version from 1977. |
| 0:36.3 | And we're also going to be talking about alien, which is, I believe, |
| 0:39.0 | from 1978? |
| 0:40.2 | 79. |
| 0:40.8 | 79, a classic of the feminist horror genre. Absolutely. And we should say again that Moira |
| 0:48.8 | did the work of coming up with her own list. I came up with my list thanks to our Patreon patrons. |
| 0:57.4 | So if you want to make me watch horror films or anything else, really, I'm just for sale at this point. |
| 1:03.4 | You become a Patreon patron. |
| 1:04.9 | It's a very fun community over there. |
| 1:07.1 | I mean, I joke, but like, these were great suggestions and great votes. |
| 1:11.5 | And I was very excited to be so aligned with our patrons. |
| 1:15.2 | And that's one of the great things that the Patreon allows us to do is to kind of get to know the community that sustains this podcast. |
| 1:21.3 | I love our Patreon listeners. |
| 1:22.7 | I love it when we put out a new episode and then I get to read the comments from people like giving us feedback and |
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