Hey guys, Andrea here, just a quick message to let you guys know that we did experience some technical difficulties with the audio in this episode, specifically with Alex's mic.

It doesn't seem to be picking her up as cleanly as usual, but you can hear

her, you can hear everything. I thought I'd leave a message to let you know that we know so

that you don't send us a whole bunch of messages letting us know

because those just make me sad. Anyway, sorry about the glitch and I hope you enjoy the

episode. Oh, Oh, The Hi everyone and welcome back to the Faculty of Horror Podcasting from the

Harrod Halls of Academia I'm Alex West with Andrea Subasati. And we are back in a post-President-elect

Trump era. It wasn't what we were expecting, but it's what we're in and we are here in support of all of our American listeners.

I'm sure a lot of you aren't super happy with this, but I think oddly enough the films we're going to talk about today

actually kind of illuminate some of the issues that you guys are going through right now.

The more optimistic friends of mine are saying these are the last

kicks of that kind of conservative racist rhetoric and I really hope that they're right and it's kind of comforting to think that it comes and goes

but it's also a bit disquieting that it has to come and go.

But the hard work must go on, we lick our wounds and we get right back into the trenches and we just keep keeping on.

So today we're going to be talking about two films that deal with the small pockets of society

and communities and what transpires in the darkness of those

solitudes. So first up we are going to be talking about Charles Lawton's 1955,

cult classic, I guess we can call it,

The Night of the Hunter. Ben never told you throwed it in the river did he.

I can hear you whispering children so I know you down there.

I can feel myself get an awful man.

Here is all the passion and suspense, the heart pounding warmth of the best-selling novel that gripped millions.

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