Episode 123. Love Bites: The Hunger (1983) and Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

Faculty of Horror

Andrea Subissati and Alexandra West

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🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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In this episode Andrea and Alex delve into some truly long-term relationships and their lasting implications. From ageless vampires to hipster gentrification, sometimes loving someone “forever and ever” isn’t as fun as it seems. Class of 2023 merch Artwork by @thelastjohnyontheleft REQUIRED READING The Hunger. Dir. Tony Scott, 1983. Only Lovers Left Alive. Dir. Jim Jarmusch, […]

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0:00.0	The Oh, Oh, Hi everyone welcome back to the Faculty of Horror
0:55.5	Podcasting from the horror halls of academia I'm Alex West with Andrea
0:59.7	Subicotti my partner of endless years forever and ever.
1:05.0	Forever and ever.
1:06.0	Forever and ever.
1:08.0	Even as I age right before your eyes?
1:11.0	I mean we were just talking about Botox so. It's drafty in here. Do you see
1:14.7	the billowing curtains? You know what I can't believe how much Patreon money we
1:18.9	spent on curtains. Billowing curtains. They billow, yeah.
1:22.3	constantly. Well because it's the curtains and it's the
1:24.8	wind machines. Oh is that what it is? Yeah that's why we had to buy both. Yeah.
1:30.3	It seems like it would be fun to be forever young to live immortal to have all this power
1:35.6	But as these movies that we've paired for today illustrate that's not all fun in
1:40.0	games. Yeah, these are two films that really deal and wrestle with a lot of
1:46.4	notions around long-term relationships and sometimes they can be really sexy and they're known for being very
1:54.7	sexy and erotic and very like romantically charged but there's a lot of
2:01.7	downtime in these films and there's a lot of downtime in these films and there's a lot of emphasis on
2:05.2	aesthetics which a lot of people use to dismiss these films but I think it's
2:09.7	really important that we talk about the notion of aesthetics and how it informs a
2:14.9	visual style that aligns with vampiric folklore. Yeah, vampiric folklore is
2:21.2	erotic. It is gothicic it has this lineage and then here's these two
2:26.1	Modern-ish examples that aren't quite horror movies either and these are kind of horror adjacent and that they do deal with vampires and murder and blood and stuff like this,
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